We all want our politicians to be clever men, but being cunning isn’t the same as being wise.
Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke, declared himself one of the Country Party, a loose and cross-bench federation of MPs speaking up (so they said) for the country as a whole, and not only for the elite only. In 1738, he wrote The Idea of a Patriot King for the benefit of Frederick, Prince of Wales, in which Bolingbroke distinguished between two kinds of politician.
Join each group of ideas together to make a single sentence, in as many ways as you can.
He is short-sighted. He will not achieve anything. [Ahead. Fail. Unless.]
He is honest. Few politicians are. [Majority. Rare. Unlike.]
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October 15
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