tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post7894890791246050881..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Can Lib Dem Bloggers Change Lib Dem Policy?Dick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-56666168880978971332009-09-06T19:28:55.014+01:002009-09-06T19:28:55.014+01:00As a child, I was cruelly exposed to the Star Wars...As a child, I was cruelly exposed to the Star Wars trilogy, which gave me unrealistic expectations that I could move objects with my mind and save my father from the forces of evil that had consumed him.Antipholus Pappshttp://antipholus.livejournal.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43487597226480527782009-09-05T12:34:59.190+01:002009-09-05T12:34:59.190+01:00Really a such very interesting!!!!!!!!!!!
Great p...Really a such very interesting!!!!!!!!!!! <br />Great postPatio Heatershttp://www.iceandwine.com/product-list.php?cid=9noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-14234658756792375042009-09-02T18:27:50.129+01:002009-09-02T18:27:50.129+01:00Al Jahon: That really is saying something!Al Jahon: That really <strong>is</strong> saying something!Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-50650183483726299622009-09-02T18:27:06.456+01:002009-09-02T18:27:06.456+01:00Betty: Fair do's - but a ban it was reported a...Betty: Fair do's - but a ban it was reported as, and a ban it would be whether by legislation or other means, as Letters for a Tory mentioned <a href="http://dickpuddlecote.blogspot.com/2009/09/another-month-another-alcoholic-drink.html" rel="nofollow">earlier today</a>.<br /><br /><em>"Lib Dem MP Jo Swinson made an idiot of herself recently when discussing magazine advertising by calling for airbrushing to be banned in adverts aimed at children and flagged in adverts aimed at adults. This sort of top-down, government-led unenforceable nonsense made her, and indeed politics in general, look pretty stupid.</em>"<br /><br />All of which doesn't really detract from the point I was making about the eagerness of the Lib Dems to move instantly into ban mode before looking at other possible solutions to any given problem.<br /><br />Hardly 'liberal'.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-70866609718700560572009-09-02T15:34:57.616+01:002009-09-02T15:34:57.616+01:00I'm tempted to start growing again just to giv...I'm tempted to start growing again just to give that chap some business. Home-grown is the way that it should be..BTSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-26635372329024641292009-09-02T14:19:48.639+01:002009-09-02T14:19:48.639+01:00Good article again Dick. I was speaking to a senio...Good article again Dick. I was speaking to a senior Lib Dem the other day and posed the same question, in that there seems to be a chasm between Lib Dem activists and the elected politicians. <br /><br />The simple answer was yes.<br /><br />Dave AthertonAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-63094873324477054982009-09-02T13:15:12.815+01:002009-09-02T13:15:12.815+01:00@Subrosa "In my youth I too was impressed by ...@Subrosa <i>"In my youth I too was impressed by photos of glamorous film stars but I was too busy doing other things to have time to become obsessed."</i><br><br /><br />Haven't you just sunk your own argument there? You admit that, like todays chiiildren, you were impressed by glamorous (presumably retouched, because they always are) photos of stars, but didn't become "disturbed" because you actually had a life. Therein lies the problem, it's not the adverts it's that many kids nowadays don't seem to have much of a life outside the television - which is not the fault of the advertisers.Pogohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10812765444160924585noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-21969103150353297612009-09-02T10:20:50.538+01:002009-09-02T10:20:50.538+01:00Between Clegg, Opik, Kennedy, Hughes and Oaten, I&...Between Clegg, Opik, Kennedy, Hughes and Oaten, I've become absolutely convinced that the Lib Dems are a massive practical joke perpetrated either by Alistair Campbell or Peter Mandelson.<br /><br />I'd vote Labour before I'd vote for this bunch of inbvertebrate wankers, and that is fucking saying something.<br /><br />:-)<br /><br />AJAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-27352132004907741542009-09-02T10:20:18.011+01:002009-09-02T10:20:18.011+01:00Hi Dick,
I think you're being very unfair to ...Hi Dick,<br /><br />I think you're being very unfair to Jo Swinson on the airbrushing issue. She is not actually proposing legislation at all, but rather a change to existing ASA codes of conduct, agreed in consultation with the advertising industry. Also, this is no "naïve uni sociology thesis" - the Real Women policy paper was drawn up over several months by the women's policy working group, which consulted with various experts in the field, and I think you'll find that there's plenty of scientific evidence out there to suggest that there is a cause and effect relationship between media images and children's self esteem. Maybe best if you did some research on it before calling it "bizarre"?