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Old 20 January 2011, 05:24 PM
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Alan Johnson resigns for personal reasons

Just as well really as he was clearly out of his depth.

Ed ***** is the new shadow chancellor.
Old 20 January 2011, 05:31 PM
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One of the more likable members of the labour team but a fish out of water as shadow chancellor.

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Old 20 January 2011, 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by David Lock
One of the more likable members of the labour team but a fish out of water as shadow chancellor.

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Agreed, seemed like a decent person, but not a great choice for chancellor.
Old 20 January 2011, 06:08 PM
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Not a great choice as ANY minister.

He always came over as thick as.........

And likeable? Nope, sneering, snide, I know best........typical Lying Labour.
Old 20 January 2011, 06:58 PM
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He sums up a certain segment of Labour that feels you do not need a decent education to do an important job. He was a fricking postman ffs and they have had him as Health mininster and now shadow chancellor!!

I mean I know old Labour likes to think we are all equal but a postman running the economy? Much like that fool Prescott who was a skivvy on a ship and they made him the deputy PM
Old 20 January 2011, 07:18 PM
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Johnson was also EDUCATION minister.

I saw him on TV when Milband announced he was to be shadow chancellor: "oh look, you don't NEED a first from Oxford or Cambridge to get on in politics, look at me!"

Prat.
Old 20 January 2011, 07:41 PM
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Originally Posted by hutton_d
EFA .....

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LOL, yeah but think of the headlines you can come up with for that surname
Old 20 January 2011, 07:42 PM
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Originally Posted by Dingdongler
He sums up a certain segment of Labour that feels you do not need a decent education to do an important job. He was a fricking postman ffs and they have had him as Health mininster and now shadow chancellor!!

I mean I know old Labour likes to think we are all equal but a postman running the economy? Much like that fool Prescott who was a skivvy on a ship and they made him the deputy PM
Yeah but to be fair the Tories started it with George Osbourne as Chancellor
Old 20 January 2011, 07:45 PM
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Osbourne is about to get eaten alive in the commons once Ed ***** starts his attacks .... I fully expect the Eton boy to start blubbing and wanting his mummy
Old 20 January 2011, 08:42 PM
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Spot on Alcazar


Peter, you've been predicting the demise of Osbourne for the last 3 years and it still hasn't happened...
Old 20 January 2011, 09:10 PM
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Ed ***** is a gobby klutz lol.
Johnson I agreed seemed a likeable guy.
Old 20 January 2011, 09:53 PM
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Good riddance; He is way out of his depth in that position. I mean if, and I really do mean "if" Labour did win another majority election, would anyone in their right mind want this person running the country's finances?

Its the equivalent of asking the street sweeper to do your tax return!

Ed ***** though? Really? They are scraping the barrel. One rung above Harriet Harman. Seriously, who votes for thse incumbents into office? Are those who live in Peckham who voted for her one brain cell short of being retarded?
Old 20 January 2011, 09:57 PM
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***** = back to Brown ???! WTF?!
Old 20 January 2011, 10:01 PM
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What idiots voted the lot we have in power??

OH, it was the SN crowd!!



You'll regret ever even thinking that the Tories would be good for the country!!
Old 20 January 2011, 10:09 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Agreed, seemed like a decent person, but not a great choice for chancellor.
Rumours are that he's been having an affair with a civil servant, so his wife may not agree with you on the "decent person" bit.
Old 20 January 2011, 10:10 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
What idiots voted the lot we have in power??

OH, it was the SN crowd!!



You'll regret ever even thinking that the Tories would be good for the country!!



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Originally Posted by pslewis
What idiots voted the lot we have in power??

OH, it was the SN crowd!!



You'll regret ever even thinking that the Tories would be good for the country!!
What?

You voted for BROWN!?!?!
Old 20 January 2011, 10:34 PM
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Originally Posted by f1_fan
Yeah but to be fair the Tories started it with George Osbourne as Chancellor
Old 20 January 2011, 10:37 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
What idiots voted the lot we have in power??

OH, it was the SN crowd!!


Didn't know Scoobynet had such a large block vote! Or is that just a union thing?
Old 20 January 2011, 10:52 PM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
What idiots voted the lot we have in power??

OH, it was the SN crowd!!



You'll regret ever even thinking that the Tories would be good for the country!!

Was it a belief that the Conservatives would be good for the country, or actually a belief that another Labour term would be the final nail in the coffin for the country?

As for the subject, Johnson was an inexplicable choice for chancellor (did he even pass the 11+ ) and then the toad ***** is a step backwards from a party that claims to be moving on from New Labour. How on earth can ***** criticise government fiscal policy when of all people he is inextricably linked to all of Labour's poor decision-making that got us in this hole in the first place?

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Old 21 January 2011, 12:25 AM
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Johnson out, ***** in. Is this politics or a **** script?
Old 21 January 2011, 12:59 AM
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Originally Posted by scud8
Rumours are that he's been having an affair with a civil servant, so his wife may not agree with you on the "decent person" bit.
Relatively speaking i.e. compared to most other politicians!

Anyway who are we to judge an individual on their personal life... are we all models of society?
Old 21 January 2011, 01:42 AM
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Originally Posted by pslewis
What idiots voted the lot we have in power??

OH, it was the SN crowd!!



You'll regret ever even thinking that the Tories would be good for the country!!
AFAIK it was the bunch of idiots who were fed up with New Labours promise that 'Things, will only get better' when in fact, 'Things, are going down the sh1thole' would have been more realistic.(Although, I have to agree, the current incumbents are not much better than the last bunch of inbreds. Why not give Richard Branson, Philip Green and Alan Sugar a go at running the country.....(and you need Willie Walsh in the cabinet) like a business instead of the charity it currently is.)
Old 21 January 2011, 08:03 AM
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me thinks his police bodyguard has been nobbing his missus
Old 21 January 2011, 08:16 AM
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Originally Posted by SwissTony
me thinks his police bodyguard has been nobbing his missus
I think they call it (real) close protection
Old 21 January 2011, 08:37 AM
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So - His bodyguard has been doing to his Mrs what Liebour did to the country thru their term in office. Oh Joy, That's sweet justice right there. Useless Fvcker in more than one sense then
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Originally Posted by jods
So - His bodyguard has been doing to his Mrs what Liebour did to the country thru their term in office. Oh Joy, That's sweet justice right there. Useless Fvcker in more than one sense then
And replaced by Ed ***** - another legend (in his own mind that is) should be good
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Originally Posted by fast bloke
Johnson out, ***** in. Is this politics or a **** script?
don't worry Urban, I appeciated it that's all that matters


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