Comments on: Orange Booker Turns Blue

By: A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas

A Silent Emission of Bowel Gas — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:13:04 +0000

Where’s the surprise?

Daisy and his fags are as soft on terrorism, immigration and the EU as any Lib-Dem heart bleeder.

In fact, Daisy’s to the left of Blair, let alone Clegg.

By: Rant against the Machine

Rant against the Machine — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:52:48 +0000

Cameron shud tell these opportunist s to fuck off. If it was 1997 they wud be all over nu Labour. They have no principles except their own self advancement. Pathetic .

By: Basil's Brush

Basil's Brush — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 19:38:29 +0000

A local sales tax or a local income tax would be a fairer way to pay for local services and would energise local politics by giving voters a real choice at local elections. Party A could say they will charge 5% sales tax and reasonable local services and Party B could say they will charge 7% and provide higher quality services than Party A

By: Budgie

Budgie — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:24:45 +0000

MB – you are factually incorrect, if by “it” you mean the UK’s bust.

America’s recession started in America. Britain’s recession started in Britain. The reason is that the bulk of the UK economy is based within our own borders, and so is only marginally affected by the USA.

UK banks like HBoS and RBS were not bankrupted by America but by a combination of Gordoom’s useless regulation, and for HBoS over exposure to the Gordoom property boom; for RBS it was partly the Brown bust and partly their own hubris in taking over ABN.

By: Budgie

Budgie — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 17:07:23 +0000

Cassandra – an excellent comment, accurate and succinct.

By: thick as thieves

thick as thieves — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 12:59:37 +0000

are you British Sungei?
you sound like a reasonable fellow so I will take it that you are.
I too am British, and furthermore, I am also an English Man.
so don’t tell me how to use my native tongue you c’unt.
comprendez-vous?
merci.

By: UK Fred

UK Fred — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:06:02 +0000

No, but if you want to disembowel the current lot, especially if we keep them alive whille disembowelling them, then count me in as soon as I can blunt my knife.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:23:55 +0000

As ever with these coolie politicians, their only principle is ‘follow the money’ and the prospects of personal advantage.

By: Great Granddad

Great Granddad — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:57:56 +0000

The only party switcher who came good in my time was Winston Churchill, and he came good, not because of it, but in spite of it.

By: Sungei Patani

Sungei Patani — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:41:22 +0000

TAT and others;

You are completely missing my point (perhaps deliberately). I am in no way offended by bad language; as one who worked in industry for over forty years it is something one gets used to. However, any person who uses the English language – probably the most expressive on earth- and is unable to communicate without the use of profanities seems to me to be only semi-literate.

It is possible that some contributors to this blog do not expect their contribution to be read but simply want to rant for their own benefit. This is a form of intellectual onanism.

Although Churchill used verbal bad language to emphasise a point in private he did not find it necessary when writing; and his magnificent wartime speeches would would have had far less impact if he had referred to “that f*****g Hitler”