Simply reading out a wish list makes it become material reality in the (post) modern political world.
Last edited 1 year ago by Andrew Raiment
Steve Murray
1 year ago
The speech was nothing more than a follow-up to his condescending performances during the leadership election campaign, when he performed so poorly that even someone as wooden as Truss came across as more convincing.
I don’t doubt his sincerity or his wish to turn around the narrative, both in his party and in the country. Keir Starmer’s task just got even easier though. Another dreadfully wooden performer, but at least the sanctimony doesn’t have a fixed grin, the death-rictus of corporatism.
Steve Murray
1 year ago
The speech was nothing more than a follow-up to his condescending performances during the leadership election campaign, when he performed so poorly that even someone as wooden as Truss came across as more convincing.
I don’t doubt his sincerity or his wish to turn around the narrative, both in his party and in the country. Keir Starmer’s task just got even easier though. Another dreadfully wooden performer, but at least the sanctimony doesn’t have a fixed grin, the death-rictus of corporatism.
Dog Eared
1 year ago
Maybe chatGPT wrote it.
Dog Eared
1 year ago
Maybe chatGPT wrote it.
j watson
1 year ago
Yep, Author is right. But why so bad?
The paucity of policy material to work with? An increasing lack of confidence throughout the No.10 team? Poor calibre advisors? Deliberate strategy to try and anaesthetise us for a period? At least the latter would be a strategy!
Author mentions Atlee. A very transformative record at a very challenging time, but not known for the magnetism of his speeches (the odd bit of quick wittedness, esp vis a vis WSC, aside). But of course was a less demanding media environment. Atlee though was ok with letting others take the limelight – Bevan, Bevin, Morrison etc, so his Govt was not without performance speakers in key Policy areas. Maybe that’s where Sunak needs to go, but who is there and what will they be saying that goes beyond a slogan?.
j watson
1 year ago
Yep, Author is right. But why so bad?
The paucity of policy material to work with? An increasing lack of confidence throughout the No.10 team? Poor calibre advisors? Deliberate strategy to try and anaesthetise us for a period? At least the latter would be a strategy!
Author mentions Atlee. A very transformative record at a very challenging time, but not known for the magnetism of his speeches (the odd bit of quick wittedness, esp vis a vis WSC, aside). But of course was a less demanding media environment. Atlee though was ok with letting others take the limelight – Bevan, Bevin, Morrison etc, so his Govt was not without performance speakers in key Policy areas. Maybe that’s where Sunak needs to go, but who is there and what will they be saying that goes beyond a slogan?.
Paul T
1 year ago
Eh? I don’t agree with the author at all. The counterpoints in the speech about how real change is accomplished: provided/created, given/demanded, granted/invented may not be semantic opposites but they do define contrasting perspectives. This section is not meaningless drivel at all. It perfectly well sets out a philosophical position that change happens when people contribute and make it happen, not when they sit back and leave it to others.
Could Sunak have argued for higher inflation and lower growth? Well, plenty of people do argue for lower growth. There is a powerful environmental movement that claims the industrial revolution was a retrograde step and wants us all to go back to the pigsty. Could Sunak have made the case for laziness, abandonment and vandalism? No, but forces in society do: the ‘quiet quitting’ brigade; the queer theorists who want to destroy the family; the statue topplers.
The speech is light on policy and it would hardly motivate you to storm the barricades but it sets out a rational and meaningful philosophical position. Sunak’s problem isn’t lack of clarity. His problem is that the removal of individual agency and initiative, the extension of handout culture, the march of wokeness, the punishment of hard work have all happened in recent years on the watch of Rishi Sunak.
Paul T
1 year ago
Eh? I don’t agree with the author at all. The counterpoints in the speech about how real change is accomplished: provided/created, given/demanded, granted/invented may not be semantic opposites but they do define contrasting perspectives. This section is not meaningless drivel at all. It perfectly well sets out a philosophical position that change happens when people contribute and make it happen, not when they sit back and leave it to others.
Could Sunak have argued for higher inflation and lower growth? Well, plenty of people do argue for lower growth. There is a powerful environmental movement that claims the industrial revolution was a retrograde step and wants us all to go back to the pigsty. Could Sunak have made the case for laziness, abandonment and vandalism? No, but forces in society do: the ‘quiet quitting’ brigade; the queer theorists who want to destroy the family; the statue topplers.
The speech is light on policy and it would hardly motivate you to storm the barricades but it sets out a rational and meaningful philosophical position. Sunak’s problem isn’t lack of clarity. His problem is that the removal of individual agency and initiative, the extension of handout culture, the march of wokeness, the punishment of hard work have all happened in recent years on the watch of Rishi Sunak.
Dougie Undersub
1 year ago
He doesn’t need a new speechwriter, he needs some new ideas. Sunak is Britain’s answer to Italy’s Draghi. A WEF imposition with no mandate, no charisma and no vision beyond an aspiration for technocratic competence.
We are facing huge problems at home and abroad but Sunak and his Government give no indication that they understand any of them. In many cases his policies are actively making things worse.
Dougie Undersub
1 year ago
He doesn’t need a new speechwriter, he needs some new ideas. Sunak is Britain’s answer to Italy’s Draghi. A WEF imposition with no mandate, no charisma and no vision beyond an aspiration for technocratic competence.
