[Closed] I just met Chancellor Alistair Darling on the street.

His eyebrows freak me out.

hes actually quite short and skinny.
i was more freaked out that he was so sound a guy to talk to!

shame his neighbour's such a ****

What did you talk about?

I would have told him to grow his beard back

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the lost bee-gee?

he used to be part of my family...back when he was a socialist (that tells you how long ago it was).

Did you divorce him konabunny .............or were you speaking metaphorically ?

Put some specs on that picture and it's a Thunderbird character!

Good job I didn't meet him. He'd have been called a few names.

Sure you would 🙂

I worked with some of the old "new labour" cabinet off and on a few years ago and he was always the least fussy. He appeared to be very happy to chat with the average member of public who wanted to talk with him and didn't fluster or come across at all like an attention seeking blood sucking scrote of sh!t. I wish I could say the same for some of the others.
Saying that, I always though Mr Brown was not much trouble either so what do I know.

Why would he have arranged for me to 'disapear' in some sort of rendition?

Hazel Blears had a mauling at her husting in Salford. She was heckled and shouted at non-stop 😆

I cringed when she said 'I have been an honest Politician for 25yrs'.

Anyway, this is still funny:

hora - Member
Why would he have arranged for me to 'disapear' in some sort of rendition?

Next time you meet someone like an MP, Heckle, swear and abuse them and await for plod to appear like any abuse to the public and bingo criminal record.

Or debate with them on one 2 one level of intelligence? offer an alternative solution to the economy?

I like Alistair. He's the only one out of the current labour crop that I have some respect for. Actually thats not true, I have always had regard for Jack Straw too, but I think that he was tarnished by iraq and it took Chilcot to bring that to light.

Next time you meet someone like an MP, Heckle, swear and abuse them and await for plod to appear like any abuse to the public and bingo criminal record.

At what point does debate become abuse? How else can you approach someone who has presided over soo much debt along with blood on their hands.

When I say shout something at him/them it would be along the lines of 'I wonder if your pension pot will suffer like all of ours has?' etc etc.

Sometimes its better to call Brown incompetent and remind Blair that he has blood on his hands than shout 'oi you ****ing ****er you I really hate you I do' 🙄

Just like the reception Blears got.

You know, just because you have working class roots doesn't mean you have to meekly go to the voting station and vote Labour. This isnt the Indian Caste-system 😉

SNP

hora - Member
Good job I didn't meet him. He'd have been called a few names.

Sorry I assumed you were going to be abusive.

Good job I didn't meet him. He'd have been called a few names

Golly. That'd have shown him for sure.

I heard he thought you were a cock as well, hora. 😉

Next time you meet someone like an MP, Heckle, swear and abuse them and await for plod to appear like any abuse to the public and bingo criminal record.

hora..? jesus weep? SNP?
feel free to elaborate...

jae - Member
hora..? jesus weep? SNP?
feel free to elaborate..

No.

judge the man by the company he keeps = twunt

Travis. Voters of Labour will tell you that New Britain is a safer place under Labour.

judge the man by the company he keeps = twunt

You're not doing so well then. You're on here with me and hora...

zaskar - Member

hora - Member
Good job I didn't meet him. He'd have been called a few names.

[b]Sorry I assumed you were going to be abusive[/b].

💡 I think hora meant he would have called him "Darling" or possibly "Alistair" neither of which sound particularly abusive.

Maybe it's this uncertainty concerning which name to call him by, which prompted him to say "He'd have been called a few names".

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(I rather respect Darling, eyebrows aside. Brown wanted to sack him and put Balls in Number 11. Darling stuck it to him good and proper. Good on him)

What ever happened to free speech in good old blighty, it's not like free speech in China is it?

freedom of speech != the freedom to abuse people without any comeback.

I know one thing. Alistair wont be keeping his heating off during his retirement in winter. None of them will. Feathering your bed isn't just a African-phenomenon.

