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Ages ago I signed a joke petition to have Jeremy Clarkson appointed PM on that PM petitions site the government set up and today I had the response. It linked me to a video they've posted on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy1w4DV5Hw

I can't describe how impressed I was with this kind of reply, for the first time in a long time I feel that the current UK government has a sense of humour and isn't totally bent on screwing me over.

I know it's not much but at least it shows these guys can have a laugh and do so in a way I might actually be interested in.

To give this thread slightly more of a point, what, if anything, has given you more confidence in your government recently?

To give this thread slightly more of a point, what, if anything, has given you more confidence in your government recently?

Can't answer. As for the people, I'm heartened by the fact that for the first time since the Civil Rights Act was passed, my congressional district (3rd/Alabama) actually has a fair race, and a chance of going Democrat.

Good think they said no. How would Top Gear survive without Clarkson?

gosh thats an ugly house, though I'm surprised people still use that site

To give this thread slightly more of a point, what, if anything, has given you more confidence in your government recently?

*thinks* my bus came on time today...some roadworks got done ahead of schedule

How would Top Gear survive without Clarkson?

the female audience would still drool over Richard Hammond, they could just make a show about fashion or something

Good think they said no. How would Top Gear survive without Clarkson?
And, more to the point, I wouldn't be able to emigrate until I've finished university. (It's not as if I couldn't still watch endless reruns on Dave...!)

Good think they said no. How would Top Gear survive without Clarkson?

They could swap. Gordon Brown could present Top Gear. For once, James May could make jokes about someone else's lack of charisma.

I already knew politicians had a sense of humour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0dmR87TaNY).

Dear Mr. Fart,

In light of your recent signing of what we can only interpret as a terrorist-related petition, we have sent you this letter to request that you come down to Scotland Yard for some good, old-fashioned sleep deprivation, cold room treatment, and waterboarding.

We thought you would appreciate the humorous style in which your interrogation and your legal rights will be treated.


Yours sincerely,

Gordon Brown

Dear Mr. Fart,

In light of your recent signing of what we can only interpret as a terrorist-related petition, we have sent you this letter to request that you come down to Scotland Yard for some good, old-fashioned sleep deprivation, cold room treatment, and waterboarding.

We thought you would appreciate the humorous style in which your interrogation and your legal rights will be treated.


Yours sincerely,

Gordon Brown


You'd like him, he's into killing stuff and raping the environment.
I'd bomb people to get Jezza the PM slot.

SNIP

don't be silly

we would clearly just let the US authorities have jurisdiction on this

I once got a emails from the King of Algeria, the ex-foreign minister of Libya and the finance minister of Sierra Leon. All in one day. Beat that.

don't be silly

we would clearly just let the US authorities have jurisdiction on this

*gasp* You wouldn't! That's immoral!:tongue:

I once got a emails from the King of Algeria, the ex-foreign minister of Libya and the finance minister of Sierra Leon. All in one day. Beat that.

Did they ask for your bank account details so they could pay in all the money you won in their lotteries? :p

I get e-mails from him all the time. And Alaistar Darling.

It's like revenge for quitting the Party a supiciously short amount of time into Brown's leadership.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy1w4DV5Hw

I can't describe how impressed I was with this kind of reply, for the first time in a long time I feel that the current UK government has a sense of humour and isn't totally bent on screwing me over.

I know it's not much but at least it shows these guys can have a laugh and do so in a way I might actually be interested in.
I'm impressed.

Ages ago I signed a joke petition to have Jeremy Clarkson appointed PM on that PM petitions site the government set up and today I had the response. It linked me to a video they've posted on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNy1w4DV5Hw

I can't describe how impressed I was with this kind of reply, for the first time in a long time I feel that the current UK government has a sense of humour and isn't totally bent on screwing me over.

I know it's not much but at least it shows these guys can have a laugh and do so in a way I might actually be interested in.

To give this thread slightly more of a point, what, if anything, has given you more confidence in your government recently?

That's actually pretty cool.

Confidence in the government? Not so much.

But there are politicians who've impressed me, especially with their sense of humour:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpg5sgKB7rU

Did they ask for your bank account details so they could pay in all the money you won in their lotteries? :p

HOW DID YOU KNOW!? ARE YOU READING MY EMAILS!? SPYING ON ME?
I KNEW IT. KING AL-NAFIR SIMBA WONGABA WARNED ME ABOUT PEOPLE LIKE YOU!

Funnily enough, they wanted to give me money from lotteries based in the UK...

I didn't really find that funny. It was lacking in something. Were they attempting to avoid a libel suit or something? :S

If Clarkson were PM then you wouldn't have to cancel Top Gear. You could film it during PMQs with Hammond as the Opposition and May as the Lib Dems.

I didn't really find that funny. It was lacking in something. Were they attempting to avoid a libel suit or something? :S

If Clarkson were PM then you wouldn't have to cancel Top Gear. You could film it during PMQs with Hammond as the Opposition and May as the Lib Dems.

