Reply to: They wish they'd picked their own cotton now

[HairyArsedBloke]

Major was not much better than atw would have been. He assumed that Europe would play fair - instead he found that East of Dover civilization ends.

Why did Lucky Lawson give up anyway? That was a shame.....

East of Dover - It's a bit dodgy south of the Thames!

Lawson - he gave it up to take a staring role in Xena: Warrior Princess.

[BrilloPad]

It was Major's condition for taking the job of Chancellor of the Exchequer that Sterling join the ERM.

Major was not much better than atw would have been. He assumed that Europe would play fair - instead he found that East of Dover civilization ends.

Why did Lucky Lawson give up anyway? That was a shame.....

[TheBigYinJames]

well, I will concede that our tulipe ones are ten times better than your good ones

I take no responsibility for them.

[HairyArsedBloke]

That was one of my few reasoned comments!

Most of the things I hate about Labour were started by the tories - abolish ACT, fuel escalator - and bought in by that idiot Major. I might add it was Major who took us into the ERM against Maggie's wishes - why she did not sack him I don't know. Only think she did wrong.

We need a return to simplified tax system and balancing the budget.

We also need a true thatcher successor or a non mad maggie. Mind you even while senile I bet she would do better than Brown.

It was Major's condition for taking the job of Chancellor of the Exchequer that Sterling join the ERM.

[BrilloPad]

And there's ends Brillo's input to reasoned debate.

That was one of my few reasoned comments!

Most of the things I hate about Labour were started by the tories - abolish ACT, fuel escalator - and bought in by that idiot Major. I might add it was Major who took us into the ERM against Maggie's wishes - why she did not sack him I don't know. Only think she did wrong.

We need a return to simplified tax system and balancing the budget.

We also need a true thatcher successor or a non mad maggie. Mind you even while senile I bet she would do better than Brown.

[EternalOptimist]

Churchill and Thatcher were the worst prime minsters we ever had, both of them retured off by their own parties as liabilities outside of wartime.

Even saying that, they were both better than B&B.

well, I will concede that our sh1te ones are ten times better than your good ones

[HairyArsedBloke]

I don't think you can blame GB's incompetence on his Scottishness. He would have been just as crap if he came from England.

Maybe, I’m a proud Londoner so it would go against my very being to believe that it has nothing to do with it.

I suppose that I could have said “But we have a autistic sociopath for a PM which shows how inclusive we are of those with mental health ‘challenges’“

[TheBigYinJames]

Which part? He just won the election with an overwhelming majority

The ones with all the guns and bunkers.

[TheBigYinJames]

e.g. Churchill and Thatcher vs. Bliar and Brown

Churchill and Thatcher were the worst prime minsters we ever had, both of them retured off by their own parties as liabilities outside of wartime.

Even saying that, they were both better than B&B.

[TheBigYinJames]

But at least we have had a female PM. The best PM ever in fact.

And there's ends Brillo's input to reasoned debate.

[EternalOptimist]

I don't think you can blame GB's incompetence on his Scottishness. He would have been just as crap if he came from England.

oh come on. Crappiness of British PM's is directly proportional to their jock-ness.

e.g. Churchill and Thatcher vs. Bliar and Brown



I rest my case

[Spacecadet]

Well it's probably unhelpful to further aggravate the nervousness that Republican America will be feeling today. The country has taken a risk, massive for them, and it's going to be hard for Obama to gain acceptance with a large part of his citizens, so no need for us to make his job harder by stirring things with joke talk about cotton etc.

Which part? He just won the election with an overwhelming majority

Dubya never had is this easy, the sizable chunk of the country that didn't vote for him, pegged him as an idiot and war monger. As did most of the rest of the freeworld

[TheBigYinJames]

We've got a Scottish one that not even his own party voted for.

I don't think you can blame GB's incompetence on his Scottishness. He would have been just as crap if he came from England.

[HairyArsedBloke]

4. When we've voted in a black or Asian PM, then we can throw stones

We've got a Scottish one that not even his own party voted for.

[BrilloPad]

Well it's probably unhelpful to further aggravate the nervousness that Republican America will be feeling today. The country has taken a risk, massive for them, and it's going to be hard for Obama to gain acceptance with a large part of his citizens, so no need for us to make his job harder by stirring things with joke talk about cotton etc.

But a few things to bear in mind:

1. I doubt either Obama or Republican America read CUK.
2. Although possibly imflammatory, the topic is not actually racist
3. We've had too much bad temper recently, people need to lighten up
4. When we've voted in a black or Asian PM, then we can throw stones
5. AndyW

But at least we have had a female PM. The best PM ever in fact.

At the moment the standards of moderation seem to be slipping quite a bit. I think I might well up the extremity of my posts. And if people want to lighten up they should go to light relief.