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26th February 2018, 05:03 AM
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j.sabourn
Gulliver ... The door at number 10 can only be opened from the inside and doesn’t even have a keyhole on the outside. As a result someone is always stationed on the inside to open the door for visitors who are captured on cameras, which can’t be too canidid on occasions judging by some of the visitors. There is incidentally a back entrance for staff which does have a key and can be opened from the outside. This is not me giving away secrets of state, as an aid to any would be burglar or others with evil intent, as was recently published in one of your newspapers. Maybe they don’t like the present occupants. Very loyal are the media. Cheers JWS
Go around the back and see all the armed police there covering the wall at the back of the grounds.
Was there a couple of years ago and could not believe the number of them, some even white I noticed. All with assault rifles I might add.


Happy daze John in Oz.
Life is too short to blend in.
John Strange R737787
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26th February 2018, 05:22 AM
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What does the milkman think of that I wonder, bet he could tell some stories like the rest of them. Will buy his memoirs when the statutory signature on the Officials Secrets Act runs out, Entitled " I delivered milk to Number 10 " by Benny Hill. JS
#54... Rob don't you mean the Parsons Nose. ? JS
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26th February 2018, 06:54 AM
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Quite possibly John I know one thing they won't vote to get rid of half of them and to be perfectly honest watching their behavior when you see televised Question Time you begin to wonder what we pay half of them for that is of course politicians of all parties and all persuasions
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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26th February 2018, 11:26 AM
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I understand you only have PM question time once a week, here it is every day the feral parliament sits and it goes for an hour.
How any work is done is beyond the ken of most, all they do is slag each other off.
Then we have the media, the newspaper journalists in particular lowest of the low, lower than a snake belly.
If you or I tell a lie we are in deep doo, doo, but not them, oh no they call it journalistic license.
Where do you get such a license, does Mary sell them I wonder.


Happy daze John in Oz.
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26th February 2018, 09:29 PM
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You can see with prime minister's question time where the old Oxford and Cambridge graduates who have spent half their life in the debating Society succeed when they have somebody who has had less chance at an elite education they tend to round on them and use humour two defend any verbal attacks I must admit that some of them have absolutely fantastic verbal skills and when you consider some of the great statements the one that always comes out in my mind is were churchill was told by a lady MP that he were her husband she would put poison in his coffee to which he replied if she was his wife he would drink it . The trouble is we pay them to govern not to do stand-up comedy
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27th February 2018, 04:45 AM
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We had back in the 90's a PM who was very good at that, he knew just how to bring someone down or how to get a laugh from them.
Two of his best were, taking the opposition leader to task when he asked when the next election would be and why he was so slow in announcing it.
His reply
'I want to do you slowly'
Then when he had a dislike for someone,
"You look like a shiver trying to find a spine to run up'.
Sadly now it is more a question of rude, crude insults.


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27th February 2018, 04:54 AM
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Dennis Healey was particularly good at parliamentary put downs
Healey’s first law of politics: when you’re in a hole, stop digging.”
To a reporter in 2000:
A statesman is a dead politician. I am in the home of the living dead which is betwixt and between. The House of Lords.”
On Margaret Thatcher:
That bloody woman.”
On debating with Geoffrey Howe:
Like being savaged by a dead sheep.”
On John Prescott:
He has the face of a man who clubs baby seals.”
To a reporter in 1997:
Yes I have been on a diet, but not the Nigel Lawson one. I don’t want to look like death warmed up.”
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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27th February 2018, 12:05 PM
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[QUOTE=cappy;296835]###well we wont have a big button here ted gave it away but he does have a paper with peace in out time on it .....things are hotting up ....wave the paper ted wave the paper...oops to late herr junker is in paris again......[/QUOT
Cappy, Read my friend................................... Terry. 
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27th February 2018, 12:28 PM
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27th February 2018, 01:19 PM
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MORE POLITICAL NEWS ???? that was when the guy was 21 , 7 years ago .
Rob Page R855150 - British & Commonwealth Shipping ( 1965 - 1973 ) Gulf Oil -( 1973 - 1975 ) Sealink ( 1975 - 1986 ) 

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