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Why do the imbeciles do it?
Another idiot:
news.sky.com/story/1117439/mp-wh ... nist-tweet
These people are supposed to be representing their constituents and in some cases governing the country but they are so far up their own *rses (or other peoples) they spend all there time typing inane comments that no one is interested in save as a useful noose to hang 'em with.
Things like Twitter are a lose, lose for politicians but still they carry on. |
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Why do the imbeciles do it?
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These people are supposed to be representing their constituents and in some cases governing the country but they are so far up their own *rses (or other peoples) they spend all there time typing inane comments that no one is interested in save as a useful noose to hang 'em with.
Things like Twitter are a lose, lose for politicians but still they carry on. | |
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It's a shame when people are castigated for telling the truth.
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Quote ="Dally"Why do the imbeciles do it?
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These people are supposed to be representing their constituents and in some cases governing the country but they are so far up their own *rses (or other peoples) they spend all there time typing inane comments that no one is interested in save as a useful noose to hang 'em with.
Things like Twitter are a lose, lose for politicians but still they carry on.'"
On the contrary, I want to know what my MP is doing, prior to the one we have now I didn't even know his name, now I know where his appointments are, I know what he is voting for, I know what his opinions are on any specific issue, I can tweet him myself and ask him a question (and he answers) and I'm on his emailing list so I get a newsletter summary from him once a month to explain what he's been doing, what is currently passing through parliament and what he is doing on some of the committees he serves on.
I also get to find out which pub he goes to for his sunday lunch each week, what time train he catches home every friday and joking aside I also know that he puts the hours in for his constituency and that he's not just napping in The House or mumbling "Hyar, Hyar" when prompted - which is the image that most people have of their MP - for all he is a LibDem I know that my MP works very hard. |
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Quote ="Dally"Why do the imbeciles do it?
Another idiot:
news.sky.com/story/1117439/mp-wh ... nist-tweet
These people are supposed to be representing their constituents and in some cases governing the country but they are so far up their own *rses (or other peoples) they spend all there time typing inane comments that no one is interested in save as a useful noose to hang 'em with.
Things like Twitter are a lose, lose for politicians but still they carry on.'"
On the contrary, I want to know what my MP is doing, prior to the one we have now I didn't even know his name, now I know where his appointments are, I know what he is voting for, I know what his opinions are on any specific issue, I can tweet him myself and ask him a question (and he answers) and I'm on his emailing list so I get a newsletter summary from him once a month to explain what he's been doing, what is currently passing through parliament and what he is doing on some of the committees he serves on.
I also get to find out which pub he goes to for his sunday lunch each week, what time train he catches home every friday and joking aside I also know that he puts the hours in for his constituency and that he's not just napping in The House or mumbling "Hyar, Hyar" when prompted - which is the image that most people have of their MP - for all he is a LibDem I know that my MP works very hard. | |
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Quote ="Dally"Why do the imbeciles do it?
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news.sky.com/story/1117439/mp-wh ... nist-tweet
These people are supposed to be representing their constituents and in some cases governing the country but they are so far up their own *rses (or other peoples) they spend all there time typing inane comments that no one is interested in save as a useful noose to hang 'em with.
Things like Twitter are a lose, lose for politicians but still they carry on.'"
I think some MPs use it well as per Mr. Chicken's MP, however, it appears the vast majority get it completely wrong.
In terms of the Zionist tweet, I agree that his method and implementation was wrong, but think that the state of Israel and the treatment of the Palestinians needs to be addressed. |
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Quote ="Dally"Why do the imbeciles do it?
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news.sky.com/story/1117439/mp-wh ... nist-tweet
These people are supposed to be representing their constituents and in some cases governing the country but they are so far up their own *rses (or other peoples) they spend all there time typing inane comments that no one is interested in save as a useful noose to hang 'em with.
Things like Twitter are a lose, lose for politicians but still they carry on.'"
I think some MPs use it well as per Mr. Chicken's MP, however, it appears the vast majority get it completely wrong.
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Good to see Ed Balls retweeting a Baltimore Police attempt to have their own version of Ed Balls Day too.
Some MPs use Twitter properly and sensibly, and if Twitter isn't about encouraging debate, what IS it for? Don't see anything wrong with what Ward has tweeted tbh.
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By far the best tweet this weeks comes curtesy of the brainless wonkbots that Camoron has beavering away on his twitter account. This from Monday:
[iDavid Cameron @David_Cameron 15 Jul
We're rolling out a cap on Benefits today - @IDS_MP and I are determined to make work pay, and help the UK compete on the #GlobalRace.[/i
On the face of it, it seems like a favoured minister getting the backing of his Prime Minister. That is until you look further at the @IDS_MP account - it's a sppof.
