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richard
#1 Posted : 17 November 2012 01:12:20(UTC)
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Even the loss-making Guardian recognises that Mr Cameron's bum steer has been given the bum's rush. But at least the people of the entity called "Humberside" have been bright enough to reject Prescott and Godfrey Bloom. Even a Conservative is better than that pair.

Meanwhile, we're in Leamington Spa, a bloggers' convention apart from anything else, struggling with a surfeit of CH3CH2OH. We'll make more sense when it's all over.

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#2 Posted : 17 November 2012 01:40:31(UTC)
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Directly elected mayors didn't go down well either.

Do they ever ask what the public want or just remorselessly try one harebrained distraction after another? We're not buying what they are selling. We already elect them so why would we elect someone else to add to the layers?

The spin was quick to get going that low turnouts were because they hadn't spent enough money advertising it. I'm sure turnouts would have been better if we could have properly refused their advances with a 'no' vote.
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#3 Posted : 17 November 2012 01:54:14(UTC)
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Meanwhile, we're in Leamington Spa, a bloggers' convention apart from anything else, struggling with a surfeit of CH3CH2OH. We'll make more sense when it's all over.



Leamington Spa eh?

Only a few miles down the road from em.
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#4 Posted : 17 November 2012 02:26:20(UTC)
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Meanwhile, we're in Leamington Spa, a bloggers' convention apart from anything else, struggling with a surfeit of CH3CH2OH. We'll make more sense when it's all over.



Leamington Spa eh?

Only a few miles down the road from em.


Well then, if ya wants some fun, call the plods and report a raucous party overflowing with drunks. Over here in West Pondia, that always gets the coppers running. They enjoy using their nightsticks and Tasers on drunks every chance they get. Unless, of course, those drunks are Only Ones. Then all is quickly forgiven and forgotten. Perfessional courtesy, dontcha know?
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#5 Posted : 17 November 2012 02:45:47(UTC)
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Aisssh aye shnow zhh promblum. Unh huh?

Hey, mafukking glassish emty! Fuh-fuh-fillitup top istime barmanf....cheesingfuk ingbarshard....

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#6 Posted : 17 November 2012 03:24:28(UTC)
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Thinking of you all and your task at Leamington Spa; Best Wishes for a successful meeting.

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Meanwhile, Dr. N: Your "Foxtrot Oscar" posts always amuse me because of memories of BOAC's G-APFO. This time I checked it out on the net and was delighted to find some excellent pictures of the beauty, as here at G-APFO , and in the place we knew as "Honoruru" ... I'm sure I saw her years later in Florida and now find that she was eventually sold to Boeing and scrapped in Arizona, in 1988.

Sigh.

Nowadays they can't even produce a decent aircraft livery, let alone a police force that anyone can care about.

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#7 Posted : 17 November 2012 06:07:30(UTC)
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A collective noun for bloggers... a 'keyboard' perhaps?
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#8 Posted : 17 November 2012 07:33:01(UTC)
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Another hair-brained idea from this government that nobody seems interested in

http://www.telegraph.co....s-no-one-registers.html

As somebody commented - who wants to take out a loan for 25 years?

Further evidence that our elite truly are out of touch.

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#9 Posted : 17 November 2012 08:16:10(UTC)
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Prescott? Laugh I nearly sha7 - there must be a God after all.

Love ThumpUp LOL

Just given Hannan and Farage a piece of the action as I see it - good luck and try hard not to argue [too much] in Leamington.

Oh yeah and I nearly forgot - look out for the spooks - you'll be on the radar by now.

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#10 Posted : 17 November 2012 10:52:20(UTC)
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Foiling Brog? BigGrin
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#11 Posted : 17 November 2012 12:19:30(UTC)
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Foiling Brog? BigGrin
Dr North did the same trick with Witterings from Witney, but we failed to spot it.

Please hold: your call is important to us.
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#12 Posted : 17 November 2012 12:34:17(UTC)
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Foiling Brog? BigGrin
Dr North did the same trick with Witterings from Witney, but we failed to spot it.




BigGrin BigGrin BigGrin

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#13 Posted : 17 November 2012 12:50:49(UTC)
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Hope you all have a good and productive time in Leamington. I look forward to seeing the report.
On other matters, it seems that the People have not given their consent to the latest scam, the PCCs, it should therefore go away. From the bye-election results there was not a lot of consent there either, still I do not suppose anything will change. Hurry on the Harrogate Agenda.
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#14 Posted : 17 November 2012 13:02:32(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: theenglishpainter Go to Quoted Post
A collective noun for bloggers... a 'keyboard' perhaps?

Methinks that is probably NOT the term the Leamington Spa staff would use...
}:-]

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#15 Posted : 17 November 2012 13:51:23(UTC)
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Best wishes & a good start on the nuts & bolts to you all in Leamington.
I used to know the place well years ago...probably wouldn't recognise it now...Heyho.
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#16 Posted : 17 November 2012 21:24:07(UTC)
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But how to re-establish democratic control over that class, which rules our lives as surely as if we lived in a one-party state, is one of the greatest political challenges of our age.
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#17 Posted : 17 November 2012 21:58:04(UTC)
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'DiMocracy' a company limited by guarantee........wtf?
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#18 Posted : 17 November 2012 21:59:22(UTC)
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Sorry I could not attend due to ill health. I was so looking forward to meeting everyone.
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#19 Posted : 17 November 2012 22:05:12(UTC)
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'DiMocracy' a company limited by guarantee........wtf?


Yes I know. Sounds so horrible.

That's corporate law for you.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to mention things like tax codes. There are many things to examine which are beyond our direct control.

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#20 Posted : 17 November 2012 22:33:04(UTC)
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'A collective noun for bloggers... a 'keyboard' perhaps?'

An Independence of Bloggers? A Disaffection of Bloggers? An Impertinence of Bloggers? A Single-mindedness of Bloggers? A Bloody-mindedness of Bloggers? A Parliament of Bloggers? A Discontentment of Bloggers? A Loquacity of Bloggers? An Iconoclcast of Bloggers? A Quixote of Bloggers?
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