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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 20 2013, 08:39 AM (319 Views) | |
| becky sharp | Mar 20 2013, 08:39 AM Post #1 |
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From the New Statesman... The Chancellor follows David Cameron onto the site. The "submarine Chancellor" has surfaced - on Twitter. Conservative chairman Grant Shapps broke the news this morning that George Osborne would join the site later today and, minutes later, @george_osborne materialised. Here's how he lost his Twitter virginity. George Osborne ✔ @George_Osborne Today I'll present a Budget that tackles the economy's problems head on helping those who want to work hard & get on pic.twitter.com/20nyTj0UCF http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/03/george-osborne-joins-twitter |
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| waiting4atickle | Mar 20 2013, 08:41 AM Post #2 |
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Everything should be alright now, then. |
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| becky sharp | Mar 20 2013, 08:44 AM Post #3 |
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Suggested 2nd tweet "I can't find that red bag anywhere"
Edited by becky sharp, Mar 20 2013, 08:44 AM.
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| caissier | Mar 20 2013, 09:58 AM Post #4 |
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I'll 'twitter' him !!! |
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| madfor4 | Mar 20 2013, 10:13 AM Post #5 |
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Well, Osborne's got four letters right.... ![]() No wonder Cameron keeps on about the Tories being the party of opportunity. Only in the Tory party could a man who, by his own efforts, barely achieved the rank of "Towel Folder" at Selfridges could, through an old school chum, end up as Chancellor... |
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| dai Cottomy | Mar 20 2013, 10:14 AM Post #6 |
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The Hollow Man This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a twitter Apologies to T.S.Eliot |
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| caissier | Mar 20 2013, 10:38 AM Post #7 |
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Opportunity. What occasionally emerges from the mysterious day to day behaviour of this current Tory set-up is that they are living in and are immersed in a fantasy world of unreal human behaviour - how they would like things to be, disregarding that life is complicated and difficult and, for most people, a big challenge. They can't imagine why others would not be able to operate along the lines of their simplistic utopia. |
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| becky sharp | Mar 20 2013, 12:18 PM Post #8 |
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| madfor4 | Mar 21 2013, 09:14 AM Post #9 |
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I listened to Danny Alexander's spineless waffle, on PM, when repeatedly asked about Osborne's new housing policy...Allowing people to buy homes they can't afford is what caused the current financial situation and led to the bank-bail-out. In affect Osborne is using tax-payers money to bet on a new 'housing bubble'..he should have stuck to folding towels From today's "Times" One senior economist described the new housing policy as “absolutely insane” and warned that it would fuel an increase in sub-prime lending. Erik Britton, of Fathom Consulting, said: “If you had to invent a single policy that had a good chance of making the situation worse it would be the one he has chosen — subsidising high loan-to-value mortgages to risky households. They are building a sub-prime mortgage sector just as they did in the US. We all know how that plays out.” Edited by madfor4, Mar 21 2013, 09:15 AM.
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| madfor4 | Mar 21 2013, 10:22 AM Post #10 |
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I found this in the 'Guardian's' comments..... ..........................................................Gideon and The Magic Money Car....................................................... Some years ago, a man called Gordon had a big car made of numbers. He didn’t really look after it as well as he should, and the laws about looking after the car – which Gordon was partly in charge of – weren’t strict enough. A man called Gideon wanted very much to drive the car, and, for a while, when everything looked fine, he used to shout about how we didn’t need any regulations for running cars. In fact, telling people they had to look after the car was holding back car-ownership, said Gideon. Everyone will be better if we don’t look after cars at all, said Gideon. Gideon wasn't very good at counting, but he was good at sneering. So that's alright, then. Then, a few years ago, Gordon's car crashed. Gordon was driving at the time, but there were a whole lot of other cars involved that had nothing to do with Gordon at all. Funnily enough, even though Gideon was nowhere near the car when it crashed, the crash caused him a terrible bout of amnesia, and he promptly forgot everything he used to say about how we didn’t need any regulations about maintaining cars. All of a sudden, said Gideon, we need car regulations again (as long as they were nothing like the kind of rules that applied to French or a German cars, and as long as the drivers with the biggest wallets could still drive as recklessly as they wanted). Gideon blamed Gordon for the crash, but while the car was quite knackered, it was by no means beyond repair. Gordon tried to patch it up with a mechanic called Alasdair, and the car started running again, although not as fast as it had done before. But even despite that, Gideon started telling everyone that the car was so broken that it might never run again, even though it wasn’t true, and that Gordon crashed the car on purpose, even though it wasn’t true, and that only Gordon was responsible for the crash, even though it wasn’t true. And as a result a lot of people who had chauffeurs wrote nice stories about how lovely Gideon was in their newspapers. They seemed to have caught amnesia from Gideon, too, but never mind. And at last, in 2010, he finally got to drive the car. Gideon then proceeded to deliberately drive the car into a wall for three years, claiming that his inability to choose another route was everyone else’s fault but his own, even though it was a choice he made every day. Sometimes he said Gordon built the wall, and at other times, he said that hitting the wall would make us drive faster in the end. And then, when he still didn’t get anywhere, he said that standing still was the right direction, and he tried selling the bonnet, and the wheels, and the engine to some of his friends for far less than they were worth. When the car still didn’t get anywhere, he forced a bunch of unemployed people to push what was left of the car into the same wall he’d been crashing into for the last three years, for which he gave them no money, and claimed this meant they were employed now. Fairy stories always end with a moral, and so does this one: while it’s perfectly reasonable to talk about the car's service history, and point out that things haven’t always been perfect, blaming Gideon’s choices over the last three years on the previous owner is almost as dishonest as Gideon himself. There's no Big Bad Wolf called Gordon breaking everything forever - that man only lives in the newspapers. There's just a horrible, lumpen, dangly-armed smear of an incompetent man called Gideon, who's no better at counting than he is at telling the truth. And it's time we took away his keys. |
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| caissier | Mar 21 2013, 05:56 PM Post #11 |
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Someone should make a film of that ...... |
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