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Come Inside... => The Commons => Topic started by: Nick on May 22, 2008, 06:44:39 PM
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I am staying awake to wait for the result! eveilgrin:
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I'm not. I'll hear it on the radio alarm in the morning. Humphries and co will be talking of little else.
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I have the sense that it will be a sort of Portillo moment
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I'm planning on staying up for that too, as a former Cestrian in the broad sense of the word... rubschin:
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I'll see it in the morning - great moment hopefully...
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I am staying awake to wait for the result! eveilgrin:
I assume, with the telly in the box, you'll have your earpiece in place... cool14:
What's the aural equivalent of a spectator?
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In passing... whilst we wait... tunble:
I was watching "This Week"; there's not a phrase that Diane Abbot woman utters that doesn't make me feel like strangling her... evil:
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Tories snatch Crewe from Labour
The Conservative Party has achieved its first by-election gain in 26 years, taking the previously safe Labour seat of Crewe and Nantwich.
Tory candidate Edward Timpson won 7,860 more votes than his Labour rival, overturning a 7,000 Labour majority at the general election - a 17.6% swing.
Click (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7415362.stm)
cloud9:
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First words Humphries spoke this morning ~ well after he had said "Good morning"
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A good result too... not a small margin...
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Very good, more than a mid term flash in the pan. Naughtie seemed strangley put out about it. He got very aggressive with George Osborne who had to slap him down a couple of times and the interview was according cut short without a word of thanks by Naughtie.
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I loved the Newsnight pre result coverage last night. Gavin Estler was almost in hysterics. The poor bugger just couldnt keep a straight face after one of the Labour cronies in Crewe called Gordo a guarranteed vote winner.
To be fair though he is, its just the votes are for the conservative party.
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I want to see Gordo suffer.
A bloke in the village died the other day (46). His wife is teacher at the school so it was "announced".
The daughter (age 7) of a mate of mine came home that day and said, "The funeral's Friday. Is it burial or crucifixion?"
I feel the same about Gordo
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The sad thing is that there were still 12,000+ people that apparently voted for more of the same thank you very much... confused2:
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By habit. The shoe repair man got the job. That whole toff thing was misguided noooo:
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The only way that Labour have any chance at all of winning the next general election is by ditching Gordon Brown. The man is widely despised. He is a walking Greek tragedy and the electorate intrinsically understand that he is doomed to failure and that his continuing is an affront to fate. Ministers keep coming out and saying that the message is that they are listening to the voters, they understand our pain. Do they think we're stupid? We all want Gordon gone. If you're listening why's he still there?
And this is not personal. Gordon is sacrificing the good of the country for his pathetic little political games. He was a classic tax and spend Chancellor. Does he think we don't see that? If that's what you are, just be it. Do you think we're fooled by the petty little bribes like the 20p tax band? Do you think our votes are bought so cheaply? And you are borrowing to fund it, you are borrowing to cut taxes, with the economy heading for recession. I would rather not have this money in my pocket because you are ruining the public finances to try and buy my vote. I am not stupid and I will not be bought. You are messing up our country, in these cases purely for short term political gain. You are a fool and a liar and if your party don't get rid of you, it will give us enormous pleasure to give you a massive massive kicking in 2009. And you and Blair have ruined politics. If I want to vote Labour, I don't have the option, I can either vote Tory, Lib Dem, or corrupt and incompetent pseudo-Tory. The funny thing is, is that if you weren't so obsessed with stealing voters who would vote Tory anyway and just set out a traditional Labour agenda, we might just have bought it.
Source (http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/nickrobinson/2008/05/tipping_point.html#commentsanchor)
happ096
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Keep Gordo
He looks punch drunk!
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Harriet Harman acknowledged there were "discordant voices" among some Labour MPs.
But she added: "The overwhelming majority of people in the Labour Party - and I speak to constituency chairs up and down the country ... they are fully behind Gordon Brown."
Yes provided he was on the edge of a cliff
One quick shove, go on you know you want to.
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I do not know whether to laugh or cry.
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Hopefully he will cling on til the end... He can do little further damage to the country... noooo:
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Hopefully he will cling on til the end... He can do little further damage to the country... noooo:
DONT SAY THAT!!!!!! BM You've been around long enough to be familiar with Nick's Law. Now you've made that statement he's bound to find new ways to completely bugger up the UK. noooo:
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Gordo
He spit in my coat spider: spider:
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Gordo
He spit in my coat spider: spider:
I think you may find "he shat all over my life" describes it better. evil: