A Touch of Class…
So… Prime Minister Brown is going to listen following recent unfortunate events in elections and polls.
Let’s see how he is doing so far with his newly acquired listening skills:
(a) Didn’t really listen to his backbenchers on the 10p tax rate abolition
(b) Does not seem to be listening to law officers and sundry other experts on the extension of terror detention without charge limits from 28 - 42 days
(c) Didn’t listen to experts appointed by his government on the re-classification of Cannabis from Class C to Class B
(d) Didn’t listen to civil liberties people on the burgeoning use of CCTV cameras. They don’t seem to be working. Only 3% of crimes in London have been solved using CCTV and, apparently, policemen don’t like trawling through the pictures. It is hard work, said one copper, reportedly, in the press yesterday
(e) Didn’t seem to be listening to Wendy Alexander when she told him that she was going to press for an
Independence referendum in Scotland to flush the SNP out and did not appear to be listening to himself when he, apparently, told Wendy Alexander to press on with her plan. All very puzzling. BBC story
WTF is Gordon smoking? Won’t be a spliff of course - not his style. I seem to recall some time ago that a substantial number of Labour politicians (and other politicians - but not Cameron) confessed to using cannabis in their youth.
I am, of course, not smoking a spliff in the picture above. I have perfected the art of rolling very large cigarettes since I took up smoking rollups. Practice makes perfect.
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Apparently GB only gets 2 hours sleep a night, no wonder he looks and acts like death warmed up.
Personally, I think that cannabis should be decriminalised rather than raised from Class C to B.
More to the point, I think that The Apprentice is more addictive. Fancy a “good Jewish boy” not knowing what Kosher is! But, the snobbery of the woman who advises Alan Sagar blaming Edinburgh University for not being as good as it used to be! I learnt in prison what Kosher is as it was a diet for Jews. Then came Halal. It is a prison diet for Muslims.
Perhaps, Alan Sagar ought to get two teams from prison and give someone worthy a chance of earning £100,000?
Jailhouselawyer…. I do enjoy watching The Apprentice - can be complelling in the way that a snake watches a mongoose and vice versa.
The kosher chickern issue was classic!
I think Margaret Mountford is very switched on - more a case of irony than snobbery in my view tonight. She was / is a lawyer - I enjoy her directness and her sense of humour - dry to arid.
Okayokay - that’s not a Camberwell carrot in your Charonicity’s gob - it’s a leek.
Fact.
And what…pray… is wrong with that?
I like the Welsh…. in fact… I’m toying with the idea of becoming Welsh…. Dai Charon? …. or even Jones the Blawger?
Sorry… LawMinx….. and my friend from across the water who is very welsh!
Maybe the main party leaders should be on the next series of the Apprentice with Surallan … ???
Scott… now there IS a thought….. I may well have to turn what is left of my mind to this!
I don’t think it’s a leek, but that does look like a bit of lettuce sticking out the end. I’m fairly sure you’re smoking a tortilla wrap.
The Chief: It is, in fact, mint…. I like a cool smoke….
Or simply an outgrowth.
Margaret Mountford, sorry I am useless at names at times. I do like her and the bloke who advises. Perhaps you are right about the irony. I’m one of those who doesn’t believe that Eton and Oxford are the be all and end all of education.
Bugger! And there’s me reading that those with Aspergers Syndrome cannot recognise irony, and me saying to myself I can recognise it.
Still, I won’t lose sleep over it but I did not sleep last night as I was researching and blogging and on forums. Trouble is this then makes me tetchy, and I’m sure Rocky only plays up to have a go at me (not really). There were times I could go 3 days and nights not sleeping. Especially when driving up and down the M1 and A1 in stolen luxury cars and paying for petrol with stolen cheque books. Ah, the good old days…
Jailhouselawyer… you certainly know to post a good comment!
Sometimes, now and again I say something inappropriate, the AS again, as you know.
As we’re on the subject of dope. When I started the life sentence and was at Long Lartin I went to see the doctor and told him I was depressed. I said I didn’t want to go down the Largactil, Valium, Librium route again. He asked, is there any Paki-black on the Wing? I said I suspected as much because I could smell something. He replied, well go and buy yourself a £1 deal and you’ll be as right as rain in the morning. I took his advice and indeed did feel better, so much so, I self prescribed a daily dosage from then on. One day, I was rather too careless and a “Burglar” (security screw) caught me with about a teenth. The governor gave me a £1.50 fine, and some free advice, ie, if you’ve got a drug problem go and see the doctor! He failed to appreciate why I burst out laughing.
I see you have become a roll-up proficient!
Years ago, Bob Newhart (ancient American comedian, well, an American aspiring to be a comedian) performed a monologue on ‘Introducing Tobacco to Civilisation’. In this the Head of the East India Company, based in London, could be heard having a telephone conversation with Sir Walter Raleigh in the colonies, discussing what he was supposed to do with the 3 boatloads of leaves that Sir W had sent to England, to arrive mid Autumn. The pertinent part ran along the lines of…”Ok Wal, you roll them up… and then you set fire to them!..Ha ha!…What do you do then, Wal? Ho Ho,…. Stick them in your ears?”
It’s easy to imagine that GB’s smoking heavily could explain a great deal