oggbashan
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I buy it for their holiday offers (and the Page 3 girls).
If I want tits and arses I buy the Daily Sport which has more of both than news.
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UK Election - is it sexy?
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I buy it for their holiday offers (and the Page 3 girls).
If I want tits and arses I buy the Daily Sport which has more of both than news.
Og
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Hmm.... if I want to ogle sexy women, I'll come to Lit, or look elsewhere for actual porn.
If I want news, I'll look at news.
If I want knee-jerk, moronic right-wing ranting, I'll pick a random forum and be sure to find it.
But there's something just very WRONG about sticking glamour girls in the middle of a newspaper. It kinda simultaneously cheapens news and cheapens perving at the same time.
Um... did that make any sense to anyone?
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Well, we're a bit more sophisticated over here. You may recall that Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni. (At least he made the effort.)
I'm in awe. Really.
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Yes, but all he wanted to do was ride a blasted Horse!
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I used to watch Sky News or at least BBC everyday. Now I'm watching Fox news to get my kicks. Does this say anything? lol
Yeah - says a lot Charley - and it's depressing!
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Sorry but what the bloody hell was that all about?
There's a slight problem in the event of a hung parliament, where there is no clear majority. Technically, the Queen should select her Prime Minister, but as our Queen (God bless 'er), likes to keep her nose well out of politics, and other arrangements are in place.
I can see a re-issue of the bumper stickers:
"Don't blame me. I voted for the other lot".
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There would be uproar if the Queen ever did that!
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Charles, on the other hand, might just do it. He's more his father's son.
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Charles, on the other hand, might just do it. He's more his father's son.
Charlie like Phillip? Maybe in looks...
Nah - they know they are a titular power only!
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It is said that Charles is more like his Mum, while Anne is deffo like her Dad.
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I'd say Anne is more like her dad than Charles...
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Cameron was slightly 'egged' today - oh we Brits are such rebels!
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Tell us the 'juicy details". Was it a free range egg and he had voted against a animal rights act?
We had one in the last election about pens for poultry, caused quite a stink here in the ag community.
I do like the suits, (Savell Row?) the British wear, so much more stylish that most American Pols. Well Senator Boner, has a few nice pinstripes, but nothing like a good Conservative British blue pinstriped silk lined, ooooh gets me excited.
I hope Cameron didn't get his suit soiled, be a damn shame that.
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It's not a matter of her 'liking' to keep her nose out of politics, she has to. She is a constitutional monarch, a figure head only, and has no say whatsoever in what does or does not happen in Westminister. The fact that the prime minister has to go to her to 'seek permission to dissolve parliament', is a ceremonial procedure only, as are all the others.
As the figurehead she has to sign all the new legislation. That's all. I'm sure she read it all, and is really well conversed and interested, but she has absolutely no say in anything whatsoever. She can privately express dissatisfaction with this or that legislation, but that's as far as it goes.
That said, I'd still glad we have our system rather than an elected president.
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Sorry but I just don't have those details - I am just not sure about the free range pedigree aspect.
As for the suits - yes us Brits just know how to dress don't we? My Saville Row suits did cost me a fortune but what price image eh? Luckily, Dave was going casual at the time and did not have his jacket on - his jacket was saved.
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Sorry but what the bloody hell was that all about?
Hmmmm. One could be forgiven for thinking that headline reads a bit like the revenge of Charles I, couldn't one?
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=aXeYO5IgxXqM
Brown Attacks Clegg on Trident, Slams Cameron on EU
By Thomas Penny and Scott Hamilton
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg to “get real” for opposing nuclear weapons and criticized Conservative David Cameron over European policy, seeking to regain the initiative in a televised debate after slumping to third in some polls before May 6 elections.
“Iran, you’re saying, might be able to have a nuclear weapon and you wouldn’t take action against them, but you’re also saying give up our Trident submarines,” Brown told Clegg in the debate tonight in Bristol, southwest England. “Get real about the danger we face if we have North Korea, Iran and other countries with nuclear weapons and we give up our own.”
Clegg opposes updating Britain’s submarine-based Trident missile system. Brown said Cameron’s “anti-Europeanism becomes more and more obvious as this debate goes on” after Cameron said he wanted to be “in Europe but not run by Europe.”
Rising support for Clegg’s Liberal Democrats may prevent the Conservatives from winning the swing seats held by Brown’s Labour Party they need to take power in the May 6 election. Some polls indicate that Labour may still emerge as the largest party in Parliament even if it finishes third as Cameron and Clegg split the opposition vote.
A YouGov Plc poll for The Sun newspaper released today put support for the Conservatives at 34 percent and Labour at 29 percent, with the Liberal Democrats falling back into third place at 28 percent. That would still leave Labour with 278 lawmakers to the Conservatives’ 251, according to the standard calculations used by academics and pollsters. YouGov questioned 1,576 people yesterday and today. No margin of error was given.
‘Political Armageddon’
Such a result may roil markets because a divided government would be too weak to narrow a record budget deficit, some economists say. The pound slumped 1 percent in the two days after the debate last week. It has lost 4.9 percent against the dollar this year and traded at $1.5375 at 4:09 p.m. in New York.
“Don’t believe all these ludicrous scare stories about markets and political Armageddon,” Clegg said. “I do think there is potential for politicians to work with each other.”
Clegg, 43, won the debate, 33 percent in a ComRes Ltd. poll found. Brown and Cameron were each rated the winner by 30 percent, according to the survey. The poll questioned 2,691 people.
Brown’s attack on Clegg, whom he called “anti-American,” came after the Liberal Democrat said “the greater threat to us is not the Cold War threats of old, it is terrorists getting hold of dirty bomb.” He said: “Trident isn’t going to help you with that. Let’s move with the times.”
