tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post4908114114957964110..comments2024-03-05T10:52:24.691+00:00Comments on Mark Wadsworth: Best news I've had all day.Mark Wadsworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-88146882970378210002017-07-10T09:21:38.594+01:002017-07-10T09:21:38.594+01:00@MiW
I can never understand the Brideshead craze. ...@MiW<br />I can never understand the Brideshead craze. Their whole Catholic family goes down the tubes because of the mother's piety: the father runs off to Italy and lives with a mistress; the older son and heir gets conned into marrying an older woman who is past child bearing age so no "succession"; the younger son starts off gay and pleasantly dissipated but gets worn down by guilt; the older daughter can't marry the man she loves because he is not a believer; the younger daughter grows prematurely old with good works.DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-46705957341535390642017-07-09T16:35:54.136+01:002017-07-09T16:35:54.136+01:00DBC, yes the Brideshead thing gets on my nerves.Wh...DBC, yes the Brideshead thing gets on my nerves.When I saw him on, Have I got News? I wondered if the, 'I don't get the jokes wizzing about me' look, was studied or true.<br /><br />As it happens, one of my friends has a couple of sons named after Popes. But we joked whether he would actually go for Pious after Gregory.<br /><br />We should be careful what we wish for, but I would like him to stand for PM. A good old fracture along 17th century, High Catholic/Prody lines can surely only help the Tory party right now :) <br /><br />Perhaps he can promise a better deal with the Spanish over Gibraltar? <br /><br />MikeWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15455583313857077618noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-90269672232580659062017-07-09T15:44:52.100+01:002017-07-09T15:44:52.100+01:00Another thing about Rees Mogg is that he is so pre...Another thing about Rees Mogg is that he is so pretentious (Anybody notice?)<br />An irritating part of his schtick is :the Catholic, holier than thou, political radical in the manner of Evelyn Waugh, who, however, gave a picture of the British upper classes as totally corrupt but from a non- socialist Catholic point of view that RM does not attempt. <br />It is a pity that the snobby form of Catholic social theory associated with Hilaire Belloc and GK Chesterton died out.They believed in Capitalism but believed there should be many capitalists and not a few so there would be no Servile State (the name Belloc gave to the modern centralising State).They called the philosophy Distributism and the term Distributist is really exact but unusable, unfortunately.( I have a dim memory of going to the House of Lords with an extreme Lefty friend to have tea with a member of the Unservile State group). DBC Reedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17891849727783879145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-51171853117677564782017-07-08T10:42:52.514+01:002017-07-08T10:42:52.514+01:00S: "Are you really sure JR-M is brain dead an...S: <i>"Are you really sure JR-M is brain dead and not just lacking a moral compass?"</i><br /><br />Difficult to say, but probably both.Mark Wadsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07733511175178098449noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1141932539860553199.post-78258500954282458252017-07-07T19:42:48.341+01:002017-07-07T19:42:48.341+01:00I remember seeing him on a TV chat show where he w...I remember seeing him on a TV chat show where he was sat next to a wheelchair bound woman who had obviously had very different life chances from himself .<br /><br />He was so desperate to get his point across that he told her not to interrupt him .<br /><br />Whilst there is no reason why he should have showed that disabled woman preferential treatment , there was no humility or humanity in his condescending tone .<br /><br />This chap has had about the most advantaged and privileged upbringing from about the most well connected father that it is possible to have yet his manners are so lacking .<br /><br />It reminded me a little of the story of Callaghan from a working class naval family and Tony Crossland from the establishment turning up at a foreign military parade with Crossland utterly improperly attired .<br /><br />Old Jim must have been mortified . These toffs just don't seem to understand what is important to ordinary people and show it some respect .<br /><br />Totally agree he is a horrible , ghastly home ownerist sort .<br /><br />Are you really sure JR-M is brain dead and not just lacking a moral compass ?Striebshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04981262569146184293noreply@blogger.com