Other way around. May is slow and dull, while Hammond is small and the other two never take him seriously. If thats not a suitable metaphor for British politics then I don't know what is.

I thought it was the other way round. That May gets a bit ostracized for his eccentricities.

I thought it was the other way round. That May gets a bit ostracized for his eccentricities.

True.

Otoh he is the one usually going on about tradition etc. Hmm.

Conservative spokesman: We have no sense of humour (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7571973.stm).

Apparently the video is a waste of taxpayer's money. Perhaps if Gordon Brown personally stumps up the tenner it must have cost to make it then they'll be placated.

Conservative spokesman: We have no sense of humour (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7571973.stm).

Apparently the video is a waste of taxpayer's money. Perhaps if Gordon Brown personally stumps up the tenner it must have cost to make it then they'll be placated.Slow news day huh? Labour should take this in their stride. If this is the worst ammunition that the Tories can come up with then they will be dead in the water come election.

They're probably just jealous because they don't even know where the on button is on their video camera.

Slow news day huh? Labour should take this in their stride. If this is the worst ammunition that the Tories can come up with then they will be dead in the water come election.

They're probably just jealous because they don't even know where the on button is on their video camera.

'Dead in the water' seems to be an adjective more appropriate for Labour right now.

I suspect that they might be jealous that more people have probably watched this one video than all of David Cameron's podcasts combined.

'Dead in the water' seems to be an adjective more appropriate for Labour right now.

I suspect that they might be jealous that more people have probably watched this one video than all of David Cameron's podcasts combined.Probably. But I think I've reached the mindset where I think pretty much all old well-off white men have the same politics.

I base my vote on the MP candidate now. Back Benchers are so much more interesting. They even sometimes get things done.

Probably. But I think I've reached the mindset where I think pretty much all old well-off white men have the same politics.

I base my vote on the MP candidate now. Back Benchers are so much more interesting. They even sometimes get things done.

I saw an article the other week that said that Tony Blair's greatest achievement is ensuring that whichever party wins the next election, it will be New Labour.

I saw an article the other week that said that Tony Blair's greatest achievement is ensuring that whichever party wins the next election, it will be New Labour.

Lol. Why didn't I get an email, I signed it?

New Labor=Conservatives

If the Conservatives really think that a British dislike of the same-same of Labor equals a liking of the Conservatives, then they are going to be rudely awakened, just as Labor was with the defeat to the SNP.

As I see it, New Labor put a lid on the increasingly boiling steam cooker of capitalism so it didn't explode, what makes anyone think Britain wants to return to the industrial decay and economic ruin of Thatcherism?

I saw an article the other week that said that Tony Blair's greatest achievement is ensuring that whichever party wins the next election, it will be New Labour.I heard that as well. I found it most depressing.

But then I think I heard that about Thatcher. That she (un)intentionally brought about the conditions to prevent a return to socialism in the country.

I heard that as well. I found it most depressing.

But then I think I heard that about Thatcher. That she (un)intentionally brought about the conditions to prevent a return to socialism in the country.

'Return'

Let me guess, you subscribe to the libertarian trollop that welfare provisions within a capitalist society equal socialism? I think you should rethink your definitions in that case.

All Thatcher did was expose the working class to the full weight of the decay and anarchy inherent in capitalist production, she removed to the old social provisions which shielded the workers from the decays of capitalism, so what you saw in Britain was mass breakdown and decline of industry and manufacturing etc.

New Labor=Conservatives

If the Conservatives really think that a British dislike of the same-same of Labor equals a liking of the Conservatives, then they are going to be rudely awakened, just as Labor was with the defeat to the SNP.

As I see it, New Labor put a lid on the increasingly boiling steam cooker of capitalism so it didn't explode, what makes anyone think Britain wants to return to the industrial decay and economic ruin of Thatcherism?

It's spelt labour. And we're heading towards an economic wreck right now, apparently.

'Return'

Let me guess, you subscribe to the libertarian trollop that welfare provisions within a capitalist society equal socialism? I think you should rethink your definitions in that case.

All Thatcher did was expose the working class to the full weight of the decay and anarchy inherent in capitalist production, she removed to the old social provisions which shielded the workers from the decays of capitalism, so what you saw in Britain was mass breakdown and decline of industry and manufacturing etc.Not really, just that is has now come nigh on impossible for a politician to get elected on socialist rhetoric. It's like New Labour is doing everything it can to stop the nationalisation of Northern Rock being labeled as such.

Had I not, the use of return would still be applicable. Nationalisation of major industries and craddle to grave welfare is, for all intents and purposes, socialism. Were it nationalisation of all industry then it would be socialism without a doubt.

Thats kewl...

But, itd take quite a bit for me to be happy with our government...And Clinton and Bush had some good senses of humor...