Comments on: Shouty MP is shouty

By: Wreckrob8

Wreckrob8 — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 18:13:00 +0000

I think it is necessary to separate the incumbent from the office in this case. Nick Clegg got lucky.

By: Daneel

Daneel — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:55:00 +0000

So he ranks lower than Nick Clegg? That’s pretty low.

By: Ryan Lenethen

Ryan Lenethen — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:23:00 +0000

I visualize that as them wheeling him out on a little silence of the lambs restraint cart, with the mask, snarling and spitting.

Of course now they have Dean “The Mouth” Del Mastro…

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:42:00 +0000

Im Irish, and i am ashamed that despite a very liberal and progressive declaration of independence and constitution that our politicians have become just as much of a bunch of feckless gobshites as our neighbors to the east.

By: chris coreline

chris coreline — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 11:02:00 +0000

Look at the jowly, entitled, upper class, landed, plutocratic noblemen… just look at them.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:52:00 +0000

I still hate you.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:33:00 +0000

It was a joke.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:15:00 +0000

You know what’s also nightmare fuel? The eye. It could be jocular, menacing, friendly, or creepy. You just don’t know. That’s its power.

By: Guest

Guest — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 05:13:00 +0000

What? I mentioned the possibility that it might be ironic; it’s just that I’ve heard that phrase spoken many times in politics where it sadly wasn’t ironic at all.

You like messing with me, no?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 04:38:00 +0000

Tony Blair = nightmare fuel. The smarmy smile fails to hide the alien within.

By: johnathan

johnathan — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:38:00 +0000

Haha, ouch, okay you got me. I may have misspoken, and completely take your point. I don’t actually want Tony Blair to be PM and didn’t think my original comment would be taken as an endorsement of Labour policy. I really did enjoy the above mentioned going at it every Wednesday though. In high school I would watch Politically Incorrect and then flip over to C-SPAN and watch the PMQs. Imagine how laid in high school I got.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:09:00 +0000

In the same way that war in Iraq and Afghanistan is more interesting than mowing the lawn?

By: johnathan

johnathan — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000

He’d be more interesting than Ed Milliband.

By: johnathan

johnathan — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 03:01:00 +0000

Also, I’m American, so I don’t really have a horse in that race.

By: robert feller

robert feller — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:12:00 +0000

and as a stupid american i’m blown away by this. i listen to most slick sounding brit types and love the accent but more important the focused word choice and (often) incredible manors…then i see this crap and it reminds me of house americans in congress wish they could be…like that jerk off that yelled “you lie” to POTUS…i’m glad we have our (mostly) quiet respect here, it allows one to focus on the message. when you are permitted to get this worked up your brain tunes out reason and logic and a chance to empathize with another view…

By: strangefriend

strangefriend — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 01:47:00 +0000

Well, at least Parliament has improved since William Pitt’s time (starting at 6:55 on this clip.)
http://youtu.be/REbSmutgyGg

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:12:00 +0000

Tony Blair wants to be PM again. Be careful what you wish for.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 22:11:00 +0000

Holy shit, it’s like Jerry fucking Springer. Really, MPs? Really?

Not that my US government is any better.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:13:00 +0000

That is a statement that I closely associate with bullies.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 21:07:00 +0000

It’s better than spunky.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:58:00 +0000

You know who else hopes that was irony?

By: SumAnon

SumAnon — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:50:00 +0000

That’s still a lot more credit than I’d give Congress.

By: johnathan

johnathan — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:45:00 +0000

I miss watching Tony Blair and Ian Duncan Smith go at it.

By: catherine buca

catherine buca — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:29:00 +0000

Exactly. They are incompetent middle managers who get to sit in a fancy room and throw their own excrement around like crazed chimps every so often. Their constituents can’t relate to this kind of idiocy, they are so far removed from what the people they represent want, need and have to deal with, and they are very certainly not fit for office.

By: catherine buca

catherine buca — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:27:00 +0000

I rankled at that, too. Patronising twerp.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:08:00 +0000

Or, they’re just putting on a very loud dog and pony show to keep the public from paying attention to the backroom deals that actually run the country.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 20:02:00 +0000

John Bercow? He seems to suffer from some sort of attention seeking disorder. He enjoys the drama.

By: Fernando

Fernando — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:58:00 +0000

all morons. They get paid so well, they are suppose to be the best representatives of a country, but they shout like ignoramouses. I think is all just an act. They will leave the Parliament, write bills that benefit the wealthy and life goes on.

By: Cypherpunks (a public account)

Cypherpunks (a public account) — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:58:00 +0000

It’s because they stayed up all night boozing and partying (I used the kinder word) with their lobbyists.

By: Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston

Jeremy Mesiano-Crookston — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 19:46:00 +0000

No, it’s fundamentally party-based. This isn’t a gender thing at all, but is firmly adversarial.