<br /><br />Also, you seem to have become confused between women and birds. The feathers are usually the giveaway.Bettynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-71874221694974354022009-09-02T04:23:18.670+01:002009-09-02T04:23:18.670+01:00I did not know that Lib Dem have any policies. I t...I did not know that Lib Dem have any policies. I thought that Lib Dem simply had GOOD IDEAS which were mostly impractical and not what people want. <br /><br />In fact, I am not at all sure that Labour or Tory have any actual policies at all. In fact, judging from their recent party confereneces, they have only some vague idea of "forward, together, holding hands, into the future, changing, better, bla, bla".<br /><br />For example, as regards the smoking ban, did any one Liberal MP personally research the statistics before deciding to support the ban? NO! Not a one.Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-31391774213135915142009-09-02T03:32:27.949+01:002009-09-02T03:32:27.949+01:00"tell me you weren't impressed by photos ...<i>"tell me you weren't impressed by photos of Charles Atlas when you were a youth"</i><br /><br />Oh God! How I hated Charles Atlas!<br /><br />I lived in Brazil, and so could buy DC and Marvel comics that were unobtainable in the UK. And they'd carry Charles Atlas ads. The skinny kid who got sand kicked in his face on the beach, and went away and pumped iron until he became that monster.<br /><br />And I was that skinny kid. And I sat on beaches. And kept waiting for someone to kick sand in my face. They never did. But I always worried they might.<br /><br />No, I couldn't stand Charles Atlas.Frank Davishttp://frank-davis.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-48859309055147610342009-09-02T03:25:52.233+01:002009-09-02T03:25:52.233+01:00This post gives the reasons why I stopped voting L...This post gives the reasons why I stopped voting Lib Dem, after 25 years of scrawling my X beside them on the ballot paper.<br /><br />What it doesn't explain is why I'll never vote for them again.Frank Davishttp://frank-davis.livejournal.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43221790822626926002009-09-02T00:57:08.997+01:002009-09-02T00:57:08.997+01:00Charlotte: Considering today's revelations, I ...Charlotte: Considering today's revelations, I shall respectfully write this on bended knee. ;-)<br /><br /><em>"I hate that winning seats and governing properly are two entirely different things</em>"<br /><br />If the winning seats, or indeed poll ratings, corresponded with Lib Dem authoritarianism, I could understand it, but as far as I can see, there isn't much of a correlation.<br /><br />Let's hope that your brand of Lib Dem-ism prevails, eh?<br /><br /><br />Hearty Congratulations BTW.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-46581301051497897632009-09-02T00:51:18.694+01:002009-09-02T00:51:18.694+01:00Subrosa: We must stop bickering like this or tongu...Subrosa: We must stop bickering like this or tongues will wag. ;-)<br /><br /><em>"tell me you weren't impressed by photos of Charles Atlas when you were a youth</em>"<br /><br />The only time I ever heard of him as a youngster was in <a href="http://wapedia.mobi/en/Bazooka_(chewing_gum)" rel="nofollow">Joe Bazooka</a> gum inserts where his regimes were advertised, but point taken about the minutiae of Jo Swinson's proposals.<br /><br />I can't entirely agree with you on the issue, though. I see pictures of Emma Bunton and I almost always get the urge to touch her up.Dick Puddlecotehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-22292276702461749262009-09-02T00:09:09.122+01:002009-09-02T00:09:09.122+01:00Oh Dick, I have to challenge you on your remarks r...Oh Dick, I have to challenge you on your remarks re Jo Swinton.<br /><br />Let's get it right first of all. She didn't call for a ban on airbrushing, she called for photographs to be discreetly marked 'airbrushed'. Big difference.<br /><br />I support her in this. Throughout my career I've seen girls and boys harmed by magazine photos which project the 'perfect' body. The food disorders which can result are evident but the mental harm done is not.<br /><br />Now don't tell me you weren't impressed by photos of Charles Atlas when you were a youth. The thing is these photos weren't touched-up to the degree they are today. In my youth I too was impressed by photos of glamorous film stars but I was too busy doing other things to have time to become obsessed.<br /><br />If you've ever seen the results of teenage food disorders, you too would support Jo Swinton's attempt to ensure magazines tell their readers they're being lied to.<br /><br />Phew! Feel better now. :)subrosahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00151702590329788260noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-51908267838265881552009-09-02T00:04:55.097+01:002009-09-02T00:04:55.097+01:00Hmm I can't say you're being unfair - bans...Hmm I can't say you're being unfair - bansturbation is rife. Mostly, I presume, because it's an easy political thing to campaign on.. 'this is bad! let's stop this!'<br /><br />Problem is as long as Lib Dem MPs think that's what their electorate is looking for, and what'll save their seats, they're going to keep doing it.<br /><br />I hate that winning seats and governing properly are two entirely different things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-52844827243392650142009-09-01T22:36:59.362+01:002009-09-01T22:36:59.362+01:00It is bad enough that both the major politcal part...It is bad enough that both the major politcal parties and the jester party have become obsessed with banning things. What is worse is that there seems to be a growing number of constituents who like them as well.timbonehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06985165416240833253noreply@blogger.com