Current Affairs

[oldbluefox]

They are terrified of him..................

Who writes your jokes Jack?

[Jack Staff]

They are terrified of him..................

Who writes your jokes Jack?

Nick Timothy

[oldbluefox]

Far from being terrified of Tiny Tim I believe the Tories would see it as the final ignominy to take his seat away from him.
Anyone any ideas why Tiny Tim has taken to talking like a Dalek? I thought Clegg was bad but this fella takes the biscuit.

[Manoverboard]

... is he practicing to be the ' Speaking Clock ' in his new career come June the 9th ?

[qbman1]

No, they have Diane Abbot lined up for that job.....

"at the fifteenth stroke, it will be seventeen eighty four and ninety seven seconds"

[screwy]

No, they have Diane Abbot lined up for that job.....

"at the fifteenth stroke, it will be seventeen eighty four and ninety seven seconds"

[Jack Staff]

Far from being terrified of Tiny Tim I believe the Tories would see it as the final ignominy to take his seat away from him.
Anyone any ideas why Tiny Tim has taken to talking like a Dalek? I thought Clegg was bad but this fella takes the biscuit.

Strong and stable, strong and stable, strong and stable, strong and stable

Who talks like a Dalek?

[Mervyn and Trish]

My point is that as leader of the opposition, even if in his wildest dreams he could achieve that, he would not have the power to impose a second referendum nor any of the other cloud cuckoo policies he's putting forward. In fact the way he's going he'll be lucky to keep his seat. He'd be better off pitching for chairman of his local parish council.

Actually you are spot on. Have you seen the resources the Tory's are pumping in to his specific seat? (and Clegg's). They are terrified of him and are pulling out all the stops to try and nail him. They may even succeed.
However, that may be a bad idea. When he was picked as party leader they only had a choice of eight. If he goes on June 8th the LibDems may have a far wider choice of sucessors, so the Tory's should perhaps be careful of what they wish for.
I would have said that is dirty tricks by the Tory's and should be stopped, except when it comes to Maidenhead, where I think it is a great idea.

Labour had a good choice of leaders and look what they went for!

Personally my money is on TM for this election and she needs more than a knife edge majority to convince the EU they can't treat her with the contempt they did Call-Me-Dave. But we should have an effective opposition. We don't have it at the moment and never will have with Jezzer and Tiny Tim in charge.

[Jack Staff]

Labour had a good choice of leaders and look what they went for!

At least he was democratically elected, unlike Mayhem (if we must do the silly names).

Personally my money is on TM for this election

You really like to stick your neck out don't you Merv? I think we can safely assume Conservatives will win this one.

and she needs more than a knife edge majority to convince the EU they can't treat her with the contempt they did Call-Me-Dave.

The EU don't care about a majority. The 27 of them will treat the leader of the UK exactly as they should, hopefully ignoring the insults and accusations thrown at them by the current and previous leaders of the UK.

But we should have an effective opposition.

We don't have it at the moment and never will have with Jezzer and Tiny Tim in charge.

We are not electing a president as Maybot wants you to think. It is the policies that matter.

[Mervyn and Trish]

Just one thing to say. Gordon Brown

[Jack Staff]

Just one thing to say. Gordon Brown

He saved the world!!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iPaiylUYW0

[Mervyn and Trish]

Shame he didn't save any money for a rainy day.

[Jack Staff]

Shame he didn't save any money for a rainy day.

I thought he flogged off all our gold reserves.

[barney]

Good effort Jack. Well done!
A bold defence of the indefensible.
I admire your indefagability.

Make a sentence - Horse Dead A Flogging

It's over mate. The UK is leaving the EU in 2019, irrespective of the deal done.

Personally, I'd like as much negotiation done in public but they won't go for that.
I'd like the UK to start with a proposal of zero tariffs both ways.
The EU can then respond to what they think any tariffs should be and the ball starts rolling from there.
Then it is what it is, and we all (they and us) have to live with it.
It's not a DIVORCE because we were never married.
We are simply leaving a 'club' that we no longer wish to belong to.
What's so difficult about that?
Why all this EU talk of punishments and over reacting to anything coming from our side.

A story in the Guardian yesterday focussed on Barnier asking the EU Commissioners how they would like to proceed if the UK refused to stump up the 100billion 'divorce bill'
Would they prefer making larger contributions themselves OR reign in the spending.
The answer was neither, the UK must be made to pay.
And they wonder why we are leaving

[Stephen]

Good effort Jack. Well done!
A bold defence of the indefensible.
I admire your indefagability.

Make a sentence - Horse Dead A Flogging

It's over mate. The UK is leaving the EU in 2019, irrespective of the deal done.

