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Lefties 9: This will succeed through its success

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taffetacat · 14/05/2010 20:21

Is everyone on Twitter now?

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TDiddy · 14/05/2010 22:39

SpringHeeledJack re: 50's school bully hair

sophable- could you please explain the (sudden) urge to be tweeted? Is MN contact unsatisfactory?

Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 22:39

did you SEE norman lamont on Newsnight just now??? he looks like a very old badger!

TDiddy · 14/05/2010 22:41

Leadership does wonders for male looks. Cameron started looking less odd as soon as he became leader?

Quattrocento · 14/05/2010 22:42

I completely disapprove of Yvette Cooper and consider her to be a malignant worm.

I don't mind the fact that she was parachuted in to a Labour seat so safe that a donkey could have won (always providing it was wearing a red rosette).

But I do mind the fact that she hardly ever sets foot in the constituency. She lives in London, her children live in London, her husband lives in London and they have nothing whatsoever to do with Yorkshire.

Indeed it could be argued that the only significance of Yorkshire to Yvette Cooper is that it entitles her and her husband to make large capital gains tax free at the taxpayer's expense.

This from Wiki:

"In May 2009, it was revealed that together with her husband they 'flipped' the designation of their second home three times in a 24-month period, despite being warned several times by expenses officials that their claims were excessive [7]. Yvette Cooper and her husband, Labour minister Ed Balls, bought a four-bed house in Stoke Newington, north London, and registered this as their second home (rather than their home in Castleford, West Yorkshire) in order to qualify for up to £44,000 a year to subsidise a reported £438,000 mortgage under the Commons Additional Costs Allowance. This is despite both spouses working in London full-time and their children attending local London schools.[8]"

A charmless couple. What price integrity, eh?

CaptainNancy · 14/05/2010 22:43

heheh- sophable- I made exactly same mistake re YC and RK.. I even said to DH when cabinet was leaving downing st just before GB made resignation announcement that YC looked really different, she must have changed her hair

"E MIL" just means evil mother in law to me....

Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 22:43

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Ewe · 14/05/2010 22:43

Nah... he still looks odd!

Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 22:43

see, even though i didn't know who she was i was right after all quattro

taffetacat · 14/05/2010 22:43

TDiddy - that'd be the youth giving properties of blood sucking

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Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 22:45

u have worked out that in fact ruth kelly does bear a striking resemblance to yvette fielding! so really easy mistake to make (hides behind pillow)

Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 22:45

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CaptainNancy · 14/05/2010 22:46

yvette fielding???? I know.. you're pg, but...

TDiddy · 14/05/2010 22:46

taffetacat- yes, it must be. Or perhaps DC has had a chin job

taffetacat · 14/05/2010 22:47

who is yvette fielding? is she the ex Blue Peter presenter that does some dodgy ghost show on a dubious channel?

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Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 22:48

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Ewe · 14/05/2010 22:50

I don't think Yvette Cooper has the monopoly on being parachuted into a safe seat and not giving a toss about her constituency, ditto the expenses stuff.

TDiddy · 14/05/2010 22:50

well , I am not going defend DC looks. but please YC looks much more feminine than RK !! RK also sounds more masculine.

taffetacat · 14/05/2010 22:50

ah, great. Yvette Cooper shares name with Yvette Fielding who looks a bit like Ruth Kelly. I remember being pregnant.

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TDiddy · 14/05/2010 22:51

by the way, how are the LibDems gunna campaign at the next election against the Tories. Labour will be rubbing hands together.

Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 22:54

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Ewe · 14/05/2010 22:54

God knows, I can't see how it can work but it apparently does in other countries that have coalition governments.

Tearing shreds out of each other whilst working together doesn't seem like a good strategy to me but who knows, maybe they will merge into the Liberal Conservative party?

Quattrocento · 14/05/2010 22:56

That's complete bollocks, Prolesworth, if you don't mind my saying (glass of wine too many due to accident involving a gift of a winebox, of all things).

See, when we start thinking that all politicians are corrupt, we go down the Berlusconi highway of expecting no better. But in reality, it's absolutely unacceptable.

Look, this woman claims to represent a Yorkshire constituency. She doesn't live there, she never has lived there, she's no emotional connection to ex-miners and the level of deprivation that exists in her constituency. But she's prepared cynically to designate her Yorkshire 'home' as her real home just to make a quick buck.

One of the real tragedies of the election is that they weren't firmly kicked out by the electorate.

taffetacat · 14/05/2010 22:57

Newsnight brilliant - guy from Observer saying parliament has been "toffed up"

reminds me of Whizzer and Chips

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Heathcliffscathy · 14/05/2010 22:58

ruth kelly

Prolesworth · 14/05/2010 22:59

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