The political quotes thread
 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/low/uk_politics/3750847.stm


1996 #4 is my personal favourite.

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"I'd have more of these if it wasn't for Labour" ? :D

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'I applied for Gordon Brown's tax credits and all I've got left is this' ?

Actually, I think 'that's nearly three pints of Guinness' when I see a tenner, but that's living in London for you.

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I see Gordon isn't the only one not good at maths...

Obviously talking about another goverment.

Obviously rooting for the wreckers.

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1996

"We wish to change politics itself, to bridge the gap between governed and government and to try to address the deep seated and damaging disaffection with politics which has grown up in recent years."

2004

"If I am elected, I would serve a full third term. I do not want to serve a fourth term - I don't think the British people would want a prime minister to go on that long. But I think it's sensible to make plain my intention now."

2005

"I think I have a very clear idea of what the British people now expect from this government for a third term."


Oh really :rolleyes:

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Yes, really, he's a straight kind of guy you know, told us himself.
So in that case, he must have just decided to ignore the people's expectations.

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And something Galloway knows a lot about, its backsides (normally found kissing dictators')

Actually, I wonder at the moment, who's less likable?
Tony Bliar

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/...2007/05/17.jpg

or George Galloway.

http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/mp_galloway.jpg

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Amazingly enough, over at the Army Rumour Service website, Blair came in less popular than Gorgeous George with many of the regulars. Since GG is about as popular as pond-slime with fighting men this is somewhat of a surprise, but then GG hasn't sent the Army into lethal danger on a pack of lies, has he?

http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/...c/start=0.html

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No but he did call for Iraqi's to rise up and slaughter the army.
It's one thing to send the troups in to provide security, it's something completely different to encourage others to attack them.

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In Iraq? Is this some kind of sick joke?

Mind you, the people of Iraq don't need George's encouragement - they seem to be rising up quite nicely by themselves. 51% support attacking our troops, it seems, which says something for the kind of security we're providing.

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Sorry, what do you think they are supposed to be doing there?

Do you agree with Galloway's calling for the troops to be attacked?

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:tu: I'm still having nightmares about blimp-like kittens in scarlet lycra :D

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Just heard another of Bliar's gems on the radio:

.....purer than pure ... we will not have any truck with anything which is improper at all...

...today is not a day for soundbites....... I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders...."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.../nblunk503.xml

http://www.healthdirect.co.uk/labour-liars.html

http://politics.guardian.co.uk/tonyb...075766,00.html

Odd how things suddenly change after elections isn't it :rolleyes:

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You're listening to Radio Five, aren't you. I found myself shouting 'Shut up, Blair' repeatedly during that segment. Humbug. Their trail for sports coverage that is full of quotes from Blair also strikes me as over-the-top.

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All recent I see. what about "peace in our time" just before the breakout of WWII http://www2.wwnorton.com/college/his...k/ralprs36.htm

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Yeaahhuugghh!! - Howard Dean

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Quite right - whilst Bliar desreves to be exposed for what he always was, I was hoping this thread would produce some other gems whether stirring, incisive, laughable (Prescott??), ironic or just plain funny.

Of course Winston Churchill delivered some terrific quotes.

"He is one of those orators of whom it was well said 'Before they get up, they do not know what they are going to say; when they are speaking, they do not know what they are saying; and when they have sat down, they do not know what they have said"

Was Prescott around then????.......................... :)

"Anyone can rat but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat"

"I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the programme which I most wanted to see was the one descirbed as the Boneless Wonder. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too revolting and demoralizing for my youthtful eyes and I have waited 50 years to see the boneless wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench"

"The utmost the Prime Minister (Chamberlain) has been able to secure for Czechoslovakia and in the matters which were in dispute, has been to secure that the German dictator instead of snatching his victuals from the table has been content to have them served to him course by course."

"I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"

"When I warned them (French Govt) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided cabinet 'In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken'. Some chicken! Some neck!"

"I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me"

"The only recorded instance in history of a rat swimming towards a sinking ship"

"A sheep in sheep's clothing" (Atlee)

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The best, IMO:

Lady Astor to Churchill: "If you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your coffee."
Churchill: "Madam, if I were your husband, I'd drink it!"

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This site always makes me laugh, although I am pretty sure poor old George is being portrayed to be dumber than he actually is, wasn't it his intellectual equal Dan Quayle that welcomed George's mum and 'his fellow astronauts'?

http://www.plattbridger.pwp.blueyond...k/bushisms.htm :D

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"A day like today is not a day for soundbites, really. But I feel the hand of history upon our shoulders. I really do."

Hmm I'd have thought it was Gordon's hand, giving you a little shove, even back then :D