Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

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i hope some of you watched john simpson on the box at about 19:00 ..... here was someone intelligent and non-partisan who had something sensible to say

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separately .....
should a politician only reflect the majority view of those who bothered to vote?

is the average member of the public remotely capable of thinking beyond what's on television tonight and should he have a pizza or macdonalds for dinner (sorry - tea)?

The general public are mostly wrong about a whole range of issues and can be ignored for the most part. The alternative is that we would have capital punishment. In fact we would probably have public executions being shown on TV (after the watershed).

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In fact we would probably have public executions being shown on TV (after the watershed).

What a brilliant idea! Can I nominate Old Bollock Chops to be the first (before or after the watershed). I'm sure CC will second my proposal...

I will third your proposal after CC seconds it.

Cynic,

"here was someone intelligent and non-partisan who had something sensible to say"

Because you agree with him, or he agrees with you.

Hays,

Are you still a member of the public, or do you float above it.

Fred - LOL ! I'm a member of the public, so I'm obviously stupid.

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neither one nor the other actually fred as i am not entrenched in a view as to the "correct" course of action

mnamreh - 29 Aug 2013 20:22 - 28347 of 28347
dc

"Llock Cho"?

Second generation Welsh-Chinese?

Nah, just missing the 'bops'.

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cynic, so you don't have an opinion about a course of action, does that give you a right to disagree with anyone who has a definite view regarding a course of action? One of the great things about sitting on a fence and not having an opinion is that you can never be wrong.:-)

Syria crisis: Latest updates

Norman Smith Chief political correspondent, BBC News Channel tweets: Conservative Edward Leigh says he does not believe PM will ever hold crucial second vote on #Syria because he knows cannot win it: "We were lied to over Iraq... we will not go down that road again."

on balance, i think there needs to be some highly visible, short and sharp action though i am unsure as to its format .... i don't think it will dramatically alter anything per se but it should certainly be a strong warning shot

i think that is the right and arguably moral action for a responsible pm and country to promote both as an individual country and as a key member of UN etc.

i do NOT think that all the insular claptrap that has been coming across is any better than that - i.e. claptrap

There is another fruitcake on the loose, Kim Jong, who is having his subjects murdered on a daily basis. Are the USA and Britain going to step in and do something about that situation as well?

and mugabe too ..... however both mugabe and kim jong (i'll take your word as to his misdeeds) operate in isolation, whereas syria immediately affects the whole m/e region

Oil!

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