More Tory Sleaze

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/jenrick-urged-approve-housing-plan-183608816.html

[jim360]

There are four more years to go, though, and that's plenty of time for the Government to show me I'm wrong. I hope I'll be able to feel stupid come the next election.

[naomi24]

Doubtless you could point me in a lot of directions, Jim - but that doesn't detract from the fact that your post was grossly unfair - and the links you provided didn't support your claim. Like it or not it's called spin!

[naomi24]

//I hope I'll be able to feel stupid come the next election. //

I hope so too.

[jim360]

Spin is defined as "knowingly" distorting the truth. If you'd called me just wrong that would have been fine.

[naomi24]

But you do know it hasn't burned through ALL it's goodwill. Nevertheless that's what you said. Spin.

[gulliver1]

What sort of P/M wants to keep the shady characters in his GOVt, e/g
Cummings and Jenrick for two . Not saying much for Johnsons Character is it.
We're all in this together , chums.

[dannyk13]

Jim, that is your interpretation, but there is another that fits you:-
//In public relations and politics, spin is a form of propaganda, achieved through knowingly providing a biased interpretation of an event //

[jim360]

Yes, it's the intent I'm talking about though, isn't it danny? I never intend to distort. Ever.

[jim360]

// But you do know it hasn't burned through ALL it's [sic] goodwill. Nevertheless that's what you said. Spin. //

That's called rhetoric.

[dannyk13]

Jim // I never intend to distort. Ever.//
Not the impression that emanates from your posts.I may be wrong , but...

[jim360]

But you are :)

[naomi24]

//That's called rhetoric. //

Spin.

Strange how many people 'misunderstand' you - allegedly.

[jim360]

Strange how many also understand me perfectly. One could be forgiven for thinking that you speak for everybody based on that last post.

If only there were a word for knowingly distorting the situation...

[naomi24]

//One could be forgiven for thinking that you speak for everybody based on that last post. //

You're exaggerating again, Jim. There's been no mention of everybody - but there are two on this very page you're accusing of misunderstanding you.

[jim360]

Indeed. One who demonstrably keeps misunderstanding me frequently when my intention was perfectly clear, and another who does the same. I pointed out before how danny once responded to my suggestion that Margaret Thatcher might have done a good job of responding to a pandemic as "typical of [my] political allegiance" -- which, I think you'll agree, is a bizarre claim.

[dannyk13]

Jim, can you provide a link to your last post?

[naomi24]

Do yourself a favour, Jim. Don't ever consider going into politics.

[gulliver1]

Think you ought to stick to your daytime job also.

[jim360]

Why ever not? If I were indeed a constant spinner* I'd be suitably qualified for politics.

*I was going to say a master of spinning but I think you would dispute the "master" part at least...

danny:
https://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/ChatterBank/Question1702393-7.html

[dannyk13]

Jim, so I was responding to a post by Naomi, not you.