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   ZaNew Labour raped Millbank troll on this blog says:

   March 2, 2010 at 1:31 am

   Andrew Rawnsley:

   Rawnsley states that the cabinet secretary was so concerned about Brown’s treatment of staff that he had to give Brown a “pep talk”. Rawnsley does not say O’Donnell had to conduct a formal investigation. Instead he said O’Donnell had “made inquiries” into whether a secretary had been turfed out of her chair by Brown for “not typing fast enough”. Rawnsley said: “I do not say he launched some ‘formal inquiry’, which would be an extraordinary thing for the cabinet secretary. I have no evidence of that. I say he made his own investigations and he gave a warning, a verbal warning, to the prime minister about his conduct and I am absolutely confident that happened – 100% sure,” he told Sky News. “I was particularly careful in this area because it’s obviously a very sensitive area to be sure that this wasn’t gossip or hearsay or tittle-tattle. The sources were 24-carat – not third-hand or second-hand – first-hand sources.”

   http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/feb/23/brown-bullying-claims-allegations-non-denials
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     50 Calibre says:

     March 2, 2010 at 11:02 am

     I believe Rawnsley’s account of events in the bunker.

     I do not believe any of the crap coming out of No 10 in defence of the Bully in Chief.

     QED
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   Damp Rag says:

   March 2, 2010 at 1:08 pm

   The only chance you’ll have to vote Herman Van Rompuy:

   http://www.westbournemouthukip.com/local/ukiplocal.shtml
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   Observant says:

   March 2, 2010 at 5:55 pm

   well played Guido
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   david says:

   March 3, 2010 at 1:31 am

   Your esteemed columnist adopts the nomenclature: ‘Thick as Thieves’.

   This could be considered a middlingly unpleasant libel of Thieves – most of whom I have found to be surprisingly intelligent.

   Having had the pleasure of the company of ‘Thick as Thieves in these columns over many delightful months, might we venture that he adopts the slightly more appropriate: ‘Not distinctly articulate’.

   Some dictionary definitions make my point:

   Thick
   composed of or containing objects, particles, etc., close together; dense: a thick fog; a thick forest.
   Thick
   not distinctly articulated: The patient’s speech is still quite thick.
   Thick
   mentally slow; stupid; dull.
   Thick
   disagreeably excessive or exaggerated: They thought it a bit thick when he called himself a genius.
   Thick
   in a manner to produce something thick: Slice the cheese thick.
   Thick
   lay it on thick, Informal. to praise excessively; flatter: He’s laying it on thick because he wants you to do him a favor.
   Thick
   having relatively great extent from one surface or side to the opposite; not thin: a thick slice.
   Thick
   measured, as specified, between opposite surfaces, from top to bottom, or in a direction perpendicular to that of the length and breadth; (of a solid having three general dimensions) measured across its smallest dimension: a board one inch thick.