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mockney piers Wrote:

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> "would you like to see a reduction in public

> spending elsewhere?"

>

> Pulling troops out of Iraq, and phased from

> Afghanistan.

> Not wasting any more money on ID cards.

> Stop the ?12bn NHS IT project, it's a miserable

> failure, stop now after only ?3 billion before we

> chuck any more good money at bad (andersen,

> fujitsu et al).

> Next time have an IT strategy for the NHS, not an

> "IT Strategy".

> Don't renew Trident, we are, after all, signed up

> to the NPT.



100 per cent agree.:)(tu)

Budget Live!! (a la daily mash) http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/budget-live!-20080312789/


1232: British economy like an injured greyhound, says Darling

1248: Gordon Brown pushes chancellor out of the way and tells him he's 'doing it all wrong'.

1254: Pledge to abolish poor children. 'They're so horrid' says chancellor

1306: Glasgow-London journey time reduced to 'less than two weeks'

1320: Cigarettes to be sold from box full of cobras


Is it just me or is the daily mash the best site on the internet at the moment?

mockney piers Wrote:

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> "would you like to see a reduction in public

> spending elsewhere?"

>

> Pulling troops out of Iraq Not yet, and phased from

> Afghanistan Agreed.

> Not wasting any more money on ID cards Too bloody right.

> Stop the ?12bn NHS IT project, it's a miserable

> failure, stop now after only ?3 billion before we

> chuck any more good money at bad (andersen,

> fujitsu et al). Ditto

> Next time have an IT strategy for the NHS, not an

> "IT Strategy".

> Don't renew Trident, we are, after all, signed up

> to the NPT. We part here, however...maybe another time, another thread


I could easily make cuts elsewhere in the defence budget however - Eurofighter, Type 45s, Nimrod etc but that's the defence geek in me coming out. ID cards could be a big saver in the long term - the thru-life costs are enormous.

mockney piers Wrote:

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> Nice one DC. I'm sick and tired of people saying

> "ooh all these little hitlers saying what I can

> and can't say".

> Short of outright slander, libel or a crass

> personal attack, noone tries to stop anone saying

> anything.

> But unfocussed, spitleflecked rants with no

> purpose other than some cathartic unloading of



> pent up aggression rather sets it self up to a

> rhetort of "can't you say something useful".

>

> I'm sure there's a thread somewhere specifically

> for that. If not, I'll set one up.

>

> As it goes, if you tease out the rhetoric from

> Fish's post, she's saying

>

> I don't think Alistair Darling is really the

> Chancellor, I think Brown is holding onto the

> reigns of economic policy.

> I don't think an extra ?50 annually towards

> pensioners' fuel bills (?100 for the over 80s) is

> doing enough to prevent the winter crises faced by

> the elderly each winter.

> I think politicians live in an ivory tower.

>

> None of which is so very contentious is it.



What makes you think I'm a She(?)

Oh, I know we are.


Some of the time I want to give an argument an airing and some of the time I want to try and work out why I think what I do and you're a useful sounding board and nearly always have something interesting and intelligent to say.


But, in the words of a crazy yank, if you want those nukes you'll have to pry them "from my cold, dead hands". Which shouldn't be too hard if I've been handling weapons-grade uranium! ;-)



Dave C - your quote just reminded me of another great and crazy yank (who I had the privilege to meet) - Bill Hicks

---------------


"I'll tell you, too, that's starting to depress me about UFO's, about the fact that they cross galaxies or wherever they come from to visit us and always end up in places like Fife, Alabama.

Maybe these are not super-intelligent beings, man. Maybe they're like hillbilly aliens. Some intergalactic Joade family or something.


"Don't you all want to land in New York, or L.A.?"


"Nah, we just had a long trip, we gonna kick back and whittle some."


Oh, my God, they're idiots.


"We're gonna enter our mothership in the tractor pull!"


My God, we're being invaded by rednecks. My biggest fear. Last thing I want to see is a flying saucer up on blocks in front of some trailer, you know?


Wouldn't that be depressing? Some bumper sticker on it - "They'll get my ray gun when they pry my cold, dead, eighteen-fingered hand off of it!"

Herb

citizenED Wrote:

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> David Carnell, your 2.39pm post was a wonderfully

> concise piece of writing. One of the best I have

> ever read on this forum. Thanks.


Are you taking the proverbial? :-S


If that's a genuine compliment, thank you.


If you're being sarky, well, um, I don't know. Bugger off. ;-)

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