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I am going to counterpoint Boris Johnson
With some words from Margaret Thatcher
Dear God
Can people stop fucking making me quote Margaret
I am going to counterpoint Boris Johnson
With some words from Margaret Thatcher
Dear God
Can people stop fucking making me quote Margaret
https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1364191188098678786
"Your hospitality tonight precludes me from giving you one of those high-minded lectures on the importance of your behaving responsibly, which some politicians in the past have made the mistake of delivering to your profession."
"In any case, I am bound to say that I am reasonably satisfied with the traditional arrangement under which we politicians leave you journalists to get on with your job while you journalists tell us how to do ours."
"It is an arrangement which, for all its exasperations, is essential to the functioning of parliamentary democracy."
https://twitter.com/BBCPolitics/status/1202670854410297344
"Guardians of the public conscience you may be, and it is a noble role; formers of public opinion you certainly are, but you are also, and it is in this that your value largely consists, you are also reflectors of the public mind."
"Without you politicians would easily find themselves living in a cosy little world of their own imagining, blissfully ignorant, until too late, of what the people thought of them and of their policies. "
theguardian.com/media/2020/nov…
theguardian.com/media/2020/nov…
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