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Brown denies that last 10 years have been boom before bust.

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  • ad9898_3
    ad9898_3 Posts: 3,858 Forumite
    dudleyboy wrote: »
    8. Back, sack and crack me.

    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:, one thing is for sure we are definitley better comedians than Brown is PM, hang on though I suppose thats not saying much
  • Kez100
    Kez100 Posts: 2,236 Forumite
    do you know what scares me?

    When I was in my twenties I looked up people in positions like the PM with respect and believed in their abilities beyond my understanding.

    Now I am in my mid fourties I realize PMs were just those boring, teachers pet, gob!!!!!s that sat at the front of the class and we all avoided at all costs.
  • ad9898 wrote: »
    :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:, one thing is for sure we are definitley better comedians than Brown is PM, hang on though I suppose thats not saying much

    "taller than Micky Rooney" competition here, folks!
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
  • dopester
    dopester Posts: 4,890 Forumite
    Fgs. I can't look at him with all the "firmly in-control" hand-gestures as he talks.

    All this blame on America.

    Maybe his FSA should have questioned where all the cheap torrent of money was flooding in from - why and how.

    A CDO market growing from $650 billion to $47 trillion in 7 years will flood money out. Northern Rock grew and grew and others went in hard too.

    And now it is all America's fault alone for where the UK finds itself. With the public believing peak and current house prices are even half-realistic.

    Oil and energy has gone up partly to due to funny money system exposed, commanding better value for the commodities.
  • Kez100 wrote: »
    do you know what scares me?

    When I was in my twenties I looked up people in positions like the PM with respect and believed in their abilities beyond my understanding.

    Now I am in my mid fourties I realize PMs were just those boring, teachers pet, gob!!!!!s that sat at the front of the class and we all avoided at all costs.
    It took you twenty years to realise that? :eek: ;)
  • dopester wrote: »
    I can't look at him with all the "firmly in-control" hand-gestures as he talks.
    While I like the "hands together touching finger tips" gesture, my favourite is the one where he looks as though he's holding an imaginary boiled egg in the air with only a few fingers (shaking it periodically to show he really means business).

    At least, I think it's a boiled egg. It could also be a symbolic testicle to signify he's talking utter...
  • Jonbvn
    Jonbvn Posts: 5,562 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    It could be worse, Gordon could be deposed by Milli[strike]w[/strike]bank
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • moanymoany
    moanymoany Posts: 2,877 Forumite
    Maybe we should email this linky to all the delgates - commentators - viewers - it was on Google page this morning.

    http://www.wikihow.com/Stay-Awake-at-Work
  • JonnyBravo
    JonnyBravo Posts: 4,103 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee!
    dudleyboy wrote: »
    While I like the "hands together touching finger tips" gesture, my favourite is the one where he looks as though he's holding an imaginary boiled egg in the air with only a few fingers (shaking it periodically to show he really means business).

    At least, I think it's a boiled egg. It could also be a symbolic testicle to signify he's talking utter...

    so many to choose from.....


    moving forward guff etc

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    look my spin drs have taught me how to smile

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    you will all vote for me... you are powerless in my thrall

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    i'm leaving this country and you'll never see me again.... actually dont i look a bit like saddam?

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  • Lotus-eater
    Lotus-eater Posts: 10,789 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Kez100 wrote: »
    do you know what scares me?

    When I was in my twenties I looked up people in positions like the PM with respect and believed in their abilities beyond my understanding.

    Now I am in my mid fourties I realize PMs were just those boring, teachers pet, gob!!!!!s that sat at the front of the class and we all avoided at all costs.
    Vince Cable and Paddy Ashdown should parachute in to No 10 and have a coup. Paddy could knock the living daylights out of anyone who dared argue.
    I quite like the idea of Milliband cowering behind his chair.
    While Cable could get on with doing whatever needs doing. What, I don't know, thats why I want it to be him and not me.

    Maybe Mr Ashdown could get the SAS behind him or something, they always say they could bring a small country down and we're shrinking by the day.
    Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
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