Prezza on News Night

[Doggy Styles]

Is it? I thought it was about Prezza being on newsnight and bogey being suitably impressed...

Good point. I've just seen who turned it into hypocrisy, and you've all got him on your ignore lists, haven't you.

You are so cruel.

[bogeyman]

There you go Doggy, you must have misunderstood.

Bogey, I thought you were going down the boozer?

Blown out

Might go anyway in a bit.

Yeah sod it I'm off.

L8R

[ratewhore]

Twas.

There you go Doggy, you must have misunderstood.

Bogey, I thought you were going down the boozer?

[bogeyman]

Is it? I thought it was about Prezza being on newsnight and bogey being suitably impressed...

Twas.

[Pickle2]

I didn't see it

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode...ht_09_02_2009/

Starts 13:10 in.

I keep expecting his chair to collapse as he rocks back and forth.

[ratewhore]

This thread was about hypocrisy.

Is it? I thought it was about Prezza being on newsnight and bogey being suitably impressed...

[Mich the Tester]

Prescott's default position is to hate anyone with money, especially the old money of 'the upper classes', unless there is something in it for him personally (and I don't mean corruption).

Croquet?

[Doggy Styles]

Absolutely. I don't remember Tories being any more or less corrupt.

This thread was about hypocrisy.

Prescott's default position is to hate anyone with money, especially the old money of 'the upper classes', unless there is something in it for him personally (and I don't mean corruption).

That is the hypocrisy of champagne socialism that one cannot easily level at tories.

[d000hg]

I think you will find that most humans are hypocrites. It's not a trait unique to any politcial party member.

Absolutely. I don't remember Tories being any more or less corrupt.

[Board Game Geek]

Cyberman posted then again most socialists are hypocrites

I think you will find that most humans are hypocrites. It's not a trait unique to any politcial party member.

Why ? Because humans are intrinsically opportunisitic (part of our survial programming), and when faced with a decision that will offer us advantage, we usually take it, even if we have in the past decried such behaviour.

The way we deal with our own hypocrisy is to convince ourselves that "this time, it's different and not the same, so I am ok". Self-delusion is a wonderful thing.

I'd go a stage further and say that for some, the act of decrying an action as wrong is an evolutionary tool to ensure the competition don't consider it, allowing the decryer to perpetrate the same action unopposed. A bit like warning off the competition so the playing field is yours, so to speak.

[Cyberman]

Normally I'm one to deride John Prescott at every opportunity, but tonight on News Night, he fairly panned the little banking gnomes who were set up against him.

Respect Prezza!

Have a pie on me.

I didn't see it but when a man speaks from the heart he is bound to come over well. His heart is socialist just like the rest of his party, but their heads are pretty corrupt when it comes to expenses. To pan the banks but grant themselves massive expenses which are unjustified is hypocritical IMO, but then again most socialists are hypocrites.

[bogeyman]

Normally I'm one to deride John Prescott at every opportunity, but tonight on News Night, he fairly panned the little banking gnomes who were set up against him.

Respect Prezza!

Have a pie on me.