IDS

Ben Blaney · Oct 28, 2003

Mick said:

I knew M H, I've had meetings with him. Long meetings, just him and me.
The nicest thing I can say about him is he's dim. His local party thinks
he's dim too. On the other hand his daughter is well 'known' by the lads
of Stelling Minnis
Click to expand...

His daughter sold drugs while an undergraduate at Cambridge.

Dave Swindell · Oct 28, 2003

Good god no, he's a fanatical pro-European. He'd split the Tories
beyond redemption.
Click to expand...

Best recommendation I can imagine.

And he was an _awful_ chancellor.
Click to expand...

Acherley, he wasn't.

--
Dave OSOS#24 Remove my gerbil for email replies

Yamaha XJ900S & Wessex sidecar, the sexy one
Yamaha XJ900F & Watsonian Monaco, the comfortable one

http://dswindell.members.beeb.net

sweller · Oct 28, 2003

Lozzo said:

The roads in Northants were absolutely deserted of police on the day
they buried her, they were all hanging around Althorp. So I took my
first ZZR1100 out for a bonding session all round Northants finest
highways and byways. I hardly saw any cars, but there were hundreds of
bikes out.
Click to expand...

I was working one of the specials laid on for the day, at the point the
railway follows the M1 I emerged from Elstree tunnel to see the last car
of the funeral cortege pass by, then a few minutes later three grit
layers holding back the massive tailback of 'normal' cars.

I do regret not running a little earlier so I could have given the silly
twat a right sending off with my horn.

Andy Wegg · Oct 28, 2003

Best recommendation I can imagine.

Acherley, he wasn't.
Click to expand...

Actually, he was. HTH

Andy Wegg · Oct 28, 2003

Paul Corfield muttered

Interesting reaction - why so extreme Andy?
Click to expand...

I had this one out with Bear a while back. Essentially I think Clarke
is driven by dogma which makes for bad real politik.

Well yes that's pretty much my view although I'm not so certain he's
capable when in office. I think the image is better than the actual
result.
Click to expand...

Quite so. Bad Chancellor, bad Minister for Education. Charismatic,
electable sure. But I think he'd do more damage than Thatcher or
Major.

Couldn't vote for him but I do think he'd give Labour a hell of a hard
time assuming that he could get the Tory party behind him - fat chance.
Click to expand...

Agreed, on both counts

I am disappointed that there is not an effective opposition to Labour
because you need one - there is too much apathy about politics.

Quite.

I hate the Tories so this self inflicted slow death is most entertaining
to watch. It just re-inforces my stereotypical view that they really
have absolutely no idea what the typical man in the street things of
them.
Click to expand...

I'm sure they don;t - I tend to lean towards conservatism, but I'm
emphatically no Tory. While their antics are risible, really it's too
serious for levity.

Snowleopard · Oct 28, 2003

Mind you, that seems to have happened already.

Clarke could get them elected, Letwin, Portillo also, maybe Yeo, the
faithful would never elected them though. Davies is another Hague/IDS and
Click to expand...

I don't see how Clarke will get them elected. He's completely
unattractive and that's what people seem to vote for these days - you
have to be princess blair. I liked Hague as a politician but he never
stood a chance being a little balding guy. Portillo could have stood a
chance but I don't think the Sun readers would vote for him.

Maybe they should put Esther McVey in the running...

Snowleopard · Oct 28, 2003

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:09:15 -0000, "CT"

Diana, Princess of Wales died on mine.
Click to expand...

Double reason to celebrate then?

Perhaps we'll get a Burrell for Christmas.

Oh, and Tom in Home&Away died on mine.

Lozzo · Oct 28, 2003

Ben Blaney wibbled like a little girl....

His daughter sold drugs while an undergraduate at Cambridge.
Click to expand...

So did my sister, but not whilst at Cambridge. She worked in a chemists
shop in Bedford.

--
Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3.
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBV#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

Pip · Oct 28, 2003

Dave Swindell wrote:

Actually, he was. HTH
Click to expand...

Actuarilly?

deadmail · Oct 28, 2003

Power Grainger said:

She's got a nice shiny new wig though.
Click to expand...

She has?

She's got my vote. I'll vote for anyone wit a syrup.

Pip · Oct 28, 2003

Who? <google> Oh, yeah - not bad.
Click to expand...

Did you find this one:
http://www.wirralwestconservatives.co.uk/Prospective-Parlimentry-Candidate-Esther-McVey.html

Or did you stop at this one:
http://www.spleen.dsl.pipex.com/awards-dlist.html#whyesther ?

deadmail · Oct 28, 2003

Paul Corfield said:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 06:58:12 +0000, wrote:
I wish they'd implode, split, whatever and then set about creating a
proper opposition party. The current situation is a travesty and I say
that as someone who will never, ever vote Tory.
Click to expand...

I couldn't agree with you more.

You need a strong opposition for good government. I don't think the SDP
can provide that to Labour and until the in-fighting is completed
neither can the Tories.

deadmail · Oct 28, 2003

steve auvache said:

I was in Dunblane. Well outside actually in a cottage miles away from
everybody and I shagged her silly and she loved it so I kept on doing
it.

