Who Ruined Britain

[Ken Davison South Wales]

He does not mince his words thats for sure.

 

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[five bellies]

He does not mince his words thats for sure.

 

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Ken what did he have to say I saw Daily Mail and backed off

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Ken what did he have to say I saw Daily Mail and backed off

 

You should have been brave and read on

 

 

Twenty Examples

1. Jeffrey Archer: "His crassness, his boastfulness, his social mountaineering, his pushiness, his sheer screamingly obvious dodginess, were traffic signs to his character and should have prevented him getting as far as he did."

 

2. Howard Schultz: The man who put world domination on the agenda for coffee chain Starbucks.

 

3. Tim Westwood: "Middle-aged Westwood is a Radio 1 disc jockey who has so immersed himself in the music of black rappers and American-style hip-hoppers that he has started to talk like one - and is leading thousands of young listeners down the same ill-guided alley."

 

4. Tony Blair: "There is a good, rough word to describe Tony Blair but we had better not write it out here in full."

 

5. Paul Burrell: "After Burrell, we expect less of close confidants. And we are less surprised by his sort of treachery."

 

6. John Prescott: "Prescott, a revolting specimen with the manners of a flatulent caveman, demeaned our public life."

 

7. Sir Jimmy Saville: "There are other examples - Tony Blackburn, Sir Paul McCartney, Keith Chegwin, Chris Evans - of egomaniac idiots whose refusal to submit to age infects our society with immaturity."

 

8. Richard Dawkins: "Anti-religionist Dawkins, the best-known English dissenter since Darwin, is the merciless demander of provable fact."

 

9. Janet Street-Porter: "This ageing non-revolutionary helped to mould a London media elite who are now hooked on youth."

 

10. Sir Alex Ferguson: "A man who has helped to drive the fun out of football and who often seems to forget that the contest between two teams of 11 lads is merely a game, not a struggle between right and wrong."

 

11. Richard Brunstrom: "The traffic-crazed Chief Constable of North Wales Police has pursued motorists to the point of frenzy."

 

12. Margaret Thatcher: "It was in the pursuit of the trade unions - specifically, Arthur Scargill's National Union of Mineworkers - that Mrs Thatcher did lasting damage to our country."

 

13. Princess Diana: "The sorry truth is that this adored concept, this packaged, airbrushed Diana, weakened our society. She made us more neurotic."

 

14. Charles Saatchi: "Does Saatchi never stop to consider what it does to the nurse or the soldier on a basic wage to see such fecklessness as Tracey Emin's 'Everyone I Have Ever Slept With' hailed as a masterpiece?"

 

15. John McEnroe: "McEnroe helped spread bad sportmanship to a generation of youngsters."

 

16. Stephen Marks: The man behind **** is blamed for "contributing to the coarseness of language in public."

 

17. Frank Blackmore: The man who introduced the mini-roundabout to Britain's roads. Enough said.

 

18. Alan Titchmarsh: "Alan is 'doing his bit for the environment' by joining something called the 'Saving Planet Earth' project. But after so much Alan Titchmarsh, will it want to be saved? Or will it plead for euthanasia?"

 

19. Richard Beeching: Behind the closure of a long list of railway stations. "To this day, there are traffic jams and bottlenecks which can be traced to Beeching."

 

20. Edward Heath: Heath was blamed for creating a climate of political terror about immigration.

 

Who would you put at the top of your list?

Edited October 8, 2008 by Ken Davison South Wales

[Sportsman]

It sort of assumes that Britain is in fact ruined

[yorkio]

It sort of assumes that Britain is in fact ruined

Quite. That said, for the most part, they're a pretty ghastly bunch. Richard Dawkins though? "Anti-religionist Dawkins, the best-known English dissenter since Darwin, is the merciless demander of provable fact." A demander of provable facts, eh? Just how is that a bad thing?

 

And the argument against Charles Saatchi is just plain stupid.

[corydoras]

Quite. That said, for the most part, they're a pretty ghastly bunch. Richard Dawkins though? "Anti-religionist Dawkins, the best-known English dissenter since Darwin, is the merciless demander of provable fact." A demander of provable facts, eh? Just how is that a bad thing?

 

And the argument against Charles Saatchi is just plain stupid.

Exactly, Dawkins is one of my heroes, thanks to him I no longer 'believe' in a lot of the crap that I used to. I try not to 'believe in' things at all these days. There are things that I accept as factual and things that I reject for being false.

[Ken L]

I reckon Si has this thread open in a special little window labled "Watch carefully" and is waiting to pounce when the ranting starts.

He's been showing as a reading member for a good 10 minutes.......

[gozzer]

Although I agree with some of the candidates, who can really take seriously a man who makes his living by criticizing others?

 

John.

[Guest Jan V]

John McEnroe?????? Give me a break.....

[Ken Davison South Wales]

Although I agree with some of the candidates, who can really take seriously a man who makes his living by criticizing others?

 

John.

 

Now that is what I was thinking, and whilst a group of aging self righteous DJs might prove to be a pain in the nether regions I cannot see them making any serious impact on our society.