Hurd was always a canute. I can never remember who the politicians are now there's no Spitting Image. I vote Libdem but i couldn't pick out leader-guy-what'sisname in a line up...
Thing with New labour, is they're all Boomers. And those who were young and groovy in Ver 60s were notoriously badly behaved towards their parents generation, despite them having saved the world from the Nazis*. Tone wants to be down wiv da kidz, he's like your mates trendy dad who rides a BMX to the pub. Fossils tend to vote either conservative (because of Traditional Values) or Libdem (because it's the nearest thing to the Left now). New labour Boomers are more likely to shove their ageing parents in a home, nick their house and then spend the proceeds on therapy where they whinge that they never had a pony...
*I have a bit of a Thing about this one TBH. Being a musician and a music freak i get really fed up with being told there was 'nothing before the beatles'. There was; they nicked all their ideas off of Cliff Richard & the Shadows, who nicked all their ideas off of Elvis, who nicked all his ideas off of pre-war blues & country singers. And in it's day, Glen Miller was as hardcore as punk rock - when his military band struck up "The American Patrol"** he was nearly court-martialled for 'playing blues on the parade ground'. Really.
**Which contains the root musical phrase used in the intro to 'Walk This Way' and 'Enter Sandman', believe it or not...
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on 2007-03-30 08:19 am (UTC)Thing with New labour, is they're all Boomers. And those who were young and groovy in Ver 60s were notoriously badly behaved towards their parents generation, despite them having saved the world from the Nazis*. Tone wants to be down wiv da kidz, he's like your mates trendy dad who rides a BMX to the pub. Fossils tend to vote either conservative (because of Traditional Values) or Libdem (because it's the nearest thing to the Left now). New labour Boomers are more likely to shove their ageing parents in a home, nick their house and then spend the proceeds on therapy where they whinge that they never had a pony...
*I have a bit of a Thing about this one TBH. Being a musician and a music freak i get really fed up with being told there was 'nothing before the beatles'. There was; they nicked all their ideas off of Cliff Richard & the Shadows, who nicked all their ideas off of Elvis, who nicked all his ideas off of pre-war blues & country singers. And in it's day, Glen Miller was as hardcore as punk rock - when his military band struck up "The American Patrol"** he was nearly court-martialled for 'playing blues on the parade ground'. Really.
**Which contains the root musical phrase used in the intro to 'Walk This Way' and 'Enter Sandman', believe it or not...