tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post2185169124660673788..comments2023-10-31T15:14:05.373+00:00Comments on Hagley Road To Ladywood: Two months after the vote: the pro-Coalition viewUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-44340586952208151642010-07-05T06:43:41.113+01:002010-07-05T06:43:41.113+01:00It's good news that the coalition is indeed wo...It's good news that the coalition is indeed working for the good of the people and not just for the good of a certain party. It's refreshing to hear that the Government is finally doing better than it did before. Jackart, it is also my wish that these positive events will continue.Mark @ Israelhttp://samsonblinded.org/blognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-22001832012814762362010-07-04T15:00:30.680+01:002010-07-04T15:00:30.680+01:00This "doom n gloom" bollocks that Anita ...This "doom n gloom" bollocks that Anita is going on about: did the LibDem say the same when they were opposing Labour?<br />True colours, Anita, true colours. The Yellow Tories.Stan Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-56871626272125207672010-07-01T07:54:38.600+01:002010-07-01T07:54:38.600+01:00Well Anita,
we didn't "redeem" ourse...Well Anita,<br />we didn't "redeem" ourselves, as you so patronizingly put it, because this is -brace yourself- a <i>guest post</i>. <br />A well written and persuasive one, making a few important points as well as excellent for debate.<br /><br />But still, "this blog" disagrees with what Jackart wrote big time.<br /><br />So I'm afraid you'll have to still "get quite annoyed with this blog" for a little longer.<br /><br />Last time I checked, the right to criticise the government has not yet been abolished, eh?<br /><br />You can call it <i>"doom n gloom"</i> but you weren't saying that when all guns were blazing against Gordon Brown, were you? What sort of flimsy argument is that?claudehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11498799178450479883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-81675195732820570242010-06-30T22:25:23.979+01:002010-06-30T22:25:23.979+01:00Jackart... Done!
Sorry for misinterpreting your ...Jackart... Done! <br /><br />Sorry for misinterpreting your words by taking them to mean what they say. So, if banning councils doing something doesn't count as real banning, then surely, banning the hunt from doing things is ok?<br /><br />Hey, just missed some Tory nobhead blathering on about Jamie Oliver... good job he's not on the Today programme.<br /><br />Anita... isn't she sweet? Let's all hold hands and be nice to each other and all our woes inflicted on us by the Labour government (although usually criticised by the Lib Dems for not going far enough) will just go away. You're not a hippy are you?Bob Piperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13792439016502695274noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-17453661961802759772010-06-30T16:33:29.480+01:002010-06-30T16:33:29.480+01:00I was beginning to get quite annoyed with this blo...I was beginning to get quite annoyed with this blog (which as you may know I was a regular reader of) after the constant lashing out at the Lib Dems.<br /><br />You redeemed yourselves slightly with this piece. I've never been a Tory but let it be said that at this specific moment in time the Coalition are the only possible way this country can get out of the crap it was left in by Gordon Brown & labour.<br /><br />I guess that in certain quarters there's a knee-jerk tribal reaction to anything Tory. It may be heard to swallow but the Tories are no longer the party of Lord Tebbit, Nigel Lawson and Norman Fowler.<br /><br />The budget may not have been perfect, but in this economic climate it was hardly going to consist of tons of money been lavished on every department.<br /><br />Also in Vince Cable we have a guarantee that a professional and progressive politician will preside over the most delicate economic matters.<br /><br />Drop the doom n gloom, I say, otherwise Labour is poised for a couple of decades in the wilderness.Anitahttp://www.londonist.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-44278760429272066372010-06-30T15:17:09.124+01:002010-06-30T15:17:09.124+01:00Jackart's got to have a sense of humour. Only ...Jackart's got to have a sense of humour. Only that can explain why he wrote that: <i>(Labour's) entire manifesto was based on a transparent economic lie (that cutting spending is “taking money out of the economy”) </i>.