The jewel in the crown of Samizdata.net
A blog for people with a critically rational individualist perspective. We are developing the social individualist meta-context for the future. From the very serious to the extremely frivolous... lets see what is on the mind of the Samizdata people.

Samizdata, derived from Samizdat /n. a system of clandestine publication of banned literature in the USSR
[Russ.,= self-publishing house]
Learn about the Gadsden flag.


Default font size Large font size Larger font size
There is much to find for those who look
White Rose
Print Version
Blogging Glossary
Pictures
Meme hacks
Merchandise
Samizdata for PDA
Syndicate Samizdata.net
XMLRDF
We are not alone
cobden.png

Libertarian International
Liberty's cause transcends
mere national borders



Made possible by...
Web and graphic design by the dissident frogman

Powered by Movable Type
 
December 27, 2010
Monday
 
 
Samizdata quote of the day
Perry de Havilland (London)  Slogans/quotations • UK affairs

Where Tony Blair had no reverse gear, and Lady T was not for turning, Mr Cameron has a full gearbox and power steering that allow him to execute swerves and three point turns.

- Benedict Brogan

... yet again I find myself pondering adding a "No shit Sherlock" category... maybe more decorously listed as "I told you so" or some such.

Comments

Agreed Perry - however, politically this is the only GOOD thing about Mr Cameron.

Think - would it be better if he was a man of principle, if one considers the principles he was taught?

David Cameron has a First Class Degree in PPE from Oxford - the only way he can have that is if he absorbed (and trotted out at exam time) a lot of total shit.

Would you prefer him to really believe all this shit (to be a man of principle about it), or to be a rather shifty character who will turn in the wind?

Let us hope that the winds (the political pressures of time and place) turn him in a smaller government direction.

A thin hope I know - but better than Cameron-as-man-of-principle considering (I repeat) the principles he has been taught.


Posted by Paul Marks at December 28, 2010 12:34 AM

You only want a cast-iron conviction politician if they are 100% right all the time about everything! How many politicians are that right, all the time? I don't know of any!


Posted by Nuke Gray at December 28, 2010 06:02 AM

Carswell's Lament pretty much sums things up really.


Posted by Ian B at December 28, 2010 08:59 AM

Or even "we told you so", Perry.


Posted by jameshigham at December 28, 2010 09:34 AM

U-turns. Hmmm. Just like Prime Minister Julia Gillard's weak coalition with Greens and a sawmiller's handful of nutty Independents in Oz.


Posted by WB at December 28, 2010 10:47 AM

Ian B. - yes.


Posted by Paul Marks at December 28, 2010 09:49 PM

Reminds me of the great line from Sir Humphrey Appleby about "intellectual suppleness and moral manoeuvrability."


Posted by Tedd at January 1, 2011 05:55 PM
Post a comment









Remember personal info?


Enter anti-spambot Turing code:





Select some text and click this to format it as a quote Make the selected text bold Make the selected text italic Add a web link


Basic html active.

Alas, but for obscure reasons Mozilla, Mac and Linux users shall not harness to power of the push-button formatting options and shall therefore compose basic html with their bare hands. Yet Mozilla, Mac and Linux users shall not fear, for we shall reveal forthwith the mysteries of Basic Html:

<strong>This text in-between is bold</strong>

<em>This text is in italics</em>

And
<blockquote>This is a quote</blockquote>
Remember to close your opened tags as such: <tag> tagged text and closing </tag> and we promise you will get out of here alive.

For adding links, either use the link URL button on the toolbar or enter your code by hand in the following format:
<a href="http://www.your_link.com">your link text or description here</a>

Movable Type's anti-spambot e-mail address protection is enabled.

You are a guest on private property. Have fun but please be civil and succinct. Blogroaches will be persecuted, not to mention IP banned.

Long third party quotes or articles will also be deleted... so just link to articles you think are germane to your comment, don't quote the whole bloody thing.