howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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What is missing is, 'wit'.
If you take the 'wit' out of Bewitching you come awfully close to the truth.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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most come across as fairly witless to me tom, i could add a few to that list.
Jan Higgins
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Could we have a list of irritating Forum members, I feel like a bit of trouble making.
Starting with..........................
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I try to be neutral and polite but it is hard and getting even more difficult at times.
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Louise is a very competent and dedicated MP, and hardly deserves the lowlife jibes sent her way by that journalist, especially one connected to the same party. Shame on Goves wife.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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the rest of the list is very accurate, all of them without fail get under my skin.
egotists unlimited with not much else to commend them.
It is a good list, apart from Louise! Jans idea is a good but scary one..........
Can I add Alex Salmond to the list for a start, if we are talking public figures?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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mr salmond must be on most people's list,just trying to think of others equally smug.
a lot disappeared after the 1997 election michael portillo and david mellor stand out.
i don't know if frank dobson and jeremy corbyn are still around but they deserve a mention.
Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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Please no Jan, heaven forfend. I might not make the grade. Where at present as things stand a fellow can dream.
Ignorance is bliss, bliss is happiness, I am happy...to draw your attention to the possible connectivity in the foregoing.
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Michael Portillo is great doing that TV programme Great Railway Journeys...now showing a new series week nights at 6.30. perhaps TV was his forte all along.
I certainly concurr re Alex Salmond, he is the most smug and irritating soandso I know, however he is surpassed by his even more irritating female colleague Nichola Sturgeon...who darkens our door all too regularly on the BBCs Question Time...oooh I shudder....flesh creeps every time.
I love Dennis Skinner !
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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portillo does a good job with that railway programme, comes across as interested in the subject, cannot say the same for the double act with ms abbott - makes me cringe.
i used to quite like skinner but i don't actually see the point of him.
being abusive and wagging fingers at people does nothing for his constituents
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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Oul Dennis is indeed from another era, but I think everyone recognises this. He is the last of the old school, an enigma now, a recollection of the table thumping lefties of long ago, which bread a generation of types that told it like it was. Brings to mind dear oul Michael Foot. I was fond of him too, his barnstorming speeches were enough to have a chap marching for the revolution. Sadly there was no revolution. Michael went on to be leader of the Labour Party a role that did not suit him..after that he quietly slipped away with his wings burnt, he flew too close to the Westminster sun.
Any MP happy to be described as a Camerons Cutie or Blairs Babe
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The vast majority of slebs. Especially those who have done f*** all except be famous.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 683- Registered: 11 Feb 2009
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Michael Foot stood no chance against the media obsessed with image whilst Louise Mensch knows how to play the publicity game. Times have changed.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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still no mention of noel edmonds, adrian chiles or paul mccartney.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Getting back to the original subject matter of the thread, any politician who trades on something irrelevant to their ability to do the job (such as, in this case, a glamorous appearance), should have no beef when ridiculed for it.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
If she is glamorous, that doesn't mean she trades on it! You may as well say that anyone who trades on being tall should be fair game. Would you rather she did a Widdecombe?!