tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post1652866284367607221..comments2023-10-30T09:26:32.732+00:00Comments on Now's the time: Morning, basil and losing faceAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-91980433532495663602013-08-30T17:36:59.005+01:002013-08-30T17:36:59.005+01:00Tom What a mess? But aren't you glad that you...Tom What a mess? But aren't you glad that you are not in charge? It is easy enough to complain about those running the country. But what a terrible job it must be!<br /><br />Robbie Setting aside deeper and more enduring matters, his superficial decisions since he became Prime Minister have been freqently wrong and forced him to retract and demonstrate his inability to think more than one move ahead. Would I recruit him as a PR? No sir.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06972049290586377462noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-32602803018828450522013-08-30T07:37:39.997+01:002013-08-30T07:37:39.997+01:00Cameron startled me with his "I get that.&quo...Cameron startled me with his "I get that." In the context of a failed attempt to declare war - a solemn moment indeed - it seemed curiously slangy, the sort of argot a gangster might resort to, more appropriate to an argument about beer distribution during Prohibition. His expression when he said it was neutral as if he'd already issued orders to assemble a group of rough-necks armed with baseball bats. Something sordid and small scale. I thought about his background in PR and recalled how those often well-paid people had lied to me in the past. But smoothly and in a more emollient tone. Here was a PR man who appeared to have lost his PR skills. One Tory MP trying to put gloss on a gloss-resistant situation tried to praise Cameron for his frankness and willingness to accept Parliament's decision. Pitiful, really, and hardly frank, A barely disguised snarl in the playground. Roderick Robinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16828395545197001637noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13609842.post-19841530486976762852013-08-29T18:29:54.409+01:002013-08-29T18:29:54.409+01:00Natural enough, Joe. Ego rules OK. When it's...Natural enough, Joe. Ego rules OK. When it's national ego at stake, so much the worse.Tomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09028121782477111901noreply@blogger.com