Change The World
Posted on September 17, 2007
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When did you give up on your teenage dreams of changing the world?
When did you give up your dreams?
When did you give up?
Don’t give up.
Do something.
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Exploits In Gaga Land
Posted on September 14, 2007
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Gordon Brown worked with a drag artist impersonating Mrs Thatcher for ten years in the form of Tony Blair, but he has also had the real thing visit him at 10 Downing Street.
The former Mrs Thatcher, now Baroness Thatcher of Gaga Land, is, of course, the spititual leader of New Labour and Gordon Brown has intimated that once he gets his “moral compass” working properly, he would like to be a “conviction politician” like his heroine.
However, some unkind people have suggested that Mrs Thatcher was only wheeled out to give the impression that old Tories who do not take to the new whippersnapper “Dave” Cameron at the helm of the old Nasty Party can be reassured that “Gordon is a safe pair of hands” (unlike that slippery butterfingers Tony, who I once told you to back).
If you remember - what was it, the last election? - all you saw was Tony Blair wearing a blue tie and Michael Howard a red one. Clearly, someone had to clarify which party is which and Mrs Thatcher has clearly put the stamp of Conservatism and Thatcherism on Gordon Brown’s New New Labour experiment.
BBC News:
No 10 has denied that Gordon Brown “exploited” Lady Thatcher for political ends by inviting her to Downing Street.
Lady Thatcher returned to her former home on Thursday for private talks with Mr Brown and a tour of the building.
Mr Brown’s official spokesman said the meeting was “not unusual” and he would be “happy” to meet any former PM.
But the meeting was criticised by some Conservatives, with one MP accusing Mr Brown of exploiting the “frail” 81-year-old for his own ends.
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Conservative MP Rob Wilson, writing on the influential ConservativeHome website, said the meeting made him feel “uneasy”.
“Yesterday’s visit to Downing Street wasn’t really about Margaret Thatcher, it was really about Gordon Brown.
“My feeling of delight for the Baroness going back to the scene of her former glories was tempered by an uneasy feeling about the way she was apparently being exploited by the prime minister.
“Baroness Thatcher is 81, she is elderly, she is lonely, she is frail and she has difficulty with her memory. Those closest to her say that her grasp on daily life is ’some days better than others’.”
David Cameron has denied rumours that he is going to attempt to revivify the moribund Tories by inviting Lenin and Marx for a piss up and kebab spewing contest with some local hoodies.
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Making A Mark
Posted on September 6, 2007
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Who says that British children are not being educated properly and leave school unable to write their own names?
Peter Addison, for one, has a lovely, confident and adult writing style, even when not using conventional paper and pen, but having to employ a marker on a wall. Which brings us back to whether he has been failed by the education establishment.
His years at school certainly did not instil in him enough common sense to understand that leaving your autograph across a wall at a crime scene might not be the most sensible thing to do. Just in case he did not leave the police enough to go on, he also supplied them with the name of the gang to which he belonged.
Short of leaving his address and a contact telephone number and a signed confession, it is hard to see what else he could have done to ensure his own arrest. After examining the evidence, PC Plod was soon pedalling his wobbly bicycle to the boy’s home, where he was collared and probably said, “It’s a fair cop, guv. I was the one what done it and will be going down for a long stretch in the clink”. Or rather, being a teenager, he probably said “Uh, ugh, huh, mmm, ngh - got any drugs?”
Inspector Gareth Woods, of Cheshire Police, said: “This crime is up there with the dumbest of all in the criminal league table.
“There are some pretty stupid criminals around, but to leave your own name at the scene of the crime takes the biscuit.
“The daftness of this lad certainly made our job a lot easier.”
Correction: The police actually looked up the boy’s name on a computer, which is conclusive proof that Britain needs a database of everyone’s DNA and the planned enforced National ID Cards in order to facilitate criminal arrests in cases similar to this, but where the perpetrator forgets to sign the crime scene.
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