Where have all the statesmen gone?

Posted on February 15 2018

Another, too good not to share, song from the Parody Project:

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  1. G Hewitt says:
    February 15 2018 at 7:48 am

    Off to Thailand, I believe, where I hope he’s arrested and detained.

  2. Marcus says:
    February 15 2018 at 8:55 am

    If only that was parody , alas that is how it is. 🙂

  3. Ian Stevenson says:
    February 15 2018 at 9:37 am

    The giants of the past -Martin Luther King, Lloyd George, Nye Bevin, Churchill, Clem Atlee (make up your own list) were usually not regarded as such in their day. So some of the people we hear today will be remembered as statesmen and stateswomen, and some of the more prominent will not.

  4. AdrianD says:
    February 15 2018 at 9:49 am

    I like it, but it does rely on an assumption that ‘wisdom and diplomacy’ have ever really been evident in our Government’s behaviour – or that it’s real priorities ever really matched those we like to believe.

    If you’ve been following Mark Curtis’s ‘Declassified’ project (which I thoroughly recommend that everyone does), you’ll know what a thoroughly rose-tinted view this is. We certainly shouldn’t miss the kinds of ‘statesmen’ revealed in the documents that they chose not to share with us.

    http://markcurtis.info/uk-declassified-documents/

  5. Marco Fante says:
    February 15 2018 at 1:56 pm

    Definitely one of the best things I’ve seen on the revolving door issue.

  6. Nigel Mace says:
    February 16 2018 at 11:49 am

    Oh, wonderful. Thanks for the introduction to this stuff, Richard. I went on to relish their Sound of Science, Fifteen Tums (darkly brilliant), Song for Donald and Oh Donny Boy. My own pen is now itching.

  7. Pilgrim Slight Return says:
    February 16 2018 at 12:01 pm

    I have just started to read John Bew’s ‘Citizen Clem’ and I concur with your thoughts exactly.