Ergo Ego
Why did this not surprise me ! Vince Cable has a massive ego that believes that ‘he can bring down the Government’. The ex Labour Party/SDP/Liberal Democrat sage who predicted seventeen of the the last four recessions has demonstrated the words of Billy Connolly ‘anybody who wants to stand for Parliament, should be automatically banned from standing’.
Vince who currently presides over Mandelsonia, a vast sprawling fiefdom called Business, Innovation & Skills created by the Prince of Darkness has succumbed in six short months living in the dizzing heights of Cabinet Office to bouts of hubris and self importance that would not have shamed Mandelson.
With Mandelson at least you could work yourself into a froth of rage at the incompetence,the waste of vast rafts of public money, the self serving money grubbing. With Cable you just get the depressing feeling of what on earth is this man doing there at the top of the tree when British Industry is desperately trying to pull itself out of the biggest hole in our economic history created by his preferred partners in Government, the Mickey Miliband club. Deficit deniers to a man.
The ‘ Liberal’ Democrats are just not Liberal, they believe in fabianism as much as the next socialist. The LD’s are an old fashioned Social Democrat party who hi- jacked the word Liberal without understanding what it meant.
I was in a bookshop on Sunday, flicking through ‘Decline & Fall’ by Chris Mullin, and latched on to his opinion of Nick Clegg’ the biggest Charlatan of them all’. No wonder the Social democrats have plummeted to 9%, UKIP have 5% and at least believe in something passionately. The two big hitters of the Social Democrats will dump any promise or any principle to achieve office.
Ask the students.
As a Libertarian Liberal, I do not advocate the creation of any new civil service post, but I am willing to make an exception here. The post that I suggest that we revive is an ancient one. That of the slave that follows the Emperor on his triumph, whispering repeatedly.
‘You are but a man, You are but a man, You are but a Man
Update: Things Are A Foot
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December 21, 2010 at 15:41 -
Or a woman….
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December 21, 2010 at 15:44
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December 21, 2010 at 16:18 -
We could also revive the tradition of ganging up in the forum and giving the egotistical bastards a few inches of cold steel.
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December 21, 2010 at 22:30 -
So after a month of Assange’s leaked cables, we now have Cable’s leak.
I’m sorry. I DO apologise. That was awful.
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December 22, 2010 at 09:11 -
In every picture of the Blessed St Vincent de Cable should be a human skull motif as a memento mori, as appeared in many medieval paintings of the high and mighty. It could also pose as a vague threat. Come to think of it, let’s also include Caedmeron, Clegge, Edweard the Milliner, Father Simon the Cowl, Subregulus Carolus Minimus.. (continued p94)
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December 22, 2010 at 17:36 -
And yet according to Nick R at the BBC the Telegraph is the villain not the hypocritical Cable. Now there’s a surprise.
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December 23, 2010 at 06:41 -
I lived in St Vince The Seer’s constituency many years ago and I would occasionally receive his political leaflets. It soon became apparent that his leaflets, lacking any serious poolitical message, were more a tribute to the Vince Personality Cult. Each section praised The Great One and showed many large photographs of the mighty bringer-down of governments.
After a while, I’m afraid a terrible dark force took hold of me and forced me to scrawl “Vincent the Vain” on one of his leaflets and post it back to him.
In the dark haze of that moment, I can’t recall if I put a stamp on the envelope or not. I deeply regret this act of petty vindictiveness (or Vinceictiveness?) and I strongly urge readers not to resort to such petty actions, especially as it may incur postage charges for our poor MPs.
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