It was all we did. Like rabbits we were.
Click to expand...

Did they ever find her head?

deadmail · Oct 28, 2003

Lozzo said:

The roads in Northants were absolutely deserted of police on the day
they buried her, they were all hanging around Althorp. So I took my
first ZZR1100 out for a bonding session all round Northants finest
highways and byways. I hardly saw any cars, but there were hundreds of
bikes out.
Click to expand...

I did exactly the same thing I did on her wedding day; rode a two stroke
motorcycle, like a ****, around the centre of Bath. Happy Days.

deadmail · Oct 28, 2003

steve auvache said:

wrote

Yes he would make a frighteningly good opposition leader. A bit to fond
of the old tipple to be PM I would have thought though.
Click to expand...

Too old to be PM.

He'd spend half a term as leader of the opposition, soften up labour and
get a reduced labour majority at the next election.

Then another half a term trying to whip the Tories into some sort of
electable shape handing over to a repentant Portillo around 2007 ready
for an election in 2010 that the Tories would have a chance of winning.

And then I woke up.

Lozzo · Oct 28, 2003

Champ wibbled like a little girl....

Who? <google> Oh, yeah - not bad.
Click to expand...

Until she opens her mouth.

--
Lozzo
ZZR1100D, GPZ500S, CB250RS x3.
BOTAFOT#57/70a, BOTAFOF#57, two#49, MIB#22, TCP#7, BONY#9,
ANORAK#9, DIAABTCOD#14, UKRMT5BB, IBW#013, MIRTTH#15a/16,
BotToS#8, GP#2, SBS#10, SH#3, DFV#14, KoBV#3.
Url for ukrm newbies : http://www.ukrm.net/faq/ukrmscbt.html
www.mjkleathers.com

deadmail · Oct 28, 2003

Champ said:

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 00:28:15 +0000, Salad Dodger

Nightmare ticket, surely?
Click to expand...

"Dream Ticket" the last time I remember that being used was Hattersley
and Kinnock in heavens only knows when...

Mind you, Kinnock did most of the ground work to make Labour electable.
I can't see *anything* that John Smith did, he seemed to be badly missed
by the party but... why? What was it he did that was so good, apart from
die to get the sympathy vote...

Nigel Eaton · Oct 28, 2003

Using the patented Mavis Bacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

Then another half a term trying to whip the Tories into some sort of
electable shape handing over to a repentant Portillo around 2007 ready
for an election in 2010 that the Tories would have a chance of winning.

And then I woke up.
Click to expand...

Screaming, I trust? "Repentant Portillo" indeed...

steve auvache · Oct 28, 2003

Wizard wrote of

Kinnock did most of the ground work to make Labour electable.
Click to expand...

Private Eye did a wonderful double-page spread.

One side was the Sun, with a headline saying "MAJOR LASHES SMITH".
It reported a speech where Major criticised Smith for being
"nothing but a boring man in a suit and glasses, who thinks that
if he goes around looking like a provincial bank manager people
will vote for him to be Prime Minister."

The other side was the Mirror, with a headline saying "SMITH
LASHES MAJOR". It reported a speech where Smith criticised Major
for being "nothing but a boring man in a suit and glasses, who
thinks that if he goes around looking like a provincial bank
manager people will vote for him to be Prime Minister."
Click to expand...

Turns out they were right then.

Platypus · Oct 29, 2003

Nigel said:

Using the patented Mavis Bacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique,
typed

Screaming, I trust? "Repentant Portillo" indeed...
Click to expand...

Well, I parsed it as "Repellent Portillo".

--
Platypus - Faster Than Champ
VN800 Drifter, R80RT
DIAABTCOD#2 GPOTHUF#19
BOTAFOS#6 BOTAFOT#89 FTB#11
BOB#1 SBS#35 ANORAK#18 TWA#15

IDS

Ben Blaney Guest

Advertisements

Dave Swindell Guest

Advertisements

sweller Guest

Andy Wegg Guest

Andy Wegg Guest

Snowleopard Guest

Snowleopard Guest

Lozzo Guest

Pip Guest

deadmail Guest

Pip Guest

deadmail Guest

deadmail Guest

deadmail Guest

deadmail Guest

Lozzo Guest

deadmail Guest

Nigel Eaton Guest

steve auvache Guest

Platypus Guest

Advertisements

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

ot/FOAK/etc. Airport IDs

IDS

Ben Blaney Guest

Advertisements

Dave Swindell Guest

Advertisements

sweller Guest

Andy Wegg Guest

Andy Wegg Guest

Snowleopard Guest

Snowleopard Guest

Lozzo Guest

Pip Guest

deadmail Guest

Pip Guest

deadmail Guest

deadmail Guest

deadmail Guest

deadmail Guest

Lozzo Guest

deadmail Guest

Nigel Eaton Guest

steve auvache Guest

Platypus Guest

Advertisements

Want to reply to this thread or ask your own question?

ot/FOAK/etc. Airport IDs

Useful Searches