I really love the gallagher brothers. In fact, I seem to be manifesting my future as a gallagheresque social commentator.
My area of expertise? The 20something.
I am probably more liam than noel.
But on politics, noel is king. and politics seems to be my subject of the week.
Noel says: 'for me, politics is like football. i may not like the new striker but it doesn't mean i start supporting another team'.
Which represents precisely the moral dichotomy i find myself in about david cameron.
Surely if this man ever has spinal surgery it will be to put one in? Why can't he just be himself? Many of the best leaders and auteurs this century have been old etonians. Why does dave fear this persona so?
Why try and be a man of the people when you are not?
We want to know who YOU are not who you want to be!
But there is the problem. Dave has no idea who dave is. And it is not his fault. The modern politician has to be whatever wins votes from day one, thus their whole persona is invented by spin doctors and opinion polls - being yourself is an arch crime.
Take patrick mercer, the poor bugger who cameron sacked last week for simply portraying publicly the racist monikers that will forever infuse military life. The lillied liver that is cameron dropped him like a hot potato, in a spine chilling public display of weakness the likes of which i have not seen since john major was in power. Imagine it! you give your coountry 25 years prolific service before becoming a tory MP, and when you finally speak out on a sensitive issue you get fired! i mean, just because the man told the truth does not mean he has an army of cotton picking slaves waiting to wipe his arse every time he takes a shit at his coutryside plantation!!!
Get a grip dave, or the voters will for you.
Cameron, who is currently making the headlines for simply renovating the basement of his notting hill 2up2down, needs a big reality check, or he risks becoming something even worse than TB: a lib dem PM, trying to please labour voters, while all the while moving further away from simply who he actually is, and who we all really want to know - the real dave cameron. (a half pint tory midbencher? we suspect so, but who knows, for god's sake?!).
But back to more influential and honest figures of public life. People who will really stand the test of time. After 6 brilliant albums, Oasis are up there with the stone roses, the rolling stones, primal scream and the beatles as one of GB's best ever bands. But in the early days, they were plagued by accusations of plagiarism.
In 1998, Liam's brilliant response was:
"Call me this, call me that, i couldn't give a fuck. I know for a fact that we are the real fucking deal. They've not seen the likes of it ever. Not for 20, 30, or 40 years. I'm on about ever."
Who can argue with that 8 years on?
And what politician can say that nowadays? They should all be ashamed of themselves. Recent great leaders like thatcher and clinton must be desperately dissapointed.
I am off to watch my first ever boxing match in 6 weeks for my 30th birthdy in Las Vegas. combined with a friend of mine's bachelor party, we are going to see oscar de la hoya vs floyd mayweather at he mgm grand.
It's billed as the best fight ever to be staged.
De la Hoya, a hugely intelligent and inspring man and the best pound for pound fighter ever, will face the brilliant and arrogant Mayweather, unarguably the biggest thing ever to hit boxing and still unbeaten.
Boxing is sick, but it is real. There is no messing around. Nowhere to hide.
I think about these two men, who i will have the priviledge to watch and pray for. Surely it will be an historic occasion and an epic sporting event to tell my father and grandchildren about in reverential tones.
And then i think of blair vs. cameron.
Nothing more than a WWF predetermined wrestling match of mediocrity, resided over and owned by rupert murdoch.
For god's sake, give us something to believe in.
As a modern 20something i am desperate for it.
And so are liam and noel - national treasures the pair of them.
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