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Listed below are comments made by chrisboote between Tuesday, 29th July 2008 and Tuesday, 21st October 2008.

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A hard-headed decision 3:39pm on 21 Oct 2008 #5
Actually, HovellingHermit, you SHOULD have the right to go out and offend just about anyone you want

Freedom of speech for all means freedom to be offended by all

Due to the actions of a tiny minority of Muslims, who do not support the idea of freedom of speech, we all must suffer

Why?
Pretty big steps. Does the real Minsky Moment lie ahead? 2:59pm on 09 Oct 2008 #19.
I'm number 4
How do we get more?
Alistair wields the subtle knife; but where will the dust settle? 10:06am on 01 Oct 2008 Notice the pattern of bailouts or regulation relaxing

NORTHERN rock

HALIFAX-Bank of SCOTLAND

BRADFORD and Bingley

All Areas where Labour are under immense electoral pressure

This is the grossest form of vote-buying since the River bailout
Actually, it's even worse than that
The strength of the German economy 1:06pm on 10 Sep 2008 #11. Menedemus wrote:

"I presume taxation still remains a sovereign matter for individual EU member states but I have never understood the reluctance of the UK to embrace the Euro and ditch the pound."

Sadly not
VAT has base levels below which a govt may not reduce the rate - so even if the UK govt decided to aid its citizens in this time of exorbitant fuel prices by scrapping VAT on gas or electricity, it cannot reduce VAT below its current level of 5%. Why? because the EU 'says so'

There are far too many tariffs and tax rates fixed (or bounded) by EU rules, and more being added each year with no debate and no publicity
The truce is over 3:24pm on 08 Sep 2008 #29. fairlyopenmind wrote:

(Oh, I forgot that the Bounty's remaining crew ended up on a island, where we've recently seen signs of under-age sex as a "local custom".)

Oh, I'm not so sure - after all, this lot have buggered the next generation's chances completely
The missing answers in the Darling interview 2:56pm on 01 Sep 2008 10. BankRSlicker wrote:
"At a lap dancing club ... one of the dancers told me the other day that they have never seen the economic situation so bad over the past 60 years!!!"

How many clubs employ 60+ year old dancers?
Have you got fleas? 2:05pm on 06 Aug 2008 #22. youngerap wrote:
If you want a true picture of parasite distribution for the UK, check out the Parliamentary Constituencies Map!

Bravo sir or madam! But you now owe me one keyboard to replace the one I just sprayed orange juice all over 8-)
Have you got fleas? 2:01pm on 06 Aug 2008 #8. JamieTaylorWC1 wrote:

"Roll on Parliament reconvening..."

No!
For no man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session
(Judge Gideon Tucker, 1866)

and

This country has come to feel the same when the legislature is in session as we do when the baby gets hold of a hammer. It's just a question of how much damage he can do with it before you take it away from him
(Will Rogers, 1930)
Testing the waters 4:03pm on 31 Jul 2008 Promotion to chancellor? Surely FCO and Treasury are nominally equal?

And under this control freak PM, the position of CotE is greatly devalued anyway

Besides, Gutless Gordon isn't well known for subtle political manoeuvres - he'sthe clunking big fist, remember?

He'd sack Millie long before he (even fraudulently) promoted him

The really interesting point is that you tacitly acknowledge that the future leadership of the current (mis)ruling party is in the hands of the Editors (and hence their proprietors) when you say "It won't be long until some newspaper commissions a poll..."

Aren't the Labour Party capable of conducting such a poll themselves?
Remoulding Microsoft for the web 1:24pm on 29 Jul 2008 180m Visat licenses sold, but according to Dell, over 60% of all new PCs are sold with XP installed, even though their are locensed fo Vista

Clients of mine have finally bitten the bullet and baked out Vista and gone back to XP, mostly because of its stability, but also because so much has changed in Vista, that simple tasks are now laborious or impossible

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