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Well, if the Yanks got to blather on endlessly about their blasted election, then I don't see why we should be any different. Would the Brit contingent care to share their thoughts?
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Saltah'na
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I'll say one thing:
Britney Spears Must Die.
Robbie Williams is cool, though.
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I thought you british blokes were too civilized to punch people out over politics.
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That wasn't politics: it was an egg. In the ear. Given Prescott's temper, could we have expected anything else?
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What I do find brilliant is that, in one day, Tony Blair got verbally assaulted by a lsightly mad woman, and our deputy Prime Minister punched a guy in the face, and Labour went ahead in the opinion poles!
At the moment, Tony Blair could arse-rape the Queen Mum in the middle of Trafalgur Square, and Labour would still comfortably win.
Since I don't think any of the Brits have given inidcations as to how they are voting I'm interested in seeing how our foreign friends would vote. Or how they think we'er voting anyway.
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Orion Syndicate
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Charles Kennedy's a red head, William Hague's a foetus, which leaves the Rev ARP Blair. I'm pro European and believe that the single currency is vital to our economic interests in this century - William Hague being the idiot that he is keeps harking back to World War 2 and how we've always looked after ourselves in the past and we can do it again. This is precisely why he cannot be allowed to govern - a man who's so out of touch with economic and political reality would be disasterous for the country.
I wouldn't normally agree with what Prescott did, but the other guy was Welsh, so I suppose that makes it okay.
Another thing, Soccer? Is that a sport of some sort? Oh, you mean FOOTBALL.
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Did you see that photo of Hague kissing a baby on "Have I Got News For you?" I'm assuming he was the one on the right because the head was slightly larger, but I'm still not sure.
By the way, all you Yanks are supposed to want the Conservatives to win. That way we ditch Europe and become a fully-fledged client state of yours, I know how you like to screw up people's lives, well here are 60 million more to fuck with!
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Yeah, I saw that - Hague was the one on the right but people can be forgiven for not being able to tell the difference. Hague does have the ability to get himself into these disasterous photo opportunities doesn't he - the one with the antlers, the one where he's on a theme park ride with that cap - he's an arsehole!
As for Europe and the single currency, bring it on. All these people argue that we shouldn't go in because so many people fought and died in World War 2 to preserve Britain's sovereignty. WRONG! They fought against bigotry and oppression in the form of Hitler. And 56 years later, what do we have, a majority of Brits being bigoted against other Europeans - how sweet - I'm sure their parents and grandparents who perished will be very proud of them!
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I wonder about the whole bigotry and oppression thing - that they were fighting against it. Most of them felt about Germany the way their children and grandchildren do. They never had a say in going to war against Germany, they just went along with it. It wasn't anything personal as such, in those days they were used to going to war every 20 or 30 years anyway. The upper class for the most part thought "Herr Hitler" was doing a sterling job over there.
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They were fighting for the British cause, and the British cause was to fight the bigotry and oppression of Hitler towards Europe. It soon became the allied cause but people still went to fight.
I'm not quite so sure about whether people really went to protect British sovereignty. Hitler didn't want to fight Britain because he considered the Brits part of the Aryan ideal and he wanted to be friends - that could also have something to do with the fact that Britain was a major threat to his plans of lebensraum and expansionism across the globe.
Besides, I think there must have been a personal cause there, if not at first, then definitely later on as they realised the true atrocities of war.
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Shik
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Do remember that until, what, 1914? the House of Windsor went by their traditional Germanic name. That might have had something t'do with it, too.
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Um, that WWI thing sorta did it, actually...
Back on topic:
Blair's earned the right to win. He is, simply put, a good politician. He could have dick for ideas and policies, and yet he'd still be able to convince you he's smart and knows what he's doing. He came to Canada a few months ago and addressed our Parliament and sort of wowed everyone in that his address was coherent and interesting, unlike the majority of our political speeches out here.
Besides, we need a strong third-wayist on the international scene now that we've lost Clinton...
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