Personally, I'd like as much negotiation done in public but they won't go for that.
I'd like the UK to start with a proposal of zero tariffs both ways.
The EU can then respond to what they think any tariffs should be and the ball starts rolling from there.
Then it is what it is, and we all (they and us) have to live with it.
It's not a DIVORCE because we were never married.
We are simply leaving a 'club' that we no longer wish to belong to.
What's so difficult about that?
Why all this EU talk of punishments and over reacting to anything coming from our side.

A story in the Guardian yesterday focussed on Barnier asking the EU Commissioners how they would like to proceed if the UK refused to stump up the 100billion 'divorce bill'
Would they prefer making larger contributions themselves OR reign in the spending.
The answer was neither, the UK must be made to pay.
And they wonder why we are leaving

Good luck with that one.

As Winnie would say

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[Jack Staff]

Good effort Jack. Well done!
A bold defence of the indefensible.
I admire your indefagability.

Thank you.

Make a sentence - Horse Dead A Flogging

It's over mate. The UK is leaving the EU in 2019, irrespective of the deal done.

Maybe, maybe not.

Personally, I'd like as much negotiation done in public but they won't go for that.

The UK government won't, but the EU will. So what is happening will not appear on the BBC and Daily Mail. Brexiters will be the only ones not to know what is going on. Same as now really.

I'd like the UK to start with a proposal of zero tariffs both ways.

I'd like a Ferrari and world peace!

The EU can then respond to what they think any tariffs should be and the ball starts rolling from there.

The EU will tell us what the deal is.

Then it is what it is, and we all (they and us) have to live with it.

Yes we will. We will have to live with what they tell us.

It's not a DIVORCE because we were never married.
We are simply leaving a 'club' that we no longer wish to belong to.
What's so difficult about that?

It was a legal contract, between two parties. Pretty much like a marriage. And any way, have you tried to get out of a gym membership? You can't just walk away.

Why all this EU talk of punishments and over reacting to anything coming from our side.

We (supposedly) are going to leave. Them telling us how it is going to be is not punishment, simply reality.

A story in the Guardian yesterday focussed on Barnier asking the EU Commissioners how they would like to proceed if the UK refused to stump up the 100billion 'divorce bill'
Would they prefer making larger contributions themselves OR reign in the spending.
The answer was neither, the UK must be made to pay.

And we will. We said we would when we entered into the deal. We have no choice.

And they wonder why we are leaving

Yes, they do. In exactly the same way I do. Why on earth would anyone want to make themselves poorer voluntarily?

"We hope to see a Europe where men of every country will think of being a European as of belonging to their native land, and ... wherever they go in this wide domain, will truly feel 'here I am at home'" - Winston Churchill, a founding father of the EU.

[CaroleF]

We may be geographically part of Europe but we are not Europeans in the same way that mainland Europe considers themselves to be. Of course there are obviously those who consider themselves to be Europeans - that is their right - but I bet the majority of those in these islands consider themselves to be either English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish or British. Jack is obviously a European but do not make the mistake that the EU seem to be making in thinking the vast majority of us are the same. I voted to join the European Common Market back in the 1970s but I did not vote to join a United States of Europe which is where the vast majority of the EU seem to want to be. I am a great fan of Winston Churchill but even the passage quoted above does not mean he was thinking of a United States of Europe.

[Jack Staff]

We may be geographically part of Europe but we are not Europeans in the same way that mainland Europe considers themselves to be. Of course there are obviously those who consider themselves to be Europeans - that is their right - but I bet the majority of those in these islands consider themselves to be either English, Scottish, Welsh, Northern Irish or British. Jack is obviously a European but do not make the mistake that the EU seem to be making in thinking the vast majority of us are the same. I voted to join the European Common Market back in the 1970s but I did not vote to join a United States of Europe which is where the vast majority of the EU seem to want to be. I am a great fan of Winston Churchill but even the passage quoted above does not mean he was thinking of a United States of Europe.

"We must build a kind of United States of Europe."
Mr Winston Churchill speaking in Zurich
I9th September 1946.

[Mervyn and Trish]

So even Churchill can be wrong.

[Stephen]

Winnie WRONG .....never

[Manoverboard]

... a ' kind of ' is quite likely but did Winston really envisage and desire a version that would essentially be controlled by Germany.

I doubt it.

[Mervyn and Trish]

I hear he wasn't Germany's greatest fan.

[Jack Staff]

... a ' kind of ' is quite likely but did Winston really envisage and desire a version that would essentially be controlled by Germany.

I doubt it.

No, he thought we British had the gumption to stand our corner rather than just giving them the continent as we are going to now.

[Mervyn and Trish]

And you think we could stop that if we stayed in? Not according to Dave "Chamberlain " Cameron's piece of paper

[Jack Staff]

And you think we could stop that if we stayed in? Not according to Dave "Chamberlain " Cameron's piece of paper

That is the point of the EU. Instead we are just flouncing off like a spoilt child.
I never trusted Cameron anyway, he's the one who created all this mess, purely to keep the Conservative together.
What ever happened to country before party?