...and Jordan for Foreign Secretary.....
Says rather a lot for this benighted country.
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 04/01/2008 at 16:30
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Haven't you been missing Screaming Lord Sutch PU? No one has successfully assumed the Monster Raving Loony mantle since his untimely demise.
When he campaigned round here his vehicle was a Daimler hearse I seem to remember. I confidently expect that Jeremy Clarkson's will be a cut above that. Suggestions on a postcard please.
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Among the drivel istr that the Monster Loonies had some eminently sensible ideas which, averaged out, would make them significantly more fit to govern than the present lot!
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My thanks to the OP for drawing my attention to this important petition.
I've given it my support.
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Clarkson has all the qualities of a politician - talks out of his backside a lot.
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I confidently expect that Jeremy Clarkson's will be a cut above that. Suggestions on a postcard please.
I think the small car he was driving round the BBC television centre in the last series would suit him perfectly. He would also need a revolving bow tie, and a red nose.
To be honest Clarkson would make a better PM than Not-so-Flash Gordon.
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To be honest Clarkson would make a better PM than Not-so-Flash Gordon.
Not for long probably. Proper politicians have to have the courage, and indeed the sheer boringness - the ability to spend weeks and weeks polishing the clauses of a minor local government finance bill - to be boring.
Interesting ones fairly often come to sticky ends, sometimes taking a whole generation of the lucky country concerned with them.
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Lud, I think a cursory glance at the last two series of Top Gear suggests that Mr Clarkson has deep reserves when it comes to the capacity to bore
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Mr Clarkson has deep reserves when it comes to the capacity to bore
Must say I hadn't looked at it like that. Perhaps what I should have said was that politicians have to be able to be boring about boring things, not interesting ones like Jeremy Clarkson...
:o)
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I'm all for it, he couldn't possibly do much worse than the incompetents we have had for the last 10 or so years ! And his commonsense and total refusal to be politically correct would be most refreshing.
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total refusal to be politically correct would be most refreshing.
Yes, I can't wait to see our European brethren, the cousins in their shades, and messrs Mugabe, Kibaki, Musharraf, bin Laden et al. rolling in the aisles...
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There are 263,722 people in the Jeremy Clarkson for Prime Minister group on Facebook.
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Also see:
tinyurl.com/2hpyzu
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I'd agree with 14/20 of 'his' policies!
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Oh dear oh dear......just watched Brian Sewall on Mastermind last night (kindly recorded by Mrs PU) he is a true petrolhead (specialist suject British Cars 1930 to 1950) is the a petition for him to be PM on Youface ?
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I told my other half, after watching the oh so pompous Brian's performance last night, that he would probably be ragged unmercifully by colleagues whenever he set foot next in the editorial department.
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No, he has an appreciation society with 104 members, and an "I secretly wish I was Brian Sewell"... with four members.
Sorry!
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As many as that...:-)
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More than Gordon Brown then. (The motorist's friend)
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"I secretly wish I was Brian Sewell"... with four members.
I wonder how many more votes he would have got if it had been phrased
"I secretly wish I were Brian Sewell"
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I have just emerged from my bunker after 25 yrs so can someone tell me who Brian Sewell is -- seriously! - I suppose I could do a google
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If you don't know his name you'll know his face...:-)
Or you should at least be able to recognize his Rococo vowels, inherited in slightly less rococo form from his one-time, er, mentor, the Soviet agent, employee of the Queen and former supremo of an institution that employed my wife, Antony Blunt... or was there an h in the Antony?
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>former supremo of an institution that employed my wife, Antony Blunt...
You're married to Anthony Blunt, Lud?
Kevin...
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I don't think he was the marrying kind... and since I have made one booboo and had to correct it, may I say right now that the institution in question was no kind of Firm (geddit?) but an artistic institute with publishing sidelines... My wife is not and has never been a spook.
I must say this name dropping lark can plunge you up to the neck in the, er, what's that stuff called?
No doubt that's why people who really go in for it have that sweaty look. Damn!
Must speak less.
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>>... My wifeis not and has never been a spook.
How do you know?
She can't tell you, because if she told you, she would have to kill you.
QED
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LOL!
I really like him, love his voice and turn of phrase. (Mr. Sewell that is)
Edited by nick on 05/01/2008 at 10:18
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He'd have to smarten himself up before he got my vote. I doubt if he even knows the meaning of sartorial elegance.
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>>I doubt if he even knows the meaning of sartorial elegance.>>
A certain T Blair was normally quite well dressed - didn't prove a lot of good for voters though. The self-elected replacement smartened himself up and it's been even further downhill ever since..:-)
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I have to say I was a bit neutral towards him before I watched a Channel 5 documentary on him driving his Merc Coupe tp Santiago di Compostella following the Pilgrim's route. A very interesting journey in many ways.
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Yes, I enjoyed that series too. His own car I believe, impeccable taste!
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And he wears proper shoes - you can always gauge a chap's character by his shoes. Clarkson wears loafers.
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And there's me thinking I was the only person who looks at a chap's shoes.
