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Thursday, 12 July 2012
Well-rounded MPs Bookmark and Share

Our leaders are insufficiently rounded and horny of hand. From the BBC:

A person who has never toiled at grimy, physical or monotonous labour has somehow missed out. It goes beyond career development, to the idea of shaping a more rounded person.

The three main party political leaders have at times been accused of failing the proper job test. They are perceived to be career politicians who have done nothing outside media or politics.

[...]

For MP Dennis Skinner, who worked as a miner for 21 years, parliament has become far too homogeneous. "It's a very narrow band in parliament. A lot more people used to come from different areas of work when I was first an MP." He believes his time working in the pits gave him "hinterland".

Shouldn't that be "unterland"? In any case, Mr Skinner's hinterland is behind him.

In the old days MPs never needed hinterland -- they made do with gravitas.

Posted on 07/12/2012 5:48 AM by Mary Jackson
Comments
12 Jul 2012
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Dozy Binterland
 
The Welsh see homes where others see caves
Sweat equity for digging graves
Far from Westminster land
They slave down under hinterland
And sing "The Men of Harlech,"
Debate what rhymes 'sides "echt" with "Utrecht,"
Paint walls like Albrecht Dürer*,
Those troglodytes in mine furor
And more like monkey than like man,
Wear miner's lighted cap, not astrakhan
But now see Rosie Riveter
Mein shaft; they give it her
She's mining tin to spite old sexist sins
Are those headlights? Look at the Harlech "twins"!
 
- Vivian "Voyeur" Darkbloom
cc Robert Graves, Flanders & Swann 
 
 
* See Lascaux and
Also see a minister of the Wood Party lose his gravitas while realizing the gravity of his situation:
 
Tags: The Welsh dissing, not digging, their own Robert Graves,  Welsh Mining Incident, sea-caves, The English, the English, the English are best but that's not playing Criccieth, Hugh Kingsmill, Welsh miners and the Wood Party debate whether Francis Bacon is the only thing that's cured by hanging from a string, "roamin' hands 'n rushin' fingers," Nabokov, The Assistant Producer, "...red-booted romance, her black hair tumbling from under her astrakhan cap," Look at the Harlequin Romance novels!





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