We are facing huge problems at home and abroad but Sunak and his Government give no indication that they understand any of them. In many cases his policies are actively making things worse.
Simply reading out a wish list makes it become material reality in the (post) modern political world.
Exactly, boosterism defined.
Exactly, boosterism defined.
Simply reading out a wish list makes it become material reality in the (post) modern political world.
The speech was nothing more than a follow-up to his condescending performances during the leadership election campaign, when he performed so poorly that even someone as wooden as Truss came across as more convincing.
I don’t doubt his sincerity or his wish to turn around the narrative, both in his party and in the country. Keir Starmer’s task just got even easier though. Another dreadfully wooden performer, but at least the sanctimony doesn’t have a fixed grin, the death-rictus of corporatism.
The speech was nothing more than a follow-up to his condescending performances during the leadership election campaign, when he performed so poorly that even someone as wooden as Truss came across as more convincing.
I don’t doubt his sincerity or his wish to turn around the narrative, both in his party and in the country. Keir Starmer’s task just got even easier though. Another dreadfully wooden performer, but at least the sanctimony doesn’t have a fixed grin, the death-rictus of corporatism.
Maybe chatGPT wrote it.
Maybe chatGPT wrote it.
Yep, Author is right. But why so bad?
The paucity of policy material to work with? An increasing lack of confidence throughout the No.10 team? Poor calibre advisors? Deliberate strategy to try and anaesthetise us for a period? At least the latter would be a strategy!
Author mentions Atlee. A very transformative record at a very challenging time, but not known for the magnetism of his speeches (the odd bit of quick wittedness, esp vis a vis WSC, aside). But of course was a less demanding media environment. Atlee though was ok with letting others take the limelight – Bevan, Bevin, Morrison etc, so his Govt was not without performance speakers in key Policy areas. Maybe that’s where Sunak needs to go, but who is there and what will they be saying that goes beyond a slogan?.
Yep, Author is right. But why so bad?
The paucity of policy material to work with? An increasing lack of confidence throughout the No.10 team? Poor calibre advisors? Deliberate strategy to try and anaesthetise us for a period? At least the latter would be a strategy!
Author mentions Atlee. A very transformative record at a very challenging time, but not known for the magnetism of his speeches (the odd bit of quick wittedness, esp vis a vis WSC, aside). But of course was a less demanding media environment. Atlee though was ok with letting others take the limelight – Bevan, Bevin, Morrison etc, so his Govt was not without performance speakers in key Policy areas. Maybe that’s where Sunak needs to go, but who is there and what will they be saying that goes beyond a slogan?.
Eh? I don’t agree with the author at all. The counterpoints in the speech about how real change is accomplished: provided/created, given/demanded, granted/invented may not be semantic opposites but they do define contrasting perspectives. This section is not meaningless drivel at all. It perfectly well sets out a philosophical position that change happens when people contribute and make it happen, not when they sit back and leave it to others.
Could Sunak have argued for higher inflation and lower growth? Well, plenty of people do argue for lower growth. There is a powerful environmental movement that claims the industrial revolution was a retrograde step and wants us all to go back to the pigsty. Could Sunak have made the case for laziness, abandonment and vandalism? No, but forces in society do: the ‘quiet quitting’ brigade; the queer theorists who want to destroy the family; the statue topplers.
The speech is light on policy and it would hardly motivate you to storm the barricades but it sets out a rational and meaningful philosophical position. Sunak’s problem isn’t lack of clarity. His problem is that the removal of individual agency and initiative, the extension of handout culture, the march of wokeness, the punishment of hard work have all happened in recent years on the watch of Rishi Sunak.
Eh? I don’t agree with the author at all. The counterpoints in the speech about how real change is accomplished: provided/created, given/demanded, granted/invented may not be semantic opposites but they do define contrasting perspectives. This section is not meaningless drivel at all. It perfectly well sets out a philosophical position that change happens when people contribute and make it happen, not when they sit back and leave it to others.
Could Sunak have argued for higher inflation and lower growth? Well, plenty of people do argue for lower growth. There is a powerful environmental movement that claims the industrial revolution was a retrograde step and wants us all to go back to the pigsty. Could Sunak have made the case for laziness, abandonment and vandalism? No, but forces in society do: the ‘quiet quitting’ brigade; the queer theorists who want to destroy the family; the statue topplers.
The speech is light on policy and it would hardly motivate you to storm the barricades but it sets out a rational and meaningful philosophical position. Sunak’s problem isn’t lack of clarity. His problem is that the removal of individual agency and initiative, the extension of handout culture, the march of wokeness, the punishment of hard work have all happened in recent years on the watch of Rishi Sunak.
He doesn’t need a new speechwriter, he needs some new ideas. Sunak is Britain’s answer to Italy’s Draghi. A WEF imposition with no mandate, no charisma and no vision beyond an aspiration for technocratic competence.
We are facing huge problems at home and abroad but Sunak and his Government give no indication that they understand any of them. In many cases his policies are actively making things worse.
He doesn’t need a new speechwriter, he needs some new ideas. Sunak is Britain’s answer to Italy’s Draghi. A WEF imposition with no mandate, no charisma and no vision beyond an aspiration for technocratic competence.
We are facing huge problems at home and abroad but Sunak and his Government give no indication that they understand any of them. In many cases his policies are actively making things worse.