What does that mean?

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (27 Mar 2017 9.07pm)

I think he is alluding to the fact that our political choices as a nation are akin to punching ourselves in the face.

Democracy is the problem. Bloody people, they vote for the Tories and Brexit instead of communist-lite policies like Corbyn's. Perhaps we should impose Fred Kite's corn fields and ballet in the evenings on them for their own good.

We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

Maybe the trick is to remember that the film was as much a satire of the Tory-supporting "bosses" as of shop stewards.

As an obituary of Alan Hackney,the author of the novel it was based on, stated:

"I'm All Right Jack, made by the sibling producer-director team of Roy and John Boulting, actually spares nobody, certainly not the bosses, who are avaricious and corrupt where the workers are merely lazy and cunning.

Among the top brass are smoothy Bertram Tracepurcel (Dennis Price), spivvy Sidney De Vere Cox (Richard Attenborough) and toffee-nosed Major Hitchcock (Terry-Thomas). It was Hackney who came up with Terry-Thomas's catch-phrase, "You're an absolute shower," said in the gap-toothed comic's plummiest tones, in reference to anyone who did something of which he disapproved"

We arguably have some of the smoothies, spivvies and and toffee-nosedesque people alive and well in power at present..

Though the late great Peter Sellers was undoubtedly a comic genius,sorely still missed even today.

Edited by legaleagle (27 Mar 2017 9.59pm)

saw a think on sky news last week interviewing a british trainer about immigration in the national hunt racing world, he said without the foreign stablehands, national hunt racing would cease to exist, he had tried hiring british stablehands but they either didnt turn up for work on a saturday morning or chucked the job in cos it was to hard work! I was born here,,,,just saying,,,,,,,,

i dont think so mate, he was a bit of a toff, not sort to stick up for foreigners, thats what suprised me about the interview, and knowing our culture on a friday night i can see that a youngster would probably fancy a lay in on saturday morning, i know i would!