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Offline mistybear

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British Political Quotes.
« on: October 14, 2008, 13:27 »
                                                               British Political Quotes.

"The labour Party has lost the last four elections. If they lose another, they get to keep the liberal party."
Clive Anderson.

"If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless"
John Hume.

"I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end."
Margaret Thatcher.

"Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy."
William Whitelaw.

"I don't know what I would do without Whitelaw. Everyone should have a Willy."
Margaret Thatcher.

"The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it would be a misfortune. But if someone dragged him out again, that would be a calamity."
Benjamin Disraeli.

"I have no interest in sailing around the world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so."
Edward Heath.

"The Labour Party's election manifesto is the longest suicide note in history."
Greg Knight.

"At every crisis the Kaiser crumpled. In defeat he fled; in revolution he abdicated; in exile he remarried."
Winston Churchill.

"The British Secret Service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB."
Clive James.

Those who can make you believe absurdities,
can make you commit atrocities.

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Re: British Political Quotes.
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2008, 15:17 »
All gems, MB.  :thumbs:
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Re: British Political Quotes.
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2008, 16:54 »
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"Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy."
William Whitelaw.

Love that one!   ;D
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Re: British Political Quotes.
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2008, 17:03 »
I remember it well - the apathy, that is. :)
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« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 17:58 »
Has it even gone away?
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Re: British Political Quotes.
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 18:00 »
No, just deepened with my wrinkles. ;)
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« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 18:07 »
 ;D
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Re: British Political Quotes.
« Reply #7 on: October 15, 2008, 03:20 »
What's the difference between ignorance and apathy?     I don't know and I don't care.

Sounds like the bush administration's foreign policy.  :o:   :scoot:
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« Reply #8 on: October 15, 2008, 07:53 »
 :crazy:
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