Thracian Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090125/tuk-p...im-6323e80.html Yet people still vote for them and defend them... Is there no-one in our country strong enough to stand for anything! Where IS the sodding leadership? Surprise, surprise though. While you and I can lose our driving licences (and therefore our jobs) for breaking the rules, surprise, suprprise, these arseholes, if the allegations are proved, cannot even be expelled from Parliament. We have to put up with them some more. They sound like perfect colleagues for the hypocritical Ms Harman and all her hypocritical friends.
Daggers Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 I wonder if you found any other news stories on the internet? Have you found one about kittens? I'd like to read a Yahoo news article about kittens.
Guest Bilo Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 I wonder if you found any other news stories on the internet?Have you found one about kittens? I'd like to read a Yahoo news article about kittens. This any good for you Daggers? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotlan...ast/7101506.stm
Thracian Posted 25 January 2009 Author Posted 25 January 2009 I wonder if you found any other news stories on the internet?Have you found one about kittens? I'd like to read a Yahoo news article about kittens. Yahoo couldn't oblige but just for you .... http://www.catsinfo.com/catnews.html
Monk Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 Leadership, in this country? Pah. Doesn't exist. If I had somewhere else to go I would leave this shithole of a country now... but at least for the moment I have to stick it out. Nice to know our political system is completely in ruins, probably more so than the economy itself. Fkers. I live with 2 girls who are members of the Labour party, makes me sick!
Daggers Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 This any good for you Daggers? Oh yes! Kittens 'adopted' by pet rabbit
Thracian Posted 25 January 2009 Author Posted 25 January 2009 We should all elect kittens, clearly. Sex Kittens would at least take our minds off the real problems....
Ultra Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090125/tuk-p...im-6323e80.htmlYet people still vote for them and defend them... Is there no-one in our country strong enough to stand for anything! Where IS the sodding leadership? Surprise, surprise though. While you and I can lose our driving licences (and therefore our jobs) for breaking the rules, surprise, suprprise, these arseholes, if the allegations are proved, cannot even be expelled from Parliament. We have to put up with them some more. They sound like perfect colleagues for the hypocritical Ms Harman and all her hypocritical friends. Despite what the Murdoch media might have us believe, there are two sides to this story. And hopefully whoever investigates this will listen to both sides before rushing to judgement. Or doesn't the concept of a fair trial exist in your world?
Webbo Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 Despite what the Murdoch media might have us believe, there are two sides to this story.And hopefully whoever investigates this will listen to both sides before rushing to judgement. Or doesn't the concept of a fair trial exist in your world? Just like I'm sure you gave all the tories who were accused of corruption the benefit of the doubt.
davieG Posted 25 January 2009 Posted 25 January 2009 Despite what the Murdoch media might have us believe, there are two sides to this story.And hopefully whoever investigates this will listen to both sides before rushing to judgement. Or doesn't the concept of a fair trial exist in your world? Still doesn't alter the fact that if found guilty they can carry on regardless.
Edmund Posted 26 January 2009 Posted 26 January 2009 Money talks. If I was offered £120,000 on top of my high salary I probably would do the same.
Thracian Posted 26 January 2009 Author Posted 26 January 2009 Despite what the Murdoch media might have us believe, there are two sides to this story.And hopefully whoever investigates this will listen to both sides before rushing to judgement. Or doesn't the concept of a fair trial exist in your world? Fair trials are fine. Who's doing the investigation?
MPH Posted 26 January 2009 Posted 26 January 2009 politics and cats... UK PoliticsLoonies choose cat as joint leader Howling Laud Hope with some of his Loony aides A cat called Mandu and its owner have been elected joint leaders of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party. The four-year-old ginger tomcat and the party's deputy leader, publican Alan Hope, also known as Howling Lord Hope, were the only other candidate in the eccentric election. The contest had been a tie but Mr Hope, as party chairman, had the casting vote. Split decision He told BBC News Online: "It came down to a split decision as we had 125 votes each. "As I was still chairman, I had the casting vote but I didn't want to vote for myself and I didn't want to vote for the cat. "So our party will be the first in British politics to have a joint leadership." The leadership battle follows the death of the party's founder and leader Screaming Lord Sutch, who committed suicide at his London home in June. [ image: The late Screaming Lord Sutch founded the Monster Raving Loony Party and led it right up to his death] The late Screaming Lord Sutch founded the Monster Raving Loony Party and led it right up to his death Mr Hope said the two new leaders would take collective decisions. He said: "Only I can talk to my cat. "He tells me when he wants feeding, he tells me when he wants to go out so he will be able to tell me all about what direction he wants the party to go in." Mr Hope stood as the official Loony candidate in the Eddisbury by-election earlier this year. In the course of that contest he advocated relocating Disneyland from Paris to cover the entire UK; substituting fox-hunting with chasing the Cheshire Cat on horseback instead; and joining the euro in order to turn the UK into an off-shore tax haven. 19th Loony get-together The vote took place at the party's 19th conference, staged at Mr Hope's Golden Lion Hotel in Ashburton, south Devon. Mr Hope, who assumed leadership of the party following Lord Sutch's suicide, has said the conference would be a sad occasion without the 58-year-old musician and maverick politician. Lord Sutch was remembered at the start of the conference on Thursday not with a minute's silence, but with 60 seconds of screaming and shouting. Over the years Loony party policies which had been laughed at became the law of the land - including abolition of the 11-plus, all-day pub opening, and passports for pets. Mr Hope said: "Fifteen years ago everybody laughed at us for wanting passports for pets and one of the first things we do is to get the government to push that through as quickly as possible." The party is spending the conference voting on a new manifesto which will be announced next week. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/455323.stm
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