OFF: Fw: weird facts - bollocks more like.

[Nick Widdows]

On Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:43:27 +0000 Jon Browne
<jon at COMICS.DEMON.CO.UK> wrote:

> In article <SIMEON.9802041423.G at cc52.pub.brad.ac.uk>, Nick Widdows
> <N.Widdows at BRADFORD.AC.UK> writes
> >Sorry, I call it how I see it. Nothing wrong with
> >strippers, but is a position of (sort of) power a good
> >idea? On the other hand....
>
>
> What? WHAT? What, in fact, the f..?
>
> Yes, it's a good idea!  It's a great idea to have people who aren't
> screwed up in positions of power. That's why I like people like Tony
> Banks. (But seeing as the interests of those who govern are in reality
> so wildly different to the interests of those being governed it's
> probably for the best that many in power are such inneffectual farts.)
>
> Not that I'm particularly interested in Parliamentary prodedure, leaning
> more to Anarcho-liberalism, but Boothroyd strikes me as intelligent and
> as having integrity. I think you might re-appraise your critia for
> judging people's value, Nick. The woman has been Parliamentary Speaker
> for several years now. In what way do you feel her performance could
> have been improved? How do you feel her past has affected her work?
> What precisely draws you to cast aspersions? I'm intrigued.
>
> Not that this has a lot to do with HW in the first place. Funny place
> for moralising, BOC-L. I thought the place was full of 'ippies myself.
>
>
> --
> Jon

 I never started the subject. And I'm not moralising
either. As I said, I call it how I see it. I'm not trying
to force opinions on people, I hate people who do that.
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Nick Widdows
NWiddows at bradford.ac.uk