tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post2736722200988214126..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: The Lamest Smear Story EverDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-9630510930693284072013-08-19T08:47:19.630+01:002013-08-19T08:47:19.630+01:00"Anti-capitalist"? You are far too kind ..."Anti-capitalist"? You are far too kind to Rowena and her cronies. Intellectually challenged middle class Marxist snobs might be more appropriate. UKIP will probably take this latest limp effort as a positive sign that they are important enough for the media to indulge in smear campaigns and the public will hopefully get to understand the Green Party's true colours, which are of course deepest red with hammer and sickle logo. Judging by its circulation, the public already understands the Guardian.Ivan Dnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-56300254721232043722013-08-18T17:50:46.470+01:002013-08-18T17:50:46.470+01:00“Where did Taylor learn his craft? In a playground...<em>“Where did Taylor learn his craft? In a playground sandpit?”</em><br /><br />Oh, they all did. Politics is hateful.<br /><br />Of course they know that donations can follow principle. The idea is to plant the idea in the public mind that they don't, that donors are only saying that to cover their arses, in order to pave the way for the real goal: raiding the taxpayers' pockets to pay for their parties. Then they're on the gravy train for life, and they never have to appeal to anyone enough to elicit a donation ever again. With the added bonus that it would require state registration of parties, keeping the riff-raff out.<br /><br />There's no point in making it a rhetorical question any more: they think we're stupid.<br /><br /><br />PS. RooBeeDoo: <em>I</em> thought that. But not being a user, I've never been sure enough to say so. So basically the position is: criminalize tobacco, and legalize... er, tobacco-with-some-other-stuff-in-it. Could there be some kind of “convergence” agenda going on here, where tobacco and cannabis are eventually to be identically legal-but-<em>extremely</em>-tightly-controlled? Not that it'll work, but I wonder...Sam Duncannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-53344367505595701182013-08-18T14:42:19.001+01:002013-08-18T14:42:19.001+01:00Nobody can be bothered to make a comment on the Ti...Nobody can be bothered to make a comment on the Times story yet.<br />The Guardian commentators do make me laugh. A few months ago when cannabis was being attacked, they were frothing at the mouth in its defence. Isn't is usual to cut it with tobacco to consume?RooBeeDoonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-85439854461633411342013-08-18T14:39:21.725+01:002013-08-18T14:39:21.725+01:00Dear Mr Puddlecote
That nice Mr Taylor seems to b...Dear Mr Puddlecote<br /><br />That nice Mr Taylor seems to be unable to see a vested interest if it bit him on the leg:<br /><br /><i>"Keith Taylor, the Green party's MEP for south-east England, said the <br />donation was an argument for state funding of parties to take "vested <br />interests" out of politics."</i><br /><br />All politics is vested interest.<br /><br />The state has the greatest vested interest in politics of all. Mr Taylor is arguing for a state monopoly on politics using monies stolen from the 'taxpayers' - that is, victims of state robbery - to fund all political parties. <br /><br /><br /><br />Hmm, how do you think that would work out?<br /><br /><br />DPDPnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-36728355824424757772013-08-18T11:22:18.698+01:002013-08-18T11:22:18.698+01:00When I went to read the article, I noticed a link ...When I went to read the article, I noticed a link Cornelia's 'smokers' assignment. http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/aug/16/cornelia-parker-smokers-outside-workplace-photography?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487 <br /><br /><br />She's an artist you know.westcoast2noreply@blogger.com