Comments on: X Up Britain

By: Tim Worstall

Tim Worstall — Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:39:17 +0000

Britblog Roundup #91…

Once again we gather to celebrate those blog pieces which you think we should all have already read. If you’d like to make suggestions for next week then plesae do so by emailing the URL to britblog AT gmail DOT…

By: jimjay

jimjay — Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:59:49 +0000

For me the reason that people might trust Simon Cowell more the New Labour is that he says what he believes to be true – even when it acts against his own interests.

He has the power to make people cry with a kind word because people know it’s a real achievement to get one out of him – if he says you’re good, well, that means you might actually *be good*. If Sharon Osbourne tells you you’ve got talent it’s almost meaningless.

However, when a New Labour clone says the “NHS is having it’s best year ever” everyone knows that she didn’t say it because the NHS had tried really hard and made lots of improvements but because it was in her political interests to make people think that, regardless of the truth.

If politicians started saying “well, i think i cocked this policy up frankly” it might not be in their short term interests but we’d certainly believe them when they said it!

By: Katherine

Katherine — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:26:20 +0000

“Great Britons Learning”? What does this mean? That some Great Britons will be learning stuff? This makes no sense! It reminds me of parents in my home town shouting “I’ll learn you not to do that!” before clocking their unruly kids around the ears. Gah!

By: Sim-O

Sim-O — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:03:01 +0000

I cannot think of anything worse to mistake aspirational with. All the trying to be what somebody else wants you to be, false emotion of cameraderie and wanting a quick path to success.