tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post4800086940052665195..comments2024-03-17T19:13:59.371+00:00Comments on Nigeness: The Leaders, As You've Never Seen ThemNigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-58516453618063478082010-04-23T08:43:36.871+01:002010-04-23T08:43:36.871+01:00Nige - what a fertile imagination you have. Brown ...Nige - what a fertile imagination you have. Brown is a funeral director, in black mourning dress, with a dangling, defunctive fob watch and a second hand top hat.Susanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00179895758709928467noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-70462516079983398312010-04-22T16:37:05.102+01:002010-04-22T16:37:05.102+01:00Capability Clegg wins the largest gardening contra...Capability Clegg wins the largest gardening contract ever placed, a spokesperson for the mellow yellow pruners said "Capa has fought long and hard for this contract, no expenses spared.<br />His main competitor, the Beadle Brown is said to be sulking in his Caledonian fastness.<br />One of the other competitors, Squire Cameron has been observed making overtures to the Capa, hoping for a share of the contract.<br />Rumours that the workforce will be recruited from Bohemia have been hotly deniedmaltyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02936465848907794425noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-25856618681637929162010-04-22T16:29:53.921+01:002010-04-22T16:29:53.921+01:00You're quite right about Cameron: he has that ...You're quite right about Cameron: he has that insouciant, born-to-rule, get-orf-my-land look of Gainsborough's Mr Andrews. Not attractive to me, though I can see why some might find it reassuring in a potential PM. George Osborne has more the air of Hogarth's rake in his glory days (Simon Carr of the Independent once described him as a man with a "subcutaneous sneer").<br /><br />However, the one I've always thought of as quintessentially <br />18th century is Mandelson -- perhaps that's why Bryan A. seems to feel so warmly towards him. Can't you see him in knee breeches and buckled shoes, slinking from coffee house to salon with the latest scandal sheets, weaving plots within plots for some future Namier to unravel? His face <i>already</i> looks like something strangely haunting from a Gillray or Rowlandson cartoon -- so thin, clever, and foxy but with an unexpected neediness or sense of trouble about the eyes and mouth. <br /><br />By contrast, the cartoonists must despair of Clegg. I still don't think I'd recognize him if I passed him in the street.jonathan lawhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05986943428040953041noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-79128434976730403772010-04-22T14:40:56.575+01:002010-04-22T14:40:56.575+01:00Gordon would be running the press gang.Gordon would be running the press gang.deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-91855081568435171322010-04-22T14:08:59.123+01:002010-04-22T14:08:59.123+01:00I rather see Broon as the warden of the Marshalsea...I rather see Broon as the warden of the Marshalsea (I think they were called Knight Marshal), or at least the chaplain - "the Marshalsea looked like an Oxbridge college and functioned largely as an extortion racket" according to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshalsea" rel="nofollow">Wikipedia</a>, anyway. With, behind him in the gloom, a couple of whey-faced jailers like Darling and Straw, bunch of keys in hand. Prescott would be running the kitchens, for a fee, the food entirely diverted to his network of shady taverns.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06074816573442173758noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-65139028414392327142010-04-22T13:59:37.404+01:002010-04-22T13:59:37.404+01:00Of course Prescott could have stepped straight out...Of course Prescott could have stepped straight out of Hogarth's 'Election', swinging punches while eating a big pie.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-13000670602867154292010-04-22T13:55:37.440+01:002010-04-22T13:55:37.440+01:00I wonder what Sir Watkyn will have to say...I wonder what Sir Watkyn will have to say...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-11306618103338708602010-04-22T13:54:44.370+01:002010-04-22T13:54:44.370+01:00Terrific thinking. Broon is definitely a Parson, I...Terrific thinking. Broon is definitely a Parson, I reckon. A malevolent one.Brithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00390560583798960760noreply@blogger.com