Comments on: So You Don’t Share Bernie Ecclestone’s Views On Hitler http://robertbonnett.com/2009/07/05/so-you-don%e2%80%99t-share-bernie-ecclestone%e2%80%99s-views-on-hitler/ Misanthropy And Persiflage Sat, 12 Nov 2011 21:15:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Mike Hanlon http://robertbonnett.com/2009/07/05/so-you-don%e2%80%99t-share-bernie-ecclestone%e2%80%99s-views-on-hitler/#comment-307 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 21:50:31 +0000 http://robertbonnett.wordpress.com/?p=2134#comment-307 MacShane is a fine one to talk of a “growing anti-democracy movement”. He and his party’s government are in the forefront of any such movement, being chief cheerleaders for Britain’s membership of the European Union. MacShane himself is a leading advocate of passing ever more decisions to EU institutions which are clearly beyond the meaningful democractic control of ordinary people. The man is as slimey and disingenuous as the master of spin himself Peter Mandelson. Eccelstone might well be a berk, but who cares? All he controls is cars going in circles. What’s truly frightening is the capacity of evidently so many of our political leaders for ‘double think’ – the ability to hold two completely contradictory opinions at the same time, and believe them both. The most interesting aspect of this affair has been MacShane’s clumsy intervention, demonstrating for us all his own special brand of ‘double think’. Shame the media simply take every quote at face value and never call him on it.

]]> By: Lance Goodman http://robertbonnett.com/2009/07/05/so-you-don%e2%80%99t-share-bernie-ecclestone%e2%80%99s-views-on-hitler/#comment-305 Sun, 05 Jul 2009 17:45:26 +0000 http://robertbonnett.wordpress.com/?p=2134#comment-305 The thing here is that Mr MacShane, like all politicians, has jumped on a story without reading the content. What Bernie was trying to say was that in being a dictatorship, Hitler’s Germany was able to get things done because there wasn’t the requirement to go through half a dozen bureaucratic processes before a decision was made. Something needs to be done, a course of action was chosen and the “thing” got done.

I don’t believe that Bernie once said that the actions were taken were good but just that those actions were taken with the minimum of debate, watering down of actions for fear of upsetting their chances of re-election etc etc.

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