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    Kenneth Clark on Question Time

    . . .looking like a slightly underdone side of complacent Tory roast beef. He was always one of the more charismatic of the Tories (which, of course, is like saying that Hermann Goering was one of the more affable of the Nazi high command). However, here he is on Question Time, batting away polite queries as to whether the present financial quandary might just have anything to do with the policies he pursued so enthusiastically back in the Thatcherite day, etc, etc.

    When asked about whether this is the end of the free market experiment initiated in 1989, he blusters about our present, grotesquely skewed capitalist system being the best and only option, and a bulwark against socialism where, imagine it, the only car you might ever get is a Trabant, and have to wait for several months for it at that. He also talked about "us" about to enter a period of recession. Not you, mate. Not you and your sort. At least if he'd said "you people" it would have been more honest and accurate.

    Anyway, perhaps the point of this thread should be to highlight examples of people who have presided over, and lauded the free market which has led to the present quandary having to find weasel words and spurious justifications to wriggle away from any personal blame for the state "we're" (but not "they, of course) are presently in.

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    Kenneth Clark on Question Time

    And Clark endorses Barrak Obama.

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      Kenneth Clark on Question Time

      Then again, I agree with every single word he's just said about Sarah Palin. Not that that's hard but it shows the breadth of the anti-Palin consensus.

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        Kenneth Clark on Question Time

        That's Clark with an e. Clark without one was on The Brains Trust for a while but not Question Time as far as I know.

        Seeing he hasn't held any office since 1997, I think he can safely evade responsability for the current crisis. That merely leaves him with the two recessions of the eighties.

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          Kenneth Clark on Question Time

          Yes, apologies for the dropped e - something which I also had to utter to certain parties a few weeks ago on a sunday after a late saturday evening.

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            Kenneth Clark on Question Time

            I thought you were winding me up like Stumpy Pepys the other week when he designed this T-shirt for me:

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              Kenneth Clark on Question Time

              Hang on, you did one of them, and it was strong enough to muck up your next day?

              I expect you get the good stuff in your line of work.

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                Kenneth Clark on Question Time

                Clarke's one of those Thatcher-era ministers who, like Michael Heseltine, has been retrospectively and bogusly presented as one of the "decent Tories", merely because he likes a pint and a pie and a bit of jazz and can string a sentence together. Even though the pair of them were two of the most enthusiastic cheerleaders of the Thatcherite settlement. At least the public were seemingly given a reminder of Clarke's true, twatty, colours being hammered to the mast tonight.

                Clarke was widely regarded as an unlistening disaster of a minister at health and education.

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                  Kenneth Clark on Question Time

                  I saw a guy with one of those "Free Enterprise Works" stickers in the window of his smoke-belching VW camper that smelt like a Havana taxi exhaust

                  I blame him

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                    Kenneth Clark on Question Time

                    Clarke also had an undistinguished time as Home Secretary where he made a great fuss of chucking away all the liberal stuff Douglas Hurd did, though he was made to look better by Michael Howard coming after him.

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                      Kenneth Clark on Question Time

                      "Yes, apologies for the dropped e - something which I also had to utter to certain parties a few weeks ago on a sunday after a late saturday evening."

                      It made for a very entertaining Sunday night's viewing!

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                        Kenneth Clark on Question Time

                        Just watching this. The Trabant speech. He's gone berserk, hasn't he? The facade of the Tories' Mr Reasonable slipped right off.

                        Chris Huhne has kicked his arse by making the simple point that, er, there's a large spectrum of options in between the unregulated free market and the Soviet Union. It was a tap-in, really.

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                          Kenneth Clark on Question Time

                          Am I the only one who thought the clergyman bloke had smuggled a few of his cheerleaders in?

                          It was the dullest Question Time ever, world economic meltdown, 2 wars on going, an American election and we got a panel where almost all of them spent the night saying 'it was nothing to do with us, a big boy did it and ran away'.

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