UKC

What a difference handing the reigns over to Gordo makes. Contrast this miserable (ten years after) post with the grinning chimp of 1997 and 2008

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7363847.stm

In reply to woolsack:

Maybe he looks grim because he’s pondering the service personnel unnecessarily killed and wounded in Iraq, and making the UK a target of international terrorism?

Ok, maybe not…

In reply to noggy:


You really should substitute 'people killed' if you're going to go down that road. The numbers are more 'impressive'

Who'd want to be prime minister eh?
jk

In reply to jkarran: Better to be deputy pm, similar perks, err, croquet lawn, two jags, obliging secretary....

oops, we've already done that one recently

In reply to woolsack:

Enough to make you sick, eh ?

In reply to jkarran:



As the Iraq ‘war on terror’ was ongoing, a friend of my brother’s was working as a plater / fabricator in a yard with a huge order to make special toilet facilities to be used in the Iraq desert.

One day he looked at the revision box on the drawing he was working to; the ‘Approved for Construction’ date was about 6 months before the Iraq issue was being discussed in the Commons. Obviously the design had several stages of design and approval before it reached the AFC stage.

My brother’s mate isn’t the brightest guy in the world, but even he scratched his head and went “hang on a second...” when he worked out the dates.