Quote Of The Day

I thought the following quote rather wonderfully summed up the current mood on the general election campaign and the leaders' debates. This from a fellow Swindon Town fan:

Well, this leaders debate hasn't really helped much in revealing the best candidate has it.

You've got the self serving rich boy party, the racist party, the liar party, the tree hugging party, the hi-de-hi party, the braveheart party, and the 'not even the best Milliband' party.

Meh.

Quite.

Stupid Quote Of The Day

Without clicking on the link can readers guess who said this?

"The European commission isn't like a national government. It has to remain impartial,"

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From Tim Worstall, a comment from the Guardian:

The Greek protest vote goes to neo-nazis, the Italian protest vote to an anarchist comedian, the British protest vote goes to an ex-stockbroker called Nigel.

What an extraordinarily sensible country we really are.

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In an article in the Spectator regarding the Eastleigh by-election I was drawn towards this point...

On a big post-it note in Lib Dem HQ, volunteers write why they have come down to help out. One message stands out, ‘Because Eastleigh is ours’.

Not the voter's constituency, not the people's constituency but apparently it belongs to the Lib Dems. One is reminded of Republican Scott Brown's retort that "it's not Ted Kennedy's seat".

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Just seen this from a Guardian report on Friday about recreating football matches played during the Christmas truce of World War I as part of next year's centenary celebrations. Andrew Murrison, Minister for International Security Strategy, in the Ministry of Defence said (my emphasis):

...that staging a football match in Belgium on the battlefields where soldiers had briefly put down their weapons was "a no-brainer in terms of an event that is going to reach part of the community that perhaps might not get terribly entrenched into this".

One wonders if he could have worded that better...

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"Of course, Britain could survive outside the EU...We could probably get access to the Single Market as Norway and Switzerland do..." 

Tony Blair, speech in Ghent, 23rd February 2000

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"If parliament is formed from one party as a result of its winning an election, it becomes a parliament of the winning party and not of the people. It represents the party and not the people, and the executive power of the parliament becomes that of the victorious party and not of the people."

I'm currently waiting to be picked up to attend a Christmas bash - one I'm not particularly looking forward to - but hey I'm looking on the bright side it's free food. So I thought I would pose a quick quiz for a Saturday night...guessing who wrote the above quote (and no cheating)

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I've done this story to death, so I make no further comment for the time being, apart from highlight this quote from Dr Vivienne Nathanson, of the British Medical Association on Today:

"Alcohol is a dose-related poison, which means that the more you drink the more it affects you."

Really? Now where we be without those daily snippets of wisdom?

Quotes Of The Day

From Tony Blair (who he?):

“I think most sensible people in Britain can see immigrants have made a great contribution to our country.”

At a stroke, he insults the core working class support of the Labour party who are most affected by immigration by overtly suggesting they're not 'sensible'. And:

"I would have been happy taking the European job as President of the EU".

Perhaps someone should remind Blair that he has absolutely no hope of that job...because it doesn't exist.

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From the Telegraph:

"One of [Cameron's] senior advisers says the PM spends “a crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja on his iPad"

How reassuring...

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Courtesy of Witterings From Witney:

It is sad that the situation presently exists whereby, we know [politicians are] lying, they know we know they’re lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them, because no system of democracy can last on such a basis – as history has demonstrated many times.

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An interesting use of logic reached me via my inbox last week. A UKIP candidate due to stand in the local elections asked Oxford City Labour Councillor Delia Sinclair (who incidentally has been investigated for failing to declare an interest) the following question:

"Why can't we have a return to weekly waste collections?"

A fair and reasonable question I think. And the response from Councillor Sinclair?

"Weekly collections are already in place on an alternative weekly basis."

Its Orwellian beauty is truly genius. And it wouldn't do to mention the elephant of course.

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From the Telegraph (my emphasis):

The clock is ticking for the euro. After 11 years circulating in shops and bars from Athens to Zeebrugge, there are, it is said, just 10 days left to save it

Was the use of Zeebrugge deliberate?

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Confirmation that many Tories are Europlastics and have no interest in getting us out of the EU:

One 2010 rebel confessed the vote was about more than Europe. The MP said:

“I’m actually not particularly anti-European. If there was a referendum tomorrow, I’d vote to stay in. Supporting the motion was partly about keeping faith with the people who sent me here and partly about taking a swing at No 10.”

Update: Just seen WfW has posted on the same thing.

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Slovakian Parliamentary Speaker and SaS leader Richard Sulík:

“I’d rather be a pariah in Brussels than have to feel ashamed in front of my own children,”

Quote Of The Day (part II)

You really can't make this stuff up:

hattip: The Talking Clock twitter.

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From Zerohedge twitter:

What a farce.

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"At each stage the opponents of the euro have forecast disasters which have in fact never happened and which always looked most unlikely...the Euro-sceptics constantly underestimated the competence of the Europeans and their ability to organise things properly."

From the 2002 paper, Why Britain Should Join The Euro, where one of authors was a certain Chris Huhne.

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We can always rely on Silvio Berlusconi to amuse us whilst we wait for the collapse of the Eurozone:

"Angela Merkel is unfuckable lard-arse"

European harmony carrying on as normal then

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A telling quote from the Financial Times regarding Merkel and Sarkozy's press conference today on how to prolong the Euro crisis for another week (my emphasis):

Attention will be given to the Tobin-style tax proposal but it’s worth remembering that Sarkozy has suggested this before. The only difference now seems to be that he’s looking to use the proceeds to prop up the eurozone rather than fund development in Africa and climate change mitigation efforts.

'Nuff said