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| Dennis Skinner (right) with the late Tony Benn |
He has always been, and continues to be, a thorn in the side of Conservative MPs.
More Skinnerisms at this link - including my favourite:
Skinner:"Half the Tory members opposite are crooks."
When told to withdraw this remark by the Speaker:
Skinner: "OK, half the Tory members aren't crooks."
There is, by the way, a list of words not to be tolerated in UK's House of Commons:
blackguard
coward
dodgy
git
guttersnipe
hypocrite
idiot
ignoramus
liar
pipsqueak
rat
swine
stool pigeon
tart
traitor
sod
slimy
wart.
5 comments:
Dodgy Dave is better than pig-headed Dave or ham-job Dave. "Black Mirror" S1E1 was a very peculiar quinky dink.
Astrology and meteorology are much alike. Yesterday morning, the forecast was for rain early, peaking around 8 AM, then tapering and ending by 10 or 11 AM. No rain at all, so I rode my bike to the grocery store for milk at 11:30 AM and was drenched by the time I arrived at the store, and again riding home. Today, we were to have rain overnight, worsening as the day progressed, and severe storms between 11 AM and 3 PM. I woke at 5 AM to get GiGi outside to do her business before the heavy stuff arrived...it was drizzling. The drizzle ended about 6:30 AM and now the forecast is for no rain and gradual clearing. I have to wonder why astrology is considered a fake, yet the weather is a science...LOL.
"Meteorology is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the atmosphere."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meteorology
mike +(again) ~ I remember that "Black Mirror" episode - yes! :-D
Rain here today, starting - stopping all day, probably. Supposedly dry tomorrow then back to rain/storm at the weekend.
I take weather info from the accu weather website and find they are broadly correct, but often we don't usually receive the extremes of their forecasts - maybe we're on the edge of the area they use. When there is dangerous tornado-type weather around we're glued to the TV weather experts. We've found them to be accurate, but some of the experts do tend to get over-excited, one I especially remember last tornado season - so we factor that in. ;-) I guess they are covering their backs in case they're accused afterwards of under-reporting - or something.
I do agree that there are similarities, and similar stumbling blocks, in astrology and weather forecasting - lol!
Dennis Skinner's always been a colourful character - and still going strong at 84!
RJ Adams ~ Yes - we need a few clones of him - and George Galloway - here in the USA.
:-)
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