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Cameron threatening poor people in Sunday times

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GabbyLoggon · 09/08/2010 14:57

IDS has the job of sorting out welfare. Is he the man for the job? Is anyone? As someone said we do need a change in culture. We also needlots of new jobs. any chance?

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ShirleyKnot · 16/08/2010 16:46

ASSIMILATE

TheHeathenOfSuburbia · 16/08/2010 16:52

I suppose if you had a low enough opinion of journalists, then asking if you were one could be a personal attack...

"What are you, a JOURNALIST or something?"

Original poster
GabbyLoggon · 16/08/2010 16:58

They are not my rules or yours Mumsnet run the sites

Why stick by the Coalition?

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MisSalLaneous · 16/08/2010 17:00

OP asks odd questions though, with, in this case, OP and thread title not even matching, so I think that is why people ask what the whole idea is and, in effect, what the OP wants from people.

I doubt he/she would have had the "are you a journalist?" question if it was clear that this is what he/she really believed. Currently, it looks like a wind-up to me. Not even a clever one at it.

Vallhala · 16/08/2010 17:00

Do you suffer from insecurity, Gabby?

expatinscotland · 16/08/2010 17:00

Why keep starting all these threads, Gabby?

Forgive the question but I get the impression English is not your native language. Is this so?

It might perhaps explain a bit.

PosieParker · 16/08/2010 17:02

There's nothing personal about your posts OP, ever. If I were to start a thread about DC and his threats to poor people I would probably write the bit about the article that made me think that, or how it may affect Majorie down the road.. Your OP is a collection of half sentences, and often says something a little 'jolly hockey sticks' like 'Come on ladies what do you think?'

Vallhala · 16/08/2010 17:06

Careful now Posie... Wink

edam · 16/08/2010 17:12

There are plenty of journalists who are on MN because we are mothers and are here for our own amusement - not work - just like anyone else. I did a count once, years ago when MN was a lot smaller, and made it 24 but I'm sure there are many more.

Most of us, given we write for a living, can craft sentences that make sense. And - mostly - spell and punctuate (although not always as like anyone else we are type in a hurry, not in work mode).

I can't think of any journalists I know that would write the OP and I can't think why anyone would follow up the ST story in this way.

edam · 16/08/2010 17:13

Grin Spot the deliberate mistake there. Of course it was deliberate, honest guv, I didn't forget that I'd changed my mind about tense half way through a sentence at all...

TheCoalitionNeedsYou · 16/08/2010 17:14

Gabby just isn't nearly as good at writing as she thinks she is :(

(Nothing personal Gabby! xxx)

RealEyesRealiseRealLies · 16/08/2010 17:22

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Haliborange · 16/08/2010 17:23

I read the title as "Cameron threatening poor people with Sunday Times" and clicked on it in the hope he'd been sighted, sweaty-quiffed, yelling "eff off, you oik, or I'll lamp you with me Style section. It's got a page devoted to manbags."

Sigh. Must clean glasses.

edam · 16/08/2010 18:18

Grin for Halib & Real

Thing1Thing2 · 16/08/2010 19:21

Missed the question.

What are you /are you not being reasonable about?

charlieandlola · 16/08/2010 19:30

I too read it as Cameron threatens poor with the Sunday Times.pmsl.

Original poster
GabbyLoggon · 17/08/2010 16:07

Cameron is in Cornwall at the moment on holiday. Anybody spotted him?

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Original poster
GabbyLoggon · 17/08/2010 16:11

Van were you the F-word merchant; or was that someone else?

A free for all with F-words would not work on mumsnet.

what we do at home is our business.

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hairytriangle · 17/08/2010 16:13

What the outgoing labour government did with Future Jobs Fund and Community Task Force was revolutionary, innovative, and worked. It's now being removed by Cameron and his cronies.

ShirleyKnot · 17/08/2010 16:14

Fridge
Flower
Flights
Flouder
Founder
Fuck
Frisson
Fricassee

It's a total F-word Extravaganza on MN.

All day, every day

FallingWithStyle · 17/08/2010 16:16

I saw DC earlier.
He thwacked me - really bloody hard - with a rolled up paper. Right on my Kangol logo... it hurt Sad

tethersend · 17/08/2010 16:35

"Not a journo do a lot of writing."

Writing all over every available bit of wall at 3am whilst crying doesn't count, you know.

Shirley, I've reported your post. They told me to.

ShirleyKnot · 17/08/2010 16:39

Message deleted by Mumsnet you fuck

tethersend · 17/08/2010 16:44

Are there any poor people in the Sunday Times?

ShirleyKnot · 17/08/2010 16:51

I did read an article about a lovely couple who were forced to shop in Sainsbury's while F & M was closed for refurb.

The degradation.

Anyway, enough of all that, I want to know what an F-Word merchant is. I keep imagining some kind of Spiv sidling up to the unsuspecting tube traveller, whispering "Wanna buy an F-Word? Got a special this week on "Fanny" or if you fancy something a bit stronger, I can give you two "Fuck-Knuckle's" for the price of one"