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Will Self attacks people who join political parties, calling them 'donkeys led by donkeys' who repeatedly see their principles betrayed by the actions of their leaders.

Will Self attacks the people who join political parties as "donkeys led by donkeys". He criticises the spectacle of the party conferences, a parade of "endlessly biddable Dobbins" displaying "a mental passivity that makes the average X-factor audience look like the participants in one of Plato's symposia." He argues that members repeatedly see their principles betrayed by the actions of the leaders of their parties who are continually fighting over the same patch of turf, "butting and biting the other herds".
Producer: Sheila Cook.

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Sun 2 Oct 2011 08:50

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  • Fri 30 Sep 2011 20:50
  • Sun 2 Oct 2011 08:50

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