BS: Tony Blair Powdered

Subject: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull
Date: 19 May 04 - 12:18 PM

Somebody threw some powder at him, serves him right, they should have thrown hamster shit as well.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: el ted
Date: 19 May 04 - 12:21 PM

Come back Maggie, all is forgiven.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 19 May 04 - 01:32 PM

Er... not quite, el ted. Witchcraft instead of spin? Cromwell yes. Churchill maybe. Not Maggie though.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:04 PM

Cromwell would ban Morris Dancing

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Little Hawk
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:09 PM

No, no, jOhn! You cannot expect a thread with someone controversial like Tony Blair in it to only net a single post. No way. You should have picked a much blander subject than that.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: GUEST,earthling
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:18 PM

But it was a lovely purple colour.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:18 PM

A very restrained response by campaigners to politicians who smugly sit on their tockusses and blank demands for reform of a major injustice. Where is Guy Fawkes when you need him?

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 19 May 04 - 05:47 PM

He's dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: vectis
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:12 PM

It's madness. They sealed the public galleries to protect Parliament and then auction a ticket in front of the glass to the highest bidder.
It would have served them right if he'd been a terrorist and had murdered the lot of them instead of a father fighting for justice.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:18 PM

The people were there at Baroness Golding's invitation...., and she is 'deeply distressed' at this.

Another thing was, was that the politicians immediately evacuated the chamber.
I they had have been contaminated, the first thing they should have done as stayed exactly where they were.

It didn't enter anybody's head that they should do this

And that is an even bigger security breach, in my opinion.

Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: GUEST
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:19 PM

Apparently Robbie Fowler is still clearing it up.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:21 PM

... sorry. Third line should read: If they had have been contaminated, the first thing they should have done was to have stayed exactly where they were.

Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Shanghaiceltic
Date: 19 May 04 - 06:47 PM

I guess purple powder on the collar looks better than dandruff.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Jim McCallan
Date: 19 May 04 - 07:33 PM

Were the condoms 'used', before they threw them, I wonder??
(the protesters lobbed condoms filled with self-raising flour, dyed purple)

Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: dianavan
Date: 19 May 04 - 10:36 PM

Hooray!!!!!!

How about water balloons filled with fake blood. Do you think anyone could get that close to Bush?

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: ced2
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:33 AM

I understand the purple had more blue in it than red.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: el ted
Date: 20 May 04 - 07:04 AM

Come back Lord Tebbit, all is forgiven........ and Keith Joseph......... and Nigel Lawson

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: GUEST,Teribus
Date: 20 May 04 - 08:29 AM

dianavan, 19 May 04 - 10:36 PM

"Hooray!!!!!!

How about water balloons filled with fake blood. Do you think anyone could get that close to Bush?"

No, I think that over in the US they take the personal security of their head of state a bit more seriously.

As for your "Hooray!!!!!!" and the implied desire to see a similar incident involving GWB - You would probably be the loudest in the cries of outrage and indignation, when the poor fool who attempted such a thing gets shot.

Agree totally with what Jim McCallan had to say regarding response. Simple fact of the matter is that in this day and age such an act of "protest" should not be possible in the House of Commons.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: GUEST,Mr Red (apolitcally speaking that is)
Date: 20 May 04 - 08:29 AM

perhaps the bomber should have been father (sic) away.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 20 May 04 - 06:39 PM

And to add a bit of a musical bent. (Don't you DARE say bent what!)

Jim McC says -
The people were there at Baroness Golding's invitation

Any relation to the highwayman as in

I robbed Lord Golding I do declare
and Lady Mansell in Grosvenor Square

Just wondered (as is my bent once more...)

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Splott Man
Date: 21 May 04 - 07:48 AM

Great parody of Purple Rain by Mitch Benn on It's Been A Bad Week on BBC Radio 2 last night. Catch the repeat on Saturday afternoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Tony Blair Powdered
From: Richard Bridge
Date: 21 May 04 - 07:13 PM

Perhaps if politicians were prevented from having security much less lethal security they would pay more attention to what people thought.   Or to justice.