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Does a politicians private life matter?

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  • Blacklight
    Blacklight Posts: 1,565 Forumite
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    davetrousers wrote: »
    Can I question your use of the word salubrious?

    I always understood it to mean beneficial to health.

    I think it may have been sarcasm.

    Personally I couldn't care less what these people do behind closed doors, salubrious or not. It's their business and I'm not really interested in other peoples private lives.
  • A._Badger
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    Then again it might not, always a danger with tittle-tattle.

    Which part do you believe to be tittle-tattle?
  • A._Badger
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    Blacklight wrote: »
    I think it may have been sarcasm.

    Personally I couldn't care less what these people do behind closed doors, salubrious or not. It's their business and I'm not really interested in other peoples private lives.


    Sadly, though, they care about ours and interfere with them constantly.
  • Blacklight
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    A._Badger wrote: »
    Sadly, though, they care about ours and interfere with them constantly.

    Whilst I think that's true to an extent, the things that really rattle my boat seem to come from the EU. Human rights act being a prime example.
  • StevieJ
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    A._Badger wrote: »
    Which part do you believe to be tittle-tattle?

    I think you know which part.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • A._Badger
    A._Badger Posts: 5,882 Forumite
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    I think you know which part.

    No, curiously, I'm not psychic and can't read your mind.
  • A._Badger
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    Blacklight wrote: »
    Whilst I think that's true to an extent, the things that really rattle my boat seem to come from the EU. Human rights act being a prime example.

    Yes, I'd agree. However, while the prod-noses in Westminster keep prying into our lives, it doesn't seem unreasonable for us to return the compliment.
  • StevieJ
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    A._Badger wrote: »
    No, curiously, I'm not psychic and can't read your mind.

    OK a small clue then, it is the bit in bold black letters icon7.gif
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
  • A._Badger
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    StevieJ wrote: »
    OK a small clue then, it is the bit in bold black letters icon7.gif

    I can't imagine why you're being so coy. Tittle-tattle has nothing to do with it (unless you know something I don't - and nor, it appears, does Guido - in which case why not have the courage to share it?).

    Not having his name on his child's birth certificate shows a disregard for the child's position in later life and also demonstrates that Milliband is one of the 'right-on' brigade for whom such formalities are often regarded as 'out of date' and 'irrelevant'.

    Does that matter in a leader of the Labour party? Well, it would matter more if were leader of the Tories but, yes, I think people can usefully infer something about his general attitude from that.
  • StevieJ
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    A._Badger wrote: »
    I can't imagine why you're being so coy. Tittle-tattle has nothing to do with it (unless you know something I don't - and nor, it appears, does Guido - in which case why not have the courage to share it?).

    Not having his name on his child's birth certificate shows a disregard for the child's position in later life and also demonstrates that Milliband is one of the 'right-on' brigade for whom such formalities are often regarded as 'out of date' and 'irrelevant'.

    Does that matter in a leader of the Labour party? Well, it would matter more if were leader of the Tories but, yes, I think people can usefully infer something about his general attitude from that.

    Idle gossip without being in full possession of the facts, yes tittle-tattle I think.
    'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher
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