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.

Just be greatfull I have taken you off of squelch.

skinny - definitely the one on the left!

why should i be grateful?
i confess i have never ever used it even for the likes of the despicable MRSI, as i feel it to be like succumbing to bullying


by the way, you can't get "off of" any more than you "must of" :-)

Think youve confused my post cynic. Im agreeing with you, you plank.

you quoited the wrong post number then :-)

Ooooooooops.

skinny - I think we are wasted here !!!!!!!! :-) Never mind.

Right off to watch The Chaser. Only that Doc Holiday and the 2 soaps the new definition of sit coms that are worth watching on ITV.

DB - Have you ever seen the Star Trek episode where one member of crew is moving at thousands of times quicker than the rest of the crew and is thus invisible to them?

I feel like that on this thread - I post all sorts of arbitrary stuff and no one sees it. :-)

Don't lose heart skinny, I see it and believe me it brightens up my day!

the trouble is that this thread gets swamped with damn stupid and repetitive wannabe political tripe, so anything sensible gets lost in the traffic within 15 minutes - e.g. my post 29888 and 29901

DB - On the contrary - I find it amusing.

Skinny,

In your cartoon Wavey Dave is clutching his balls.

I never thought he had any.

Always saw him as a Flasher.


Sorry. I meant Flashman.

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Cynic.

Do you mean by reference to Utopia that Martin Luther King never move towards it.

That in the fifties you could have foreseen Obama being present President or ethnic Americans being in government.

A NHS in the 30. etc.

Some change is slow but inevitable.

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Strange name Cynic.

Brings back memories of my favourite Wils character, Jaques,

Got me through O level English Lit.

Bloody character influenced me for years.

N,

I think wishing to denude a woman of Burka shows lecherous tendencies.

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Will somebody explain to me the difference between "ancies" and "encies"?

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Over to you skinny!

Is this the most disingenuous statement in political history? Balls sparks disbelief with claims he had 'no idea' about Damian McBride's tactics
Claims he was unaware McBride was briefing against Labour colleagues
Mr Balls worked for years with Mr McBride on Gordon Brown's campaign

McBride even gives one whole chapter of his book to Mr Balls

By Political Editor

PUBLISHED: 00:06, 24 September 2013 | UPDATED: 08:29, 24 September 2013

Ed Balls sparked disbelief yesterday by claiming he had no idea Damian McBride was briefing against Labour colleagues


Ed Balls sparked disbelief yesterday by claiming he had no idea Damian McBride was briefing against Labour colleagues.

The Shadow Chancellor insisted the former spin doctor was a ‘law unto himself’, saying he was horrified to learn what he was up to.

Mr Balls worked side by side for years with Mr McBride helping plot Gordon Brown’s eventual path to Downing Street and his takeover from Tony Blair in 2007.

In his book, Power Trip, the former spin doctor describes regular evenings out with Mr Balls and Mr Miliband.


He, the Shadow Chancellor and Mr Brown shared a deep love of football and late night brainstorming sessions over pizza.


Mr McBride even gives one whole chapter of his book to Mr Balls.

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said a ‘collective eyebrow’ had been raised across Westminster when Mr Balls professed no knowledge of Mr McBride’s tactics.

Even some of Mr Balls’s Shadow Cabinet colleagues were surprised at the vehemence of his denials.

And Labour leader Ed Miliband has said he complained about Mr McBride’s behaviour to Mr Brown.

But Mr Balls said: ‘Nobody ever came to me and complained about Damian McBride.

I didn’t pass on those complaints to Gordon Brown. I didn’t complain about Damian McBride, because I don’t think until we saw the revelations in this book, we didn’t know what was going on.

‘I didn’t know that Damian McBride was doing personal briefings against ministers.’

Mr Balls said the first time he found out was when a ‘hideous’ email written by Mr McBride proposing to disseminate unfounded smears about the private lives of senior Conservatives was leaked in 2009.
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‘I said to Damian “What have you done? How could it come to this?” I think it’s no way to do politics. I think Ed Miliband and I have moved politics and the Labour party a long way from those bad, bad times,’ he said.


‘It’s in the past. It’s irrelevant. It’s depressing. I’m happy to say that what I’ve seen in this book is shocking and despicable. It’s no way to do politics.’



Lola, aged two, looks on Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls pulls a face as he plays at the sandpit at the Roundabout Children's Centre in Brighton
Lola, aged two, looks on Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls pulls a face as he plays at the sandpit at the Roundabout Children's Centre in Brighton


Mr Balls later denied taking part in any negative briefing against colleagues.

‘That’s not something I’ve ever done,’ he said.


‘Damian McBride has come out and said he did some of those things. It was despicable. It was the wrong thing to do. Politics is tough.


There have been times in the past where I’ve had strong arguments with Tony Blair on the euro, with Gordon Brown on different issues. But I’ve always done that in public and in an open way.

‘This kind of negative, nasty briefing is wrong, but also it’s a thing of the past.


The Blair-Brown era is gone. There’s been none of it for the last three or four years. We’re in a better place now.’

When former No 10 spin doctor Alastair Campbell was asked by Channel 4 News if he shared the scepticism about the denial by Mr Balls, he replied: ‘You might say that, I couldn’t possibly comment.’

Mr Balls yesterday visited a children’s centre in Brighton on the second day of Labour’s conference in the town.

What is the fear index at the moment.

Nightmares are being seen.

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I know one thing Fred, Ed balls is going to be signing on soon. A Unemployed liar.