Wednesday 3 September 2008

Newmania is Right of Centre (but less than some)

'Envy for those above me gnaws my innards and vile arrogant contempt for those below eats at my soul.'

Envy is a perfectly reasonable sin, one of the seven deadlies. But that his soul is eaten by 'vile arrogant contempt' just because he came in ahead of the rest of us gives pause. Particularly those of us left of centre who are One Nation conservatives.

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

also, he seems to have plummeted by 138 places since last year.

everyone else below him is a new entry therefore on the way up as opposed to freefalling into hell.

hatfield girl said...

But he does play games with words, Godless, and is then surprised that others don't know the rules.

You are not a right of centre person, big or small 'C'? It's a brave stance and I would stand beside you except the decency of 'fair does' has been undermined by flashy continental philosophy and burning egoistic self advancement.

If only the Labour movement would pick itself up, dust itself off, and start all over again. It could, but it has to acknowledge that the last 11 years were a horrible creep to a Cheneyesque nightmare for personal profit.

The Labour movement is a great deal better and worth fighting for. If only to bury the New American Century even deeper in its own ordure.

Philipa said...

That quote brought someone to mind, but it wasn't Newms.

Like the blog, HG.

lilith said...

Funny, HG. I read the title as "Newmania is right OFF centre" :-)

hatfield girl said...

All that 'big bad bold right wing realism' keeps being pushed aside by essential decency and sense of fairness, L.

Perhaps he's soft of centre.

I find the image of a plummeting, freefalling figure, feathers all ruffled, Blakeian grimaced, towards the pit quite distressing.

Have you pinned down if it is a quote P?

Elby the Beserk said...

Hmmm. Newmania is GENDER obsessed, and never misses a chance to tell us how much of a MAN he is. Left? Centre? Right? Who knows - but he is ALL MAN, that we do know ;->

Philipa said...

HG - Nope, I meant that reading that line made me think of someone else rather than Newms. I seemed to fit.

Elby - Newms is lovely in real life.

Philipa said...

Correction: IT seemed to fit.

I think i will have to get this keyboard looked at.