Brown at party conference

[joevsimp]

I was watching the news yesterday with my other half. As we saw Mandelson's performance, she was moved to say that she wished Kinnock was still leader...I sort of knew what she meant. I quickly changed channels as that sort of nostalgia isn't healthy.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

crikey, things must be bad

 

[butchersapron]

what an appallingly bad website.

Anyone else see kinnock interviewed last night? On newsnight I think. He quoted bloody Gramsci, the cheeky bastard.

What did he say?

 

[butchersapron]

Hmm... or maybe an optimistic LibDem?

What's the difference again?

 

[belboid]

What did he say?

Pessimism of the spirit; optimism of the will

 

[butchersapron]

I knew it! That's not Gramsci - it's Romain Rolland. What a twat.

 

[belboid]

I thought Rolland didnt actually use it till nearly ten years later...(December '29 for Antonio)

 

[agricola]

Pessimism of the spirit conference; optimism of conference the will conference

Have fixed it for you, conference.

 

[butchersapron]

Gramsci was using it as the slogan of his crypto-councilist paper as early as 1919, and he expressly reffed it as Rolland's.

 

[Sesquipedalian]

Not a bad effort Gordon.
(Not a great one either.)

I thought he was finished at the start of the week.