Weird Granny Slater wrote:Re #2401. Blimey, JB, do you honestly expect anyone to read that? Précis please! How on earth Powell got a reputation as a great orator I'll never know. It's turgidity exemplified. He really should have applied Hemingway's iceberg principle to his speech writing.
Well, to be fair granny, I did apologise for the length of the thing and admit that it’s somewhat long winded, but to actually read it in its entirety is purely optional of course.
Furthermore, Ray’s assertion of it being verbal diarrhoea no doubt wouldn’t apply if the gist of it had been a pro EU article?