playing politics

[Pickman's model]

i see politicians often say politics shouldn't be played with a situation, e.g. the recent greek elections. surely politicians view all situations through a political prism and therefore should be approaching them with a political analysis? are they suggesting that some things are above party politics or just acknowledging they have no politics worth the name?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

i see politicians often say politics shouldn't be played with a situation, e.g. the recent greek elections. surely politicians view all situations through a political prism and therefore should be approaching them with a political analysis? are they suggesting that some things are above party politics or just acknowledging they have no politics worth the name?

No, in a British context it is usually said when their opposition picks on an issue that is important to them and which the original politicians already have a stance on that conflicts with that of the opposition.

Examples include Education and Health where each side wishes the other to bow out of, claiming that their own position is purely objective and above the current political debate.

 

[frogwoman]

These strikes are wrong

 

[DotCommunist]

but the government has provoked them

 

[weepiper]

 

[ViolentPanda]

You've got to either be a special sort of non-self aware twit, or hold the ability of other people to think for themselves in absolute contempt to come out with something as stupid as that. He should be fastened to a St. Andrew cross and set afire.

 

[campanula]

Viewing the oafish yahoos sitting about in Westminster, it is impossible to refute the suggestion that 'playing' is exactly what these morons are doing. A return to their old school debating society...since it is patently obvious that these people are manifestly untouched by real world issues of poverty and lack of hope and furthermore, they are mere sockpuppets for the true seat of power, which is located in faceless corporations and shady financial currency markets and the like. Even that annoying stance they adopt, leaning nonchalantly on the lectern, smacks of posturing and spectacle rather than anything of any real substance. I grind my teeth in rage that these shit mongers appear to believe that they are in any way representative of the polity as a whole.

 

[J Ed]

It doesn't mean anything, it's just one of those meaningless phrases which the political class thinks plays well with what they imagine to be the 'common man'.

 

[J Ed]

These strikes are wrong

There's just no money left! [gives ATOS, Maximus, A4E £9999999999]