THE BRITISH THREAD II

Any successful team has a few stoppers.
May I suggest Vidic, Ferdinand and, despite his stature, Scholes, who can commit artistic thuggery with the best.

TV-nibbits? Always best to remember:

"A moment on the lips, forever on the hips."

I went into town for a curry today.....Mrs McTag will not be pleased.

HER nibbits - so I better don't tell ...

If you avoid French kissing and take Airfresh to the bathroom when you go it ought to make it more tolerable for her.

It was of course not unpleasant bodily odours to which I referred (I am rarely, if ever, responsible for those) but to my spouse's opinions about the unnecessary ingestation of a surfeit of comestibles, to wit, Malu's curries.

Malu looked a bit like Kevin Keegan yesterday btw, in a black and white jumper.

It's amazing. One of the most interesting periods in recent political history in Britain and the Brit thread has gone dead.

I never vote because I don't believe in going a stride for wankers.

I have been proved correct.

What I want is H.M.Q to go on telly and say she's running things from now on and all this hard working families up and down the land shite is going on the back burner and festivals and bank holidays start every Wednesday lunchtime by order.

Are you referring to the jordan and peter thing?

There's nothing interesting about them Queenie to somebody like me. I like 'em squirming. Not doing photocalls.

This story gets better everyday. I think The Telegraph is in show business.

The posh git claims 4 grand for moat cleaning. All moat cleaners are heavy drinkers and smokers. They use most of the 4 grand to buy beer and fags and Hey-Presto most of the money is back in the Treasury. The bit that went on essentials they could get off the dole if they weren't moat cleaning so that saves the Treasury money. And who wants dirty moats anyway.

Just wait until they start on expense claims generally. It might turn out that failing all your exams due to having had better things to do was not as bad an idea you might have been conned into thinking.

What do we need comedians for?

I've been away, now back, but my computer is broken.
The man from the cable company is coming tomorrow afternoon to fix it.
I'm squatting here for a short time only.

Pity Steve is missing, for political perspective, but the people seem to be in no mood to forgive the political shysters. Did you see Andrew Marr this morning?
Calls for political parties to be abandoned, and a government of national unity.
One short step thereafter, and Madame Guillotine is back.

Sorry to hear this about your computer.

Perhaps if England remembers the Anles's and Saxons (and Jute's) old traditions - the re-introduction of things could be an idea.
And you still got the Halifax Gibbet ...


Hope, the fish liked your baits ...

All politicians are crooks - fact

McTag - get a Mac, they are better than PCs - Another fact.

In agreement with that one.

Dante placed the barrator in the lower regions of his Hell.

A "baro" is a cheater at cards. Barratier is a "betrayer of the public trust". It has been used for pirates.

As they are all going on their merry way with their salaries, expenses and pensions one might easily assume Dante would define our world as a hell in which they are all at home and in their appropriate element.

The cause is, of course, the lower middle class revolution. Wankers with letters after their names purchased from the expanding education business courtesy of the taxpayer they have now screwed.

I fear it may be too late for me to change, an old dog not being very handy with new tricks.
How delightful though, to see you back, prince, how long must it be?? ??

Walter, the fish were not too interested in my "baits", unfortunately, tho' we did catch a few.
But the weather was stunning.
Now again here (and off to Bath and Bristol tomorrow) we've got March weather in May.

Spendy, I distrust anyone who puts himself up for election. Very few have public service in mind when they do that, I fear.
When did members' "expenses" become "allowances" and then entitlements? A plague on all their houses, although I must say it got a bit shrill around the Palace of Westminster today, with someone comparing Speaker Martin's predicament to that of Neville Chamberlain.

I find it all highly amusing Mac. Especially the indignation in the street interviews. And the squirming under the spotlights.

I never vote. Once when I was first qualified I did. That was enough. Bloody pencil was on a string fastened to the wall.

I hadn't been long back from a long tour of duty and the ******* pencil was fastened to the ******* wall.

"Oh, it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, go away':
But it's 'Thank you, Mister Atkins,' when the band begins to play -"

Do you really not vote spendius?

That reminds me of a Jimmy Tarbuck gag:

"I didn't know me old fella war a bank robber. But after he died, we found a suitcase full of pens with little silver chains attached..."

The papers have been having fun printing some of the statements made by MPs in self-justification for having their hands in the till.

Unsavory scenes in the chamber this afternoon, as a bewildered Speaker seemed to be the target of widespread scapegoating attempts.