No pretence..no back stabbing..no sly nastiness ..no deviousness..no pointing fingers..just 👉 leadership..values..graciousness..integrity..and greatly respected on the world stage and at home..thankyou @Keir_Starmer
What made Penelope Keith's Margo unforgettable, though, was not only her gift for withering the people around her. Keith refused to play her as a caricature. Beneath the social anxiety, the impossible standards and the perfectly manicured borders was a woman who loved deeply. You laughed at Margo; Keith made sure you understood her too. The marriage to Jerry remains one of television’s most convincing: they exasperated each other endlessly, and the adoration underneath was never once in doubt.
The danger for an actor with her voice, her height, her bearing was a lifetime casting as “the posh woman.” In one sense that is precisely what happened. Yet she returned to those women – Audrey Forbes-Hamilton in To the Manor Born, and so many others on stage and screen – and made each one distinct: formidable, exasperating, vulnerable, lonely, unexpectedly warm, often inside a single episode. She never settled for a stereotype; she found the woman underneath and gave her intelligence, dignity and a private ache. She understood that the funniest characters are the ones who never suspect they’re being funny but believe, to their bones, that they’re right.
The impeccable Penelope Keith, by @gerrylb
https://t.co/heAqVJoPx3
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Interesting Jenrick forced on the news round to state Farage would be leader at the next election
Farage remains silent on the matter.
Dame #PenelopeKeith was a regular passenger on SWR Portsmouth Line. Whenever I was the Driver of the service she always spoke as I got into the cab at Waterloo & when when she got off at her station she would always knock the window & say: ‘thank you Driver’. A lovely lady. RIP
@newsnight why not give a potential new PM a chance. He might be successful. Don't let has-been Tory manifesto writers and lords continue in their destructive old ways. Ditto journalists ... Get real politicians and others who really know where "the herd" is ...
Things Keir Starmer taught me:
Politicians can have morals
When others demean themselves, leave them to it
When others go low, go higher
Service should be the only reason to want to be a PM
Being humble is more attractive than arrogance
Handle all circumstances with grace
Does it make you feel sick to the stomach thinking of all the journalists who played a big part in bringing down Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer celebrating and slapping each other on the back for a job well done for their paymasters?🤔
Repost after voting please.
A duck walks into a bar and orders a pint of beer and a ham sandwich.
The barman looks at him and says, “Hang on… you’re a duck.”
“I see your eyes are working,” replies the duck.
“And you can talk!” exclaims the barman.
“I see your ears are working too,” says the duck. “Now, if you don’t mind, can I have my beer and sandwich?”
“Certainly. Sorry about that,” says the barman as he pours the pint. “It’s just that we don’t get many ducks in here. What are you doing around this way?”
“I’m working on the building site across the road,” explains the duck. “I’m a plasterer.”
The barman is amazed, but the duck pulls a newspaper out of his bag and starts reading, making it clear the conversation is over.
He drinks his beer, eats his sandwich, says goodbye, and leaves.
The same thing happens every day for the next two weeks.
Then one day, the circus comes to town.
The ringmaster stops into the bar for a drink, and the barman says,
“You’re with the circus, aren’t you? I know a duck who’d be perfect for your show. He talks, drinks beer, eats sandwiches, reads the newspaper… the lot!”
“Sounds marvelous,” says the ringmaster, handing over his business card. “Tell him to give me a call.”
So the next day, when the duck comes into the pub, the barman says, “Hey, Mr. Duck, I think I can line you up with a great job. Good money, too.”
“I’m always interested in the next job,” says the duck. “Where is it?”
“At the circus,” replies the barman.
“The circus?” asks the duck.
“That’s right.”
“The circus… with the big tent?”
“Yep.”
“With all the animals in cages and the performers living in caravans?”
“Exactly.”
“And the tent has canvas sides and a big canvas roof with a hole in the middle?”
“That’s the one,” says the barman.
The duck looks at him in complete confusion and says…
“What the hell would they need a plasterer for?”
@RidgeandFrost@SkyNews Ah,they are fawning of Burnham today but it’s only a matter of time before the gutter press and the toxic media hound him out of office,as they did Keir.
These hacks won’t be satisfied until #FagashFarage has the keys to No.10..
I can't take anymore of effing @AndyBurnham I have just blocked him. We had enough of celebrity politicians in your face every two minutes. I liked boring and grey, someone who just did the job they were paid to do! I don't want razzmatazz, running a country is serious business!