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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 12:46 pm ] |
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Labour pledges “written in taxi on way to press conference” say insiders Mar 27th, 2010 Downing Street insiders have revealed that Labour’s five election pledges were written hastily in a taxi on the way to the press conference because Gordon Brown “fell asleep in front of the TV”, and forgot to finish them. Despite promising colleagues that he was on the verge of "something brilliant", the pledges were written during the ten-minute drive to the conference centre. At yesterday’s key press conference, Brown unveiled his hastily assembled five pledges for a new manifesto: ■Maximise the efficiency of doing good things ■Reduce the risk of doing bad things ■Strengthen front-line smiling and hand-shaking ■Not spend absolutely gazillions of pounds, and ■Be fair, sympathetic and quite nice to children “It was a disaster,” said a source close to Brown. “We were all hoping for something a bit more, erm, substantial. And when we left work yesterday, Gordon was still at his desk, promising that he ‘had it sorted’. Well, nobody believed him, but the very least we expected was that he might work through the night.” “Instead, he sat down to watch Frasier on Comedy Central with a glass of wine, and woke up the next morning with nothing done.” Brown, realising that he only had an hour to get to the press conference, then flung on a shirt and a tie, and confided to Lord Mandelson in the taxi that he hadn’t written a single pledge. “It was then that Lord Mandelson’s eyes turned red,” said a source close to the Dark Lord. “And he insisted that Gordon scribble something down immediately. Mandelson was almost dictating, saying – ‘put something about being nice to people’ and ‘make sure you don’t mention anything like hospitals, wars, British Airways or David Cameron’.” At one point, Brown got confused and pledged to torpedo the Conservative Party, but despite Lord Mandelson egging him on to include it, he scribbled it out, saying that it was “far too specific”. Labour MPs are delighted with the pledges, which they say will commit them to “absolutely nothing specific” if they were to win the election. Eric Trunkpants, MP for Shytte North, said that he was “over the moon”: “Gordon couldn’t have come up with anything better if he’d thought about it. These are fantastic pledges – I can now go to my constituents and say nothing specific whatsoever. Thank God he didn’t give any numbers about, say, investment in hospitals or schools – and thank the Lord Mandelson that he didn’t say the slightest thing about getting out of Afghanistan or the minimum wage, or what he would do about the rising price of childcare. This is great.” Source; dailyshame.co.uk |
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| Author: | edders23 [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 2:14 pm ] |
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To be fair when was the last time a politician actually told the truth about what he was going to do if elected its the rules of the game I'm told all prospective candidates are given this as the golden rule Don't say what you mean say what sounds like something the electorate want to hear |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 3:45 pm ] |
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edders23 wrote: To be fair when was the last time a politician actually told the truth about what he was going to do if elected its the rules of the game I'm told all prospective candidates are given this as the golden rule
Don't say what you mean say what sounds like something the electorate want to hear They are not even doing that....they're all spouting nonsense that really no one wants to hear 
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| Author: | towag [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:41 pm ] |
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I have got to the point in my life where I don't believe anything anyone say's anymore except for family and close friends....... 
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:42 pm ] |
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towag wrote: I have got to the point in my life where I don't believe anything anyone say's anymore except for family and close friends.......
your lucky..thats two groups of people more than i trust
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| Author: | towag [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 4:58 pm ] |
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bloodnock wrote: towag wrote: I have got to the point in my life where I don't believe anything anyone says anymore except for family and close friends....... your lucky..that's two groups of people more than i trust There must be somebody you trust? That's very immediate family and very close friends.......
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| Author: | cabbyman [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:09 pm ] |
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edders23 wrote: To be fair when was the last time a politician actually told the truth about what he was going to do if elected its the rules of the game I'm told all prospective candidates are given this as the golden rule
Don't say what you mean say what sounds like something the electorate want to hear Margaret Thatcher. My heroine. |
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| Author: | bloodnock [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:18 pm ] |
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towag wrote: bloodnock wrote: towag wrote: I have got to the point in my life where I don't believe anything anyone says anymore except for family and close friends....... your lucky..that's two groups of people more than i trust There must be somebody you trust? That's very immediate family and very close friends....... I would tell you who..but can I trust you not to tell anyone else 
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| Author: | toots [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 8:28 pm ] |
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bloodnock wrote: towag wrote: bloodnock wrote: towag wrote: I have got to the point in my life where I don't believe anything anyone says anymore except for family and close friends....... your lucky..that's two groups of people more than i trust There must be somebody you trust? That's very immediate family and very close friends....... I would tell you who..but can I trust you not to tell anyone else Family can be worse than politicians  I only trust very close friends and they are few
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| Author: | captain cab [ Thu Apr 08, 2010 9:56 pm ] |
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http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/DavidSutch/ |
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:28 am ] |
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Now this could be a big vote winner!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/08/david-cameron-michael-caine-youth-programme |
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| Author: | toots [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:41 am ] |
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Brummie Cabbie wrote: Now this could be a big vote winner!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/08/david-cameron-michael-caine-youth-programme It doesn't work
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| Author: | Brummie Cabbie [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 4:53 am ] |
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toots wrote: Brummie Cabbie wrote: Now this could be a big vote winner!! http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/08/david-cameron-michael-caine-youth-programme It doesn't work It won't work with everyone, but it's bound to work with some of them. |
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| Author: | Alex [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 8:29 am ] |
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I've added a poll to gauge what way the good people of TDO are going to vote. General election Poll Alex |
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| Author: | skippy41 [ Fri Apr 09, 2010 9:04 am ] |
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Alex you missed out the I will slash diesel price party
We need to get our punters to put posters in there house windows saying we will only vote for the above 
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