Here’s another example of 1984 Newspeak
Outrage at an egg being thrown at a Conservative representative at the Party Congress .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FnQmecJtJY
Remember the last time we learnt of the horror of throwing an egg?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYdp-BgGkr8
Then Leader of the Scottish branch of British Labour Jim Murphy was so overcome that he suspended his speaking tour because of such “intimidation”.
No outrage when Alex Wild, director of the Taxpayers’ Alliance recommended that the government cut pensioner benefits – the winter fuel allowance, free bus passes, the Christmas bonus and other pensioner benefits.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7tQLTMExFs
because pensioners might be dead or suffering from memory problems by the time the next election comes around.
Meanwhile this was happening as delegates entered the congress venue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZ7iWG42qm4
And this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xanz1yv4ep0
But read all about it over on Wee Ginger Dug!!!
Source: Going to work on an egg
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It would be tempting to think up so witty remark around eggs or balls etc. but I’m sorry, politics is no longer funny, no longer a game, no longer even ‘British’ as my parents understood the word …
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Sad isn’t it, Marconatrix – “British” as your parents understood the word encompassed many values including establishment war myths and supremacy. As almost all other values were lost over the past 30 odd years,and what’s left is on the way out, all we have left is . . . .
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