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non sociopath skin

(4,972 posts) Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:25 AM Sep 2012

Extry extry: Edwina's ex exhumed to prop up Dave 'n' Gideon

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9546338/Sir-John-Major-green-shoots-of-economic-recovery-are-on-the-way-as-darkest-moment-passed.html

Not got quite the pizzazz of Bill Clinton rooting for Obama, has it?

Can't see a failed premier with all the charisma of a half house-brick counteracting the Benito Johnson effect, even among the dwindling ranks of the Tory faithful .......

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Extry extry: Edwina's ex exhumed to prop up Dave 'n' Gideon (Original Post) non sociopath skin Sep 2012 OP

Hey, don't knock it - he's the 4th most respected politician in the country muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #1

Doing nothing does seem to be the main criterion for political popularity nowadays non sociopath skin Sep 2012 #2

Or Lord Melbourne LeftishBrit Sep 2012 #3

DON'T. SAY. THAT! T_i_B Sep 2012 #4

muriel_volestrangler

(101,316 posts)

1. Hey, don't knock it - he's the 4th most respected politician in the country

Reply to non sociopath skin (Original post)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 11:53 AM

Sep 2012

according to that Sign of the Apocalypse you posted a couple of days ago.

Though I've just noticed David Miliband is the 5th. Is this largely because he doesn't really do anything in politics any more?

non sociopath skin

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2. Doing nothing does seem to be the main criterion for political popularity nowadays

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #1)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:07 PM

Sep 2012

What price a Spencer Perceval revival?

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LeftishBrit

(41,205 posts)

3. Or Lord Melbourne

Reply to non sociopath skin (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 12:53 PM

Sep 2012

As the old rhyme said of him:

'To promise, pause, prepare, postpone
And end by letting things alone:
In short, to earn the people's pay
By doing nothing every day.'

Though that might be preferable to the mad passion for reform and change-for-its-own-sake of the likes of Gove.

T_i_B

(14,738 posts)

4. DON'T. SAY. THAT!

Reply to non sociopath skin (Reply #2)

Sun Sep 16, 2012, 01:40 PM

Sep 2012

Spencer Percival is just about reactionary enough for the Tories these days.

If the Tory right could exhume the lives of Percival, Castlereagh & Viscount Sidmouth in the name of ideological purity they probably would.

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