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5 Feet of Fury

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Right wing UK comic Geoff Norcott about representing the views of the majority of the country on the BBC

February 5, 2018 By Kathy Shaidle

Via the Spectator:

As a child he disapproved of ill-disciplined neighbours. ‘I was quite judgey about the kids that didn’t go to school and weren’t trying to better themselves. I remember one day particularly I came home from school and my mum was still in her dressing-gown, and I said, “For God’s sake! Get dressed! Achieve something with your day”, although she was a hardworking woman.’ He still has ‘a real issue’ with dressing-gowns worn during daylight hours. ‘Get up. Do something useful.’ (…)

In modern politics people want to feel something, more than anything. That’s true with Trump, true with Brexit. They just want to feel something…

 

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