tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post9052465590498417640..comments2023-07-23T16:06:16.018+01:00Comments on Citizen Barnet - trade union news and socialist propaganda from Barnet: Two Jags and the posh gitCitizen Barnethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10539991855658960354noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-36808648609994497222010-08-15T21:53:36.700+01:002010-08-15T21:53:36.700+01:00Forgot to say he always reminds me of a minor char...Forgot to say he always reminds me of a minor character in a nineteenth century novel, Dickens or Trollope maybe. As you say, his character is its own undoing.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-17577319175338420902010-08-15T21:50:43.898+01:002010-08-15T21:50:43.898+01:00Vicki: whatever Coleman is, he is not posh or plum...Vicki: whatever Coleman is, he is not posh or plummy. Have you not heard him speak? He aspires to be one of the 'great and good' but sadly is just a lower middle class boy from NW London. More of a Tebbit than a Cameron, in fact. I'm not sure which is more objectionable: the working class Tory made good or the aristocratic Tory slumming it in shirtsleeves and no tie.Mrs Angryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00586223909475832791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-77641835535900392122010-08-15T19:46:06.264+01:002010-08-15T19:46:06.264+01:00It's not where you start, it's where you f...It's not where you start, it's where you finish, Roger. And Brian finished... in the middle. It's a very uncomfortable place for some; as I said in an earlier post, such peoiple are desperately anxious not to be forced down into the lower orders, but sometimes, some fatal flaw in their character makes it impossible to avoid. Or they are just the victims of great social upheavals such as severe recessions.<br /><br />Coleman has proved able to keep and enhance his social position, but the very characteristics he has used to do that may well be the characteristics that undo him in the end. In that he is the classic Shakespearian tragic figure... or the clown.<br /><br />(Is that pompous enough for everyone?)Citizen Barnethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10539991855658960354noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-55046343922990823212010-08-15T19:19:39.239+01:002010-08-15T19:19:39.239+01:00Vicki,
Thanks for reminding me of that. One of th...Vicki,<br /><br />Thanks for reminding me of that. One of the many reasons why I found myself so disillusioned with Labour that I left the party. I wish I'd made a list of them all as my faith was eroded.<br /><br />By the way, I'm not going to go into it here, but I suspect you are wrong about Brian Coleman never having been from the working classes.Rog Thttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08139705078907584931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6722474464197237668.post-90345188959533955612010-08-15T18:34:17.303+01:002010-08-15T18:34:17.303+01:00Some of us remember the Firefighters Strike of 197...Some of us remember the Firefighters Strike of 1976!<br /><br />http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6729683.stmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com