Brit PM drops 'War on Terror' BS term

:popcorn:

(As an aside, I really like Gordon Brown's voice.)

:silly:

Damn you now I have an earworm.

MRS. BROWN YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER


(Trevor Peacock)

Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough it ain't no good to pine

She wants to return those things I bought her
Tell her she can keep them just the same
Things have changed, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough it ain't no good to pine

Walkin' about, even in a crowd, well
You'll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud

If she finds that I've been round to see you (round to see you)
Tell her that I'm well and feelin' fine (feelin' fine)
Don't let on, don't say she's broke my heart
I'd go down on my knees but it's no good to pine

Walkin' about, even in a crowd, well
You'll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud

If she finds that I've been round to see you (round to see you)
Tell her that I'm well and feelin' fine (feelin' fine)
Don't let on, don't say she's broke my heart
I'd go down on my knees but it's no good to pine

Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)
Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)
Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)
Mrs. Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)

:rofl:

Here's 'nother ..I'm Henery the Eighth, I am!
Henery the Eighth I am! I am!
I got married to the widow next door,
She's been married seven times before.
Every one was an Henery
She wouldn't have a Willie or a Sam
NO SAM!
I'm her eighth old man named Henery
Henery the Eighth I am.
:evilgrin:

(Send an earworm to KILL an earworm.)

MINISTER BROWN YOU'VE GOT A LOVELY DAUGHTER

(Trevor Peacock)

Minister. Brown you've got a lovely daughter
Girls as sharp as her are somethin' rare
But it's sad, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough it ain't no good to pine

She wants to return those things I bought her
Tell her she can keep them just the same
Things have changed, she doesn't love me now
She's made it clear enough it ain't no good to pine

Walkin' about, even in a crowd, well
You'll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud

If she finds that I've been round to see you (round to see you)
Tell her that I'm well and feelin' fine (feelin' fine)
Don't let on, don't say she's broke my heart
I'd go down on my knees but it's no good to pine

Walkin' about, even in a crowd, well
You'll pick her out, makes a bloke feel so proud

If she finds that I've been round to see you (round to see you)
Tell her that I'm well and feelin' fine (feelin' fine)
Don't let on, don't say she's broke my heart
I'd go down on my knees but it's no good to pine

Minister Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)
Minister Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)
Minister Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)
Minister Brown you've got a lovely daughter (lovely daughter)

Here's to PM Brown! :toast:

Maybe there is a sanity clause.

Now we have to change to Freedom Muffins and Old Freedom Sheepdogs.

:rofl:

And Freedom and Chips. And Freedom Fluid as the new term for rain (as that's what Britain seems to be most noted for right now!)

The color coded Terror alert will come back again late this fall or early winter.

Or maybe it's appeal ran out.

I knew the Brits wouldn't keep following our insanity forever.

As for us, it's only a matter of time before one of our usual suspects comes into this thread and accuses him of having his "head in the sand about the threat of Islamofascism" or somesuch...

but they like reminding people about it:



On edit: seems Brown was one of the last British ministers to use it:

"Though neither Blair nor Margaret Beckett, the Foreign Secretary, has used the term 'war on terror' in a formal speech since June, President Bush continues to employ the term liberally.
...
Not all British government figures are abiding by the advice, issued by the Foreign Office's Engaging with the Islamic World Unit. Writing in the Sun recently, Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, referred to 'our police and armed forces in the front line of the war on terror'."

take on the war on terror? Criminal acts?

Unfortunately, this doesn't mean the right-wing press will stop using the term.

shortly after 9/11. The attacks were a criminal act. If they had been pursued as such can you imagine what would have happened when the incestuous relationship of Bush to the Saudis and Bin Laden was exposed...... :nuke: :nuke:

Brown is a breath of fresh air. He has also decided to turn the war powers act previously granted to his office over to the Commons. He is pissing Bush off big time.

As though you can fight anger by making people angrier anyway.