I adore Eddie Izzard :)

You're quite right about the entertainment value of Parliament - pure pantomime.

Tcha. Love my country because I was born here, but part of me would like to be somewhere else at times...

Aha - thanks for the clarification. I was going on http://www.conservative-kids.com/ from the Key Links thread. Shocked me blind!

The goal is to stay in power so you can make the most money possible. Can you say "Haliburton"? Can you say "Big Oil"?

Service to the best interests of the Nation doesn't enter into it. The theory is more along the lines of "whatever is good for me and my cronies is good for the nation, too. After all, *we're* getting richer, so everyone else must be, too."

Pffft!

So long as the "Raptor Index" stays low, I think we're ok.


...pesky raptors :rolleyes:

I believe in that trickle down threory.....when I get rich I'm gonna piss on everyone, too.
In the mean time, I'll just piss 'em off. :blush:

Have you seen Jurassic Park? Those raptors are quite annoying. I wouldn't piss them off if I was you.

BTW, there is nothing Biblical about the rapture... it was "invented" by a nutty minister in England a while back and adopted by the Calvinists.
It is just an urban myth.

Pangloss...if you think British politics is entertaining, you should have a butchers cook at Australian parliamentary sittings recently. A couple of weeks ago, someone took in a toy chicken and used it to taunt a minister from the other side of the floor.

Last week our federal opposition leader was called a 'fat so an so' on the steps of parliment by a minister from the governing party. That was after Mr Tucky was told to 'go take his tablets' by the opposition leader.

I tell you, it's all fun and games till someone loses an eye!

And that's why I love Australia. Politics isn't so much a battle as a game. Everyone's so cool and rad there that they know whatever happens it'll be fine, so they just have a good time of it!

A butchers cook? :mg:

Same as a "Captain Cook", or a "Geezer", or a "Gander" for that matter.

:D

Butcher's Hook surely?

probably right, but you get lots of local variations and bastardisations!