The Perils of Chillaxing

[Guest]

The Prime Minister tells us that his approved way of coping with the stresses and strains of political office is 'chillaxing'

A recent family event seems to suggest that chillaxing can be taken too far, however.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18391663

I assume that this is just the sort of behaviour that Mr Eric Pickles' and Ms Louise Casey's new Troubled Families Team is determined to crack down on

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ios-exclusive-problem-families-told--stop-blaming-others-7834235.html

Mr Pickles says that Ms Casey understands "that you have got to roll up your sleeves and get the broom cracking on a lot of folks".

Lift your feet Prime Minister, one Busy Broom coming through!!

[ahinton]

The Prime Minister tells us that his approved way of coping with the stresses and strains of political office is 'chillaxing'

A recent family event seems to suggest that chillaxing can be taken too far, however.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18391663

With some people it's umbrellas, n'est-ce pas?

I assume that this is just the sort of behaviour that Mr Eric Pickles' and Ms Louise Casey's new Troubled Families Team is determined to crack down on

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ios-exclusive-problem-families-told--stop-blaming-others-7834235.html

Mr Pickles says that Ms Casey understands "that you have got to roll up your sleeves and get the broom cracking on a lot of folks".

Lift your feet Prime Minister, one Busy Broom coming through!!

Broom, broom! (well, even that'd be better than Broon, broon, I suppose; anyway, let's hope that, in the case of the Camerons, it'll be the delightful Samantha wielding the broom, because I somehow suspect that it would be difficult to imagine David sweeping her off her feet, wouldn't it?

[kernelbogey]

[....] "... you have got to roll up your sleeves and get the broom cracking on a lot of folks".

What does this mean? Which part of the broom do you crack on the folks? It sounds like a mix of sweeping them out of the way - surely not - or beating them with the handle....

[ahinton]

What does this mean? Which part of the broom do you crack on the folks? It sounds like a mix of sweeping them out of the way - surely not - or beating them with the handle....

I can see a Leveson-style Jeremy-witch-hunt coming on...

[Lateralthinking1]

The Prime Minister tells us that his approved way of coping with the stresses and strains of political office is 'chillaxing'

A recent family event seems to suggest that chillaxing can be taken too far, however.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18391663

Extraordinary. I hadn't realised that there were any pubs still in existence.

[Nick Armstrong]

A recent family event seems to suggest that chillaxing can be taken too far, however.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18391663

How could I have missed this!

[amateur51]

What does this mean? Which part of the broom do you crack on the folks? It sounds like a mix of sweeping them out of the way - surely not - or beating them with the handle....

You got it, kernel - only in a Coalition government

[amateur51]

Extraordinary. I hadn't realised that there were any pubs still in existence.

Nice one, Lat

A chap needs somewhere to park his horse, surely. And the one his close friend has 'on loan' from the Met

[amateur51]

How could I have missed this!

Carstairs was probably ironing The Tablet for you when you left rather early this morning Caliban, hoping to avoid the Centrepoint vacuum phenomenon

[kernelbogey]

That 'roll up your sleeves' trope is one of Cameron's favourite rhetorical devices. It always strikes me as incongruous on two grounds.

First it evokes a 1950s image, when men wore jackets and long-sleeved shirts to work, of someone having to roll up their sleeves to do a dirty job (something under the bonnet of a car, for example).

Second, anyone doing any kind of difficult or dirty job now is likely to be wearing a T-shirt or similar short-sleeved garment. (Which even Samantha wouldn't get Dave to wear, I'd guess.)

It's a strangely old-fashioned expression now.

[Beef Oven]

The Prime Minister tells us that his approved way of coping with the stresses and strains of political office is 'chillaxing'

A recent family event seems to suggest that chillaxing can be taken too far, however.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18391663

I assume that this is just the sort of behaviour that Mr Eric Pickles' and Ms Louise Casey's new Troubled Families Team is determined to crack down on

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ios-exclusive-problem-families-told--stop-blaming-others-7834235.html

Mr Pickles says that Ms Casey understands "that you have got to roll up your sleeves and get the broom cracking on a lot of folks".

Lift your feet Prime Minister, one Busy Broom coming through!!

"Downing Street said no protection officers would face disciplinary action over the incident, adding that security arrangements were constantly under review."

So just what have you got to do to get the sack!!!!!!!!!????????

[amateur51]

That 'roll up your sleeves' trope is one of Cameron's favourite rhetorical devices. It always strikes me as incongruous on two grounds.

First it evokes a 1950s image, when men wore jackets and long-sleeved shirts to work, of someone having to roll up their sleeves to do a dirty job (something under the bonnet of a car, for example).

Second, anyone doing any kind of difficult or dirty job now is likely to be wearing a T-shirt or similar short-sleeved garment. (Which even Samantha wouldn't get Dave to wear, I'd guess.)

It's a strangely old-fashioned expression now.

A fine example of the sleeves-rolled-up approach to life

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tROn6LOvPAY

[Beef Oven]

That 'roll up your sleeves' trope is one of Cameron's favourite rhetorical devices. It always strikes me as incongruous on two grounds.

First it evokes a 1950s image, when men wore jackets and long-sleeved shirts to work, of someone having to roll up their sleeves to do a dirty job (something under the bonnet of a car, for example).

Second, anyone doing any kind of difficult or dirty job now is likely to be wearing a T-shirt or similar short-sleeved garment. (Which even Samantha wouldn't get Dave to wear, I'd guess.)

It's a strangely old-fashioned expression now.

Shouldn't this be in the pedants thread?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

So just what have you got to do to get the sack!!!!!!!!!????????

Wait for the next General Election?

[mangerton]

Wait for the next General Election?

I don't know, but this beggars belief. This eight year old wandered off and wasn't missed by her parents, her parents' friends, and a shower of "protection officers". Ignoring the Camerons and their cronies, it seems to me that the people employed to "protect" are careless at best, and dangerously incompetent at worst.

Perish the thought, but suppose the child had been kidnapped or had otherwise come to harm.