tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post4255515832655314898..comments2024-01-01T16:01:35.711+00:00Comments on Dick Puddlecote: Anna Soubry Is Not Fit For A Ministerial PostDick Puddlecotehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01481866882188932892noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-54383634039053028392013-04-22T13:01:01.924+01:002013-04-22T13:01:01.924+01:00Linda McAvan has found THE EVIDENCE for plain pack...Linda McAvan has found THE EVIDENCE for plain package:<br /><br />"Asked whether a logo ban would cut EU tobacco sales further than the <br />Commission's proposal, McAvan said: "By the amount of lobbying we are <br />hearing, I think the cigarette companies must think it has an effect.""<br /><br />Source: http://www.trust.org/trustlaw/news/lawmaker-proposes-full-eu-ban-on-cigarette-brandingRursusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-87545505755197565972013-04-21T13:20:10.951+01:002013-04-21T13:20:10.951+01:00Still time for here to do a lot of damage.
Strang...Still time for here to do a lot of damage. <br />Strange, isn't it, how Milton was replaced with a cloned copy?Junicannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-22364102570527934702013-04-21T10:45:24.184+01:002013-04-21T10:45:24.184+01:00How this contemptuous and woefully inept woman was...<i>How this contemptuous and woefully inept woman was given a position of any authority in government is anyone's guess.</i><br /><br />Positive discrimination? Quotas? Affirmative action? All of which will undermine effective competence management, but never mind, we get to have the "right" amount of women in the "right" roles, regardless of whether they happen to be competent or not.Longridernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-8964035050746855502013-04-21T09:42:16.396+01:002013-04-21T09:42:16.396+01:00Now you can see that Armando Iannucci doesn't ...Now you can see that Armando Iannucci doesn't have to invent his characters...<br /><br /><br />How reassuring it is to see the brightest and the best working the levers of power.moonrakinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-91839499668340901522013-04-21T06:54:53.793+01:002013-04-21T06:54:53.793+01:00Dick, you may not be aware of this, but Merriam We...Dick, you may not be aware of this, but Merriam Webster has asked Anna to help them out in their newest revision of the Dictionary of the English Language. In particular, they appreciate her help with the following definitions:<br /><br />PLAIN: adj. means "adorned with a variety of colours, watermarks and holograms"<br /><br /><br /><br />"ATTRACTIVE TO CHILDREN" : phr. generally taken to mean no more than two or three colors with text and no pictures. Phone directories, cigarette packs, medicine bottles, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and suchlike. <br /><br /><br />When she was asked about a definition for the word "is" she deferred to ex-President Bill Clinton of the USA.<br /><br /><br />- MJMMichael McFaddenhttp://profiles.google.com/cantilopernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-43720611595667026202013-04-20T22:32:03.112+01:002013-04-20T22:32:03.112+01:00As one of her constituents, I wrote and told her a...As one of her constituents, I wrote and told her about what the police, HMRC and other experts were saying. She replied saying, as a minister, that she wasn't allowed to get involved in the debate. Maybe I should write again... Or not... <br /><br />And, from memory, if those in Broxtowe who voted for the BNP and some other far-left breakaway group had voted for the incumbent Labour bloke, who at least lived in the constituency, he would have won easily. As it is, she barely shows her face round here. She doesn't like being booed or blanked by the hoi polloi.P T Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3141759542968821728.post-23051852747689016542013-04-20T21:25:01.452+01:002013-04-20T21:25:01.452+01:00Anna Soubry was chair of the Conservative Associat...Anna Soubry was chair of the Conservative Association at Birmingham University in the late 70s. She always came across as someone whose ambition exceeded her abilities, and I would guess she hoped to be rather further up the greasy pole than a junior health minister by the age of 56. In any case, her majority at Broxtowe is a mere 389, so I expect she'll be toast come the next general election.Curmudgeonnoreply@blogger.com