incredulity

ゴシップ続々。FarageのTodayを聞いた後にBBCの速報でまたすごいのが。

速報から時間も経ったので、各地の反応から。
John Cleese surprised at GB News showcase for ‘serial liar’ Boris Johnson
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/oct/28/john-cleese-surprised-at-gb-news-showcase-for-serial-liar-boris-johnson

これが速報かな？ニュースのカテゴリはentertainment and artsですね。
Boris Johnson: Former prime minister to host GB News show
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67242822

[quote]
He will "play a key role" in coverage of the UK and US elections next year and will host a series "showcasing the power of Britain around the world", the broadcaster said.
[unquote]
ここはなんか嫌らしいですね。Sunakに対する恨みを晴らすのは勝手にやってほしい。

[quote]
He is the latest Conservative politician to join the broadcaster, following former Business Secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg, party deputy chairman Lee Anderson, and husband-and-wife MPs Esther McVey and Philip Davies.
[unquote]
Lee AndersonはさっきのOwenのビデオにも登場してGBNewsの話してましたね。

[quote]
He becomes the latest big name to join GB News and follows comedian and actor John Cleese, whose 10-part current affairs series is due to begin on Sunday.
[unquote]
なんでCleeseが出てくるんだろうって思ったけど。big nameだからみたいですね。他の出演者はbig nameじゃなかったんだ。。

[quote]
Two presenters, Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson, were sacked earlier this month in the wake of an outcry about Fox's on-air comments about a female journalist, while fellow host Dan Wootton remains suspended.
[unquote]
Fox家は極右みたいですが。おじさんとお父さんは超好みの映画に出てるんでー。Calvin Robinsonは巻き添えというか自爆ですね。Suella Braveman系。
Farageのみたいに続報が出たら取り上げたいけど。もうないかな？

単語はそんなにないのでまとめて
incredulity < incredulous
to platform　動詞のplatformはスラング？
unvarnished views これねー。free speech
unambiguous <>ambiguous

A Party In Meltdown

Farageも出てくるTory Conferenceのまとめビデオ。
PodCastで聞いてはいたのですが、改めて映像を見て、こんな人たちの発言だったんだなーという感じ。

Behind The Scenes At Tory Conference: A Party In Meltdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAwcZK_Y6ro

これを30秒でしゃべるんですよね。30分超の番組のディクテーションは情報量が多すぎて全部は無理。CCが訛りに対応できないので、答え合わせがしにくい。
Conservative Party Conference always a pleasure never a chore. Now this is probably the last conference before the next general election which if honest this a lot of likely leads pretty badly as things stand are they resigned to that what do they think they've achieved in the last 13 years. Do they think the country is really better off? And culture wars the veering off to the right is that basically The future of this party basically are in the know in the potentially dying days of a conservative government where the hell this a lot of heading and what does it mean for the rest of us.

indenture　Farageの発言で、意味がわからなかった単語。意味を知れば文脈的にそうだよねという感じですが。キーワードがわからないとリスニングに弱気になる。

都合の悪いことに答えないときの一般人の言い回し。政治家はもっと上手に話のすり替えをしてますが。英語力が低い人はこれでー。
I’m not prepared to say. I refuse to say. I think most people understand what I’m referring to.
I don’t wish to be drawn on the subject. I don’t think it’s helpful to point the finger.

Enoch PowellとRivers of bloodが気になったところ。Wikiを見て納得。なんとなく推測はできたけど背景がわからなかった。教養。
Enoch Powell is obviously a very divisive figure. Personally what I think of him is a lot of stuff he was saying although very divisive at the time has come to pass.
[Owen]What? rivers of blood?
Not yet. No but massive demographic replacement in some of our bigger cities has occurred
But his prediction was that would cause rivers of blood like the river Tyber the streets of Britain would be rivers of blood would be ahead that never happened

No I didn’t say that happened there what I said is some world?? he came true so I do think he was right on some things in that sense some cities are no longer diverse they are no longer diverse in the sense that there isn’t a mix of cultures where it’s now completely replaced by one culture over another like where a lot of boroughs of London where the white working classes have been moved out in exchange for a lot of people from other…

A lot of councils in Central London now in some of those boroughs have been completely demographically changed to a completely alien culture to what it would be 50 years ago.
I mean that’s a very alien culture to what it was then isn’t it.
Alien as in unfamiliar.
I’m saying it’s to the culture of they are to the beliefs and belief structures of the area to the institution that once were there being replaced by new institutions now and new beliefs new ideologies new cultures new religions

I’m not saying it’s good or bad. It’s neither here nor there. Diversity is not inherently good it’s not inherently bad that’s not my point.
Why does a mix of cultures and world views provide something good necessarily?
But why let’s say there’s some archetypal brilliant world view the best possible world view right?
Would you then say oh let’s make it more diverse and mix it with other world views? No. It’s a tough issue tough question to answer really

ゲイの党員が会場から連れ出された記事とかは取り上げたかったですけど。
Suella Bravermanめちゃくちゃキモかったでした。髪の毛巻き巻きで、極右ポピュリスト発言を頑張ってましたが、見た目が移民ルーツなので超違和感。

最後のAndrew Marrの締めがよくまとまってましたー。さすがseasoned political commentator
Conservatives were always a power party I think not ideological party in many ways
If you ask yourself now what is the conservative philosophy it’s really no answer to that
As it were civic conservatism under Theresa May
We’ve had ego-driven populism under Boris Jonson
We’ve had patrician socially liberal but austerity-driven conservative under Cameron and Osborne
And we had the Truss explosion
And we’ve got Rishi Sunak as a kind of tech bro accountancy conservatism
Put all together there isn’t a single coherent philosophical thread running through it which makes it very hard because if you go into the country and say have another five years of us I think the country looks at the conservatives at the moment say five years of what exactly

mealy-mouthed

この件もずっと取り上げ損ねてました。

NatWest admits serious failings over how it treated Nigel Farage
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-67236693

基本単語
shortcomings
lawful
whitewash
laughable
mealy-mouthed
unviable
by virtue of
amount to [phrasal verb]
[quote]
Travers Smith said Dame Alison's disclosures about Mr Farage "probably amounted" to a personal data breach, but added she "honestly, but incorrectly, believed that the client had publicly confirmed that he was a customer of Coutts"
[unquote].
ファラージの最初のSNSの訴えでは銀行名は出してなかったですよね。どこの銀行かな？と思っていたら、突然銀行名が報道されて、すぐに辞任になったのですよね。自爆でしたね。

SNSで拡散されたビデオの背景が庶民的なダサい部屋で、服装も古臭くてダサいネクタイとスーツのいつものあざとい演出でしたが。
ファラージの資産だと経費がかかりすぎるとかって、wealth thresholdって一体いくらくらいなんでしょうねー。庶民の知らない世界。
最初はイギリスの銀行に口座が持てない、とかなんとか言っていたのが、NatWestが自爆したために、その点はうやむやになったような。
まあ、犠牲者２名出して高い弁護士費用もかかりましたが、面倒臭い客が切れたし。
なんとなくどっちもどっちみたいな印象ですが、まさかこんな面白い結果になるとはファラージさすが。