<br /><br />Surely he doesn't mind electoral porkies too much if he's more than happy to share a bed with the Liberals ("Tory VAT bombshell", you do remember that dont you, Jackart?)Stan Mosshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08877204795536395407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-3376790660189718892010-06-30T15:10:39.784+01:002010-06-30T15:10:39.784+01:00Writing things merely to draw a response is pretty...Writing things merely to draw a response is pretty weak and very easy.<br /><br />All Tories should be raped, for example, comes under that category.<br /><br />Just a thought.Daniel Hoffmann-Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531802987223516482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-15319590664538059072010-06-30T13:16:10.732+01:002010-06-30T13:16:10.732+01:00Oh... and Cllr Bob - you're on. Donations to c...Oh... and Cllr Bob - you're on. Donations to charity of the other's choice?Jackarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04477130724830922566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-18960598068028538422010-06-30T13:13:01.794+01:002010-06-30T13:13:01.794+01:00I like Cllr Piper. He may be a left wing loon, but...I like Cllr Piper. He may be a left wing loon, but he's got a sense of humour and he likes cricket.<br /><br />No-one's gone for the deliberate fishing expedition (fox-hunting) that I put in the piece, which is disappointing. I was hoping to have some fun with that.<br /><br />I'd like to address a point Bob raises. It's a tiny point, but banning councils from printing free pravdas is not the same as banning, say, smoking in pubs. One affects councils who want to stuff worthless bumwad through letterboxes, and one concerns the rights of millions of smokers. The "right" of councilors to free taxpayer-fundend propaganda is not even on my list of freedoms.<br /><br />The fact that it's on Bob's says a lot about his view of freedom.<br /><br />As for the Lib-dems as human shields. Yeah... isn't it great!Jackarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04477130724830922566noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-91608009310890911512010-06-30T10:20:54.780+01:002010-06-30T10:20:54.780+01:00The way Jackart speaks about the Lib Dems is like ...The way Jackart speaks about the Lib Dems is like they are so kind of human-shield, kind of captures the relationship well i think.Daniel Hoffmann-Gillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02531802987223516482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17101458.post-71572797276815096992010-06-30T09:16:23.192+01:002010-06-30T09:16:23.192+01:00I like Jackart. He's just as much a right-wing...I like Jackart. He's just as much a right-wing nutjob as the likes of Dale, without being such a pompous prat... and this posting is full of his usual risible, rascally nonsense.<br /><br />I love that funny bit about... <i>Government ministers do not pop up on the Today program announcing a new policy every single day</i>... whereas, in fact, they do exactly that. Whether it is some garbage about how you can sell eggs, how many prisons we should have, how they are going to write to six million civil servants to ask them to commit suicide, setting up a "child and families task force", pulling out of Afghanistan, not pulling out of Afghanistan... and on, and on, and on.<br /><br />But it's OK, cos they haven't banned anything (obviously no-one told fatty Pickles whose morning announcement (remember those) on the Today programme featured him banning Council newspaper publications, just after banning fortnightly bin collections in his previous spot.<br /><br />I also like his honesty over the fact that the Lib Dems are just dupes to provide credibility to a right-wing reactionary mob, but like the best comedians, he saves his funniest bit for near the end. His suggestion that <i>the next non-Tory MP will be a Liberal</i>... just before telling us how popular the coalition is in the opinion polls. Priceless. The same opinion polls which tell us the Liberals have hemorrhaged support since joining forces with the Tories... losing 25% of their support in six weeks must be a new record.<br /><br />Of course, Jackart is right, the coalition itself is proving popular in the opinion polls. Six weeks in... well knock me down with a feather! Obama's ratings were massively higher after six weeks... and even "the worst PM in history" was basking in the glow of popularity after six weeks. <br /><br />Interesting to see what happened to both of those ratings once reality took hold.<br /><br />I've got a £100, Jackart, which says the next non-Tory Prime Minister ain't a Liberal... if you've got a ton that says it will be.Bob Piperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13792439016502695274noreply@blogger.com