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RE: A spot of blatant nepotism
October 2, 2012 at 6:22 am
If that's how it actually went down, Steve Coogan comes across as massively ill-informed.
"[Coogan] bluntly said he’d rather a Tory government where the Lib Dems can block the occasional policy, than the Tories passing whatever policy they like."
Guess what Steve? That's what we do have! The whole reason we have a coalition is because the Tories didn't get a majority of seats. Ergo, the parliament is hung, with no one party able to pass motions. If the Lib Dems wanted to block certain policies, they could simply all vote against them, and hope that Labour does the same.
Indeed, perhaps Mr Coogan has been living under a rock. One only has to Google "Lib Dems block Tory vote" to see the number of times the Lib Dems have kept to their guns and voted against their coalition partners.
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RE: A spot of blatant nepotism
October 2, 2012 at 6:49 am
The ancient Greeks were right.
I heard it said that the reason why the ancient Greeks forced their actors to wear face masks was that they thought there was a section of the population that would not be able to distinguish between the actor and the heroic roll he was playing and as such these people would try to emulate the actor. Consequently people would think of actors as somehow important and would take their views seriously, which would destroy society, because as we all know actors are the scum of the earth and should be trodden on at every opportunity. The decline of Britain continues.
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RE: A spot of blatant nepotism
October 2, 2012 at 11:27 am
(This post was last modified: October 2, 2012 at 11:29 am by The Grand Nudger.)
No one is more deserving of reverential awe and virulent suspicion than the competent storyteller...lol. Everyone knows that the fish was not that big, and that the man standing before them is a bold-faced goddamned liar.....but it did make life that much more pleasant for a few minutes.
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RE: A spot of blatant nepotism
October 2, 2012 at 1:20 pm
It was that big i swear.
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