howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#2
"...Christopher Chope had been speaking about the price of meals in the House of Commons restaurant when he described his most recent visit: "The service was absolutely fantastic" he said, "because there was three-to-one service - three servants for each person sitting down.""
A cough in a coffee cup. 'Servers' or 'serving assistants' would have been better, but who can get everything correct all the time?
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#3
My father was an RAF officer. His passport (in the days when such information was included therein) described him as a Government Servant, a description which he was proud to bear. Central Government employees call themselves Civil Servants. Gentlemen used to sign their letters 'your obedient servant' (I'm sure some still do).
What's the problem? Isn't this PC class warfare gone mad?
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#4
i really do not see this as anything to do with political correctness, anyone that serves me in a shop, pub, cafe/restaurant i class as a staff member.
i don't think i am alone on this.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#5
You are not alone, Howard, but different staff members perform different functions and it would be foolish to call them all the same. (I'm having a heart attack, call a staff member!) So Chope used an archaic term. So what? I am a servant to my customers and I am proud to serve them. Within reason.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#6
Peter
you are way off the mark
He made an opinion and just shows how out of touch the conservatives are
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
- Posts: 6,950
#7
I imagined there might actually be something to this when, a moment ago, I tried the Sky video linked to in the Guardian article above and found it would not play. Undaunted, I pootled off to the Huffington Post only to discover that there is nothing at all to this
earth shattering event...
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/01/17/christopher-chope-servants_n_2494820.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular,uk-conservative-party
It is a short clip, what this guy Chope was thanking the House for I couldn't tell, but he was hardly afforded the ear of the chamber, and so stumbled to intermittently express his thoughts. It was not snobbery or an unjustifiable sense of superiority that caused him to use the terms he did use.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
- Posts: 8,664
#8
Keith, I am not defending him as I am sure he is quite capable of doing that for himself but anyone who attacks him for a minor slip of the tongue exposes himself as an unreconstructed class bigot.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#9
would that be a biased bigot peter.or a aragount one.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#10
Peter
realy showed his view
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS