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22 Mar 2007, 10:28 am

"All questions, whether friendly or hostile, would be answered in the same way. Often before the question was finished he'd open his mouth and release a data-stream of statistics, tax rates, comparisons, dates, proportions, percentages, age ranges and things so far removed from the question you could only assume he was hiding something. Or even everything. On and on his answers went, unpunctuated by wit, humour, light, shade, or indeed punctuation. His refusal to recognise the right of his questioners to exist was something clinicians recognised."

Answers will be give a grade from A to F according to how much they approach the truth.



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22 Mar 2007, 10:41 am

I am guessing a politician.. so Keith Joseph.



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22 Mar 2007, 11:14 am

Very good answer. How you did it? So it's B+
Anyhow this man is alive. He resembles very much an autistic and is supposed to become in a few weeks the next British PM.



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23 Mar 2007, 4:14 pm

Would that be Gordon Brown?



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23 Mar 2007, 4:18 pm

Yep. Sounds a little weird.



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23 Mar 2007, 6:18 pm

I remember there was some furore when opposition labelled him as 'faintly autistic'.
I thought this was just political name-calling; didn't know that he actually is.
I tend to avoid watching the news or following party-politics. All the talk of wars and propoganda annoy me.

He can't do a worse job than Blair; but i am sceptical that there will be any change.
If he does not become Bush's monkey then at least that will be something for the better.



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23 Mar 2007, 6:35 pm

Sounded like George Bush to me.



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23 Mar 2007, 9:19 pm

Ticker wrote:
Sounded like George Bush to me.


Nah, too coherent. Also, he said favour not favor (bad joke).



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24 Mar 2007, 3:51 am

I think politicians in this era may be divided roughly in cold technicians (Brown) and rabble rousers (Blair). Perhaps the most damaging are rabble rousers, PR, spin doctors, demagogues, demented believers (in a way), cynical telepreachers. There is an absolute lack of vision in both cases.