Mick Mac

cape blanco wins the champion stakes. Rip second. Im blaming the jockey again. Slow start for rip again and had too much to make up.

Good night and wish the cpt barman had not served late drinks. Golf will suffer this morning!

waynetta Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > A special Top Tip for ???? : > > Enjoy drinking but on the wagon? Instead of > drinking beer simply gargle it then spit it back > into your glass. That way you can make one pint > last all evening. Im not sure he can do that and hold his trousers up at the same time.

My wife just told me you worked late and had no contact with the outside world. But I guess you are back in the land of the living now.

Rip rides again on Saturday. But is odds on - I can't back him at odds on despite him being my fav horse, Twice Over is surely the value bet at > 3/1 as they were very close at York. But I can''t back against Rip. If I back Rip, it has got to be big...... courage.

Huguenot Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > You're not standing alone Mick Mac, I'm just > gathering my forces. > Any support is welcome. I understand the Iraq issue has people hopping mad. I personally did not agree with it, but I can put it to one side as his foreign policy and I think his UK policies were well meaning and education and health were successful, if expensive. The minimum wage was a big move forward and the economy, in my opinion, was successful - the crash was broadly not any worse than anywhere else and Labour recovered the banking crisis relatively well. As for the Foreign Policy - Jeez - you would think Britain had never done anything wrong in the world before now.....

Me too, I think, pass is pending.

Surely education was a success - looking at the improvement in performance at Heber School for example. And The Golden Jubilee wing at Kings was during his tenure, to have 2 local examples.

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > But that is just the kind of empty rhetoric that > lands us in trouble Mick > > When TB says we had to make a choice and either > way there were consequences ? well, tell us what > the choices and consequences are as you see them > Tone > > Because you sure had a lot of people telling you > what the consequences would be if you pressed > ahead > > As for what the consequences would be if he didn?t > go to war? I would guess pretty much the same as > they would have been when we were using him as an > ally. Or if 911 hadn?t happened, Bush wouldn?t > have had the ?excuse? he needed to wrap up > unfinished business and make fatuous links. He > would stil be a brutal despot but if we are now > in the business of getting rid of tyrants in > broken states, there is a looong list, there > always is, but it was only Sadaam that seemed to > interest these two ? so whatever ?moral? reason > there is for freeing Iraq, it isn?t transferable > to other peoples apparently As I said I did not agree with it either. I certainly did not think it was a civil liberty issue. He stated the consequences as being Iraq having nuclear intent. As you suggest, not enough to go to war on if its only a suspicion of what a country will do next, but he seems to see his role as clearing up the world, de risking our position here, if he stayed in power or if Iraq had not gone so badly, he probably would/could have moved on to Iran next. Thats what he seeemed to be saying.

Iraq may seem a disaster and certainly in human life it has been. I did not agree with it either - But what we don't know is what would have happened if they had not taken action - Blair feels they had nuclear intent. He still thinks it was the right decision, although it does not seem justified to most of us. The relationship with the US is something we will have to live with. We are too small to defend ourselves alone against the world and what it might throw up next.

I think the idea was clearly to let him speak, which is not always Paxman's style. I enjoyed watching it, it made good television. Of course if you don't like him you would want him to be under more pressure.

Surely if they were "up to something" they would have booked two rooms (and used one.....). I would hope its a storm in a tea cup.

Usually on weekends away for rugby etc, as if you have not had enough to drink already, someone always seems to have a hip flask.... Personally I think it is the norm for golf trips/rugby etc. I guess it is sometimes a cost issue. What is obviously different here is that Hague was on work rather than social. In which case it may seem a bit odd.

My point was why on earth there should be anything wrong with sharing twin rooms. I have always thought William Hague was a good guy - It would be a great shame if he had an affair of any type esp since he and his wife have been trying unsuccessfully for a baby.

I have now seen the whole interview and I find him compelling. I personally am not interested in discussing Irag in too much detail. It is a difficult subject, but it is still far too early to decide whether this was a good long term decision interms of that part of the world. I think he is the most genuine and able PM we have seen for some time. He stands comparison with Thatcher and I think has made fewer UK mistakes than Thatcher. After the interview he looked very relieved and I think it was very important to him to get his position across and I found it a good reflecion on his achievements.

Yep......we get it. Hats off to you brenda.

Yes Brendan - very funny - I'm tempted to swear. But I'll turn the other cheek. :)

Very sad that Goodrich could not get this right. Surely the initial message should have been that we have a problem but we are trying to fix it, in the meantime be aware that the school may not be able to open tomorrow, but please prepare. Aside from that - any fire alarm and other customary checks should take place not the day before school opening, but at least a week before, so any mechanical problems can be addressed before school opening, without disruption.

I agree completely. But why resign.

I wish you could have been there to ask a few harsh questions Matt. I used to think the David Frost interviews were good, charming, but let the interviewee make his own mistakes. The Brian Walden/John Humphreys interviews make me feel very uncomfortable, so Andrew Marr is good for me.

Apparently its enough to make you resign. Surely until recently, on all boys weekends away, twin rooms were compulsory. They were a lot cheaper than single rooms and you could chat and have a late whiskey. Is there more to this story....

why? (dont mention Iraq - its out of bounds....)

I have only seen the Newsnight excerpts of his interview. But is there anyone else out there who believes that Tony Blair is almost without exception, completely genuine. He never fails to convince me. I feel there are a lot of Tony Blair haters out there, but for me he was superb, in getting Labour into power and keeping them there. I find his political conversation to be incredibly genuine and charasmatic. .........

SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > my first forum drinks was at the CPT - 3 years > ago. Sheesh > > Anyway, you'll know > > here's some pics from a previous drinks if you > want to look for faces I have just seen this Sean and it was before my time but a few faces I recognise.

giggirl Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I'm coming. There will be no clevage on show and > I've bought a minimiser especially. Its ok GG, you had it on show the last time and we still have the mamaries. We will get by.