Monday, 16 June 2014

Compare and contrast

Compare and contrast

BLISS reminded me of an incident recently.

This is Moeen Ali:













He plays cricket for England. That makes him one of only eleven who do that. One of an elite at the top of a pyramid, with ever wider ranks of County players, Club Cricketers, local league cricketers, and at the bottom very poor village (idiot) level players like me. Most of that pyramid pay for the privilege of putting on whites and picking up a lump of willow every week.

Moeen Ali happily posed for photographs with fans when fielding on the boundary.

This is Joe Root.














He takes time and trouble before walking from the field to the changing room to sign all the autographs and pose for all the photographs the kids in the family part of the ground could ever want.

Ian Botham carried two bags. One had his cricket gear in it. The other was packed with those miniature bats, which he signed and handed out to anyone who wanted one.

I think these guys, and cricketers in general, exude quality.

This is John Prescott.












You would be forgiven for asking whether the 'Two Jags' nickname arose from one car per arse-cheek.

He's one of three-hundred-odd politicians no-one cares for or about.

Asked for an autograph by a young child visiting Portcullis House, he flew into a “do you know how important and busy I am?” rage and refused. After negotiation, he signed one whatever for the kids to share between the twenty or thirty of them.

There are more war refugees now than at any point since WWII.

There's another success story for our politicians.

Prescott is typical of the breed.

Self-important, totally lacking in quality and humility.

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