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Old May 11th 2010 | 7:23 am
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Originally Posted by Mistress Miggins
Oh you was doing that there rhetorical questioning.....I see what did now!
New Labour's education policy didn't pass you by.
 
Old May 11th 2010 | 7:23 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
There was that John Major, he ran away from the circus to join a bank, that's pretty working-class aspirational.
No, that was Nelly the Elephant - packed his trunk!
 
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Originally Posted by Oink
I was simply using her as an example. How many working class, non-Oxbridge educated people have led the Tory party?
How many working class, flat cap and ferret, good honest salt of the earth people have led the labour party then?
 
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Originally Posted by dbd33
There was that John Major, he ran away from the circus to join a bank, that's pretty working-class aspirational.

God, SPITTING IMAGE HAS TO COME BACK! Seriously look at the fodder it has now!
 
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Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon
No, that was Nelly the Elephant - packed his trunk!

There was another leader, a grocer's daughter. Unless her dad was Jack Cohen or Mohammed Al Fayed, that's lower merchant class, not a proper toff.
 
Old May 11th 2010 | 7:29 am
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Originally Posted by dbd33
There was that John Major, he ran away from the circus to join a bank, that's pretty working-class aspirational.
Very true.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Major

I did not know he and Tony Blair worked at the London Electricity Board.

To campaign as a Conservative in Brixton must of been pretty heavy going.
 
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bloody hell Mandelson looks old!
 
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Originally Posted by The4BellsLondon
bloody hell Mandelson looks old!
aged over the last 5 days
 
Old May 11th 2010 | 7:33 am
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Originally Posted by Atlantic Xpat
How many working class, flat cap and ferret, good honest salt of the earth people have led the labour party then?
You're right there. Only proper ones were, Hardie and Callaghan. I blame those toffee nose Bloomsbury wankers for gentrifying the PLP. That Gaitskill and Crosland was the worst of them.
 
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I'm listening to the blow-by-blow account of Gord leaving avec cavalcade on BBC World.
 
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Originally Posted by Kiwilass
I'm listening to the blow-by-blow account of Gord leaving avec cavalcade on BBC World.
cant you see it on this one: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/election2010/liveevent/

I can
 
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Now David Cameron is meeting the Queen. he is wearing a blue tie.

They are both smiling.


He and his wife are distantly related to The Royals.
 
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Originally Posted by Kiwilass
Now David Cameron is meeting the Queen. he is wearing a blue tie.

They are both smiling.


He and his wife are distantly related to The Royals.
Didn't know Cameron was a German name
 
Old May 11th 2010 | 7:41 am
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ooh, that one has different announcers.

Now I'm in a tizzy. Which one do I choose?
 
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Originally Posted by Oink
You're right there. Only proper ones were, Hardie and Callaghan. I blame those toffee nose Bloomsbury wankers for gentrifying the PLP. That Gaitskill and Crosland was the worst of them.
So they're all lead by ruling elites, it's just which type you favour that is important.
 


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