Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:10 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Argh! The 'real world' thing!

But yes, I agree with what you're saying.

Although it should be noted that Mitchell was a UN peacekeeper. So probably not much more 'real world' than that.

But there certainly seems to be, with this government (or at least the bulk of the Cabinet) a culture of entitlement: a sense of 'we're born to rule'. And Mitchell's comments (and he has not denied the aspect of telling the policeman to 'know your place') reveal exactly that attitude.

You think being a UN Peacekeeper gives someone a sense of reality, really?

Paddy Ashdown was a decorated soldier, he is still a halfwhit when it comes to modern life.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Fri Sep 21, 2012 1:15 pm  

Standee wrote:

You think being a UN Peacekeeper gives someone a sense of reality, really?

Paddy Ashdown was a decorated soldier, he is still a halfwhit when it comes to modern life.

Hey! I'm attempting to be fair and non-partisan, here.

It's as much a reality as anything else – the thing about that phrase is that there's actually no such thing as 'non-real life', is there?

There are all sorts of different 'real lives' – teacher, business man, street sweeper, shop assistant, engineer, journalist, soldier – but they're all real. One isn't more real than any of the others.

I do entirely understand what you're saying about people who are career politicians and have never worked in any realm other than politics, and I agree completely.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:23 pm  

That's not all he's been doing...

That's not all he's been doing...

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Fri Sep 21, 2012 3:25 pm  

Many a true word spoken in jest...

Many a true word spoken in jest...

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Fri Sep 21, 2012 5:55 pm  

What a horrible, horiible, disgusting regime we're living under. This man is a prat, his colleagues are prats, the coalition is full of PRATS!

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Fri Sep 21, 2012 9:58 pm  

How many times have you seen people swear at police officers on documentaries and get nicked for public order offences? The copper should have arrested him on the spot.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Fri Sep 21, 2012 10:22 pm  

I'm disappointed the title of this thread wasn't Gategate.

The mans an idiot, and I'd think won't be a cabinet member for that much longer.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sat Sep 22, 2012 7:18 am  

Dally wrote: Mind you, when you visit some of these tax havens they are nice. Maybe he has a point? Oh i quite agree Mr dally though I am struggling to pinpoint Ms Mintball's chosen Island. Mintball wrote: Between a Conservative Party chairman who wants us to be a tax haven, more like the Caymen Islands, Caymen? Is this a simple spelling mistake and there is an island for homosexual men or is it in fact the plural of Cayman? The OP must be called to the thread for a full enquiry. Yours Peggy, with nowt else to do, six days off the drink and counting.

Dally wrote: Mind you, when you visit some of these tax havens they are nice. Maybe he has a point? Oh i quite agree Mr dally though I am struggling to pinpoint Ms Mintball's chosen Island. Mintball wrote: Between a Conservative Party chairman who wants us to be a tax haven, more like the Caymen Islands, Caymen? Is this a simple spelling mistake and there is an island for homosexual men or is it in fact the plural of Cayman? The OP must be called to the thread for a full enquiry. Yours Peggy, with nowt else to do, six days off the drink and counting.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:05 am  

peggy wrote:

Yours Peggy, with nowt else to do, six days off the drink and counting.

I managed 3 bottles of Vino Bianco last night.
Cheap, nasty, dry, and 3 quid a bottle from Aldis.

Love it.

Re: Tell us what you really think ... : Sat Sep 22, 2012 8:31 am  

It's not good for you, alcohol really is evil. Anyway plebs like you should be drinking bitter, mild or pints of cheap gin.

You Vino Bianco socialist.