Things Noticeable this week

[Greenman]

Labour and LibDems weren't impressed either, let alone representatives of N.Ireland, Scotland and Wales spoken too, but then you can't please everyone can you. Remember the Queen only reads out the Bills and eventually signs it to make it Law, but other than that it is not her that sweeps anything under the carpet, it is just the Tories/LibDem coalition-Clegg has to be more assertive and as we saw in the paper this morning Cameron reckons that he could have done more if there was no coalition-but then the people decided he wasn't fit to run the country on his own with his party so he is stuck with Clegg and other members in his Cabinet. I am not taken in by Cameron's wheezes and sooner or later I think, probably at the next Election the Tories will be ousted by Labour again. Whether Milliband is leader still or not Labour will be stronger unless the Conservatives dramatically buck their ideas up and actually listen to the Electorate who taught them a lesson last week. We shall see. As to the State opening of Parliament I thought that Kenneth Clarke looked a little unstable on his feet this morning-probably had too many sherries but overall we do pageantry so well and the spectacle would have pleased a lot of tourists over here for Spring and Summer-more to come.

[steve40]

you do make some very good points there greenman, but with regards to this coalition (joke) it wouldnt surprise me cosidering the mess they are in that cameron would do a conservative classic and call for a vote of confidence, well when he does then i hope he gets laughed out of the house

[fleetwood77]

Originally Posted by Greenman

this morning Cameron reckons that he could have done more if there was no coalition-but then the people decided he wasn't fit to run the country on his own with his party so he is stuck with Clegg

And the people also decided that Labour weren't fit to run the country at all.

I could have told them that years ago - but they've got such short memories.

[scoundrel]

Originally Posted by Greenman

I am not taken in by Cameron's wheezes and sooner or later I think, probably at the next Election the Tories will be ousted by Labour again. Whether Milliband is leader still or not Labour will be stronger unless the Conservatives dramatically buck their ideas up and actually listen to the Electorate who taught them a lesson last week. We shall see.

This I doubt. If the mere unpopularity of the incumbent were sufficient, Thatcher would have lost in 1987, Major would have lost in 1992 and Blair would have lost in 2005. To take advantage of the unpopularity of the incumbent, the opposition party must have credibility; it must offer a genuine alternative choice of government. The Labour Party is still much too close to its own corruption in office (Hoon, Byers, Patricia Hewitt, et al) and its own record of failure. This current world economic crisis started on their watch and they bear a heavy share of the blame; for all its faults (which are many) the Con-Dem coalition is tackling problems which Labour refused to acknowledge. IMHO it is a much better administration than the Brown and later Blair administrations which preceded it and if the election happened tomorrow I would be, with a very heavy heart, obliged to support it.

It is Labour who need to buck up their ideas, not the Conservatives. They need to look like a government in waiting rather than a professional opposition. The first thing they urgently need to do is to get rid of Ed Milliband; he is a nebbish. When he leaves a room, it feels like someone walked in.

[sydney1]

It is Labour who need to buck up their ideas, not the Conservatives. They need to look like a government in waiting rather than a professional opposition. The first thing they urgently need to do is to get rid of Ed Milliband; he is a nebbish. When he leaves a room, it feels like someone walked in.
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You mean someone like this, Scound's?

[haroldeye]

When he stood for the leadership the NE News on TV went around his brothers constituency (so solid labour they could put Maggie Thatcher up for election with a red ribbon on and she'd win) asking people what they thought.

One little old lady said, 'Why should we trust him when his brother can't?'

Sums him up really.

[BLUEDINGO]

I was just looking on the web a minute ago & couldn't resist putting this in for the most obvious reasons, especially as VEF is such a dedicated porn site:

http://au.thehype.yahoo.com/blog/pos...or-porn-shoot/



Speaking to Huffington Post, the internet newspaper, Octomom has recounted details of her first experience in the adult film world, including talking to a female veteran porn star & getting comfortable on location with the crew.

"My first shoot was amazing," Octomom told HuffPost. "Such a learning experience for me in so many ways. I don't think I could have asked for a better crew to work with.http:"They were so patient and willing to teach me,” Suleman continued. "I owe a lot to Wicked Pictures contract star Jessica Drake; she opened my eyes to a whole different world of self-pleasure that I could have never imagined. They made me look so glamorous, and for the first time in my life, I felt beautiful and sexy. I'm very excited for it to come out!"

The video, directed by porn star Brad Armstrong, is set to be released in mid-June by an online adult entertainment company. A photo shoot was also conducted alongside the adult film, with reports suggesting the photos were done in a 1950s style shoot.

"For the pictures, we had her topless with a thick sparkly red choker with a big red heart in front and red and white polka dot panties... like 1950s style," an insider told HuffPost. "SpaghettiOs were all over her body and she's even throwing the SpaghettiOs toward the camera. The label on the can was changed from SpaghettiOs to say 'Saucy Octos.'"

Riiiiiight. We just hope Octomom keeps her word and uses the money to buy her family the large, safe house she's been talking about.

I just hope Octomom doesn’t do any creampie films with a multiple partners; I would hate to see what this could produce, especially as she is such a fertile, easy going gal…

[dbailey]

I have three tramlines on my thigh....

We it all started this morning when out for a walk, I decided to hop over a fence that had some barbed wire in it.

Conditions were very wet and my shoes were a bit muddy but there was plenty of room to leg over and some nice wood to stand on so it would only be a quick hop, turn, legover manoeuver.......

....then my foot slipped off the wood ....and it that split second I sacrificed my inner left thigh and buttock to protect 'the boys'

As I sit here now typing with antisceptic and bandages on my left leg, I stand by my earlier decision but only on my right leg obviously

[billybunter]

Just be thankful that barbed wire didn't rip open your ballbag

[Greenman]

I can't think that this Octomum woman is really going to help her kids-surely after lowering herself to the almost the lowest common denominator by doing porn, her kids will feel the stigma for years, especially from their school chums. When I first heard about this I thought actually the woman had been cruelly born with eight arms-well you don't you but then of course I followed that up by checking the story and found it was having 8 children. I was racking my brains to remember something similar that happened here some years ago but I can't remember the woman's name. She had sextuplets and then appeared in papers etc getting some nice cheques for the story she sold to the tabloids and then I think she stripped off(definitely didn't do porn) but her reputation didn't lift much after that. Debbie someone? Anyway, I just think there are better ways to provide for your kids without stooping that low-and what does her husband think of all this?