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Originally posted by Pioupiou: ↑

What used to get up my nose in John Howard's day was his incessant grabbing of photo-shot opportunities when disasters happened, as though that made a difference, or brought any resultant dead people back to life. Now the chattering class want the current PM to go down that same Vanity Road.

King Canute put the chattering-class of his day in their box by taking them to the seaside, and commanding the the incoming tide, to go in the opposite direction, and when this did not happen, he effectively told the assembled throng that they were a bunch of FWs (fused wits). See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Canute_and_the_tide

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