Local politics

at the moment, the other.

yup - it's a very stripey neighbourhood.

The 192's a bit of a crazy roamer of a bus - not as bad as a 191,
though.

 

I draw comfort from this fact daily.

 

I went to his old place once. I even met Angie momentarily. I'm too
common to be invited to the new [1] posh place ;-)

[1] to me anyway. Still it's going to be dumped for somewhere even
posher.

 

not posh here at all - I've had Champ, Cane, Porl, Simon Weller, Simon
Gates, Petrolcan, and probably a few others I've forgotten around
here.

not exactly, just somewhere a bit pricier/better located.

 

snip voting in local elections

The usual suspects. Continued involvement in Iraq, erosion of civil
liberties, erosion of the democratic process, opposition to ID cards,
the anti immigration stance, the latest health and education policy
decisions etc.

On some of these there isn't much to choose between the parties

Or just don't bother voting at all.

"Doesn't she look tired?"

I was very worried a couple of weeks back to find myself nodding along
to R4, then realising it was Mr Cameron speaking.

 

Don't confuse the Qld branch with the national agglomeration.
Fact is for most of my youth my local MP was the Deputy Leader and then
Leader of the Country Party (later renamed the National Party] -- so good
they named a rock band after him -- The Doug Anthony All-Stars. I think his
son succeeded him as the Member and perhaps also leader for a while.

But yeah, it was a convenient excuse to give to my father...

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The Conservatives?

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Tonight, I'll work out if that was an insult or not, and if it was, I'll
'ave you, Corfield.

 

GYBE?

 

YM "Don't you think she looks tired?"

 

If John Prescott takes his skin off.....

blech!

Ali

 

Natural Law party.

darsy's always struck me as a new age type.

 

I'm not convinced that the comparison between Major and Brown is a good
one.

Brown comes across to me as a nasty, envious, controlling shit.

I'm *really* hoping he gets the reins of power about 6 months before the
election and proceeds to lose. Not because I want Cameron in (I'm not
convinced) but I just can't stand Brown.

He's another fucker without any principles- remember when he claimed his
mother was a small business woman and she responded *TO THE FUCKING
PRESS* that she wasn't?

He's a lying fucking shit and I hope he gets his come-uppance.

Mind you, under Blair apart from the unprincipled raid on the pensions
he's been a good chancelor; probably the best one in my lifetime.

It's a problem though. I don't want Brown's labour. I don't believe
the Lib Dems can win. I'm not convinced that Cameron is all he appears
to be. *sigh*

 

nah, SCFH

 

What about if he doesn't take his skin off?

 

Sir wants a D3 for the full "housefly on acid" approach to bus
routing.

 

I'd have thought he's a little too portly for yogic flying.

 

[lib dems]

Promises, promises darling.

It was an observation. Make of that what you will.

 

Amazingly busy though for such an apparently indirect route.

LOL!

 

I don't this: he stopped the reclaim of ACT on dividends, right?

10% tax reclaims, on dividend yields of around 3-3.5%.

Or 0.3 to 0.35% of the fund's value. Per year.

Daylight robbery.