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Labour Candidate for Bristol East
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour Candidate for Bristol East
A Future Fair for All
My blog = my rules!
As Monica says in Friends, "rules are good, rules help control the fun!"
First: if you're after a detailed response, please email or write to me. If you're a constituent (or perhaps a very special case), I'll respond; if you're not, you'll have to contact your own MP. Ditto if you want to introduce a subject which bears no relevance to my original post.
Second: I don't have a problem with trenchant criticism of me or the Government, or vociferously expressed opinions, but if I regard your comments as offensive I won't allow them to appear. (I don't like having to moderate comments, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that people cannot be relied upon not to abuse my good nature!)
First: if you're after a detailed response, please email or write to me. If you're a constituent (or perhaps a very special case), I'll respond; if you're not, you'll have to contact your own MP. Ditto if you want to introduce a subject which bears no relevance to my original post.
Second: I don't have a problem with trenchant criticism of me or the Government, or vociferously expressed opinions, but if I regard your comments as offensive I won't allow them to appear. (I don't like having to moderate comments, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that people cannot be relied upon not to abuse my good nature!)
Thirdly: I might just randomly delete comments from certain people because I'm getting thoroughly fed up with them and want them to go away and annoy someone else for a while. You know who you are.
That's all - although I reserve the right to create new rules as and when I feel like it. My blog = my rules!From under the floorboards
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15 comments:
I haven't lied about any, but I have read five of them (including #1!)
let's track them, use CCTV ... let's put it to good use, forget targeting criminals, we can validate or repudiate any claims of having read #1.
The road to Hell is paved with etc.
I doubt many people outright lie about reading the books - after all, what's the point? I'm sure at some point they've shelled out their hard-earned and bought the books (perhaps in a short-lived attempt at self-improvement) and maybe even started them. Virtually everyone I know has "Ullyses" and "A Brief History of Time" on their bookshelves. But the number who've actually finished them is another question entirely.
But at least we know all our MPs have copies of 1984 on their bookshelves now. Scary, wasn't it?
James - buying it but not reading it = not reading it! And I read 1984 when I was about 14 (it's an angst-ridden teenager's book really, isn't it?) and wasn't scared at all.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if all these libertarians hadn't read 1984?
James - 1984 wasn't frightening at all. I read it as an undergraduate and found it to be a fascinating book.
What is frightening is that some people are paranoid enough to consider it prophetic.
"And I read 1984 when I was about 14 (it's an angst-ridden teenager's book really, isn't it?) and wasn't scared at all."
That sentence, above all others from you, explains pretty much everything.
Thank you
NL
We are Libertarians BECAUSE we have read it AND UNDERSTOOD IT
You are New Labour because you have read it and MISUNDERSTOOD it.
Just to really wind you up - Jack Straw has been blogging. Off you go!
http://www.blackburnlabour.org/blog/blogger/Jack%20Straw/
OH:
Use of CAPITALS does not ENHANCE an ARGUMENT IT just makes THE writer LOOK as if THEY do not have THE wit to WIN an ARGUMENT without recourse to SHOUTING to make a POINT.
And I understand 1984 quite well, thanks!
ps. ''Dont feed the trolls''
- I think that's a much better blog title!
You are being a bit unfair to poor old 1984 Kerry.
Surely it's a study of paranoia?
Kerry
I made one comment on his blog and he's shut it down.
ho ho ho
I've read 1984 - at age 10 (no honestly I did !!) - various bits of the Bible, and about half of Midnights Children - but it might have been another Salman Rushdie book, I've only finished one of them.
The thing that enourages most reading is commuting by train. Hence I've read rather a lot of mostly trashy fiction - Stephen King being a particular fave.
Most Headteachers have "The Heads Legal Guide" on their office shelf - few of them have ever opened its pages.
Virtually everyone I know has the Barack Obama book in their handbag. Not me ! (yet !)
OH - so that says precisely what about your commitment to free speech?
I will make one of the more honest confessions, I have never read any novel. In the same way I never watch soaps I prefer to read something factual. So my reading includes history, political biographies and poker books. Also essential reading for me is medical papers.
Having to read Wuthering Heights at school put me off. Who really cares about two self indulgent areses wandering the Yorkshire Moors.
I was listening to Radio 4 and they were doing I think David Copperfield, I am sure your erudite readers will put me right. It is the one where a political correspondent gets married and his wife is in the kitchen and is really distraught that they can't afford a maid. She is in floods of tears as a result. Who cares?
Novels completely underwhelm me.
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