Clay Lane Blog

Ministerial Myopia

We all want our politicians to be clever men, but being cunning isn’t the same as being wise.

October 15

Ministerial Myopia

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.

Read

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.]

Posted October 15

Post Box : Help Available

← Back to the Blog