Originally Posted by kiddy2ns (Post 7406808)

As this discussion is about the great politicians of the UK I thought I may share this e-mail
I do not know how true this is but it is certainly food for thought.

Can you imagine working for a company that has a little more than
600 employees and has the following employee statistics.
29 have been accused of spouse abuse.
7 have been arrested for fraud.
9 have been accused of writing bad cheques
17 have directly or indirectly bankrupted at least 2 businesses,
3 have done time for assault
71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit.
14 have been arrested on drug-related charges.
8 have been arrested for shoplifting.
21 are currently defendants in lawsuits
84 have been arrested for drink driving in the last year.
Which organisation is this ?


It's the 635 members of the House of Commons, the
same group that cranks out hundreds of new laws each year designed to keep
the rest of
us inline.
What a bunch of $£*&^!”$£?@ we have running our country -
it says it all. And just to top all that they probably have the best
corporate' pension scheme in the country!! (UK)

Remember what an old wise man once said ….
You can tell when a political is lying because their lips are moving. :p

Originally Posted by bzriddell (Post 7406758)

It was the electorates choice

Originally Posted by bzriddell (Post 7406741)

This must be a better barometer of Public Opinion

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...05/default.stm

Originally Posted by bzriddell (Post 7405948)

I am sure you are wrong about the schools the Blair children went to and that many Cabinet Ministers children go to. As far as the facts are they went to state funded high schools. They may have been in adiferent area to where they lived.

Originally Posted by Dave+Jules (Post 7407153)

LMAO - I am pretty sure there are plenty of people out there wishing they hadnt voted him in for a 3rd term.

I think the historic 3 term was down to zero opposition and a huge number of people not voting. I am ashamed to admit for the first time in my adult life I didn't vote in that election because I was so disgusted with the opposition parties.

Originally Posted by bzriddell (Post 7407202)

Difficult to extrapolate from the personal decision, also difficult to justify your first statement. The fact is that people did vote for the third term.

Originally Posted by Dave+Jules (Post 7407165)

Diane Abbot, private schooling for her son :eek:

Blair and Harman both sent their sons to selective schools. The funniest thing is that Harriet Harman sent her son to a Grammar SCHOOL :rofl:

Originally Posted by dbd33 (Post 7407208)

But that doesn't tell us anything about public opinion regarding invading Iraq at the time of the invasion.

Originally Posted by bzriddell (Post 7407245)

In our democracy the only real test of public opinion is the ballot box.

Originally Posted by bzriddell (Post 7407245)

In our democracy the only real test of public opinion is the ballot box.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 7407335)

And who, precisely, should the anti Iraq war people have voted for? Apart from George Galloway of course.

Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 7407335)

And who, precisely, should the anti Iraq war people have voted for? Apart from George Galloway of course.

Originally Posted by acer rose (Post 7407343)

Lib dems?

Originally Posted by bzriddell (Post 7407371)

You vote for which party you think best represents the beliefs you hold, my view is that you don't blame individuals Blair/Bush for decisions taken by the Administration/Government. It is all too easy to say 'blood on their hands' absolving whoever from blame. Unfortunately life is just not that simple, and for the record my vote against the war was made at a political level.