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Albertus
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
[QB] ...And frankly, having seen McVey's "contribution", I'm not convinced there is ever a place for someone with that kind of "experience". This is a woman who told a journalist that they were making too much about deaths and hardship resulting from benefit sanctions.
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Oh certainly. She's an appalling person.
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Tubbs
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Originally posted by Albertus:
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
[QB] ...And frankly, having seen McVey's "contribution", I'm not convinced there is ever a place for someone with that kind of "experience". This is a woman who told a journalist that they were making too much about deaths and hardship resulting from benefit sanctions.
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Oh certainly. She's an appalling person.
As she's one of the recently departed MP's that the Tories are considering making a "working peer", I believe my argument about allowing some kind of reasonable gap between leaving one House and entering another is well made. ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) It's a shame about some of the others, but it does kind of show where the Tories are at that she's described as a "talent we cannot afford to lose".
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Leorning Cniht
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Originally posted by Albertus:
but there's a place for a few people with experience who have been defeated at the polls.
MPs are voted out for two reasons. One is that the public sentiment has swung against their colour of politics, and it wouldn't seem unreasonable for them to make a fairly quick move to the Lords. The other is that they, personally, are evicted for some reason related to them as an individual rather than as a wearer of a particular coloured rosette, and following Exclamation Mark, it would be nice to never see those people again.
I think I agree with those who have been suggesting a period outside politics for those who are voted out (for whatever reason). Apart from anything else, it might give them some useful perspective.
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Penny S
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
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Originally posted by Albertus:
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Originally posted by Tubbs:
[QB] ...And frankly, having seen McVey's "contribution", I'm not convinced there is ever a place for someone with that kind of "experience". This is a woman who told a journalist that they were making too much about deaths and hardship resulting from benefit sanctions.
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Oh certainly. She's an appalling person.
As she's one of the recently departed MP's that the Tories are considering making a "working peer", I believe my argument about allowing some kind of reasonable gap between leaving one House and entering another is well made. It's a shame about some of the others, but it does kind of show where the Tories are at that she's described as a "talent we cannot afford to lose".
Tubbs
So why not employ her as a spad? If they are that desperate for her input.
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Alan Cresswell
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Maybe they could just go back to her constituency and get them to vote. "Do you want your former MP to be appointed to the Lords?" Oh, and probably set the level of support required by unions - 40% of the electorate voting in favour.
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Alan Cresswell
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So why not employ her as a spad?
It's totally non-PC, but calling her "special" seems right. Not to sure about the "adviser" bit though.
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orfeo
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I keep seeing the (slightly truncated) title of this thread on the Board's home page.
I keep reacting to it as a piece of false advertising for the thread.
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molopata
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OTOH putting some of these people in the Lords might be regarded as damage control. Much better than letting them prowl the streets of their former constituencies. Just a pity that having them in the Lords is almost as expensive as formally locking them away.
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Gamaliel
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Deano seems to have abandoned this thread and gone over to the Purgatory election debate.
Which is a relief.
The sound of him wanking has to be one of the most unpleasant sounds it is possible to encounter online.
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Albertus
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I do wish you hadn't said that. You have put an image in my head which I really don't want to be there.
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quetzalcoatl
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By gum, that is succint, elegant and disgusting. I suppose WUMs have to wank in public to attract attention. Probably best to avert one's eyes (and ears).
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deano
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But I'm thinking about you quetz... Yes... Yes... Oh yeee... Oh bugger!
Diane Abbott popped into my head on the vinegar strokes and knackered it.
Purgatory is okay but I just don't feel at home there, do you know what I mean? I find Hell to be "comfy". Like a well worn pair of slippers.
Anyway, I can't stay for long. A couple of us from the local Conservative Club have been lucky enough to get tickets to go and watch some poor people being evicted from sheltered housing.
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Firenze
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Originally posted by deano:
Anyway, I can't stay for long. A couple of us from the local Conservative Club have been lucky enough to get tickets to go and watch some poor people being evicted from sheltered housing.
Typical sorry effete rottenführers manqué - can't even do your own oppressing. You have to hire lackeys.
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Albertus
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Yeah. And I bet they're Romanian lackeys at that.
[ 15. May 2015, 17:12: Message edited by: Albertus ]
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Sioni Sais
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Yeah. And I bet they're Romanian lackeys at that.
I thought they were Charles and Camilla.
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Piglet
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Will someone please pass the brain-bleach? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Anselmina
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I notice Deano claims to be an Anglican.
Reminds me of a guy being interviewed on the TV.
'Are you a Christian, Sir?'
'Good God, no! I'm an Anglican!'
I have a feeling Deano's not really a Conservative either.
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Golden Key
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Anselmina--
Which puts me in mind of the entry for "Christian" in Ambrose Bierce's "Devil's Dictionary":
{In the PUBLIC DOMAIN.}
quote:
CHRISTIAN, n. One who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. One who follows the teachings of Christ in so far as they are not inconsistent with a life of sin.
I dreamed I stood upon a hill, and, lo!
The godly multitudes walked to and fro
Beneath, in Sabbath garments fitly clad,
With pious mien, appropriately sad,
While all the church bells made a solemn din —
A fire-alarm to those who lived in sin.
Then saw I gazing thoughtfully below,
With tranquil face, upon that holy show
A tall, spare figure in a robe of white,
Whose eyes diffused a melancholy light.
"God keep you, stranger," I exclaimed. "You are
No doubt (your habit shows it) from afar;
And yet I entertain the hope that you,
Like these good people, are a Christian too."
He raised his eyes and with a look so stern
It made me with a thousand blushes burn
Replied — his manner with disdain was spiced:
"What! I a Christian? No, indeed! I'm Christ."
—G.J.
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Doc Tor
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So having linked the page, you then tell us what's on the entirety of the page.
Thanks for that...
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Golden Key
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Actually, that's just one entry on a very long page--the full text of the book.
That particular site has links for each word entry. Otherwise, I would've used Project Gutenberg, which doesn't have word links.
Sorry if I misstepped.
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Pulsator Organorum Ineptus
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... or the apocryphal hospital admission form that, in the question about the patient's religion, carried the rider, "if C of E, please state whether you believe in God".
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