Reginald Barrington
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 17 Dec 2014
- Posts: 3,261
#41
You've hit the nail on the head as to where labour went wrong Keith:
Socialist dictating what we want rather than offering what we ask for!
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Button
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#42
"They promised us everything we could possibly want which was simply ridiculous and unattainable."
"...as to where labour went wrong..: Socialist dictating what we want rather than offering what we ask for!"
Damned if they do and damned if they don't?
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Reginald Barrington- Location: Dover
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#43
They promised us everything (THEY THOUGHT) we could possibly want which was simply ridiculous and unattainable.
Fixed it for you Button.
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Weird Granny Slater
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#44
The Unfamous Five in a Deeper Fix. Following on from their pledge to allow the Board of Deputies to run the Labour Party, the five have now signed up to another religious 10-pointer issued pre-election by the Muslim Council of Britain:
https://mcb.org.uk/press-releases/all-labour-leadership-candidates-sign-up-to-mcbs-ten-key-pledges/
(Maybe the MCB's point 10 could cause a few tensions with the BoD.)
So who's next? The Hindu Council? Sikhs? Buddhists? I know a couple of Wiccans who're currently drawing up their ten, including one committing a future Labour government to guaranteeing life imprisonment without parole for anyone offending the Horned God or the Moon Goddess.
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Captain Haddock
- Location: Marlinspike Hall
- Registered: 8 Oct 2012
- Posts: 8,397
#45
FFS. We're shaved apes on the third rock from the sun. Why the Hell do we listen to ANY of these sky fairy worshippers, Mohammedan or otherwise?
Grow up people. This is it. There's nothing at all afterwards. Try to enjoy yourselves. It's all you have.
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#46
RB-L:
'The only acceptable response to any accusation of racist prejudice is self-scrutiny, self-criticism and self-improvement.'
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/i-will-sign-up-to-all-of-boards-asks-in-antisemitism-fight/
'A Soviet artist's creative response to just criticism' with both the irony and the underpinning intellect removed. Astonishing poverty of thought. Labour's now doing everything it possibly can to go gentle into that good night.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#47
So the thick Brummie girl thinks she should be elected because of her genitals.
Think I'll try that line in local election material next time!
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#48
Bob, that would then be the Labia Party (with apologies to Sophy Ridge who first coined the phrase).
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#49
I had rather assumed that most if not all politicians had a set.
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Pablo- Registered: 21 Mar 2018
- Posts: 614
#50
Reminds me of when Mrs T said” Every prime minister needs a Willie”
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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#51
A waste of print space on local election material; voters would already know the candidate's a pr*ck.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#52
Pablo wrote:Reminds me of when Mrs T said” Every prime minister needs a Willie”
Saucy minx!
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#53
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51195059
And then there were four. I wonder who will be the Captain's next target for his version of humour.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
- Registered: 7 Jun 2017
- Posts: 3,095
#54
Shame about Jess Phillips. Still, now she's perfected her comedy skills by acting as a Tory advocate in the general election, she should be better value for the BBC on HIGNFY. I don't know why she works so hard on her jokes; I only have to look at her and my sides split.
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Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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#55
Meanwhile Jezza has a cunning plan to reinvent himself as the left wing King over the Water (a la Blair inasmuch he will opine more on world events) as the Momentum crew come out in their true colours as democracy is obviously about 'fighting on the streets, boy').
And what would a poor boy do?
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
Dr. Hunter S Thompson
Captain Haddock- Location: Marlinspike Hall
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- Posts: 8,397
#56
Enjoy!
"The world is still a weird place, despite my efforts to make clear and perfect sense of it".
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Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
- Posts: 23,948
#57
As iv said so many times
Labour's in a no win situation
Support A left wing candidate people not ready for it won't get in
Support a right wing candidate and lose its membership and foot soldiers
ALL POSTS ARE MY OWN PERSONAL VIEWS
Button- Location: Dover
- Registered: 22 Jul 2016
- Posts: 3,109
#58
To thine own self be true.
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Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 3,095
#59
Looking through that right/left prism somewhat distorts the reality, KS. Every Tory PM since Blair has been a Blair clone. This is for one simple reason: the Tories are no longer a conservative party, but a New Labour replica. That most blues don’t see this is because, as Howard McSweeney once said on here, they’d vote for a sherbet fountain if it had a blue rosette. Many reds don't see this either. Ignore the colours and the rhetoric; look at the actions. If Labour are to mean anything to anyone they have to junk the technocratic, globalist, cosmopolitan elitism. None of the famous four will do this, though they may say it.
'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus
Weird Granny Slater- Location: Dover
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- Posts: 3,095
#60
Labour leadership candidates at last beginning to address the serious issue of how they lost, and how they might win back, traditional working-class support.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-51465800'Pass the cow dung, my dropsy's killing me' - Heraclitus