“Fine words butter no parsnips” nghĩa là gì?

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“Fine words butter no parsnips” có butter là bợ đỡ, nịnh hót-> cụm từ này nghĩa là những lời nói ngon ngọt không mang lại lợi ích gì cả; lời hứa suông không đảm bảo mọi điều sẽ xảy ra.

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To paraphrase Bill Clinton aide James Carville, “it’s electability (khả năng được bầu/được chọn), stupid”. As Bernie Sanders has discovered in the US Democratic primaries, and Rebecca Long-Bailey is discovering in British Labour’s equivalent, fine words butter no parsnips. It seems it is no longer the programme that matters, no matter how close to the hearts of members, but whether the candidate is perceived capable of beating Donald Trump/Boris Johnson.

Fine words butter no parsnips. What matters is not intentions, but actions. Supposedly temporary purchases of government bonds, or the direct monetary (tiền tệ) financing now imposed by the UK Treasury, might well become permanent. Indeed, in the case of the expansions of central bank balance sheets over the past 12 years, it probably has. This is an embarrassing truth that dares not speak its name. Yet supposedly irreversible monetary financing might ultimately be reversed. As the French say, “Il n’y a que le provisoire qui dure.” (“Only the temporary endures.”)

Guardian v Westminster - referred to extensively by the Supreme Court—involved a successful journalist’s application for release of court material from criminal proceedings. Toulson LJ explains at [1] (cited by Lady Hale) ‘open justice’: ‘Open justice. The words express a principle at the heart of our system of justice and vital to the rule of law. The rule of law is a fine concept but fine words butter no parsnips. How is the rule of law itself to be policed? It is an age old question. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes—who will guard the guards themselves? In a democracy, where power depends on the consent (sự chấp nhận, ưng thuận) of the people governed, the answer must lie in the transparency (sự minh bạch) of the legal process (quy trình pháp lý)….’

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