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Electoral suicide, British style
Topic Started: Apr 28 2010, 04:41 AM (238 Views)
John D'Oh
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Brown caught calling voter a bigot

What a chump. I never understood why the Labour Party allowed Gordo to become the heir presumptive to Tony Blair, the master of the smooth and meaningless soundbyte.

Liberal Democrats FTW!
What do you mean "we", have you got a mouse in your pocket?
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jon-nyc
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Even I'm tired of Gordon Brown, and I don't even live there.
In my defense, I was left unsupervised.
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John Galt
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I just love British politics. Even the "flaps" are genteel.

No f-bombs, no umbrellas in Parliament to dodge thrown eggs. The weekly question session with the PM is like a game show. ("Hear, hear!" "my esteemed colleague" when someone means "you a$$h0le"). And every once in a while they spice things up a bit, as happened with the Profumo affair.

D'Oh, how could you have left such a utopia?

Britain's loss, our gain....






Let us begin anew, remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness.
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John D'Oh
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John Galt
Apr 28 2010, 05:03 AM
I just love British politics. Even the "flaps" are genteel.

No f-bombs, no umbrellas in Parliament to dodge thrown eggs. The weekly question session with the PM is like a game show. ("Hear, hear!" "my esteemed colleague" when someone means "you a$$h0le"). And every once in a while they spice things up a bit, as happened with the Profumo affair.
Only the English could make the phrase 'The Right Honorable Gentleman' actually mean 'sh!t-eating assclown'.

Why use a club when you've got a perfectly good stiletto? And I'm not just talking about the typical Conservative choice of footwear down the pink-pussycat club in Soho on a Friday night.
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Piano*Dad
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Benjamin D'Israeli, in response to a taunt from Daniel O'Connell:

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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.


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John Galt
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Apr 28 2010, 05:45 AM
Benjamin D'Israeli, in response to a taunt from Daniel O'Connell:

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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown island, mine were priests in the temple of Solomon.


Now that's an insult that is at once effective and elegant.
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John D'Oh
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Churchill had some great ones. He described Clement Atlee as 'a sheep in sheep's clothing' and 'a modest man, with much to be modest about'.

Also, “There but for the grace of God goes God” about Sir Stafford Cripps.
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sue
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HOLY CARP!!!
John D'Oh
Apr 28 2010, 04:41 AM
Brown caught calling voter a bigot

What a chump. I never understood why the Labour Party allowed Gordo to become the heir presumptive to Tony Blair, the master of the smooth and meaningless soundbyte.

Liberal Democrats FTW!
Good one, Gordie.

Did you watch the clip with Gillian Duffy? The press guys were positively drooling. Poor woman won't get any peace tonight.
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John D'Oh
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Rochdale was a bit of a silly place for him to visit - they've been staunchly Liberal (now Liberal Democrat) for decades, from way before it became fashionable. Plus, being a Lancashire mill town, they're what is sometimes known as 'plain-spoken'.
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