I find him as entertaining as the next person, but the fact he's in charge of so many things that affect me and my parents causes me alot of worry, mainly because he's the ultimate Tory insider and when they win the next election its going to much easier for him to let everything below Islington turn into a cesspool (not that New LAbour havent, but i thought Ken Livingstone was moving stuff in the right direction).
On the whining sentimentalist thing, in case you didnt know;
On 16 October 2004,
The Spectator carried an unsigned editorial
[84] comment criticising a perceived trend to mawkish sentimentality by the public. Using British hostage
Kenneth Bigley as an example, the editorial claimed the inhabitants of Bigley's home city of
Liverpool were wallowing in a "vicarious victimhood"; that many Liverpudlians had a "deeply unattractive psyche"; and that they refused to accept responsibility for "drunken fans at the back of the crowd who mindlessly tried to fight their way into the ground" during the
Hillsborough disaster, a contention at odds with the findings of the
Taylor Report. The editorial closed with: "In our maturity as a civilisation, we should accept that we can cut out the cancer of ignorant sentimentality without diminishing, as in this case, our utter disgust at a foul and barbaric act of murder."
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