If I was Prime Minister...

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gfwgfw wrote:
Put down all who have enjoyed their three score and ten years :cry:

Nod and a wink
I had better get a couple of cruises in before they put me down then. :lol:

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gfwgfw wrote:
Put down all who have enjoyed their three score and ten years :cry:

Nod and a wink

What about those who have had their three score and ten, but didn't enjoy it? :sarcasm:
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Silver_Shiney wrote:
gfwgfw wrote:
Put down all who have enjoyed their three score and ten years :cry:

Nod and a wink

What about those who have had their three score and ten, but didn't enjoy it? :sarcasm:
Then you would get a reprieve ... unless, of course, you used to kick a ball about for money like wot the JGG did.

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Can I just make it clear that, while I initiated the thread, I didn't set up the poll, which I find rather embarrassing.
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Stephen wrote:
To add to the pot......

1. Bring back National Service

2. All medical staff who abuse, neglect and cock up medical procedures should be held to account in the courts.

3. Bring back capital punishment.

4. All cyclists on pedestrian pavements shot on site. The same goes for car owners.

5. Using a mobile phone while driving, 6 months in prison, minimum, and band for five years from driving.

6. Jeremy Clarkson reinstated to Top Gear :thumbup:
You missed flogging and the birch !! I always had you down as a liberal

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Silver_Shiney wrote:
Can I just make it clear that, while I initiated the thread, I didn't set up the poll, which I find rather embarrassing.
Don't worry Lord Shiney, your lead is slowly slipping away. You'll soon be as unpopular as the real candidates for the job. :thumbup:

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But can he eat a sandwich with dignity ?

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Hey Mr Shinny...nowt to be embarrassed about you've already got more votes than Nick Clegg will be getting :thumbup:

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qbman1 wrote:
Stephen wrote:
To add to the pot......

1. Bring back National Service

2. All medical staff who abuse, neglect and cock up medical procedures should be held to account in the courts.

3. Bring back capital punishment.

4. All cyclists on pedestrian pavements shot on site. The same goes for car owners.

5. Using a mobile phone while driving, 6 months in prison, minimum, and band for five years from driving.

6. Jeremy Clarkson reinstated to Top Gear :thumbup:
You missed flogging and the birch !! I always had you down as a liberal
Liberal, ME, no, just a vindictive basta*d ;)

A slip up on my part there QB, add them to the list. You have to have something to fall back on just in case the human rights bods step in and spoil things :D

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Onelife wrote:
Hey Mr Shinny...nowt to be embarrassed about you've already got more votes than Nick Clegg will be getting :thumbup:
Nick who? :sarcasm:
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Silver_Shiney wrote:
Onelife wrote:
Hey Mr Shinny...nowt to be embarrassed about you've already got more votes than Nick Clegg will be getting :thumbup:
Nick who? :sarcasm:
No idea :sarcasm:

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Silver_Shiney wrote:
Onelife wrote:
Hey Mr Shinny...nowt to be embarrassed about you've already got more votes than Nick Clegg will be getting :thumbup:
Nick who? :sarcasm:

Hi Mr Shinny aka (PM in waiting) :D

Nick was the chap who some say did the right thing for the country at the last elections, some however would say he sold out his party and the electorate for a taste of power.

Either way its a shame really as I do think the Lib-Dems were the good between the bad and the ugly and would if they had held out for another five years be in the driving seat to form the next Government.

What is your best guess for the making up the next coalition....I was thinking Conservative/lib-Dem with 10 seats from UkIP to help them along the way.

I'm putting a tenner on whatever combination you suggest....i you get it wrong you'll be back on the back benches before you know it.

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Hi Keith

I am not betting man.

While I think it would be disastrous for the country, I understand that the smart money is on a Labour/SNP coalition. I would prefer to see the Conservatives back in power but I don't see how they can form a coalition with any party/parties to form a working majority.

Frankly, I have no confidence in any of the "professional" politicians, regardless of party (possibly with the exception of Frank Field - he strikes me as a decent man, and Jack Lopresti), and don't see how Farage (not that he's got a chance of winning) or "most" of the other amateurs could make a bigger faux-pas of things. I'd give them a chance, 'cos, in my book, the others have proved they're not up to the task.

As for me being back on the back benches PDQ, I wouldn't even have me in the building!
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Hi Mr Shinny,

It really is a sad state of affairs when the electorate is left with no options other than to vote for the least damaging coalition.....

For me the best of two evils would be a labour/Conservative coaliton with both leaders stepping aside .

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Onelife wrote:
Hi Mr Shinny,

It really is a sad state of affairs when the electorate is left with no options other than to vote for the least damaging coalition.....

For me the best of two evils would be a labour/Conservative coaliton with both leaders stepping aside .

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Now there's a commonsense solution! :thumbup:
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If it's common sense, it isn't going to happen, now, is it ?!

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That's the strange thing about common sense, Cubie, it's not common!!
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On the plus side, I see your dissenters are creeping up so you may yet be voted out !

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The turnout's better than most constituencies too.

Will you be sending taxis to pick us up if we're late voting Shiney?

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Mervyn and Trish wrote:
The turnout's better than most constituencies too.

Will you be sending taxis to pick us up if we're late voting Shiney?
Don't be silly Merv - he will come on his moped!

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....with a family of seven refugees on the pillion !

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don't forget the three in the top-box!
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one of my favourite election stories (probably apochryphal)

the canvassers arranged transport for a little old lady, and when she came out of the station she said,
"Thank you for the lift. I wanted to vote for that nice Mr Churchill, but his name wasn't on the list, so I voted for the King instead"

Mr King was the communist candidate!
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apoch.....who! ;)

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Too many syllables for Essex !

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