AlanHo Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 In an act so typical of this government - unselfish sacrifice in the best interests of the public - Peter Hain has just resigned from the cabinet in response to his case being placed in the hands of the police.They have chosen a time when the police are too busy marching to be able to do too much about it.Read this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Just came upstairs to start a thread myself. It's none to soon, several more should also go, and the sooner the better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted January 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 andsome is an old member of this forum who is gonna be very miffed with you for stealing his grotesque avatar and choosing a forum name that is a deliberate close match of his.He has a short fuse - so watch out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 andsome is an old member of this forum who is gonna be very miffed with you for stealing his grotesque avatar and choosing a forum name that is a deliberate close match of his.He has a short fuse - so watch out.He won't mind me borrowing his exceedingly good looking Avatar. He is not only very very good looking, but has an extremely generous nature as well. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 There must have been some very careful planning gone on before this happened, to try to prevent this resulting in a collapse of the "house of cards".Who will be next??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted January 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 His successor Purnell is an interesting choice. Photoshop-Purnell.This is the man who lied about a photo he had taken at Tameside General Hospital. The picture was edited so that Mr Purnell appeared in the picture beside his colleagues and other top wigs, even though Mr Purnell wasn’t there when the picture was taken. Its all a crock of sh............. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Poor old Roy Rogers.He must be getting to the bottom of the barrel now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted January 24, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 What a difference a day makes!!Quote Mr. Peter Hain 23/01/2008: (referring to measures to cut benefit fraud)"The new measures I am announcing today will ensure that even the most determined fraudsters will find the net closing in on them".Hoist on his own petard I think and not before time.What is it about the 24th of January and resignations? Peter Hain rersigned today, Peter Mandelson fell on his sword on this day in 2001 and Leon Brittan on the 24th January 1986. The 24th January was also the day that Winston Churchill died.Not a lucky day for politicians. We should declare it a national holiday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 I'm currently watching Question Time and loved this quote from one of the panel a few minutes ago:"I think that the Police force deserve a pay rise for all the extra work involved with investigating the Government" :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Perhaps we should arrange to have a year of 24th s of January. That would at least clear out half of the bu**ers . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Just came upstairs to start a thread myself. It's none to soon, several more should also go, and the sooner the better.Agreed.Off the top of my head Harriet Harmon and Wendy Alexander Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 I was just about to mention Wendy Alexander Curly, her being one of our MSP's. The Police are now investigating her for taking backhanders donations from a Jersey business man. I don't know why as there is no campaigning going on at the moment. I think this must have happened during the campaign at the last elections. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted January 24, 2008 Report Share Posted January 24, 2008 Well to be honest the main reason why I'm so disgusted with all the cash scandals and corruption is because when Blair won the election back in 1997, he said that his Government would be 'whiter than white'.As it turns out they are more corrupt than the Tories ever were Peter Mandelson was caught out twice a while ago now - I haven't forgotten and this is on top of all the recent scandals! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gandalph Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Well to be honest the main reason why I'm so disgusted with all the cash scandals and corruption is because when Blair won the election back in 1997, he said that his Government would be 'whiter than white'.As it turns out they are more corrupt than the Tories ever were Peter Mandelson was caught out twice a while ago now - I haven't forgotten and this is on top of all the recent scandals!The whole lot of them are bent. It's an old boys club of back scratchers if ever there was one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belatucadrus Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 When the only defence you can offer is I'm not a crook, just mind bendingly inept maybe getting your coat and heading for the door isn't such a bad idea. Pity it took him so long to get it through his skull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 When the only defence you can offer is I'm not a crook, just mind bendingly inept maybe getting your coat and heading for the door isn't such a bad idea. Pity it took him so long to get it through his skull.Also Gordon Brown should have been more decisive and sacked him instead of burying his head in the sand.Brown doesn't seem to be able make decisions and is very indecisive which is no good as a Prime Minister should be in control.I am by no means a Blair fan but he cannot be accused of not being able to make decisions.He proved this whilst he was PM although some of them were definently bad decisions like deciding to take us into war with Iraq Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 There must have been some very careful planning gone on before this happened, to try to prevent this resulting in a collapse of the "house of cards".Who will be next???We could always hope that it will be the whole damned bunch of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 There must have been some very careful planning gone on before this happened, to try to prevent this resulting in a collapse of the "house of cards".Who will be next???We could always hope that it will be the whole damned bunch of them.If this happened who would run the country? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 The whole lot of them are bent. It's an old boys club of back scratchers if ever there was one.Which particular way did you have in mind, and is it only the backs?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 I am by no means a Blair fan but he cannot be accused of not being able to make decisions.Implementing the decisions made by others, perhaps? He knew he had to jump when told to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Implementing the decisions made by others, perhaps? He knew he had to jump when told to.Well in the case of the Iraq war, it was his stubborness and inability to listen to others that made him go through with it, no one told him to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted January 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Implementing the decisions made by others, perhaps? He knew he had to jump when told to.Well in the case of the Iraq war, it was his stubborness and inability to listen to others that made him go through with it, no one told him to do it.Oh but they did - George Bush for one..... B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurlyWhirly Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Oh but they did - George Bush for one..... B)He was just Bush's poodle though :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andsome Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 Oh but they did - George Bush for one..... B)He was just Bush's poodle though :D TRUE, and he did as he was told. :lol: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted January 25, 2008 Report Share Posted January 25, 2008 And now he is getting his "Bonio" or what ever those people call it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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