"Chin chin old bean. Parodia Spucatum tauri
Westminster"
Here's some of IDS_MP's usual fayre:
[i#AskBoris Is Dave coming to the Lodge tonight to discuss this Gentleman's Club thing? It's my turn to bring the Port and Jaffa Cakes I think
The Tory party does not Lobby with Big Tobacco. Just ask Lambert my Butler - he'll confirm this #PMQs[/i
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The only thing that I can see that might have been wrong in what he tweeted was when he referred to the "the Jews" instead of "Israel". <EDIT : That wasn't in the tweet, so I see nothing wrong with the tweet at all>
Descriptions such as "apartheid state" are entirely justified, how else would you describe the current conditions for Palestinians in the West Bank?
I would like Dally to tell me just what was idiotic about the tweet.
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| Quote ="El Barbudo"" I would like Dally to tell me just what was idiotic about the tweet.'"
I said HE was idiotic (IMO). The fact that he has been sanctioned by his party (albeit in a pointless way) seems to bear out my opinion. |
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| Quote ="Dally"I said HE was idiotic (IMO). The fact that he has been sanctioned by his party (albeit in a pointless way) seems to bear out my opinion.'"
OK so, if the tweet wasn't idiotic, why do you say he was idiotic? |
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| Quote ="El Barbudo"OK so, if the tweet wasn't idiotic, why do you say he was idiotic?'"
For using the medium in a sloppy way that could potentially see him lose his job. |
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| Quote ="Dally"For using the medium in a sloppy way that could potentially see him lose his job.'"
Leave it out, the guy is obviously passionate about the issue.
I'd far rather have that than one who slavishly toes the party line with which he strongly disagrees. |
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| Quote ="El Barbudo"Leave it out, the guy is obviously passionate about the issue.
I'd far rather have that than one who slavishly toes the party line with which he strongly disagrees.'"
Yup. Same here.
It's hardly as though we have an overload of passion in Parliamentary politics. |
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| Quote ="El Barbudo"Leave it out, the guy is obviously passionate about the issue.
I'd far rather have that than one who slavishly toes the party line with which he strongly disagrees.'"
I am passionate in thinking that gay marriage is not right but that apparently makes me a homophobe. By the same token this guy must be anti-semitic? After all he apparently referred to "the Jews" (maybe as a derogatory term, who knows?) rather than the sovereign state of Israel. |
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| Quote ="Mintball"Yup. Same here.
It's hardly as though we have an overload of passion in Parliamentary politics.'"
Some back bench Tories are very passionate on a number of subjects but you would be up in arms if they said something you disagreed with! |
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| Quote ="Dally"Some back bench Tories are very passionate on a number of subjects but you would be up in arms if they said something you disagreed with!'"
Quite possibly. The same could be said of MPs from all parties.
The point is only valid, though, if I have ever suggested that they should be censored or not express those views. And I have not and am unlikely to do so. |
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| Quote ="Dally"I am passionate in thinking that gay marriage is not right but that apparently makes me a homophobe. By the same token this guy must be anti-semitic? After all he apparently referred to "the Jews" (maybe as a derogatory term, who knows?) rather than the sovereign state of Israel.'"
As he hasn't criticised all Jews or anyone for being Jewish and limited his comments to being about Israel we don't know that he is anti-semitic.
When he referred to "the Jews" earlier in the year he said that he was "[isaddened that the Jews, who suffered unbelievable levels of persecution during the Holocaust, could within a few years of liberation from the death camps, be inflicting atrocities on Palestinians in the new State of Israel and continue to do so on a daily basis in the West Bank and Gaza[/i".
The Board of Deputies complained about that as it "[ideliberately abused the memory of the Holocaust[/i".
Quite how they came to that conclusion is beyond me but there is a view out there that criticising Israel is automatically anti-semitic, a view which to me is utterly ridiculous. |
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| Quote ="Dally"I am passionate in thinking that gay marriage is not right but that apparently makes me a homophobe... '"
No.
You are regarded, here, as a homophobe for a long history of posts about sexuality that considerably predate the equal marriage issue.
But you have not been censored. You have not been banned for those opinions.
Get it now? |
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| Quote ="Dally"I am passionate in thinking that gay marriage is not right but that apparently makes me a homophobe.'"
O/T but it became law yesterday. You and your mrs filed for divorce yet? Or is the whole "affecting marriage" thing the biggest scaremongering bullshine for some time? |
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| Quote ="Dally"I am passionate in thinking that gay marriage is not right but that apparently makes me a homophobe. '"
What are your views on people of the same sex, who are not gay, marrying? |
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| Quote ="cod'ead"What are your views on people of the same sex, who are not gay, marrying?'"
Opposed. |
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| Quote ="Dally"Opposed.'"
For what credible reason? |
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| Quote ="cod'ead"For what credible reason?'"
Oh no ... here we go ... prepare for phobic irrationality in bucketloads ... |
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| Quote ="Chris28"O/T but it became law yesterday. You and your mrs filed for divorce yet? Or is the whole "affecting marriage" thing the biggest scaremongering bullshine for some time?'"
Good point, shouldn't there be Christian marriages falling apart all over the place now that they've been "degraded"? |
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