Alan Johnson does a runner
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I'd have thought you'd have appreciated a 'man of the people' politican, regardless of party allegiance.
An orphan, brought up in a council flat, and who entered politics after years working as a postman.
Makes rather a change from the plethora of public school educated, Oxbridge graduates, careerist politicans, who inhabit both sides of the chamber in the House of Commons nowadays.
Not worth a lite if he can't add 2 + 2 is G or with Labour ya never knowI'd have thought you'd have appreciated a 'man of the people' politican, regardless of party allegiance.
An orphan, brought up in a council flat, and who entered politics after years working as a postman.
Makes rather a change from the plethora of public school educated, Oxbridge graduates, careerist politicans, who inhabit both sides of the chamber in the House of Commons nowadays.
...or thay appalling woman Sarah Palin talking about "our friends in North Korea"......
Maybe he thought it better to step back and let someone with more experience take over, rather than saying nowt and pocketing a good wage.
The honerable but not the tory way a fear.
The honerable but not the tory way a fear.
the reason for resigning is stated family reasons..ed balls will be a credible replacement..
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Balls by name Balls up by nature
Balls by name Balls up by nature
Pickles by name.
Pickled by nature.
Though as well as pickles, it looks like he ate all the pies too.
So that'd be "Porker & Pickle" then would it ? 
lancsdave said:Have the Sunday papers gone to print yet ?
No need to wait. It's just been on the BBC news, Johnson's police protection office was having an affair with his wife. Allegedly.
BBC News - Alan Johnson protection officer faces investigation
No need to wait. It's just been on the BBC news, Johnson's police protection office was having an affair with his wife. Allegedly.
BBC News - Alan Johnson protection officer faces investigation
How boring.
Retiring to 'spend more time with family' is usually a euphemism for something much more exciting. Forcing a resignation, before the story goes public.
It can be something to do with the unnatural use of an orange, and a stocking.
Well it did when politics was more glamorously sleazy. Instead of just sleazy.
Or, back in the day, Gerald Ford welcoming Anwar Sadat as the "President of the great state of Israel."
Not worth a lite if he can't add 2 + 2 is G or with Labour ya never know
Unlike the tories who add 2+2 (or any numbers for that matter), and come up with the answer: "13 years of Labour misrule."
Still think mistaking mushy peas for Gucamole in a north of England chip shop is one the best , easy mistake to make for one of the working class Labour party's cabinet members to make
.Still think mistaking mushy peas for Gucamole in a north of England chip shop is one the best , easy mistake to make for one of the working class Labour party's cabinet members to make
...and which wag first drew your attention to that?
Still think mistaking mushy peas for Gucamole in a north of England chip shop is one the best , easy mistake to make for one of the working class Labour party's cabinet members to make
And while we are on the food thing: was it not JFK, who, before a crowd of confused West Germans proudly claimed that he was a cream filled donut
And while we are on the food thing: was it not JFK, who, before a crowd of confused West Germans proudly claimed that he was a cream filled donut
Was JFK KFC's brother?