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Offline Mince

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« Reply #15 on: August 20, 2015, 12:09:35 PM »
I love the number plate.

And don't get me started on my fights with the water and electric boards.

Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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« Reply #16 on: August 20, 2015, 01:52:50 PM »
I wasn't. I really, really wasn't!
I apologise, in advance.

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« Reply #17 on: August 20, 2015, 02:43:41 PM »
Oh God...

Redundant

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« Reply #18 on: August 20, 2015, 07:45:35 PM »
I like this thread. I'll get round to adding some words soon, but meantime, here's another cartoon...

Now you're just rubbing salt into my wounds, albeit brilliantly created salt, but salt nevertheless...

I used to have a Morris Marina, it was mauve colour, the key was missing so it didn't lock and there was a screwdriver permanently jammed in the ignition.   It also had a metal plate just lying on the floor of the drivers side, mainly because you got see a fair bit of the ground whizzing passed otherwise, damn thing went like a rocket though.   I eventually sold it for two packets of cigarettes, and I think I got the better of the bargain.

With more and more union members handing over their three quid and expressing their love and devotion to the Labour Party, this is starting to look like a done deal, let's see who shifts to the left first, all through reasoned argument and discussion of course rather than tawdry political manoeuvring, although technically that's already been done, with Andy Burnham hedging his bets by saying he would be willing to serve in a Corbyn led Shadow Cabinet, apparently the politically wilderness of left wing policies is better than the political wilderness of losing the leadership election. 

 
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Sandy Buttcheeks

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« Reply #19 on: August 20, 2015, 09:13:01 PM »
Bum

Sandy Buttcheeks

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« Reply #20 on: August 20, 2015, 09:13:11 PM »
Boobs

Sandy Buttcheeks

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« Reply #21 on: August 20, 2015, 09:14:12 PM »
Sorry.

I was trying to lower the hi-brow tone of the thread.

I apologise.

Sandy Buttcheeks

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« Reply #22 on: August 20, 2015, 09:14:48 PM »
Nipple.

Sorry, I'm struggling here.

Redundant

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« Reply #23 on: August 20, 2015, 11:55:39 PM »
Damn you Shirley with your superior knowledge of the really, really funny...  Or as Oscar Wilde might have said "That's smarts just a tad but carry on there's a good fellow..."

See?   That's all I've got, loads and loads of words, thousands of the buggers, but is it good enough?   Oh no, two brilliant cartoons, one bum and one [and a bit of] boob and suddenly the fat lady is singing and it's all over.   I don't know why I bother...

Mary had a little lamb...she kept in a bucket...Redundant had a lot to say...but in the end said "f....."   [Exit, stage left]


Sandy Buttcheeks

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« Reply #24 on: August 21, 2015, 04:09:31 PM »
Mary had a little lamb,
The doctor was surprised,
But when Old MacDonald had a farm,
The doctor nearly died.

I thank you...

Redundant

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« Reply #25 on: August 21, 2015, 07:36:26 PM »

I was trying to lower the hi-brow tone of the thread.


Well you very nearly succeeded, even to the point of hijacking poetry, but this is a serious post, and now it's about to turn cerebral...follow this link if you dare...

http://www.berfrois.com/poets-for-corbyn


Offline Tarquin Thunderthighs lll

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« Reply #26 on: August 22, 2015, 12:12:36 AM »
I dared.
Dear Lord!
Corbyn
Schmorbyn.
Does anyone seriously think that had there been any credible alternative among his fellow would-be leaders, Corbyn would have any more than a snowball in Hell's chance of winning this election, never mind a General one?
This... afterthought.
An agent for change. The only one.
Reversion to a simpler time, with nicer values
That didn't actually
Work
Even then, leave alone now.

He will win.
But...
He is Labour's Messiah
By default.
I apologise, in advance.

Redundant

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« Reply #27 on: August 22, 2015, 05:01:22 AM »
This... afterthought.
An agent for change. The only one.
Reversion to a simpler time, with nicer values
That didn't actually
Work
Even then, leave alone now.

He will win.
But...
He is Labour's Messiah
By default.

Well written, my only hope now is that you have terrible dress sense.

There's more than just nostalgia for the old ways, British political parties have never been warm to Israel, they were never truly forgiven for the  insurgency between 1944 and 1947, but a shadow cabinet under Corbyn is likely to be the most openly hostile.

The potential withdrawal from NATO is another example, and there's the National Education Service modelled on the NHS although you'd be forgiven for thinking that's just a new name for an old hat.

According to many critics Corbyn is so left-wing he would make the Labour Party unelectable, but as Roger pointed out rather well, didn't the 2015 General Election already establish that Labour's current policies did exactly the same thing, made them unelectable.

And, back to the original question, on the rationale behind changing your policies [and by association your beliefs and principles?] based on improving the likelihood of achieving political power rather than challenging debate. Are we now so miserably desperate for the middle ground that rather than finding it morally bereft, it is openly discussed, admitted and even boasted about?

Gradually the colours of our lives are fading to grey.