The only difference is British politicians claim to care about the people.

Mrs S and I were just discussing a GOAT (Government of all the talents) and she has Darling down for her chancellor with KenC as business minister. Id still prefer Ken "Smoking-Puppies" Clarke in No. 11 but we were agreed that it wasnt to be that twunt Cable.

Menzies as foreign sec. Id keep Johnson in Home office. And Straw or Reid in Justice. Dish out some minor portfolios to some Tories and keep Tessa where she is. And Ive have Mandy back in Europe 🙂 Finally since the conservatives will win the election, might as well have Cameron as front of house. A bit like a concierge: not really in charge, just dresses right. 🙂

And give Balls the long drop.

Agreed - Alistair D does seem like a decent chap, must be frustrating being constantly overridden by gordo though but respect for surviving and not letting the odious E. Balls muscle in.

.........she has Darling down for her chancellor with KenC as business minister

So you discuss politics with your missus Stoner ? I bet you go shopping with her too. And good for you mate. That's what I reckon. Never had you down as a New Man though.

As far as Darling in concerned, I have no idea what goes on in Cabinet. But I have always been hugely impressed by how utterly relaxed he is about everything. Including when he publicly announced that we were about to experience the worst global economic crises since the 1930s. I have never known a more chilled Chancellor of the Exchequer.

have you seen that pic up there? Im mean he look so cool he's positively arctic!

And yes, Im afraid Mrs S and I have the riveting pastime of both enjoying politics and economics. Apparently other couples talk about football and Jordon - unbelievable! 😉

Feathering your bed isn't just a African-phenomenon

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I thought it was Ugandan?

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British politicians should retire in abject poverty and not be able to afford their heating bills.
Otherwise they are not any better than African politicians. Who [i]can[/i] afford their heating bills.

HTH

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crystal, thanks.

On the politics theme, turns out Dave Rowntree, Blur drummer, is my local Labour candidate. It puts me in a bit of a quandry - I want Labour out, but... Dave Rowntree!

Of course he's going to be nice there is an election looming! 🙄

Alistair wont be keeping his heating off during his retirement in winter. None of them will.

So let me get this straight. You think that someone who's worked hard to get to the top of their game over many years, and is responsible for the entire economy of the country, should be paid so little they can't afford a pension?

Oookay. Makes a lot of sense, that. Been drinking?

Maybe actively and involved and preceded over something that plundered pensions to the tune of billions and financial incompetence when experts warned of an overdue recession, warned spending must be reigned in, housing prices must be reigned in etc etc then when finally it happened they blamed it on the 'greedy bankers'...however the pensions of Ministers and MP's were affected? No.

On another level hes in the Labour party serving and representing those who may work hard all their lives but never move above the rank of Administrator, Clerk, Labourer or Housewife.

I've been drinking? I could sort of forgive 'The Iron Chancellor' and then Darling if they were absolutely wasted and thats why they let the British economy grow on Credit.

Aren't govt pensions funded entirely differently to the ones that have had trouble?

But anyway, you would rather they not have borrowed money during the recession?

experts warned of an overdue recession, warned spending must be reigned in, housing prices must be reigned in etc etc

Who were these experts who warned of an overdue recession ? I don't remember even the economic advisers at US Treasury, predicting an overdue recession.

And [i]why on earth[/i] would they have warned that 'spending must be reigned in' ? If you want to stave off a recession you do the opposite and increase spending. And that is precisely what experts both sides of the Atlantic advised.

But what intrigues me most hora is, how do you propose Alistair Darling could have "reigned in" house prices ? Presumably you don't agree with the free-market, so what would you suggest........strict controls on the availability of mortgages ? Are you saying you would be supporting the Labour Party today if it had done that ?

- From 2001 experts were warning that a recession was on its way.
- Your Labour could have raised duty etc etc etc to cool the housing market but realised that people were making money and spending their equity in their houses (paper profit).

They had the chance to cool the market.