Keeping the Pound
“I don’t want us to join the euro,” Cameron said at the start of the debate. “I want us to keep the pound as our currency.
He said that “one of the things I would do if I was your prime minister is straight away pass a law through parliament that says if there’s ever a future occasion when laws are being proposed, to pass power from Westminster to Brussels, there would be a guarantee of a referendum held in our country.”
Clegg, a former member of the European Parliament, said Britain couldn’t deal with international crime and climate change on its own, saying “the weather doesn’t stop at the cliffs of Dover.”
Brown said there were “3 million reasons” for being part of Europe. “They’re called jobs,” he said.
“We’re trying to get an economic recovery; that depends on France and Germany growing as well, taking our exports,” Brown said. “I need to work with these other countries in Europe. I want to work with sensible people in Europe.”
Cameron’s Allies
Clegg attacked Cameron over his decision to end the Conservatives’ alliance in the European Parliament with the parties of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Conservatives are now allied with eastern European parties that include Latvia’s For Fatherland and Freedom, which has come under fire from academics for its links to Latvians who fought with the Nazi SS in World War II.
Clegg described the Conservatives’ allies as “a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites, people who deny climate change exists, homophobes.”
Brown also attacked Cameron’s plans to start cutting spending this year to reduce Britain’s record budget deficit.
“David, you’re a risk to the economy; Nick is a risk to our security,” said Brown. “Nick, you would leave us weak; David, you would leave us isolated in Europe.”
Brown Attacks Clegg on Trident, Slams Cameron on EU
By Thomas Penny and Scott Hamilton
April 22 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown told Liberal Democrat Nick Clegg to “get real” for opposing nuclear weapons and criticized Conservative David Cameron over European policy, seeking to regain the initiative in a televised debate after slumping to third in some polls before May 6 elections.
“Iran, you’re saying, might be able to have a nuclear weapon and you wouldn’t take action against them, but you’re also saying give up our Trident submarines,” Brown told Clegg in the debate tonight in Bristol, southwest England. “Get real about the danger we face if we have North Korea, Iran and other countries with nuclear weapons and we give up our own.”
Clegg opposes updating Britain’s submarine-based Trident missile system. Brown said Cameron’s “anti-Europeanism becomes more and more obvious as this debate goes on” after Cameron said he wanted to be “in Europe but not run by Europe.”
Rising support for Clegg’s Liberal Democrats may prevent the Conservatives from winning the swing seats held by Brown’s Labour Party they need to take power in the May 6 election. Some polls indicate that Labour may still emerge as the largest party in Parliament even if it finishes third as Cameron and Clegg split the opposition vote.
A YouGov Plc poll for The Sun newspaper released today put support for the Conservatives at 34 percent and Labour at 29 percent, with the Liberal Democrats falling back into third place at 28 percent. That would still leave Labour with 278 lawmakers to the Conservatives’ 251, according to the standard calculations used by academics and pollsters. YouGov questioned 1,576 people yesterday and today. No margin of error was given.
‘Political Armageddon’
Such a result may roil markets because a divided government would be too weak to narrow a record budget deficit, some economists say. The pound slumped 1 percent in the two days after the debate last week. It has lost 4.9 percent against the dollar this year and traded at $1.5375 at 4:09 p.m. in New York.
“Don’t believe all these ludicrous scare stories about markets and political Armageddon,” Clegg said. “I do think there is potential for politicians to work with each other.”
Clegg, 43, won the debate, 33 percent in a ComRes Ltd. poll found. Brown and Cameron were each rated the winner by 30 percent, according to the survey. The poll questioned 2,691 people.
Brown’s attack on Clegg, whom he called “anti-American,” came after the Liberal Democrat said “the greater threat to us is not the Cold War threats of old, it is terrorists getting hold of dirty bomb.” He said: “Trident isn’t going to help you with that. Let’s move with the times.”
Keeping the Pound
“I don’t want us to join the euro,” Cameron said at the start of the debate. “I want us to keep the pound as our currency.
He said that “one of the things I would do if I was your prime minister is straight away pass a law through parliament that says if there’s ever a future occasion when laws are being proposed, to pass power from Westminster to Brussels, there would be a guarantee of a referendum held in our country.”
Clegg, a former member of the European Parliament, said Britain couldn’t deal with international crime and climate change on its own, saying “the weather doesn’t stop at the cliffs of Dover.”
Brown said there were “3 million reasons” for being part of Europe. “They’re called jobs,” he said.
“We’re trying to get an economic recovery; that depends on France and Germany growing as well, taking our exports,” Brown said. “I need to work with these other countries in Europe. I want to work with sensible people in Europe.”
Cameron’s Allies
Clegg attacked Cameron over his decision to end the Conservatives’ alliance in the European Parliament with the parties of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Conservatives are now allied with eastern European parties that include Latvia’s For Fatherland and Freedom, which has come under fire from academics for its links to Latvians who fought with the Nazi SS in World War II.
Clegg described the Conservatives’ allies as “a bunch of nutters, anti-Semites, people who deny climate change exists, homophobes.”
Brown also attacked Cameron’s plans to start cutting spending this year to reduce Britain’s record budget deficit.
“David, you’re a risk to the economy; Nick is a risk to our security,” said Brown. “Nick, you would leave us weak; David, you would leave us isolated in Europe.”
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Just over a week to go and it's hotting up! Tory press slags Clegg off big style, Cameron puts the boot in and Brown tries to be nice and rise above it.
Hung Parliament here we come! Yeah now that's sexy!
Hung Parliament here we come! Yeah now that's sexy!
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Goldie; what planet are you on?.
Most of us are depressed enough already!
Most of us are depressed enough already!
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Ok calling a life long supporter a bigoted woman is not sexy - however, at least we got to see his human side...
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