Posts by Don Christie
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Keir, yep, Brown is certainly a strong representative of the Whig side of the fence.
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By the way, didn't Rudyard Kipling have a more complete list, my son?
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Without denying the tendency of nasty political forces in the UK to use "Britishness" type terms to further their creed, I hardly think the use of British etc. is recent. Did you never hear about the British Empire upon which the Sun never set :-)
Scottish politicians, like Brown, tend to use it more than their English counterparts, mainly because the latter often use the term English to refer to the entire population of the UK.
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Jack London
Oh yeah. Taming a wild wolf dog and all that tobogganing.
Man's work.
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As a friend put it to me at the time, Euroscepticism sounded like a particularly nasty bladder infection
It took your friend until 1997 to notice?
Anyway, the bladder thing continues.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2009/jun/08/conservative-alliance-european-union
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Craig. I think some context might be in order:
"As we set out on the next stage of our journey, this is our vision: Britain leading the global economy – by our skills and creativity, by our enterprise and flexibility, by our investment in transport and infrastructure – a world leader in science, a world leader in financial and business services, a world leader in energy and the environment, from nuclear to renewables, a world leader in the creative industries, and, yes, modern manufacturing, too – drawing on the talents of all to create British jobs for British workers."
Who do you think said this:
The National led Government is ambitious for New Zealand. We want New Zealanders to realise their aspirations through better opportunities in a prosperous, competitive and open economy.
What, only NZers? racist pig.
Brown is down, no doubt about it and as much a victim of his own hubris as other issues.
But the kicking that is taking place is way too broad and totally ignores the successes and progress due to Labour in the UK. Throwing the baby out with the bathwater won't help come to reasonable conclusions or policies during the upcoming period of reflection.
What is Gordon Brown supposed to have done wrong (Letters, 8 June)?
Answer: he saved the world from economic catastrophe ... and nobody likes a Clever Dick.
There is an element of truth in that joke. Brown has achieved a lot in his career on a national and global scale. I will be sorry when he does, inevitably, go.
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I thought I was ok at number 2. But had the opportunity yo try reversing a qud bike with trailer the other day. Talk about instant, unstoppable jack-knifing and complete loss of man points...
That was before I failed the torque wrench test (!= monkey wrench then?).
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# Use a torque wrench
WTFs a torque wrench and when should it be used?
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They're a hard-right party with an urban rather than a rural base.
See, now that's where I tune out.
I lived through Thatcher, still visit the UK lots. The two regimes are not the same and nor have the outcomes for the UK been the same.
But hey, you guys keep doing the Daily Mail's job for them, you're not alone in that.
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Too little, too late, too shallow.
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A political Party should exist because it believes in something, not just because it can spend the surplus of a property bubble.
Jesus.
Brown could save the world economy, feed the starving billions, rid the world of disease and still he would be a failure because he "doesn't believe in something". Maybe you could do some research before trotting out those platittudes.