Foot in Mouth
Oh dear... one comment received on the last post. "That was crap". Well, at least it was concise - unlike the post... advice from Chris B: keep it snappy and use links more. He's usually right (apart from his forecast of the last US election), so, from now on: no more than 2 paragraphs per post, and a guaranteed weblink in every cereal packet. Well, maybe 3 paragraphs...
There was a nice story in one of the papers today: Howard had Blair on the run in yesterday's final Prime Minister's Question Time before the dissolution of Parliament. (In that link, check the wacko from South Carolina:
"Having lived in the UK for five years, I'm so happy to see the UK politics put
into high gear."
Yeah! Give this man a [postal] vote pronto.)
But Howard said something like, "why should we believe anything you say?" which was apparently the last PM's Question asked of Thatcher by Michael Foot before they stretchered him out to the stump for a pulverising in '83... that was a Frank Spencer campaign from Labour. All the TV footage from the time shows poor Michael falling over in the rush of wind when Tony Benn lit his pipe, or the trestle table borrowed from Wigan Working Men's Club collapsing at morning press conferences. It's a pity 'cos Foot would have made a damn good PM twenty years or so before that... maybe they could even give him a shot now. Anybody can do the job now, with a Blackberry wireless handheld and an election leaflet saying "Hey Chav"... (the British version of the late Hunter S Thompson's "Hey Rube". Of which more another day. )
Chris - was that a bit more refined? (I feel like Charlie Watts when his hair receded and they gave him a skinhead haircut in '74)
There was a nice story in one of the papers today: Howard had Blair on the run in yesterday's final Prime Minister's Question Time before the dissolution of Parliament. (In that link, check the wacko from South Carolina:
"Having lived in the UK for five years, I'm so happy to see the UK politics put
into high gear."
Yeah! Give this man a [postal] vote pronto.)
But Howard said something like, "why should we believe anything you say?" which was apparently the last PM's Question asked of Thatcher by Michael Foot before they stretchered him out to the stump for a pulverising in '83... that was a Frank Spencer campaign from Labour. All the TV footage from the time shows poor Michael falling over in the rush of wind when Tony Benn lit his pipe, or the trestle table borrowed from Wigan Working Men's Club collapsing at morning press conferences. It's a pity 'cos Foot would have made a damn good PM twenty years or so before that... maybe they could even give him a shot now. Anybody can do the job now, with a Blackberry wireless handheld and an election leaflet saying "Hey Chav"... (the British version of the late Hunter S Thompson's "Hey Rube". Of which more another day. )
Chris - was that a bit more refined? (I feel like Charlie Watts when his hair receded and they gave him a skinhead haircut in '74)
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