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- Little Hope for Vauxhall
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- Vote, Vote Against What You Most Despise By Voting...
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- Kangaroo Courts and Labour's Culture of Bullying
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- There is no Excuse for Denying a General Election Now
- Time to End the United Kingdom for a United Ireland
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- The Truest Blogging is the Most Feigning
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- Euro-fighting over Opel
- It Started in the 17th Century, not in America
- Promoveatur ut amoveatur
- Constitutional Rules are Just as Flexible as the R...
- Maintenance and Scrounging
- Gordon Brown and his Mummy and Daddy
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- Out With the Partisan Speaker and Then Out With t...
- Shame of Scotland and its Years Knuckling Under to...
- Dangerous Times for Our Democracy
- English Protestants Have the Best Tunes
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- Damaging Future Hopes for Economic Repair
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- Never Forgive Them
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- Exclude Uddin From Parliament Today
- Get Out of Our Way, We want to Vote
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- Dry Rotteness
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- Failing to Speak for Us All
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- All Brown Has Are Force and Lies
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- Tax Avoidance is 'Within the Rules'
- Hope, Not Just Words, Fails
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- Loss of Service
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- Getting Prescott's Continental Drift
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- Reorganising a Country's Major Manufacturing Industry
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
8 comments:
People complained that Sarah Palin thought that South Africa was a region rather than a country.
Angels complain that people think England is a region not a country, Dearieme.
And there I was thinking that England was a nation, but not a country.
He's not altogether wrong. African voters may have more influence on British elections, than on elections in African countries!
Odin's Raven
(somehow the identity checker no longer recognises me.)
no doubt he thinks they speak african in countires like africa
That's because you are politically correct, as you should be, Mr W. We all must say 'nation' not 'tribe'and avoid i. colonial terminologies and ii. groupings determined by lineage and constant, historically determined locality. Divide people up by regions and they turn all their energies on bickering with who has come to live next door while forgetting identity and purpose deriving from descent and exchanging women and goods with each other and just hand everything over to their masters.
Even 'nation' developed unhelpful characteristics of local belonging and historical identity, so now the really really correct term is 'region', not to be confounded with 'shire' or 'county', city or town or village.
Mr HG, at the welcome party for new post graduates, long ago Godless, was chatting (in English) to a magnificently robed man from, he guessed, west Africa, who wondered whether Mr HG's native tongue was sufficiently sophisticated to have its own western scientific terminology or used English for that sort of thing. They agreed that English was very handy in simply taking over any word from any language as its own (they do that with countries too, the man said and Mr HG had to confess it was known for his part of the world to do it as well), whenever English found it had a gap.
If they want you to vote whatever your political persuasion, why are BNP supporters hounded out of their jobs with the connivance of Labour MPs?
I have no truck with either, but I do wish fatty would keep his vomiting private.
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