What did he do? Usual politics that seems to afflict the TMO, people hold grudges and make unpopular decisions. Not worth talking about really, just life. It's always tough at the top. Most people disliked his lecturing style though, he was be insanely boring and many thought he was a very poor choice as a leader but then he was Marshy's choice so that had to be rationalised, and some people thought that he'd been chosen to run things in order to make everyone stand up to him as a sort of evolutionary thing. God they really were all crazy!
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: and what did Geoff do that divided opinion, I wonder? -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 2/12/14, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More British Bliss! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 2:14 PM No, he quit the movement after someone else was offered the position of "raja". As top dog for so long it must have been galling but he wasn't the most dynamic leader and erm, divided opinion, shall we say.I think the raja does the job of national leader instead who could be more important than the guy with the crown? ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: Is Geoffrey still National Leader over there? -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 2/12/14, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] RE: More British Bliss! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 1:14 PM Shame that youtube doesn't have the original 1992 NLP broadcast, that one was bonkers with poor old Doug Henning jumping around and more smiley men in suits with rainbows all over the place. I operated the autocue for a couple of election specials, great fun, it's a shame they (and some of the other crazy no-hope UK parties) have quit politics. But Maggie Thatcher thought that "frivolous" parties like Monster Raving Loonies or the Giant Green Chicken party were cheapening politics and put the cost of the deposit up to drive them away. For me there was no better sight than Tory and Labour politicians having to stand next to people dressed like chickens or pantomime horses on election night while the votes are read out. Punctured a few pompous balloons. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote: Yeah I did watch the video, all the way through. I had forgotten about Geoffrey Clements - I remeber seeing him on tapes talking to M way back when I was have "Evening Knowledge program" at MIU. What struck me about this piece was it being written by someone who experienced it as a child - man, what a screwed up way to grow up! -------------------------------------------- On Wed, 2/12/14, salyavin808 <no_re...@yahoogroups.com mailto:no_re...@yahoogroups.com> wrote: Subject: [FairfieldLife] RE: More British Bliss! To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Date: Wednesday, February 12, 2014, 7:14 AM Did you watch the election video though, what a classic! Who knew that the Skem TMers had reduced the Mersyside crime rate by 60%? Nobody in Mersyside that's for sure! The funny thing is I worked for them and I voted for someone else! LOL. But they really thought they were going to win and it was an amazing effort to get a political party together in just a couple of weeks, even if it did just mean giving an intro talk to people who aren't interested. Of course, after it turned out they weren't going to be leading the country the story changed to it being a good way of getting the word out. And it was, I was manning the phones after the last election the NLP fought and was highly dubious that any member of the public would ring and ask for more info, but ring they did and I spent ages explaining all the terms and beliefs to them. Being evangelical isn't really my thing though and I wasn't very good at it, I think you need to really believe something to be a good teacher and I never did think it was very credible. As I always say, you have to look at what this amazing coherence and nature support has done for the TMO to realise it isn't the best model for understanding society and human behaviour. I think it's a crock actually but there you are, we had fun while it lasted and I loved organising press conferences even if no one ever turned up.