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Thread ID: 16563 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-02-03
2005-02-03 15:34 | User Profile
Basically this is an op-ed article about Kilroy-Silk's press conference to announce his new political party Veritas. Unable to find any balanced analysis on Kilroy's announcement (it's Kilroy after all) I opted for one of the sneerier peices:
The MEP shows who's boss after falling out with UKIP by launching a new party, Veritas. Johann Hari reports 03 February 2005
I am sitting, semi-conscious, listening to Robert Kilroy-Silk. He stands before a braying pack, all desperate to make their point. It is like being a student again. Except this time, he is not hosting a "discussion" about a depressed single mum who is pregnant by her father's boyfriend's cat, and I am not in bed retching. No, I am at the birth of Veritas, the party founded to accommodate Kilroy's self-regard. I am at the press conference that will "change Britain forever".
It is time to "end the corrupt, lying politics that dominate this country", Kilroy says with the faintly angry expression I know so well from adolescent years spent rotting in front of Z-list daytime TV. "I am here to speak the truth. It's quite an innovation in politics, isn't it? The truth. But that's why I am running." The People have demanded that He - and only He - can save us now. "When I go to Northern market-towns, they come up to me - ordinary people - and they say, 'We won't vote. Not unless you stand. Then we'll vote.'" He pauses carefully and adds, "And Muslims come up to me. They say, 'Why do they ban Christmas carols? We want to sing Christmas carols.'" Ah yes - the persecution of the carol-singing Muslims. Yes - only Kilroy will bring us the Truth, I begin to chant slowly.
A rhythmic, self- righteous speech began to ooze from him, full of pledges to "speak the truth, the truth, the truth." The late Roy Jenkins once proposed a test for politicians' speeches. He said that you know a speech is meaningless when saying the opposite would be absurd. Here is the opposite of what Kilroy said yesterday: "The British people want politicians who lie. We are going to ignore the British people and lie to them. We will ignore our compatriots at every single opportunity, in markets and towns across the country. We will not address the needs and aspirations of the British people, ever. They do not want change."
... cont. at [url]http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=607246[/url]