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what's the matter shoespy, loafers just gone in the bin..or.. your 'handle' been discussed just a little bit too closely
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Chuckle ! - I could write you an essay on what shoe choice can tell you ( very accurately actually ) but.....................
a ) It would be boring for most people
b ) It would probably be moderated
c ) It is best to leave some stones unturned
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Chuckle ! - I could write you an essay on what shoe choice can tell you ( very accurately actually ) but.....................
Church's Brogues every time.
MD
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Oh dear oh dear......just watched Brian Sewall on Mastermind last night (kindly recorded by Mrs PU) he is a true petrolhead (specialist suject British Cars 1930 to 1950) is the a petition for him to be PM on Youface ?
I think he would have serious problems with getting votes from 'up-North'. He is famous for his derisory attitude to anything North of London.
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After I posted I did a Wiki on him - have to say he doesn't ring a bell - I didn't realise I was stuck so far in the wilderness -- There again I have never watched eastenders so perhaps I need to get a life. :-((
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He's all bluster. His Sunday Times articles in News Review are becoming quite tiresome and variations around a theme: 'loony lefties'; 'ecomentalists' 'poor service' and 'global warming'.
He's a good journalist and writer: he knows his readers' positionality; the paper's position, and writes for it. As for PM? Don't think so!
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www.brian-sewell.com/brian-sewell-cars/bmw-328-193...l
Sewell airs his motoring credentials, additionally it proves that the English language in all its ancient beauty is alive and well.
"That is the point about the 328 - BMW recognised that a car did not have to be large and powerful to win a race or cross a continent"
From his report on the 1936 BMW 328.
I think the above says it all. Clarkson would have used 250 rambling words to say that.
I also feel that that sentence has stood the test of time.
Sewell for PM - No more poodling to the US !
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 05/01/2008 at 21:06
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George W. Bush. Now what does that initial stand for? Walter perhaps.
VBR......MD
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www.brian-sewell.com/brian-sewell-cars/bmw-328-193...l Sewell airs his motoring credentials additionally it proves that the English language in all its ancient beauty is alive and well.
Many years ago I was driving round sarf London, and passed Sewell in a marvelous old car. I think it was a rag top Porsche 356. You can't but smile at such a nice old car. He is certainly a character and comes across as likeable.
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I think he drives a gold coloured, mid 80s Merc 5 litre SEC now. The guy's got class!
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I've met Brian Sewell--briefly--a couple of times and he's one of the cleverest people I've ever met. I didn't find him pompous, just unwilling to make concessions to people not as smart as he is, which is pretty much everyone. And of course he now trades on that attitude. I know quite a few not so clever academics, mostly in senior positions, who are very pompous indeed. They give intelligence a bad name.
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Heh heh Baskerville. I long ago realised that the absent-minded professor was an idealisation, and the downright thick professor was an important part of the real mainstream thing.
Not sure you're 100% right on BS though. He likes cars but I didn't think much of the BMW piece tagged above. He's clever too, but cleverness gets you nowhere (and in bad with quite a lot of people). And he danced on Anthony Blunt's grave rather meanly I thought on the subject of the artist Poussin, Blunt's great enthusiasm.
He is amusing however. The humour may be less impish than it looks but it's funny all right.
An entertaining figure, but no hero of mine.
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Well he should know, and may not be wrong: coming from the North himself. Born Doncaster, Repton School Derbyshire, Rotherham Advertiser first journo job.
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First class buffoon with oak leaf cluster and bar
news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7174760.stm
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We all know he cultivates the image of buffoon. But I am surprised that an account number and sort code were enough to set up a direct debit. It sounds to be as if there is more to it, in the form of documents with a forged signature. To be fair he has owned up to being wrong, which is more than many government ministers have ever done.
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But I am surprised that an account number and sort code were enough to set up a direct debit. It sounds to be as if there is more to it in the form of documents with a forged signature.
The presumption you need signature for direct debits is probably what makes most people offer their basic bank details to strangers on ebay as well. Meanwhile you can setup direct debits online without any need for signature for quite some time now, there were waves of direct debit phone contract and pre-charge store cards scams as far as 5 years ago...
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what a fluffy dice, pink btw.
he should have realised that someone would have made him look stupid over this.
Edited by Webmaster on 07/01/2008 at 19:03
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But, saving grace here - he said "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake."
Can you imagine a politician saying that? Usual mealy mouthed drivel about "We shall put measures in place to ensure that - - - -" etc. Load of over salaried, over pensioned, short working hours wasters, in the main!
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Yeah but to be fair the person that did it set it up for a charity, if they'd set it up to pay their electricity bill (as they could easily have done, no signature is required for DD setup) then they would have been caught. It's very easy to follow the money, however, in this case, as they sent the money to a charity and would probably have given Jezza's details I guess they would be very difficult to trace.
I'm sure that there must be a way to benefit from having someone's bank details without a risk of being caught, but I can't see it from having had a quick think about it.
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I think someone with a bit of nous wouldn't have made that mistake in the first place....
I know Clarkson appeals to a certain section of the public with his boorish homilies, but at heart he's just a an overgrown pampered public schoolboy with little experience of real life and a big gob. Come to think of it he might make a good politician....
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But saving grace here - he said "I was wrong and I have been punished for my mistake." Can you imagine a politician saying that? >>
To put it into context GB would not so JC gets my vote - out of the two of them that is!
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