04-18-2015, 10:05 AM
(04-18-2015, 12:41 AM)Acey Wrote: Pretty much, aye.
Think he's got a bit more gravitas about him than most others, if required.
A good test is imagining how they would deliver the following:
But if we fail, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new dark age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the lights of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves, that if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say: "This was their finest hour".
Can you imagine Milliband doing that?
Can I imagine Miliband or Cameron using antiquated language like that in a speech? No, I suppose not
It's quite a shit litmus test, though, isn't it? Put someone else's words in their mouth and subjectively decide if they feel right By that test, virtually every Prime Minister in history fails