Flick 🇬🇧 on Nostr: https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/je-suis-andrew-gwynne/ How do you like your ...
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/je-suis-andrew-gwynne/
How do you like your members of parliament? Do you prefer them to be vacuous automatons devoid of wit, humour and anything one might call emotion? Or do you actually prefer them to be people, a little like yourself? Prone to human frailties from time to time, rather than being a deracinated good Boy Scout who would be as interesting, conversationally, as a pamphlet from your local health authority trust?
This question occurred to me when I read of the sacking of the junior minister Andrew Gwynne, the Labour MP for somewhere awful called Gorton and Denton. […]
I do not wish to tug at your heartstrings too feverishly, but our MPs have, in the main, miserable lives in which they are constantly subjected to abuse and threats of violence. They have dysfunctional home lives (especially those from the north of the country) and are afforded very few opportunities to display either humour or anger, lest some idiot take offence. They are constrained in what they can say by the whipping system and the party line and of course the knowledge that even the most innocent remark is capable of being regarded as ‘vile’ by someone, and thus meriting a sacking.
https://archive.ph/FlIGU#selection-1683.0-1775.154
(Can confirm: Gorton and Denton are both pretty awful.)
How do you like your members of parliament? Do you prefer them to be vacuous automatons devoid of wit, humour and anything one might call emotion? Or do you actually prefer them to be people, a little like yourself? Prone to human frailties from time to time, rather than being a deracinated good Boy Scout who would be as interesting, conversationally, as a pamphlet from your local health authority trust?
This question occurred to me when I read of the sacking of the junior minister Andrew Gwynne, the Labour MP for somewhere awful called Gorton and Denton. […]
I do not wish to tug at your heartstrings too feverishly, but our MPs have, in the main, miserable lives in which they are constantly subjected to abuse and threats of violence. They have dysfunctional home lives (especially those from the north of the country) and are afforded very few opportunities to display either humour or anger, lest some idiot take offence. They are constrained in what they can say by the whipping system and the party line and of course the knowledge that even the most innocent remark is capable of being regarded as ‘vile’ by someone, and thus meriting a sacking.
https://archive.ph/FlIGU#selection-1683.0-1775.154
(Can confirm: Gorton and Denton are both pretty awful.)