Home again – 2 hours on the motorway and that’ll be that. – Posted using MobyPicture.com
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Home again – 2 hours on the motorway and that’ll be that. – Posted using MobyPicture.com
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My late father served alongside Gurkhas in the Second World War. He had nothing but praise for their comradeship, humour, and courage. To treat them like this – after some 45 000 have died for this country – is shameful in the extreme. Especially when we let far less deserving people into this country either [...]
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I really don’t get it. Two days ago we had a budget that will do nothing for this country. Then, today, we hear that over the first three months of this year, the economy shrank by 1.9% – the biggest three month decline since 1979. However, the FTSE had a pretty good day today – [...]
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#3 a penis suit What you think you look like: a penis What you really look like: someone in a penis suit
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It was nice of Alistair Darling to give the non-UK car manufacturers a boost in his budget yesterday: Owners of old bangers who want to buy a new car can trade in their vehicle which is more than 10 years old for a £2,000 discount on the shiny new one. I’m sure that he’ll be [...]
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On a personal level, the Budget yesterday did me no favours at all – tobacco, alcohol and petrol will cost me more, I don’t claim any sort of tax credits, I’m too young to qualify for any winter fuel allowance, etc, etc. On a national level it failed too. Oh, it tried to appeal to [...]
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#2 Personalised number plates What you think you look like: an individual making a statement. What you really look like: someone who tries much too hard to get noticed.
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Nice idea from Old Holborn. Send Gordon your shirt! Got an old shirt? Send it directly to: Gordon Brown 10, Downing Street London SW1A 2AA. Saves him ripping it off your fucking back.
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Yes, I’m going to offend a few people with all this, but here goes… #1 Bluetooth headsets. What you think you look like: a switched-on pioneer on the cutting edge of technology. What you really look like: a refugee from Star Trek who’s just been raped in the ear canal by a monster with metallic [...]
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Many thanks to this blog for the following Lewis Black article. Black puts my view of British politics better than I ever could. Just replace the references to presidential candidates and the US parties with the appropriate British names and terms and this is my view in a nutshell. Here goes: A good portion of [...]
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