THE LAST DITCH
Link: ‘Stalinist’ Brown comment ‘not appropriate’ | Uk News | News | Telegraph.
How I hate the modern weasel usage of the word "appropriate." My New Year resolution was to be "inappropriate" all year – and I am doing well. So, who cares whether or not it was "not appropriate," to speak of Brown’s "Stalinist" approach and his contempt for his ministerial colleagues? The only question is, was it true?
Interesting watching different Government ministers lining up to claim that ‘this picture of Gordon is not one we recognise’, knowing full well that it is.
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Depends what you mean by true.
Gordon has not tortured and murdered millions of people.
I get annoyed when people fling around words like ‘Stalinist’ and ‘Nazi’. For all its faults, I’d sooner live in a country run by a dour, miserable, over-taxing Chancellor/Prime Minister than in Soviet Russia.
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You make a fair point, Steve. I dislike such sloppiness too. But no-one accused Brown of slaughtering innocents. The criticism was clearly, in context, that he disregarded the views of others contemptuously and was dictatorial in his approach. My question was, is that criticism true?
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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