BishopBrennan … as I’ll give you the ‘touching of the cloth’ benefit of the doubt, I shall ‘confess’.
I can guarantee you not one Conservative knows who I am, and have numerous even sworn of my children’s lives that I have never been a Conservative Member, I have never been paid by the Conservatives, and the only ‘work’ I have done for them was one election delivering leaflets, in a marginal constituency I had just moved to, held by Labour.
Having to k-e-e-p saying it, gets ones goat up, so I apologise if over reacted.
My ‘tone and manner’ may be for several reasons;
A humble non academic ‘street smart’ background, a sense of humour that has got me in trouble for many years, having had a job for many years meeting senior people far brighter than me (so I read the F.T. cover to cover every day to help for 20-years, seriously) so I had to be accurate/confident of my facts in presentations – and finally, I get very frustrated as the Conservatives in elections, always playing by the Marquis of Queensbury rules, rather than the Lord of Prescott Towers, type rules.
What does that mean; well just listening to Labour literally offering mistruths daily, often ideological, really gets that goat going, as by and large, Conservative MPs are not built that way, so when say, Andy Burnham accuses the Conservatives to their face, of NHS privatisation, when the FACTS show Labour’s record from the 2000 Health Act to PFI was far worse – if that was me, I’d reach over, grab him by the goolies and give them a good slap, at the very least.
The truth is, like Gordon Brown’s ‘prudence’ mantra , Labour knows that if they tell a lie often enough to people who don’t give a rats arse about the facts, as every previous generation since John Wayne became a cowboy has voted Labour no matter what – so needs some new red meat to forget Labour’s past records in power, so the lie ‘sticks’.
Now take the Conservative mantra, that ‘kin long term economic plan what a sticky catch phrase That is, NOT.
Can anyone argue its a mis-truth, that there wasn’t a plan, as there was, similar to every other Conservative plan for 30 years - ‘the State should be as big/expensive as it needs to be, citizens should keep as much of their own earnings as possible, we need to pay our way in the world…yada yada yada’
So while one main party generally plays fair, from my long knowledge of politics, policies and markets, I can see the other either lying through their teeth, or genuinely forgetful of their own record – which is kinda worse, so I'm looking to add 'balance'.
So that’s me ‘exposed’ Bish, am I forgiven? lol