Gordon Brown signs his death warrant

**Adrian II** · 08-18-2008, 12:55

Originally Posted by InsaneApache

As for the Lib-Dems, I wouldn't hold your breath Adrian, when Huhne called him 'calamity' Clegg he was right on the button.

Oww, one British politician says something nasty about another. I'm impressed.

How about this letter from The Daily Telegraph:

Sir – Arriving at Heathrow this week, I saw signs warning me that a set of doors might open (isn’t that what doors do?) and, at the luggage carousels, that “trolleys operate in this area” (surprise, surprise). It isn’t only at Heathrow. The bus I use in London, for example, now plays an activated message every time someone rings the bell to warn that the bus will be stopping at the next stop and that we should “stand well clear of doors”. Other countries seem to manage perfectly well without people walking into doors or colliding with trolleys. Isn’t it time we reviewed the absurd obsession with “health and safety” that seems to suffocate this country and just let people use their common sense?

Norman Baker, MP (Lib Dem) London SW1

**InsaneApache** · 08-18-2008, 13:01

Originally Posted by Adrian II

Oww, one British politician says something nasty about another. I'm impressed.

He's his foreign affairs spokesperson IIRC.

Sir – Arriving at Heathrow this week, I saw signs warning me that a set of doors might open (isn’t that what doors do?) and, at the luggage carousels, that “trolleys operate in this area” (surprise, surprise). It isn’t only at Heathrow. The bus I use in London, for example, now plays an activated message every time someone rings the bell to warn that the bus will be stopping at the next stop and that we should “stand well clear of doors”. Other countries seem to manage perfectly well without people walking into doors or colliding with trolleys. Isn’t it time we reviewed the absurd obsession with “health and safety” that seems to suffocate this country and just let people use their common sense?

THOSE BORN 1920-1979

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED the 1930's, 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!!

First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they were pregnant.

They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking

As infants &children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags

Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because,

WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.

No one was able to reach us all day And we were O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies or DVD's, no surround-sound or CD's, no cell phones, no personal computer! s, no Internet or chat rooms.......
WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them!

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

These generations have produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned HOW TO DEAL WITH IT ALL!
If YOU are one of them CONGRATULATIONS!

You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated so much of our lives for our own good .

While you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will know how brave (and lucky) their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!

**LittleGrizzly** · 08-18-2008, 13:17

I honestly don't see the tories being any better in this department, i see the conservatives and labour as soo similar these days, especially since cameron came to power, i think the main difference would be a posh etonian accent announcing the latest round of bad policys rather than a rough scottish one...

Of course Lib Dems would be the ideal choice but they are not going to win (despite for the fact i have voted for them everytime i could have) i suppose a hung parliment is my realistic hope but no realistic result could make me too happy, even if labour hang onto power i won't be happy and the tories are bound to be a less caring version of labour....

**InsaneApache** · 08-18-2008, 13:29

You've really fallen for the propaganda big time havn't you?

Here's something to warm the cockles of your heart, Brown suspends elections...

Gordon Brown is set to postpone local elections next year in a bid to avoid a leadership challenge that could be triggered by big Labour losses.

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standa...eat/article.do

I've changed my mind. Gordon is more destructive than 'Fat Man' being dropped in Stoke Newington. If anybody could tell.