We don't like what we're hearing
The Big Con
It's on - the search for anybody who agrees with the Prime Minister's dull ideas. They need these photo opportunities and soundbites for the snap election that can't be far off, when they cut and run.
Feargal Mooney
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That may be a while yet, what with the Tories (the ones with the blue logo that is) two points ahead in todays opinion poll for the first time since Blair took over. Howard will trounce Blair at the despatch box too. Blair doesn't like it up him, he can only play for cheap laughs against a guy who's got his number, and Howard is his match when it comes to bare knuckle fighting.
Christ knows why Livingstone wants to go back in to the party now, to be used by Blair to offset the disaster next June in the locals. Unless he comes out with a strong statement that he's going back in to the party as an implacable opponent of Blairism he won't get my vote in the mayoral election. And Norris is a complete twat, signing on with Jarvis and still thinking he can be taken, in the light of that, as a serious candidate for Londoners.
What a bloody shower.
On the big con I see that it's going to cost you to contribute your ideas by text, 25 pence above the cost of the text. As if anybody is actually going to read anyway them and take any notice. He had two million peiople telling him exactly what would happen when he attacked the Iraqi people and he took no notice and it came to pass. It's a gimmick.
A woman said on QT last night that New Labour have broken her heart and i though yes, that is what it is, the guy is a complete party-hijacking control-freakery piece of shit.It's not good enough for Polly T to write her conciliatory article today lambasting Rory bremner for Sunday's upcoming show. No Blair isn't as bad as a, b, or c might be. Who gives a shit. He's not as good as he should be by a long chalk either and his MPs all seem to be neutered.
Bollocks.
(Mal has been taken to the medical room for a nice glass of water - Amanda Saxonheart)
Post by : mal castro (webcacheh11a.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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Steady on. No need to worry. Let's just run a few ideas up the flagpole and see if anybody salutes. You know what I'm going to say next don't you? Hah, you know all my saying too well... Let's pour it out on the saucer and see if the cat laps it up.
Post by : Simon Moribund (host81-128-134-155.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )
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If they think they are in a tailspin and their ratings could plummet continuously from now on, they might go for a snap election while they can still say the Tories are unelectable. They appear to be unelectable now, but in two years time (dear lord two more years of all this!) they might stand a chance. That would give them four more years instead of two. They could argue that they want to "clear the air."
Post by : Feargal (host81-128-134-155.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )
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Goodie, a day off school cos they use it for the adults who bother to go and put an X on a bit iof paper. It would be great if it's in the winter too cos the roof is leaking in our class and the boiler has packed up.
Martin, Laura, Yusef, Agron, Jane, Luca,
Trinity Road Juniors - Year 3
Post by : Martin, Laura, Yusef, Agron, Jane, Luca, (webcacheh04a.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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It would be a complete waste of public funds to have an election. Just get rid of that grinning fop Tony Blair and put someone in charge who can be assured we know sh*t from brown pudding.
I can't stomach his faux earnestness and cod sincerity and his thinking that the ends (acquisition by theft) justify the means (barefaced shameless dishonesty).
I wouldn't buy a bagel off the man.
Post by : Harriet Stowe (webcacheh04a.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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I had the wrong link there for a while. It's the real one now.
Post by : Feargal (host81-128-134-155.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )
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isn't this the real one?
http://www.bigconversation.org.uk/
Post by : mal castro (webcacheh04a.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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the gimmick one I mean, 'real' being understood to carry several meanings.
Post by : mal castro (webcacheh04a.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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Thanks. Yes, that should be there now. You might have seen a cached version of the page.
Post by : Feargal (host81-128-134-155.in-addr.btopenworld.com / )
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another big con
I set up Another Big Conversation at www.thebigconversation.org.uk with questions about TB's sham democracy-in-action. But my god what I got back! The British Public should not be allowed any internet access, pencils or paper. He's right you know democracy is a good wheeze.
Post by : Coup de Vent (82-69-7-44.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk / notmyrealemail@address.com )
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When Blair and his boss use the words 'freedom and democracy' they mean "deregulated free market capitalism", so when they talk about bringing 'freedom and democracy' to Iraq and any other place where they haven't gangstered the market for US and UK companies they mean the above...the catch is that Blair doesn't know that the last thing Bush is interested in is a 'free market'. To Bush and his junta ;free market' means a market place where they are free to set all terms and tariffs to their own advantage.
Post by : mal castro (webcacheh10a.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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"...the catch is that Blair doesn't know that the last thing Bush is interested in is a 'free market'." Hmmm... I'll bet he does know. He's a man with an education which probably included reading history... England's and Europe's East India Companies pursued similar if not identical dreams three/four hundred years ago. And it led to Empire. So, with TB's education/experience and Bush's aspirations, the two of them should go a long way together -- at least as far as the next election. Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. ...or words to that effect.
Funny thing that. Power, I mean. What is it about the beast that so contorts the human mind?
Post by : Varlet O'Dara (1cust65.tnt4.ottawa.on.da.uu.net / )
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Blair is not easily demonstrably an intelligent man. Educated maybe, intelligent no, perceptive no, aware of the dynamic at work in other cultures, not seemingly, so ignorant of the dynamic of cause and effect that may be unleashed by an action relating to anyone other than himself, a hypocrite yes, a deluded messianic bent, yes. The document The Post-Modern State by Robert Cooper, who has Blair's ear, is required reading for an understanding of Blair's worldview. Incidentally Bush should read it too. He would find that Blair regards his country (ie the USA) as backward.
The Postmodern State
http://fpc.org.uk/hotnews/full?activeid=169&tableid=writes
Post by : Mal Castro (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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Assymetrical warfare in the days of the EIC didn't exist. Today it must be a matter of address injustice or die. To address terror we first not terrorise or abet the dispossession of others and we must address the issues that exist which leave a man or woman, literally, no recourse to anything but desperate direct action. In other words act rather than waiting for a prompt to react inappropriately.
Post by : Mal Castro (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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Oh dear, I thought that was going to be an interesting article about the post office in the modern world. Save Our Post Offices, I say. Instead it was about white people taking over the world again. It didn't end very well last time. Our youngest, Ivy, has just read Heart of Darkness and she says that is what that Mr Cooper's article reminded her of.
I couldn't read it. Anytime I see postmodern I end up thinking about prepast. Why can't someone do something to help the Post Offices and the old folk who depend on them for their pensions?
Post by : Mrs Berries (webcachew02b.cache.pol.co.uk / )
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