The results to last week's Fun Online Poll were as follows:
Please indicate the ones you would definitely NOT like to see as Prime Minister.
Leadsom, Andrea 42 votes
Gove, Michael 61 votes
Fox, Liam 82 votes
Crabb, Stephen 94 votes
Smith, Owen 103 votes
May, Theresa 107 votes
Corbyn, Jeremy 116 votes
Eagle, Angela 122 votes
Total 166 voters
Just goes to show that 'exaggerating' on your CV doesn't do you any harm. And being the most rabid Home-Owner-ist of the lot counts as a plus.
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Chilcot: The Daily Mash and Newsthump responded with satire, Nick Drew responded in rhyme.
So that's this week's Fun Online Poll:
"Which of the following revelations in the Chilcot report were NOT blindingly obvious back in 2002 or 2003?"
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Easy Mistake To Make...
9 minutes ago
4 comments:
I haven't read it, but does it really shed any light on how Blair became so rich after leaving office?
I was led to believe JP Morgan paid him a shed load of money to advise them. I'm sure he wouldn't have advised them of any top secret information he learned in his privileged position as Prime Minister or anything untoward like that.
"I'm sure he wouldn't have advised them of any top secret information he learned in his privileged position as Prime Minister or anything untoward like that."
I don't think he had to give any advice at all. I heard that the money was payment for supporting Dubya in Iraq.
SL, no it doesn't, I just threw that in for fun.
British corruption is very genteel, no PM would sell state secrets, they agree to do stuff and collect after they have left office. Why do you think William Hague got paid £80,000 a pop for "after dinner speeches"? He was in with a shot of winning in 2001, he made his promises, he didn't win, but hey, his "backers" were honourable enough to cough up.
Which is why Michael Howard - a far more intelligent and interesting bloke - got paid nothing for "after dinner speeches" - he never had a chance of winning in 2005, so his promises were worth nothing.
My working assumption is that Halliburton and the oil majors made indirect promises via middlemen like J P Morgan, and after the event, Mr A Blair went and collected. He certainly knows fuck all about banking.
B, agreed. Given that there were $ billions at stake, chucking $10 million his way is small change.
"British corruption is very genteel,"
Yup, when we sneer at other countries for being corrupt, it's just snobbery. Our corruption is so much posher than theirs.
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