“Deniability was next to godliness in Westminster's corridors, and godliness itself second only to an unassailable majority.” GovernmentPoliticsLiesCorruptionDenialPoliticiansWestminsterDeniabilityFalse Denial Book:Joe Country Source: Joe Country
“We are talking about a bunch of mindless bottom feeders who is general ignorance of a way of life is tempered only by their indifference to human suffering, we are all agreed on that?" "Is this the politicians all the killers?" "good point, but I meant the killers.” KillersPoliticiansAssassinsTerrorists Book:London Rules Source: London Rules
“You didn't have to go back far to recall a culture that said: Yes, we like a drink at lunchtime. The political culture, he meant—Peter Judd was well aware that the culture in general was chucking booze down its neck like a mental hobo. But the political culture, meaning Westminster, had cleaned up its act since the millennium, a shift in which Judd himself had played no small part. A public disavowal of some of the more famous extravagances of his youth had, near as damn it, established a party line, or at least had drawn a line across which his party didnt dare tread... Once the House's reputation for being more or less sober during daylight hours had been salvaged, and his own status as architect of the "New Responsibility" (copyright, some broadsheet reptile) safely established, Judd was happy to revert to drinking at lunchtime when he felt like it.” HypocrisyPoliticiansHypocritePoliticians QuotesHeavy DrinkerHouses Or Parliament Book:Real Tigers Source: Real Tigers