The reason I no longer write about politics is I've stopped thinking of politicians as grown-ups. That Mr Cameron, for instance: I just can't take him seriously.
I so know what you mean. It's even worse, I think, if you mainly get the news off the radio. They all seem to have the self-importance of sixth formers at a school debate. Cameron and Millibland have never had proper jobs; not even the kind of lucrative proper jobs the wealthy and well-connected usually have. They have only ever worked as political researchers etc, only ever operated in the political village. They sound so callow because, effectively, they never have left school.
It used to be the case that a certain proportion of the best minds of every generation would go into politics. These days the best minds all go somewhere else. It's hard to imagine the likes of Cameron, Clegg and Miliband rising to the top in any other profession.
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Date: 2012-03-05 12:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-05 01:34 pm (UTC)It used to be the case that a certain proportion of the best minds of every generation would go into politics. These days the best minds all go somewhere else. It's hard to imagine the likes of Cameron, Clegg and Miliband rising to the top in any other profession.
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Date: 2012-03-05 09:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-05 09:51 pm (UTC)And media and advertising and stuff like that- professions that offer them real power and influence.