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Sysman replied

25 March 2009, 16:34
Originally posted by Ruprect View Post

Jacqui Smith on the news yesterday saying a dirty bomb attack was highly likely - the fearmongering makes me sick.

But at the same time, we have Britain to scrap its nuclear deterrent?

Ministers and the military Establishment are thinking the unthinkable - that Britain should scrap its nuclear deterrent
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the_duderama replied

25 March 2009, 13:08
This is doubleplusgood, where does a comrade assemble for the hour of hate against the terrorists?
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NickNick replied

25 March 2009, 13:06
Was it not this one then?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3607/...7458e1.jpg?v=0

Perhaps it was an Avon and Somerset version?
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FSM with Cheddar replied

25 March 2009, 13:03
Originally posted by NickNick View Post

If I might, you didn't see a govt advert, but one from the Met.

Well, in that case. Why are the met putting adverts up in Bristol?
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NotAllThere replied

25 March 2009, 13:02
Originally posted by Mr Crosby View Post

I hate the stroke advert.

I too. It's when they say the faster you act, the more of a person can be saved. So if you're slow, then they'll be less of person? Nazis.
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NickNick replied

25 March 2009, 11:35
Originally posted by FSM with Cheddar View Post

This morning I saw a new government advert to encourage us to spy on each other.

It said something along the lines of:

If I might, you didn't see a govt advert, but one from the Met.
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Menelaus replied

25 March 2009, 11:12
Originally posted by FSM with Cheddar View Post

Yeah, I am traditionally conservative, but was happy when Labour came into power. I never realised NuLabour would get it so wrong.

It manages to be both cliche and generalisation but, regrettably, familiarity does seem to breed contempt in regards to NuLab (as it has with previous Tory governments but far less so).
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FSM with Cheddar replied

25 March 2009, 10:28
Originally posted by Menelaus View Post

It almost makes me wistfully wonder what happened to the desires the country had that summers morning, May 1997 - it all looked SO good...

Yeah, I am traditionally conservative, but was happy when Labour came into power. I never realised NuLabour would get it so wrong.
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Menelaus replied

25 March 2009, 10:18
This current government are a bad joke who have become overripe.

It almost makes me wistfully wonder what happened to the desires the country had that summers morning, May 1997 - it all looked SO good...
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darmstadt replied

25 March 2009, 10:15
Well its quite obvious whats happening. In order to take everyone's minds off of the financial crisis they're intimating that there will be a new terror crisis so that when they do screw up the economy they can blame it on someone else interfering with their priorities.
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FSM with Cheddar replied

25 March 2009, 10:15
Originally posted by zeitghost

You'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes...

<fast speak>Reddy, aim, fire.</fast speak>
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Moscow Mule replied

25 March 2009, 10:04
I haven't read this yet, but I think I will spare the time today...

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/bruce.htm
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Gordon Brown replied

25 March 2009, 10:01
Keep calm. Carry on.
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Mr Crosby replied

25 March 2009, 09:58
I hate the stroke advert.
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Ruprect replied

25 March 2009, 09:42
Jacqui Smith on the news yesterday saying a dirty bomb attack was highly likely - the fearmongering makes me sick.
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