BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?

Subject: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 05:39 AM

Well, now the blessed Margaret has gone, whom shall the left hate now?
Tony Blair would seem to be the obvious nunber one candidate, but wait; he's one of theirs.(Allegedly)
Maggie was so useful, she was a nmeans of establishing ones working class credentials. You could drive a Porsche, earn 50K pa, but still claim to be working class, as long as you said, you hated Maggie and all her works.
As Cameron is so bland, and one can't despise a fellow Socialist, then all you have left is Nick Clegg ;)
The position is now open for nominations.

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 05:50 AM

It don't work that way John.
They make themself. By their deeds you shall know them.
quack.
Geoff.

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: gnu
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 06:37 AM

If it walks like a duck... ?

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 06:47 AM

So war under false pretences, or the betrayal of students, by renaging on a manifesto promise, isn't enough then, Geoff?

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 06:51 AM

Nick Clegg is a man of straw, he couldn't be a bogey man if he studied for it for 20 years at university.

He'll be looking for a new job after the next general election anyway.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 07:02 AM

and he's a mystery to medical science, how he remains upright, without actually having a backbone.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 07:26 AM

Oh, the arrogant posh boys who know not the price of milk are hateful too. Bear in mind that their assault on the welfare state goes beyond anything that even Thatcher did.

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 07:39 AM

If Nick Clegg is a man of straw, who is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Blackburn?

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Ed T
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 08:15 AM

I suspect we will have to wait until the elections in June, to see who replaces Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?


2013 Presidential elections

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 08:18 AM

If you sing the Monty Python Lumberjack song, but replace, "I'm a lumberjack", with the name Ahmedinajad. The end result is quite pleasing.

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Becca72
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 10:54 AM

Grrr..thanks for the earworm, Mackenzie!

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 12:33 PM

I would judge that there is absolutely no one, left, right or centre, who would see Tony Blair as a "man of the left".

It's not a matter of people celebrating her death. Her death an occasion to express what people feel about her life. For some that life is something to celebrate. For others it's something to repudiate. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 01:06 PM

Clarkson ???????

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 01:13 PM

How about you, John? ;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 01:31 PM

Nothing new about me LH. Or the idea, I was sorta expecting a nomination. ;) I'll start work on my acceptance speach, as soon as I've finished invading Clackmannanshire.

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 01:47 PM

I'll take the job. I'm an evil person to some already so it only takes an extra few. How much does it pay BTW or is it a labour of love? :-)

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: GUEST,Musket sans cookie
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 02:06 PM

I suppose I have always been and always will be dismissive of armchair socialists.

Having someone to blame for your situation can be cathartic and prevents you from being too inward looking if you know what I mean. Hating Thatcher because you disagreed with her is not worthy of people. Hating her because you were affected by the bitch is understandable and hating her in support of others can be somehow altruistic but borderline the first example.

Hating those charged with keeping society going can be strange when you think about it. Sadly most politicians don't help themselves. However if there were no bogeymen, the newspaper editors would elevate some poor sod in the name of selling tomorrow's chip wrapper.

Next bogeyman? why not ring Paul Dacre and ask him?

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 02:30 PM

Where is Clackmannanshire?

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 02:39 PM

Scotland ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: akenaton
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 06:17 PM

Ye could invade it wi' fower men an' a dug!

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: akenaton
Date: 11 Apr 13 - 06:19 PM

If ye wirrnae perticular!

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 12 Apr 13 - 04:36 AM

Well Ake, I live in Sutherland, which is the biggest county. So it seems only right that I should pick on the smallest county. That's the way these things work.

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: akenaton
Date: 12 Apr 13 - 12:57 PM

Aye ah've been readin aboot Sutherland an' the MacKenzies.....Ur you MacKenzie o' that ilk?

Subject: RE: BS: Who shall be the new bogey man?
From: GUEST,roderick warner
Date: 12 Apr 13 - 06:06 PM

Pete Seeger... I have dreams about him suddenly appearing and giving me an attack of his pious, dull music. Doc Watson usually enters at some point, with Albert Ayler and others of the righteous and banishes the bogey man. Moral - you can waste your time hating anybody... many saps do...