tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post7533170373445591152..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: THE THINGS THEY SAY.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-28342195205098443802012-01-21T14:36:28.449+00:002012-01-21T14:36:28.449+00:00Have you noticed that every "Big Brave Promis...Have you noticed that every "Big Brave Promise" for significant improvement to the lot of the people is eventually watered down to something fairly irrelevant?<br />Have you ever noticed that every notion for the improvement of the lot of the Financial World (and thus the lot of our masters) is forced through without much trouble.<br />Money talks.No matter what colour rosette you wear.Angusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-83660959475183949482012-01-21T09:15:20.210+00:002012-01-21T09:15:20.210+00:00Aye, HS2 - what's all that about?
Knock 20 mi...Aye, HS2 - what's all that about?<br /><br />Knock 20 minutes or whatever off the cost of a trip to Birmingham. I grew up in Birmingham. It used to be the workshop of the British empire. Now it has daily flights to Pakistan and Dubai but not to the USA. And it produces fuck all. <br /><br />Am I supposed to believe that the few remaining businessmen in Birmingham are somehow massively inconvenienced by an additional 20 minutes on the train to some monthly sales meeting or exhibition at Earl's Court?jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-12187534769694372732012-01-20T23:58:09.943+00:002012-01-20T23:58:09.943+00:00.....but for Scotland, for Scotland. It's a bu........but for Scotland, for Scotland. It's a bullshit can of worms that serves no purpose except to cover up mother fuckers. 10 years of shite for a pining parrot? Groovy. In other news....Dick the Pricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-11288771921296303022012-01-20T22:49:06.281+00:002012-01-20T22:49:06.281+00:00Oh, I dunno. Faced with the most uselesss Labour p...Oh, I dunno. Faced with the most uselesss Labour party, so bad that even David Ostler is writing despairing blogs about the state of it <br /><br />http://www.davidosler.com/<br /><br />his ministers take out their revolvers and carefully shoot their own toes off. <br /><br />Is HS2 a good idea? Not really, there are better ideas, but worst of all is that it makes enemies of his own core on the assumption that they cannot or will not vote for someone else. <br /><br />It is political ineptitude, and it is repeated serially until he chips away at what was never a majority. There is a very good chance that the next government will be a Labour one, but it won't win the election so much as inherit it from a Norwegian Blue.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-45206794103010538412012-01-18T19:33:41.776+00:002012-01-18T19:33:41.776+00:00No sound save for the gentle tap of wind blown wis...No sound save for the gentle tap of wind blown wisteria on the window pane as Cameron lies abed, unable to sleep of a night for fear he`s not up to the job.<br /><br />" Eurozone crisis; dunno what to do about that....millions without a job: good thing the trust fund`s shielded me from having to get one of those....will Leveson tumble that I doffed my topper to Rupe....will Coulson squeal in the dock...Christ, if there was a proper Leader of the Opposition I`d be fucked... "<br /><br />Then he remembers who is the Leader of the Opposition. He breathes a sigh of relief...a smile spreads over his broad, shiny phizzog.... he chuckles....he chortles...he laughs. Samantha stirs beside him " David...you`ll wake the children ". But, heedless, his laughs develop into guffaws " And I`ve even got the fucking dogshooters by the balls " he bellows. By now the servants are stirring in their distant wing but he eventually settles down, drifting off happily, his worries vanished like phantoms with the dawn....yardarmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08700165830593026578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-54852132690856765322012-01-17T18:01:35.608+00:002012-01-17T18:01:35.608+00:00Where have all the nice people gone????Where have all the nice people gone????Reginaldnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59642727845226125042012-01-11T04:01:02.456+00:002012-01-11T04:01:02.456+00:00Paper ships and painted faces, mr ishmael.Paper ships and painted faces, mr ishmael.mongoosehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14173341928744479143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-48590564273977315312012-01-07T18:31:08.067+00:002012-01-07T18:31:08.067+00:00I have a very clear plan and I have set out very c...<i>I have a very clear plan and I have set out very clear themes. </i><br /><br />Apart from any grammatical issues you may have with Miliband what is even more important is that the fucker is lying. He has no plan. Clear or otherwise. And no themes. Clear or otherwise. He still has only a blank sheet of paper and meaningless, anodyne soundbites.<br /><br />Which, of course, is what worked for Blair (and Obama) and, to a lesser extent, for Cameron and Clegg. Actually for Clegg they worked pretty good too. Five years of pay'n'perks as a minister is equal to at least ten as a back-bencher.<br /><br />Empty Ned is just hoping the voters will forget how utterly hopeless and incompetent Labour were last time they fucked the UK economy and take his 'rightful' turn at fucking it up further in 2015.jgm2noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-27484134886223100752012-01-07T16:40:55.740+00:002012-01-07T16:40:55.740+00:00I think your analysis of the "leaders of the ...I think your analysis of the "leaders of the opposition" is very accurate and succinct, but you do the "leaders of the government" a very great favour by not also describing them in the very same terms, because they are both the opposite sides of the same, very badly bent, forged, coin.Trevornoreply@blogger.com