The Talking Clock: PMQ's - 2nd December 2009

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Wednesday, 2 December 2009

PMQ's - 2nd December 2009

So, the first question session since power officially passed to Brussels. What will the folk now equivalent to County Councillors have on their mind? Parking? Dustbins? Dog poo in the local park..?

Let's find out with this, the all new Nord de la Manche regional county council leaders questions...

David Cameron (the BluLabour leader of the Conservatives) started by asking a question about Afghanistan. Gormless waffled out some rubbish that we've heard a million times over in the last eight years. Cameron followed up by asking whether our troops might come out of Afghanistan by 2010 or 2011. Gormless responded with an answer that sounded somewhat like 'how long is a piece of string?'. Cameron then moved on to the economy and asked Gormless to confirm that Britain was the last member of the G20 to come out of recession. Cue more ridiculous nonsense passed back and forth, until - to whoops of delight of the Labour benches - Gormless declared that "the more [Cameron] speaks, the less he says". Cameron asked a lightweight question on inheritance tax - Gormless didn't bother replying.

WINNER: Gordon Brown. And how sad is that? Worst economic situation in the country ever and Cameron is batted aside by Gormless. Even though Gormless wrongfully claimed Spain is a member of the G20.

Nick Clegg (GlibDumDums) started off by kissing Obama's feet - leaving Gormless an easy return punch - before wittering on with some barely decipherable question on Afghanistan. Cleggy came back with a second question on regional stability which was met with mumbled agreement on surges and regional being-nice-to-Afghanistan wishlists.

WINNER: Score bore.

ZaNuLiebour's obvious new tactic is to say the word 'Eton' as often as possible and hope that it sticks. 'Do nothing'... 'Eton'... such complex political arguments. Obviously, a vast percentage of Labour voters don't even know where Eton is. "Ummmm... down south somewhere, innit?"

Yes, but what is Eton? Can you tell us that..? Ahh. Gotcha now.

The Speaker had to tell the Labour benches off like a group of naughty schoolchildren repeatedly. Sad.

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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, 2 December 2009

PMQ's - 2nd December 2009

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