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grytpype Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:48 PM
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Guardian: We Brits are so wacky (MUST READ!)
Snarrrr-ky!

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Take the transformation of cautious, informed reports from various spies and inspectors into what we in Scotland call utter shite, as spouted and still spouting from various government representatives. Rather than be tedious and declare those involved irretrievably corrupt before sacking them, we prefer weeks of music-hall banter about sod all.

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much more!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1017367,00.html
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AnnabelLee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 10:59 PM
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1. This is a keeper
So much good stuff in here, I can't pick just one biting, caustic quote. It is, indeed, a must-read.:thumbsup:
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NickDanger Donating Member (284 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:42 PM
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2. yep
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peacetalksforall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 11:48 PM
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3. Opera? I hear an opera here...
This is perfect for an opera-stage-film. tragically so.

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DagmarK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 12:04 AM
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4. I demand a debate between Morford and this brit, Kennedy......
Edited on Wed Aug-13-03 12:06 AM by DagmarK
Or SOMETHING.......

This is rich!!!!!!!!

We're also acknowledged to be only slightly less terrifying than the Americans, but there's a lingering suspicion that, safe in Barbados, Tony Blair will dress up as a woman and hit himself with fish while, at home, Gordon Brown dances in stockings and leather suspenders.

I'm beginning to see Europe's point. For example, I left Britain expecting I'd return to find those lovable rogues Tony and Alastair had been hung upside down from lamp-posts and nibbled by dogs. Only a population with an immeasurably advanced sense of humour would continue to allow them free run of their national budget when 99 out of 99 toddlers wouldn't trust them with a bag of crisps and they're both blatantly pawning our future while converting us to a murder-based economy.

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Mokito Donating Member (710 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 02:37 AM
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5. Indeed a keeper
Satire...I love it!
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T_i_B Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 06:05 AM
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6. First paragraph hits home
I'm just back from a spot of work abroad - sorry, the Source of all UK Crime, Bad Driving and Childcare - and after days of European public speaking, cream-based sauces and nude swimming my fettle is fine. Not least because - although my nation's leaders consistently behave like a troop of sub-standard baboons - in foreign parts, there still lingers a fondness for our wacky little island full of lies.

Dunno about how everyone else sees us with our war criminal government but British tories genuinly do see "abroad" in those sort of terms. :eyes: Living down where I do in Toryland, Essex it annoys me how you get a lot of people who whine about immigration constantly yet would not be able to recognize an illegal immigrant if it bit them on the arse.

Here is a spoof of a well known right wing UK rag which is remarkably close to the way UK conservatives see the world.

http://www.dailynail.co.uk/
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shirlden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-13-03 08:26 PM
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7. Murder Based Economy
Wow....that explains the Shrubs economic policy. What a super campaign byte that would make.

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