Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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18 January 2009
23:1613148#1
I read this on Iain Dale's Blog, not sure where he got it from, its an old one apparently, but it amused me and rings very true.
""""While stitching up the hand of a 75 year old Devon farmer, who cut it on a gate while working cattle, the rural doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Gordon Brown and his appointment as Prime Minister.
Well, you know," drawled the old farmer, "this Brown fellow is what they call a fencepost tortoise." Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a fencepost tortoise was. The old farmer said, "When you're driving along a country road and you come across a fence post with a tortoise balanced on top, that's called a fencepost tortoise."
The old farmer saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain, "You know he didn't get up there by himself, he definitely doesn't belong up there, he doesn't know what to do while he is up there, and you just have to wonder what kind of idiot put him up there in the first place."""
Sid Pollitt
18 January 2009
23:5613149#2
London have one in Boris Johnson dont they? Old Boza is in the news today because he apparently used taxpayers money to hole up in a hotel with his mates at last year's Tory Party conference to the tune of thousands.
This Iain Dale turns up on the telly sometimes as a commentator, independent is he?
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 January 2009
00:1513151#3
i suppose that barry will start his future posts with "once upon a time".
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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19 January 2009
18:1513241#4
An amusing ditty.
However at least Gordon Brown served a long apprecticeship before hitting the number one spot. This Tortoise teethering on a post draws George W Bush to mind more than anything or anyone else. Now that George W's reign is coming to an end tomorrow, one must ask how on earth he got the job in the first place. He seems to one and all an entirely unappropriate candidate for such a job and leaves office as the most unpopular president of all time.
How did he make it into that number one political slot on the planet? Well its baffling. He is not anyones idea of an intellectual, he has/had little or no grasp of anything outside of Washington or Texas. He knows nothing of the planet, he doesnt know where anywhere is and then when he finds out he doesnt know how to pronounce it, he has no grasp of the climate change problem and his one strategy, war on terror, is now called into question as being the least effective approach to the problem. His wars were disasters and perhaps even pointless. He has indulged in his press briefings in the most hilariously ludicrous mangling of the English language you would ever hear...so I dont know...what did he have going for him??
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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19 January 2009
18:2013243#5
At least the GWB show is nearly done PaulB, not a bad thing, sadly we are still likely to have 18 months of Brown to go though!
Sid Pollitt
19 January 2009
18:3013244#6
I'm sure that Brown and his crew would probably see this as petty digs that have no relationship to the real world.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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19 January 2009
19:1013246#7
reading paul b's post reminded me of the difficult job the incoming president now has.
so much is expected of him, with the mess left behind by the bush administration.
listening to poliical commentators, he is not very interested in us or the rest of europe, more clued up on the middle east, far east and japan.
hopefully that will bring an end to the special relationship.
i wish him a lot of luck, he will need it.