“In the old days, they put idiots in the village stocks. Now we put them on the Today programme.”
Godfrey Bloom (1949) UK EU parliament member
John Prescott, Evening Standard, Wednesday 7 August 2013, p. 16
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“The new heroism — put a village idiot into a pressure cooker, seal it up tight, and shoot him at the moon.”
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