Just how cynical can B'liar get?
Just how cynical can B'liar get?
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streaky

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19,311 posts

266 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Cambell gets a letter from Lord Hutton telling him he's criticised in the report.

B'liar brings Cambell back to handle "crisis management" - aka "spin".

As an example of government spin: (Two Jags and a punch-up) Prescott wants to inflict "Regional Assemblies" on England at an initial cost of £25M pa (and the rest ) each; a "consultation exercise" in the Northeast elicited under 2,000 replies, 5 to 1 AGAINST the idea. The government reported this as "expressed an interest" - true, but ...

Maybe this is where Buntersturmfurher got the idea for expressing numbers "in favour" of his Welsh scameras.

Streaky

Tafia

2,658 posts

265 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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streaky said:
Cambell gets a letter from Lord Hutton telling him he's criticised in the report.

B'liar brings Cambell back to handle "crisis management" - aka "spin".

As an example of government spin: (Two Jags and a punch-up) Prescott wants to inflict "Regional Assemblies" on England at an initial cost of £25M pa (and the rest ) each; a "consultation exercise" in the Northeast elicited under 2,000 replies, 5 to 1 AGAINST the idea. The government reported this as "expressed an interest" - true, but ...

Maybe this is where Buntersturmfurher got the idea for expressing numbers "in favour" of his Welsh scameras.

Streaky


You are probably aware these Assemblies are part of an EU plot to break up UK into 12 areas, i.e. Northern Ireland, Wales, Scotland, London and the eight other areas of what used to be England. Prescott is carrying out the wishes of the European Council and is splitting the UK into bite-sized pieces to be run from Brussels. ( Sorry, not speeding, plod etc.)

cazzo

15,320 posts

284 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Q. Just how cynical can B'liar get?

A. There is, IMHO, no limit.

blueyes

4,799 posts

269 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Just pray Pinocchio doesn't resign before the next election. Going on his recent form, he is unlikely to get re-elected, if he resigns we'll get that nutter Brown who has a better chance of winning an election.

If he gets in you'll look back on the past 7 years as "the good old days."

Bitter'n'Twisted

595 posts

275 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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blueyes said:
Just pray Pinocchio doesn't resign before the next election. Going on his recent form, he is unlikely to get re-elected, if he resigns we'll get that nutter Brown who has a better chance of winning an election.

If he gets in you'll look back on the past 7 years as "the good old days."


True, true.

I have a plan. Split the country down the middle, north to south. Let the conservatives (where I'll live) run 1 half and labour the other. Then instead of voting, you are free to move at any time to the side where the government of your choice governs! Everyone gets their way. Everyone's happy. Sorted!

I feel the half where labour govern would rapidly empty except for a few die hard Guardian readers, BRAKE, Brunstrom and a few thousand misguided loons.

Don

28,378 posts

301 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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blueyes said:
Just pray Pinocchio doesn't resign before the next election. Going on his recent form, he is unlikely to get re-elected, if he resigns we'll get that nutter Brown who has a better chance of winning an election.

If he gets in you'll look back on the past 7 years as "the good old days."


I agree. The worst thing that could happen to Britain would be Brown as Primeminister.

"Mortal man would suffer an eternity of darkness."

meldrewlives

121 posts

269 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Well... you might be right but it seems to me that the apathy of the elctorate is such that things will need to get really bad before we get enough people worked up to force a change.

Zod

35,295 posts

275 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Don said:
I agree. The worst thing that could happen to Britain would be Brown as Primeminister.

"Mortal man would suffer an eternity of darkness."

couldn't agree more. The thought of Brown as Prime Minister, raising taxes to punish us for being English, causes me to wake up in a cold sweat duing the night.

james_j

3,996 posts

272 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Yes, Brown would be an even greater nightmare than Bliar. A grumpy Scot (sorry Scottish PHers) with a grudge about the "silver-spoon-fed" English. If you think England is propping up the rest of the UK (financially) at the moment, you won't have seen anything if Brown gets in.

mrmaggit

10,146 posts

265 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Can I just say that i think the great majority of people in this fair land of our will just meekly succumb, until something, absolutely trivial will happen.

This will "break the camels back" and all hell will break loose, and nobody outside these shores will be able to actually tell what happened.

We will, but by then, it'll all have gone quiet, except for a few decaying bodies, hanging from the last standing lamp-posts.

It has happened before, and if you do not learn from History, you are doomed to repeat it.

Zod

35,295 posts

275 months

Monday 26th January 2004
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Brown would bring back the seventies - not the good stuff like Ferrari Daytonas, Lamborghini Countaches and Led Zeppelin, but the stratospheric tax rates and power to the unions. If he could bring back the Bay City Rollers, he would.

nonegreen

7,803 posts

287 months

Tuesday 27th January 2004
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Bitter'n'Twisted said:

blueyes said:
Just pray Pinocchio doesn't resign before the next election. Going on his recent form, he is unlikely to get re-elected, if he resigns we'll get that nutter Brown who has a better chance of winning an election.

If he gets in you'll look back on the past 7 years as "the good old days."



True, true.

I have a plan. Split the country down the middle, north to south. Let the conservatives (where I'll live) run 1 half and labour the other. Then instead of voting, you are free to move at any time to the side where the government of your choice governs! Everyone gets their way. Everyone's happy. Sorted!

I feel the half where labour govern would rapidly empty except for a few die hard Guardian readers, BRAKE, Brunstrom and a few thousand misguided loons.



That is indeed an excellent idea. It is just possible though that once the lentil munchers minority pressure groups have inhabited lets say the North and completely bolloxed it up. They will declare their policies so succesful they would just have to move south and spread the gospel. Mmmm maybe by then we could have legislated to make it illegal NOT to hunt them with packs of dogs.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

272 months

Tuesday 27th January 2004
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Examine Brown closely as he speaks.

Notice the intake of breath........open gob......bahhhhhhh........close gob

If thast ain't a reptile, I don't know what is.

Call David Icke, quick.........

tallchris99

216 posts

282 months

Tuesday 27th January 2004
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Your beloved Tories have no chance. You can't polish a turd you know...

Since they spunked all our cash on Black Wednesday no one trusts them.

How are you going to change that perception?

>> Edited by tallchris99 on Tuesday 27th January 13:27

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

272 months

Tuesday 27th January 2004
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tallchris99 said:
Your beloved Tories have no chance. You can't polish a turd you know...

Since they spunked all our cash on Black Wednesday no one trusts them.

How are you going to change that perception?



Gordon Brown gave away our gold and destroyed our pension schemes.

Doesn't seem to have done him any harm.........

HarryW

15,621 posts

286 months

Tuesday 27th January 2004
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mybrainhurts said:


Gordon Brown gave away our gold and destroyed our pension schemes.

Doesn't seem to have done him any harm.........



Its certainly made him look like a bigger CTin my eyes though

H


>> Edited by HarryW on Tuesday 27th January 23:33