Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
 

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toront...sement866.html

Just what you need when your campaign is stuttering a bit: a large, stupid, f**k adding some extra 'weight' to your cause.

Excellent news! That one caught everyone by surprise. "Let's stop the gravy train" was even said by the man Ford for 50th time this year (presumably so he can jump on it and eat all the gravy).

Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
 

Harper looks like a nonce. That is all.

Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
 

:zzz:

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It tickled Zoe when I pointed this out before, but apart from the Harper nonceiness issue, Ford is the spitting image of Baron Harkennon (sp?) in Dune.

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I've not seen Dune. Well, I saw the fist bit of it once, but I fell asleep for the rest.

We aren't the only ones who think harper looks like somebodies kiddie diddling uncle though. I pointed this out at the office the other day to much "hmm, now you mention it"-ness.

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A succinct and accurate analysis. :thumbup:

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Just what is it about the conservative government that drives many B.E. posters to express, often in crude terms, their visceral hatred of Stephen Harper and his party?

Why would British immigrants want to replicate in this country the devastating consequences of out-of-control public spending that has fetched much of the E.U., including Britain, to its knees?

Any student of history or political economy will see that the loss of vigor in the West manifests itself in a culture of grievance, entitlement, and victimization so ably promoted by politicians who are not interested in the production of wealth, but their own failed ideologies.

Or am I simply mistaken, that rudeness, and sour comments such as Stephen Harper is a nonce-sic- are an attempt at wit?

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To the extent that the EU, including Britain, is on its knees, that is a consequence of deregulated banking and unbridled greed in the financial sector followed by crippling "too-big-to fail" bailouts using taxpayers money.

That Canada didn't kneel down alongside was due to Liberal and Progressive Conservative maintenance of relatively strict regulation, something that Harper is on record as opposing and something he would almost certainly have abolished if he had had a majority to force it through.

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As for the election - I don't really care.

Though having a PM who looks like a nonce is somewhat embarrassing for a country. I'm surprised that anyone would have an issue with this rather obvious fact.

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Read Andrew Coyne's (journo with a right wing bent) piece in Macleans on why he is voting liberal. The contempt for parliamentary democracy and you, the little people, shown by the Harper led Conservatives is reason enough for the hatred, or strong opinions shown. And I speak as a life long (aside from one flirtation with Nulabour) Conservative. If I could vote (not yet a citizen), I wouldn't vote for the Harper Conservatives. And thats a shame because the guy who is running in my NDP held consitutency is actually a pretty decent chap.

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It's the lips, sloppy lips, the simpering smile.

Jack Layton reminds me of the spiv in Dad's Army

Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
 

I don't think anyone said he's a nonce. He looks like a nonce because of the Mormon hair but looking the part and being it are not the same. He is a religionist of course but, as far as I know, he's neither a priest nor a choirmaster. He's probably not a nonce.

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And what or whom do we blame for the crushing debt incurred by the U.K., most of Europe, and Canada, prior to the deregulation of banking? Read up on Harold Wilson and Sunny Jim's musings on the financial crises in the U.K., in the '60s and 70s, equally applicable to the situation prevailing in Canada since '68 and our own relentlessly increasing national debt.

Mr. Micawber had the common sense answer:

Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pound ought and six, result misery.

Re: Ford in "backing Harper" shocker
 

Fiat.

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Fiat as in executive order or decree, or FIAT as in Fabbrica Italiana Automobili Torino?

Either would be a reasonable answer, I suppose...