The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one...
Bryce Main
Multi-genre author, mostly Crime fiction. Scottish. Been writing longer than I’ve been wearing big boy’s trousers.
Every time I see, or read, or hear any politician speak these days it brings to mind words I heard years ago.
I think they were said by the comedian Billy Connolly. There were fifteen of them and they were these:
“The desire to be a politician should bar you for life from ever becoming one.”
I think those who make the best politicians are probably the ones who would rather voluntarily shove size 9 knitting needles in their eyes (without anaesthesia) than agree to become a Prime Minister, or a President, or a head of government.
I think real leaders are people who don’t want to sit at the front of the class. They don’t barge their way to the head of the queue. They don’t shout louder than anyone else in the room. They don’t carry the biggest stick.
They don’t have to.
They wouldn’t bloody want to.
They don’t use fear, or insult, or lies, or false promises, or bully tactics. They don’t buy their way to the top table or smack down, insult, attack, endanger, belittle, and vilify anyone who doesn’t think, speak, or act like they do.
They don’t spend their time appealing to the basest instincts of everyone with a spiteful grudge to bear, a poisonous prejudice to voice, or a mountain of hate to spew.
They’re honest, decent folk. The kind who aren’t scared to say and do the right thing even when plenty of other folk think it’s the wrong thing. And they wouldn’t want to be elected into a position of power in a million years. Not without a fight.
That’s why they’re the kind of people I’d happily vote for.
That’s why they’re the kind of people the world desperately needs.
There’s irony for you…
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The above is an extract from my book Ad Infinitum (still in the pregnancy stage).
Like its sisters Ad Lib, and Ad Hoc, it's about creativity, advertising, life, and lots of stuff in between.
You'll find Ad Lib and Ad Hoc on Amazon, along with my other books, Love & Coffee and Heaven Help Us. In print and ebook. Waiting for you. Just look here:
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4yWell put, once again. I'm excited to add your books to my reading queue.
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4yThe only thing the good people are good at is overthrowing the bad people. And they can be good at that, I'll grant you. But the trouble is it's the only thing they're good at. One day it's the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it's everyone sitting around complaining that ever since the tyrant was overthrown no one's been taking out the trash. Because the bad people know how to plan. It's part of the specification, you might say. Every evil tyrant has a plan to rule the world. The good people don't seem to have the knack.” TP It's cruel world.