FabSwingers.com forum: admitting mistakes

By *ophieslut OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Central

How would you view some politicians and others, if they honestly admitted mistakes, even if it had grave consequences for them, their party etc? Are we at a point where this should be happening? would you be different?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

the centre righty bunch would do well to appologise and admit they fucked things up over the last 8 years

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By *wosmilersCouple
over a year ago

Heathrowish

When was the last time any politician apologised....left, right or centre?

Not sure you can single out any faction of self serving arsehole without recourse to another flavour of idiot?

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By *ophieslut OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Central

I think politicians are especially poor at admitting their mistakes and our short-term outlook doesn't help that.

If there's a so-called apology, it will typically be qualified and very limited in its scope, almost as if passing something off as an accident - whereas they probably view the mistake or accident as getting caught out. Personal morality may be at a very low level widely and especially so amongst those who lead us today. Of course the public are influenced by and take the lead from those in power.

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

"the centre righty bunch would do well to appologise and admit they fucked things up over the last 21 years"

Fify.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the centre righty bunch would do well to appologise and admit they fucked things up over the last 39 years"

Fify

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By *lem-H-FandangoMan
over a year ago

salisbury

"the centre righty bunch would do well to appologise and admit they fucked things up over the last 39 years

Fify"

I'm not sure I'd have described Thatcher as centre right.

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By *asyukMan
over a year ago

West London

Any industry with a genuine culture of improvement fails early and does not blame but takes an error as learning.

Take civil aviation and medicine as exemplars.

The press, an intolerant and impatient electorate and the confrontational nature of politics makes this impossible in areas of public life.

I would applaud it but it doesn't work.

Look at the LibDems crucified for breaking one promise relative to a lifetime of lies from both the other major parties.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"the centre righty bunch would do well to appologise and admit they fucked things up over the last 39 years

Fify

I'm not sure I'd have described Thatcher as centre right. "

you've totally made up some stuff in your head and then replied to it out loud in the forum chap

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By *obka3Couple
over a year ago

bournemouth

"the centre righty bunch would do well to appologise and admit they fucked things up over the last 8 years"

Has blair apologised for the hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq ?

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By *verysmileMan
over a year ago

Canterbury

What always amazes me is how dogmatic some people are....the right is always wrong and the left is always correct.....or vice versa.

Sticking to the left/right blame game always means that people are not willing to accept mistakes and learn from them.

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By *mmabluTV/TS
over a year ago

upton wirral

"the centre righty bunch would do well to appologise and admit they fucked things up over the last 8 years

Has blair apologised for the hundreds of thousands killed in Iraq ?"
What hundreds and thousands?That is as big a lie as anything Blaire said and he told a few

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By *ophieslut OP TV/TS
over a year ago

Central

"What always amazes me is how dogmatic some people are....the right is always wrong and the left is always correct.....or vice versa.

Sticking to the left/right blame game always means that people are not willing to accept mistakes and learn from them.

I think it's the concept of 'blame', rather than responsibility, that's at the core of the problem - for reasons others have highlighted.

We do have politicians that move on, retire etc, disappearing from the public sphere, where their contributions are overlooked. We tend to be very focused on the very immediate, rather than the bigger picture / longer view, usually with a government emphasis on the crisis of the day

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