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<blockquote data-quote="texan" data-source="post: 1000764" data-attributes="member: 38206"><p><strong><span style="font-size: 12px">London 2012: Rowan Atkinson's brother criticises 'Left-wing' opening ceremony</span></strong></p><p></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">London Olympics opening ceremony, which starred Rowan Atkinson, was a vivid</span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 10px">illustration of the 'parochial Left', according to his brother.</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">Rowan Atkinson's amusing turn was one of the highlights of the Olympics opening </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">ceremony, but his brother, Rodney, is not impressed with Danny Boyle’s production. </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">“It had strong strands of the parochial Left,” claims Atkinson, who was annoyed by </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">the ceremony’s “assumption that the industrial revolution was oppressive”. </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">The academic adds: “Obviously, the pseudo-intellectual Left have never worked</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">on a farm, as Rowan and I did when we were young. The Left never understand</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px">internationalism and the wealth which arises from free trade among free peoples</span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 10px">and cultures. That is Britain’s greatest achievement. </span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"></span><span style="font-size: 10px">"Their aim is supra-national, where peoples and cultures are subsumed, as they were</span></strong></p><p> <strong><span style="font-size: 10px">in this ceremony, into a 'levelling’ Statist mish-mash, which inevitably leads to failure and conflict.”</span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9434995/London-2012-Rowan-Atkinsons-brother-criticises-Left-wing-opening-ceremony.html" target="_blank">London 2012: Rowan Atkinson's brother criticises 'Left-wing' opening ceremony - Telegraph</a></span></strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></strong></p><p><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"></span></strong></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="texan, post: 1000764, member: 38206"] [B][SIZE=3]London 2012: Rowan Atkinson's brother criticises 'Left-wing' opening ceremony[/SIZE][/B] [B][SIZE=2]London Olympics opening ceremony, which starred Rowan Atkinson, was a vivid illustration of the 'parochial Left', according to his brother. Rowan Atkinson's amusing turn was one of the highlights of the Olympics opening ceremony, but his brother, Rodney, is not impressed with Danny Boyle’s production. “It had strong strands of the parochial Left,” claims Atkinson, who was annoyed by the ceremony’s “assumption that the industrial revolution was oppressive”. The academic adds: “Obviously, the pseudo-intellectual Left have never worked on a farm, as Rowan and I did when we were young. The Left never understand internationalism and the wealth which arises from free trade among free peoples and cultures. That is Britain’s greatest achievement. [/SIZE][SIZE=2]"Their aim is supra-national, where peoples and cultures are subsumed, as they were in this ceremony, into a 'levelling’ Statist mish-mash, which inevitably leads to failure and conflict.” [URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/news/9434995/London-2012-Rowan-Atkinsons-brother-criticises-Left-wing-opening-ceremony.html"]London 2012: Rowan Atkinson's brother criticises 'Left-wing' opening ceremony - Telegraph[/URL][/SIZE] [SIZE=2] [/SIZE][/B] [/QUOTE]
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