They didn't like them, didn't trust them, didn't understand them, and yet their constant cry was that Southerners didn't know how to get along with them.
The VV's wobbles in the dying days of the coalition led to an outburst from the prime minister, Petr Necas, who termed it “untrustworthy, irrational and hysterical”.
Southside died a month later after having suffered with advanced lung cancer, his long-held view that doctors were untrustworthy having kept him from any sort of timely intervention.
This started a thousand-year long tradition whereby Monarchs always reconfirmed that 'yes', the City of London is a special, unique place that's best left to its own business, while simultaneously distrusting it.
Do what he would, behind the little counter, as to the striking of a light and the lighting of his pipe, he was troubled, and his hand was not trustworthy.
Hence, in his intercourse with Chang, he was sufficiently unpreoccupied to see in him a mannered old gentleman who might not be entirely trustworthy, but who was certainly of high intelligence.
And I think that was the idea of sortition, is we don't want these untrustworthy, overly ambitious, potentially corrupt, or sociopathic people who desire power to be the ones in charge.
People don't rent secret apartments to discuss feelings, and frankly, an affair with Humphrey is the one thing that explains why she's not confiding in you and why she stopped speaking to me.
So we bump up against a common trope I think of the commencement address people who have achieved a lot telling you that the fruits of the achievement are not always to be trusted.
The keeper of an inn or tavern, who is never master of his own house, and who is exposed to the brutality of every drunkard, exercises neither a very agreeable nor a very creditable business.