Wednesday 18 January 2012

John Bell needs to get a life!

Radio Four 'Thought for the day' this morning appeared to be a partly political broadcast on behalf of the 'let my people go party' as he spoke about having history books written in a foreign place and accents being the source of humour and mocking. Still it's nice to know that he's concerned with the lives of Brummies (whose accent came top in a 'worst' UK accent poll),  Scousers, Geordies and Cockneys.

Divine rights and pops at 'Rule Britannia' served neither man or God - just Bell. Mind you he did give me a thought for the day - I just have to try to forget it and repent of having had it!

Still it was fun to hear an MP get taken apart by Countryside Alliance's David Taylor regarding shotgun licences for youngsters and (non-existent) crime, challenging to hear that the cuts in the numbers of redundancies amongst the Gurkhas might be the result of the changes in their pay, conditions and pensions thanks to the Gurkha Justice Campaign and mildly amusing (and applause-generating) to hear how (the other) Milliband is set to face down the unions (remember them, they put him in) and make a stand for commonsense. I was beginning to worry that without Grommet he was going to be in a weakened state but obviously not.

Lots to think about and load of prayer fodder.

Happy Wednesday!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Heard it and despaired - the sooner they leave and we rebuild the walls the better

Vic Van Den Bergh said...

I actually think everyone will be worse off but then again it could happen as it's (sadly) more about the old enemy than about being intelligent for a lot of those in favour.

Mind you we do do with freeing up some jobs and housing and the money we'd save from having bases and buying Scottish would all be useful :)

(Now are Paul and Mikey visiting I wonder :) )

Revsimmy said...

Yep, John Bell expressed what life is like for almost anyone who isn't an upper/middle class person from the South East. Also, I'm sure that, since devolution, the Scottish education system has already been using Scottish-produced histories in schools and colleges. I'm rather sorry that he played the "victimhood" card. I couldn't really see that any of his arguments brought much of a spiritual/faith dimension to the table. I wonder how the Iona Community would fare if it became a purely Scottish, rather than UK-wide, phenomenon?

Four Listener said...

Well said Vicar

Had the opportunity to speak about God in a prime time and place and hijacked it for a dose of dour, self-serving pathos.

Anonymous said...

Bell alas has a poor knowledge of his own kith and kin. He stated "how would the English feel if their history was written by someone in Aberdeen?" or somesuch . Well, it was, mainly by an Edinburgh man-David Hume's blockbusting six volume "History of England".The generous English thought it a brilliant work.......