Is there no end to the pedantic lecturing to the nth degree performed by Jonathan Portes (Director, National Institute of Economic and Social Research) on whoever provokes his ire?
He just goes on and on and on, saying nothing important just quoting stats all the time.
He reminds me of a friend I have who is a Spurs supporter. You try to point out that Spurs have never won anything, not a thing, for as long as anyone can remember. And all you get back is loads of stats "proving" Spurs is the best team in the league.
He reminds me of Betjeman's Lord Mount Prospect, a well-born clergyman whose skeletal remains are discovered in an empty church having perished delivering the longest sermon in history, his boney finger poised on the twenty-thousandth point he wanted to make.
He just goes on and on and on, saying nothing important just quoting stats all the time.
He reminds me of a friend I have who is a Spurs supporter. You try to point out that Spurs have never won anything, not a thing, for as long as anyone can remember. And all you get back is loads of stats "proving" Spurs is the best team in the league.
He reminds me of Betjeman's Lord Mount Prospect, a well-born clergyman whose skeletal remains are discovered in an empty church having perished delivering the longest sermon in history, his boney finger poised on the twenty-thousandth point he wanted to make.
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