Couldn’t agree more….

11 thoughts on “Couldn’t agree more….”

1. I wonder what he would have said about the expenses scandal.

2. Quite a lot, I would think, Tom.

3. night night Mr Zen, sleep well.

4. The trouble is, a lot of what is morally right is politically wrong!

5. Cannot argue with the statement, but who defines what is morally wrong?

6. Sipu, it depends on how widely you cast your net.
   Feeg, you do.

7. Well, it is morally right to impose discipline in schools, to curb immigration, to make people responsible for their actions, to reduce the welfare state, to get out of the EU, to give the vote only to those who have an IQ above that of a cabbage ….. But somehow taking such stands tends to end in political failure.

8. So, that’s where I went wrong!

9. Sipu:

   In that case, how come Tony Blair has not been hung, drawn and quartered?

10. FEEG

    Four-eyed English Genius :

    Cannot argue with the statement, but who defines what is morally wrong?

    You have answered your own question: Tony Blair. He embraced the Vicar of Rome to prove his own infallibility.

11. Four-eyed English Genius :

    Sipu:

    In that case, how come Tony Blair has not been hung, drawn and quartered?

    Because he did not make any political mistakes only moral ones. In fact that rather goes to disprove Gladstone’s theory. Blair, the most immoral PM of recent decades, won 3 elections and might well have won a 4th had he not stepped down to let Brown in. It was not Brown’s lack of morals that cost him the election it was his ineptness. Ian Smith was a far more moral man than Robert Mugabe, but that got him nowhere.

    Upon reflection, I would go so far as to say that politics being what it is, Gladstone got it arse-about-face. If something is morally wrong, it is almost certainly politically right i.e. advantageous.