Re: The UK General Election Thread (II)

[JKLever]

What will they care? If they get their way we'll be a one party state before too long.

[Allan D]

Cheers Merls.

Didn't somone in here have the sig "Hague? Hague? Who put that qunt in charge" at one stage?

Mighta been qmy, I think.

except I think it was "Haig, Haig?..." , a reference to the C-in-C of the BEF from 1915-18.

[Merlin]

Remember that old whisky slogan ... "Don't be vague, ask for Haig" ...

Cute - if it wasn't for the fact they were knocking out rot-gut in a fancy bottle!

[Allan D]

The X-1 Factor:

[skully]

Cheers Merls.

Didn't somone in here have the sig "Hague? Hague? Who put that qunt in charge" at one stage?

Mighta been qmy, I think.

except I think it was "Haig, Haig?..." , a reference to the C-in-C of the BEF from 1915-18.

Ah, yes. Cheers AD.

[Allan D]

...although an obvious homophone intended for the current Deputy Leader of the Conservative Party.

[Merlin]

Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting ...

Merchant of Venice ?

[ten years after]

Clegg shows how it is possible to go from being Obama to Mugabe in three weeks. The UK General Election of 2010 and its aftermath makes Zimbabwe look like a Periclean democracy. This must be one of the most shameful episodes in our long and eventful history. The defeat of the Armada, Naseby, Blenheim, the scaling of the Heights of Abraham, Trafalgar, Waterloo, The Somme, the Battle of Britain and El Alamein all now seem to have been pretty worthless exercises.

You are rather understating the case here surely.

Some really important events such as the 1966 World Cup and the 1985 Ashes are also reduced to meaninglessness as Britain sinks into the abyss.

[Allan D]

Thou art weighed in the balance and found wanting ...

Merchant of Venice ?

No, a slight misquotation from the Book of Daniel, Chapter 5, v.27:

5:25: And this is the writing that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

5:26 This is the interpretation of the thing: MENE; God hath numbered thy kingdom, and finished it.

5:27 TEKEL; Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.

5:28 PERES; Thy kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.

(From the Authorised King James Version)

as well as the Gospel According to the late, great Johnny Cash:

[Allan D]

Clegg shows how it is possible to go from being Obama to Mugabe in three weeks. The UK General Election of 2010 and its aftermath makes Zimbabwe look like a Periclean democracy. This must be one of the most shameful episodes in our long and eventful history. The defeat of the Armada, Naseby, Blenheim, the scaling of the Heights of Abraham, Trafalgar, Waterloo, The Somme, the Battle of Britain and El Alamein all now seem to have been pretty worthless exercises.

You are rather understating the case here surely.

Some really important events such as the 1966 World Cup and the 1985 Ashes are also reduced to meaninglessness as Britain sinks into the abyss.

I wouldn't go as far as to say that. Let's keep a sense of proportion here.

[Merlin]

Some really important events such as the 1966 World Cup and the 1985 Ashes are also reduced to meaninglessness as Britain sinks into the abyss.

Ah ! But shurley we are on the cusp of a glorious Final in a T20 Barnum and Bailey gig somewhere in the Carribbean ....

[PeterCS]

Something for everyone in a tournament like that.

[PeterCS]

That Clegg. He's turned into a right little Hitler, jackbooting his way up and down Whitehall with his "Liberal" blackshirt mates, hasn't he?

He'll be holing up in his bunker next ....

[Merlin]

Now now Petey, how can you compare that little pinko to a right winged fascist like Adie?
He hasn't exactly ovened 5.8 million NuLabourities in the past 96 hours, has he?
More like he's been warming their ......

[JKLever]

Hmmm, more Tory/Lib meetings. Another shift perhaps?

[Merlin]

Tell Clegg to f**k off, Davie Boy ....

[Hass]

I still think a CONDEM alliance of some sort is on the cards.

The Lib Dems have just been using Labour as a bargaining chip and a fallback position if things go sour with the Tories.

Clegg also needs to keep his MPs happy - many of whom are pinkos and won't sign up to a Tory deal without at least checking out the possibility of a coalition with Labour.

[Merlin]

I still think a CONDEM alliance of some sort is on the cards.

The Lib Dems have just been using Labour as a bargaining chip and a fallback position if things go sour with the Tories.

Clegg also needs to keep his MPs happy - many of whom are pinkos and won't sign up to a Tory deal without at least checking out the possibility of a coalition with Labour.

That's all well and good when you're a footballer wanted by two clubs Hass ... play one against the other!
But this is a man who pledged in 3 "passionate" TV appearances his committment to tackling the country's woes and who clearly stated his and his party's intent to put country before politics and party.

Again I ask ... would you spend your hard-earned and buy a used car from this jerk?
Opportunist, callous, irreverent and self gratifying - the archetypal wishy washy LibDem pinko with airs and graces.

[Hass]

I still think a CONDEM alliance of some sort is on the cards.

The Lib Dems have just been using Labour as a bargaining chip and a fallback position if things go sour with the Tories.

Clegg also needs to keep his MPs happy - many of whom are pinkos and won't sign up to a Tory deal without at least checking out the possibility of a coalition with Labour.

That's all well and good when you're a footballer wanted by two clubs Hass ... play one against the other!
But this is a man who pledged in 3 "passionate" TV appearances his committment to tackling the country's woes and who clearly stated his and his party's intent to put country before politics and party.

Again I ask ... would you spend your hard-earned and buy a used car from this jerk?
Opportunist, callous, irreverent and self gratifying - the archetypal wishy washy LibDem pinko with airs and graces.

He's a politcian FFS! It's in his nature.

Quite simply, the Lib Dems would put Clegg's head on a spike if he didn't get some sort of concessions through bargaining.

Yes, it's unseemly - but that's politics.

[Merlin]

He's a politcian FFS! It's in his nature.

Quite simply, the Lib Dems would put Clegg's head on a spike if he didn't get some sort of concessions through bargaining.

Yes, it's unseemly - but that's politics.

Yeah, it cannot be denied ... So I guess the TV shows were just acting ... the sincerity, the piousness, the messiah act ... all pure bullsh!t ! Like I said ... now showing his true red/yellow colours ....
So the question now is : ... how far can he be trusted given his fickleness over the past 96 hours?

I'm just glad that the sole leader whose shown dignity throughout this sordid mess has been the Boy Dave.

[Allan D]

That Clegg. He's turned into a right little Hitler, jackbooting his way up and down Whitehall with his "Liberal" blackshirt mates, hasn't he?

He'll be holing up in his bunker next ....

The Blackshirts supported Mussolini not Hitler. The Brownshirts were Hitler's fan club (at least until the 'Night of the Long Knives' in 1934). If you wish to make historical analogies you should at least make the effort to try and be accurate.

[JKLever]

Word is Clegg and Cable are fully in the Tory camp but Ashdown & Campbell are against...

Looks like a minority Tory government to me, with the Libs letting the speech through and then fighting from the opposition benches

[JKLever]

Large bags being packed into cars at the back of Downing St.

[Merlin]

Word is Clegg and Cable are fully in the Tory camp but Ashdown & Campbell are against...

Looks like a minority Tory government to me, with the Libs letting the speech through and then fighting from the opposition benches

Add Simon (I demand Proportional Representation now, It's why I became a politician) Hughes to that list.
A rabid pinko on a "Let's get Britain into Europe" crusade.

[JKLever]

Hmmmm....

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