Melvyn Bragg takes socks it to Cameron, Brexiteers and the 'traitorous' James Dyson

[editor]

Excellent stuff.

On “traitorous” James Dyson:

“Their so-called figureheads like [Sir James] Dyson runs away, buggers off – traitorous you could say, in some ways. ‘I’m a big Brexit man’ – as soon as he sees an opportunity, he goes to Singapore. Puts two billion in there when he could have done it here. Isn’t he rich enough? He’s the biggest landowner in the country. How greedy can somebody get?... Horrible... Everything is wrong about it. It speaks to what is wrong about our country. It also has unleashed feelings that are very unpleasant. We were getting on pretty well.”

On the Brexit result:

“They were lied to. There’s no getting around it. And Cameron – contemptable Cameron – got everything wrong. He needn’t have called it, he just gave into his right wing because he’s a pusillanimous person. Then the BBC gave Farage the space on radios… he didn’t have a seat in parliament, but he seemed to be on the radio every day.”

On Cameron:

“I’m looking forward to getting hold of his book, I can tell you. Self-serving, and now this swaggering on – ‘I’m very bored, I’d like another job now. Bit bored, so I’d like to be Foreign Secretary’. He ran away. He ran a lousy campaign and then he ran away – he said he’d stay but ran away, he resigned from the Commons – we’ve never heard a pip or a squeak from him. He didn’t go on the Remain march, he didn’t do anything. Cameron could have saved his name by leading the Remain minority

‘Who the f*** does he thinks he is’: Broadcaster Melvyn Bragg takes aim at Cameron, Brexiteers and… ‘that weasel’ Macron

 

[Pickman's model]

The Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry is a bigger landowner than dyson

 

[Pickman's model]

Oh and Cameron could have saved his name by committing ritual suicide on Whitehall

 

[SpookyFrank]

Dyson is an open goal tbf. The man's an utter worm.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

I became an unlikely friend of his at itv over a misunderstanding that we never resolved, or at least never acknowledged. He's a decent sort, but can also be a touch odd (but I like that about him). Bumped into him in Soho a couple of years ago where he was lamenting the shit show that itv became. Haven't seen him since.

 

[Chilli.s]

Wholeheartedly agree with him about Dyson.

 

[redsquirrel]

We were getting on pretty well.

Says it all.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Lol

 

[gentlegreen]

I was coincidentally recently watching some of his excellent series on the English language - no idea he'd been lordified.

 

[Friedrich986]

nothing wrong with putting 2Bill into Singapore, it's one of the main reasons we want out of the CU - so that the country can do trade deals

 

[likesfish]

Your a sad strange little man and i pity you.

 

[AnnO'Neemus]

nothing wrong with putting 2Bill into Singapore, it's one of the main reasons we want out of the CU - so that the country can do trade deals

If the UK being in the EU didn't prevent Dyson investing 2bn in Singapore, then what would coming out of the EU facilitate that isn't already possible?

I mean, if your main argument is 'We need to leave the EU so we can do trade deals like wot Dyson did with Singapore' then there's no need , because it's clearly already possible.

 

[Pickman's model]

I was coincidentally recently watching some of his excellent series on the English language - no idea he'd been lordified.

one day we'll catch up with 1790s france and dispose of our aristocracy. they did it with the guillotine, we'll do it with the grytviken - buenos aires friendship bridge

 

[Supine]

nothing wrong with putting 2Bill into Singapore, it's one of the main reasons we want out of the CU - so that the country can do trade deals

Outsourcing manufacturing and trade are not the same thing, you get that right?

Manufacturing is done where its cheapest hence lots of talk about the UK losing manufacturing jobs when brexit happens.

 

[agricola]

one day we'll catch up with 1790s france and dispose of our aristocracy. they did it with the guillotine, we'll do it with the grytviken - buenos aires friendship bridge

Madame Suspension Bridge certainly has a ring to it

 

[Dogsauce]

Outsourcing manufacturing and trade are not the same thing, you get that right?

Manufacturing is done where its cheapest hence lots of talk about the UK losing manufacturing jobs when brexit happens.

If the pound tanks then the UK might become one of those places where labour is cheap enough to invest in manufacturing. That and all that Working Time Directive stuff getting swept away in order to ‘remain competitive’ will help keep the investors on side. All hail the sunny uplands of Brezit.

 

[Casual Observer]

"pusillanimous". Great word that I'd use myself if I was knew how to pronounce it.

 

[Poi E]

"pusillanimous". Great word that I'd use myself if I was knew how to pronounce it.

Just the way you said it