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Thats really the best response you can come up with?
Target hit again 😈
Win!
YAWN.
What the jeff is a "picaninnie"?
Happy to bring some joy to your obviously happy and fulfilled life ...you bored me with your prevarication...RESULT.
To keep up the win perhaps you could shoot something ...say your load over Dan 😉
Isn't it a sandwich pickle?
say your load over Dan
Now, that is a WIN! 😆
Pickaninny (also picaninny or piccaninny) is a term in English which refers to children of black descent or a racial caricature thereof. It is a pidgin word form, which may be derived from the Portuguese pequenino[1] (an affectionate term derived from pequeno, "little"). In the Creole English of Surinam the word for a child is pikin ningre (li. "small negro"). The term pickaninny has also been used in the past to describe aboriginal Australians.[2] According to Robin Bernstein who describes the meaning in the context of the United States, the pickaninny is characterized by three qualities: "the figure is always juvenile, always of color, and always resistant if not immune to pain."[3]. Historically the use of Pickaninny may have been used as a term of affection, but it is now considered a derogatory term.[4]
well hes obviously not met any of the hardened cynics on here!
In that video Zulu posted back there before it all got silly, Boris sounds alarmingly like Charlie Brooker. Have we ever seen them in the same place?
TandemJeremy - Member
I suspect he is rather more capable than Cameron and Osbourne having actually done a real job or two in the wide world.
So how many members of the cabinet AND the shadow cabinet have done one or more "real" jobs in the "wide" world (whatever that is?) as opposed to studying PPE at Oxford (possibly LSE as well) and careers spent climbing the greasy poles in the Westminster Village?
So how many members of the cabinet AND the shadow cabinet have done one or more "real" jobs in the "wide" world (whatever that is?) as opposed to studying PPE at Oxford (possibly LSE as well) and careers spent climbing the greasy poles in the Westminster Village?
Good question - here's the info for the current big hitters in the cabinet - I've put in bold the ones who have experience outside of politics, the civil service and journalism.
It would be interesting to see the same detail on the shadow cabinet.
[b]Prime Minister - David Cameron (Conservative): Director of Corporate Affairs at Carlton Communications for seven years[/b]
Deputy Prime Minister - Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrat) : Journalist
[b]Foreign Secretary - William Hague (Conservative):Management Consultant at McKinsey where he worked for Archie Norman (recentish CEO of Asda)[/b]
Chancellor of the Exchequer - George Osborne (Conservative) : Data Entry in NHS, then Selfridges
[b]Secretary of State for Justice - Kenneth Clarke (Conservative) : Barrister and QC[/b]
[b]Home Secretary and Minister for Women and Equalities - Theresa May (Conservative) : Financial Consultant at Bank of England, then senior advisor in International Affairs at the Association for Payment Clearing Services.[/b]
[b] Secretary of State for Defence - Philip Hammond (Conservative) : too many jobs / businesses to detail but in brief, business interests including house building and property, manufacturing, healthcare and oil and gas. He has undertaken various consulting assignments in Latin America for the World Bank in Washington, D.C., and was a consultant to the government of Malawi from 1995.[/b]
[b]Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills - Dr Vincent Cable (Liberal Democrat) : Lecturer, Economist at Shell.[/b]
[b]Secretary of State for Work and Pensions - Iain Duncan Smith : (Conservative) : Army Officer[/b]
Secretary of State for Health - Andrew Lansley CBE (Conservative) : Civil Servant.
Secretary of State for Education - Michael Gove (Conservative) : Journalist and Author.
Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government - Eric Pickles (Conservative) : Council / Local government
[b]Secretary of State for Transport - Justine Greening (Conservative) : Finance roles in industry[/b]
[b]Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs - Caroline Spelman (Conservative) : National Farmers Union, Set up own company[/b]
[b]Secretary of State for International Development - Andrew Mitchell (Conservative) : Army, Banking, Consultancy, United Nations Peace Keeper[/b]
Ed Miliband - taught at Harvard - economics 😯
Harriet Harmon - she is a QC
Ed Balls - FT journo then politics
Douglas alexander - Solicitor
Yvette Cooper - politics only
Sadiq Khan-human rights solicitor
Rosie Winterton - mainly politics but 4 years in the private sector for connect public affairs
You can do the rest yourself from this wiki page and clicking on their names as I am bored now
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Official_Opposition_Shadow_Cabinet_(United_Kingdom)
So as usual, the way that right wingers defend their party buffoon is by slagging off members of the shadow cabinet. Yep, that's about typical for an STW right winger.
by slagging off members of the shadow cabinet.
Slagging off?
Ed balls, Ed Miliband, David Miliband, Jacqui Smith and Yvette Cooper all have degrees in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from Oxford - Just like Dave Cameron does- in fact Balls and Dave were there at the same time (Balls actually got a slightly better grade than Cameron)
Thats not slagging them off, they've clearly all got flawless political CV's for their job.
I'm less sure how that serves to differentiate them from the Tories, who the critics told us: [i] are rich, privileged and elitist they may not actually live in the same world as the rest of us and may not be in a position to best understand what the average person needs or wants.[/i]"
You would have thought that the millionaire sons of millionaires who all went to the same university might be subjected to the same level of opprobrium, but apparently the usual double standards apply 😉
Comedy gold every day from you Zulu. Keep it up. It's funnier than when you self-pwn. Honestly. 😆
Go on the Darcy - which part of the above is incorrect...
Oh bore the **** off will you?
Who do you think I am? TeeJ?
Actually, I've had my suspicions 😆
Seriously what has happened to you ?
You used to make annoying but bright comments and now you are left like some gibbering half wit partially quoting folk out of context to get a rise....tragic
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/bo-ris-bo-ris/page/2
Isn't the real conclusion, that (1) not a huge amount of work experience, (2) very similar tertiary education on both sides? And we wonder why there is little to choose between the solutions (sic) that they offer.
DD, I didn't see the smiley but guess you were being ironical and therefore sarcastically doing the same thing as you accuse others of!
DD, I didn't see the smiley but guess you were being ironical and therefore sarcastically doing the same thing as you accuse others of!
You can bore the **** off too.*
Who do you think I am, TeeJ?
* 🙂
😀 😀
(1) not a huge amount of work experience, (2) very similar tertiary education on both sides? And we wonder why there is little to choose between the solutions (sic) that they offer.
It is definitely getting worse than it used to be [ lab still ahead but not by much]...by which I mean the labour party is drawing its candidates from a similarly small pool as the Tories tended to [ they do have exceptions of course like say Dave call me dave Davies who is from council house routes
There are far fewer millionaires and landowners/hereditary types and Bullingdon boys though and the Tories still tend to draw from the elite [ or privileged] wing of the elite.
Some would argue [ with the odd radical change] that there is always a consensus [ leftish, privatised industries, statist nhs ish till Thatcher for example , more free market rightish since] with just a choice of flavour...not as bad as in America though for lack of plurality of candidates.
It wont change [plurality] without PR and a PR system not controlled by the party list.
Are you standing in for ernie?
A self-styled "loveable buffoon" as PM?
No. He's a prick.