What surprises you the least?

Eric · 28-09-2014, 01:51

That a tory MP defects to UKIP?

That a tory MP is caught with his pants down?

DaveinGermany · 28-09-2014, 11:27

That anyone should be surprised by that type of behaviour from an MP.

Eric · 28-09-2014, 12:13

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Originally Posted by DaveinGermany

That anyone should be surprised by that type of behaviour from an MP.

Maybe I should have left out "tory" .... wouldn't want to sound like C'mon ... of course, he would have made it a poll.

Barrie Yates · 28-09-2014, 17:27

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Originally Posted by Eric

That a tory MP defects to UKIP?

That a tory MP is caught with his pants down?

What about fiddling their expenses, or accepting favours as a result of their position.

Barrie Yates · 28-09-2014, 17:28

Forgot about lying to their electorate

Eric · 28-09-2014, 17:37

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Originally Posted by Barrie Yates

Forgot about lying to their electorate

Me too ... when something happens all the time and is never punished ("Recall" would be a good idea ... so good no politician would ever go for it) one tends to take it for granted; it's something not even worth bringing up. "Politician Lies" is not a headline that would surprise anyone. The only politician I'm aware of who never lied, or did it infrequently (once in a blue moon, maybe), was Tommy Douglas.

Margaret Pilkington · 28-09-2014, 17:40

The phrase 'lessons have been learned'.......yet over and over the same kind of things happen......child abuse, fiddling expenses, hospital blunders.....incompetent civil servants.
If behaviour does not change then nothing has been learned at all.

DaveinGermany · 28-09-2014, 17:56

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

The phrase 'lessons have been learned'

Ah, that old chestnut, what they mean by that is,that they, won't make the same mistakes as they did last time that got them caught.

Eric · 28-09-2014, 18:27

I believe one could write a coherent speech using nothing but cliches and platitudes (or platypuses ... platypi

... if you are in Australia). Come to think of it, stuff like this solemnly graces the pages of daily newspapers and appears regularly in tv interviews.

It usually starts with something like this: "My fellow Canadians (Americans, Britons, etc. ... take your pick ... although in Canada one has to use both official languages.

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Gordon Booth · 28-09-2014, 19:02

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Originally Posted by Eric

That a tory MP defects to UKIP?

That a tory MP is caught with his pants down?

Order! Order! Objection.

He didn't get caught with his pants down.
He's a Tory Minister(or was) so naturally he was wearing Paisley Pyjamas!!
One has to maintain a little dignity and style, what? Even when one is trying to excite someone.

What sort of nutter thinks he looks sexy in Paisley pyjamas? Even if he had the front- ( I can't go on, I'm feeling sick).
It makes you wonder what other strange things some of our rulers are getting up to.
The biggest laugh is it wasn't even a young woman he sent them to, it was a man. I'll bet those photos went round the office in seconds!

cashman · 28-09-2014, 20:49

Its very hard to say what surprises me least, I would say NOTHING at all surprises me, about those who represent the british public.

Margaret Pilkington · 28-09-2014, 21:00

Cashy, you really must let me give you some different anti cynical pills.
The ones you are taking aren't working anymore.

cashman · 28-09-2014, 21:10

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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington

Cashy, you really must let me give you some different anti cynical pills.
The ones you are taking aren't working anymore.

Is being honest cynical??

DtheP47 · 28-09-2014, 21:17

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Originally Posted by Gordon Booth

Order! Order! Objection.

He didn't get caught with his pants down.
He's a Tory Minister(or was) so naturally he was wearing Paisley Pyjamas!!
One has to maintain a little dignity and style, what? Even when one is trying to excite someone.

What sort of nutter thinks he looks sexy in Paisley pyjamas? Even if he had the front- ( I can't go on, I'm feeling sick).
It makes you wonder what other strange things some of our rulers are getting up to.
The biggest laugh is it wasn't even a young woman he sent them to, it was a man. I'll bet those photos went round the office in seconds!

Of course the gutter presses sticky fingers are all over this, he had been swapping texts and tweets with a reporter posing as a 20 something Tory Google Page Ranking girl

Entrapment or what?

Margaret Pilkington · 28-09-2014, 21:18

No Cashy, of course it isn't.......in fact you are echoing pretty much, the sentiments of many of us on here.
After all what is cynicism, but realism in workaday clothes!