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Wednesday, 29 July 2009

He who swears wins...

Conservative leader David Cameron has swept the headlines today for turning the airwaves Tory Blue in an interview on The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show on Absolute Radio.

Talking about Twitter, Cameron told O'Connell: "The trouble with Twitter, the instantness of it - too many twits might make a twat".

Moving on to how the electorate feels at the moment, Cameron announced: "The public are rightly, I think, pissed off - sorry, I can't say that in the morning - angry with politicians".

Rather than offending this blog author, we actually give Cameron a +2 on his likeability score for demonstrating that he's a bit more like man on the street than his well-spoken voice might convey.

This all puts us back to the Conservative Party leadership contest and questions about whether Cameron had ever smoked a joint. Rather than damaging Cameron, we remember seeing a TV news clip in which he was approached by a typical South London 'geezer' who dished out lots of 'respect, innit' type compliments to the juxtaposed Tory then-hopeful.

So, well done Cameron for having the dogs' to show that you're a normal guy with a nice accent again.

Now, here's your challenge for the day.

Using as many expletives as you wish, complete the following sentence:

A Conservative leader who doesn't set out his party policy on the Lisbon Treaty and the EU is a twat who is making many people pissed off because...

Or, if you have to think about that one before letting matters rest, feel free to add as many expletives to this sentence as you see fit:

Gordon Brown and Jacqui Smith are...

In the meantime, Mr. Cameron, stop apologising in case the odd twat or two is pissed off at your ability to speak like a normal British person. We reckon that many people will see you more positively. Just remember to stop a tad short of Jeremy Clarkson's colourful vocabulary - no matter how truthful his descriptions!

If you want to see and hear David Cameron turning the airwaves a hue of blue, click here to go to the Absolute Radio page where video clips of his interview are online now.

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Forever... Diana

...genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.

"And when I look at people in public life... I'm not a political animal but I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved, and I know that I can give love - for a minute, for an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I'm very happy to do that and I want to do that."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"I think the British people need someone in public life to give affection, to make them feel important, to support them, to give them light in their dark tunnels. I see it as a possibly unique role, and yes, I've had difficulties, as everybody has witnessed over the years, but let's now use the knowledge I've gathered to help other people in distress."
- Diana, Princess of Wales, 1996

"Diana was the very essence of compassion, of duty, of style, of beauty. All over the world she was a symbol of selfless humanity, a standard-bearer for the rights of the truly downtrodden, a truly British girl who transcended nationality."
- Earl Spencer

"..she was our guardian, friend and protector. She never once allowed her unfaltering love for us to go unspoken or undemonstrated. She will always be remembered for her amazing public works. But behind the media glare, to us, just two loving children, she was quite simply the best mother in the world."
- Prince Harry

The People's Sovereignty

"...our membership of the European Union has removed our democracy; it has taken away the right of the British people to elect and dismiss those who make their laws. Our system of representative parliamentary democracy, for which millions have died over hundreds of years, has been frittered away. It no longer serves the people. That is why the time has come to give power back to the people. They deserve it anyway; it is their power and it belongs to them. Before long their anger will overflow if they do not get it back."

- Former UKIP leader Lord Pearson in the House of Lords, 5th February 2009

British resistance and liberty

"We British have in a very special way contributed to Europe. Over the centuries we have fought to prevent Europe from falling under the dominance of a single power. We have fought and we have died for her freedom. Only miles from here, in Belgium, lie the bodies of 120,000 British soldiers who died in the First World War.

Had it not been for that willingness to fight and to die, Europe would have been united long before now - but not in liberty, not in justice. It was British support to resistance movements throughout the last War that helped to keep alive the flame of liberty in so many countries until the day of liberation."

- Margaret Thatcher, Bruges, 1992

Wednesday, 29 July 2009

He who swears wins...

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