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Author Topic:   The UK Election!!!!
vimesey
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Message 403 of 427 (728058)
05-23-2014 5:48 AM
Reply to: Message 402 by Larni
05-23-2014 4:51 AM


Re: Coalition Conundrum
We have to be really careful how to play things at the moment mate - if Cameron gets too bloody a nose, he might get ousted, leaving the door open for Boris Johnson to become leader (or, dear lord, PM) :-/
(For non-UK readers who don't know him, Boris Johnson is currently the conservative Mayor of London, is comically upper class (calls table tennis Wiff Waff etc) and stands an outside chance of leading our country. The best description I've heard of him is "the thinking man's idiot").

Could there be any greater conceit, than for someone to believe that the universe has to be simple enough for them to be able to understand it ?

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vimesey
Member (Idle past 94 days)
Posts: 1398
From: Birmingham, England
Joined: 09-21-2011


Message 416 of 427 (747411)
01-15-2015 9:13 AM
Reply to: Message 415 by Straggler
01-15-2015 8:50 AM


Re: Debates
I'm not a fan of the debates. They're more about banal entertainment, than a worthwhile contribution to democracy.
Very amusing, though, to hear Mili and Clegg talking about peoples' democratic right to hear the debates. There is clearly no such constitutional right. We've had them once, at the choice of the parties - there's no written or common law right to them.
All that said, if they'd agree to Al Murray joining in, I'd be glued to it !

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