adamant, adamantine, aggressive, bold, crustaceous, durable, enduring, feisty, fibrous, forceful, hard-nosed, hardy, impassive, inured, resilient, resistant, spartan, stoical, stubborn, tenacious, threatening.

tough on bullsh1t, tough on the purveyors of bullsh1t? bullsh1tters....

"An end to knife cautions for those over the age of 16 was signalled today by Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, Justice Secretary Jack Straw and Attorney General Baroness Scotland sending the clear message that carrying knives is unacceptable and will result in tough consequences..."

Tough on crime? R-i-g-h-t... like they were on Tuesday?

We have this exception to the murder charge, murder done in rage is reduced to manslaughter. The reason this is done is because we humans have a hormone 'testosterone', the anger hormone. Sadly it's a hangover from our primaeval days, and it removes our better judgement when we are enraged.

There's also this other hormone, 'adrenaline' the fight or flight hormone. The one that's released when you're scared and causes you to run away or mount an attack.

So Baroness Scotland reviews the law around this and decides that there is another hormone, 'NuLaboursRevenge'. This new hormone lets you plan a murder, have courage and confidence enough to execute the murder, then pretend to be afraid once you get to court.

"Oh your honor I was the victim of long term abuse so I'd like to be let off the murder charge please"

Thus a person pumped up with this NuLaboursRevenge hormone can make the claim that there were afraid, so afraid that instead of escaping, they planned a murder and hung around for the subject of their fear to return to be killed.

And this was proposed by Patricia Scotland, Hariet Harman, and Maria Eagle. Legalizing premeditated murder for anyone who can claim to have a 'fear of violence' as they put it. Of course the corpse can't defend themselves once it gets to court.

Not suprisingly killings done in anger are usually done by men (more testosterone), the claim to be afraid as a defence is usually women (more like to make a convincing 'I was the victim of domestic violence' claim). Hence they're trying to legalize the premeditated murder of men by women.

Tough on men. Tough on the causes of men.

Is a "tough" job. Whatever the poor bastard says or does, he's damned, by some miracle he's pulling it off.

The Sun has journalists?

Well it seems that in some cases they've been a little too tough and had to revert the 'tough' new legislation as it wasn't legal. Oops! Not the first time either.

http://www.ukba.homeoffice.gov.uk/workingintheuk/tier1/hsmp/hsmpjudicialreview/

Sounds more like the mail to me...

'Tough consequences'? Is that a consequence that is difficult to chew?

How about 'Dire consequences'

Labour, and particularly Gordon Brown, are doing badly - which is *tough* shit.

Strange that "stubborn" and "aggressive" should appear, eh?

I like this idea. I think it should be extended.

How about "Daily Mail Readers Must Earn The Right To Stay In The UK"?

Or "Government Ministers Must Earn The Right To Stay In The UK: Tough New Clampdown On Xenophobic Bullshit And Spin"??!

I managed to walk onto the runway at Luton Airport last week before the guy taking the boarding cards called me back to recheck my out of date passport

hardly tough to be honest, 3 lots of security controls strolled past and only some guy picking up on it by mistake.

BTW I would like to take this chance to thank the Identity Office for their strike. I would sack the lot of you tomorrow.

I thought the mantra was "It's right" or "It's right and proper" to be said 1,000,000 times a day.

and buy this guy a Thesaurus.

Don't forget chewy, gristly, stringy, inedible.

-A.

...but maybe more appropriate and it's a word I've liked ever since I first heard it.

Asenine

Liam tells us how 'firm' he plans to be.

Then we can all snigger at the back of the Internet.

One who's not afraid to comment on how the government keeps talking about sex and how tough they are. There must be some good sound-bites you can get out of them even if it is psychobabble.

"adamant, adamantine, aggressive, bold, crustaceous, durable, enduring, feisty, fibrous, forceful, hard-nosed, hardy, impassive, inured, resilient, resistant, spartan, stoical, stubborn, tenacious, threatening."

Anyway... 'spineless, weak, ineffectual, un-enforcable, un-enforced, toothless, blustering, ill-considered' ...to mention but a few alternatives, would surely be more apt?

' crustaceous'? WHERE did that come from? Come to think of it 'stoical'? In this context?

Swallowing a dictionary is one thing - chundering up that lot suggests severe gastrointestinal issues are involved.

There's more to talking crap than, er, taking like a Neo-Marxist/Stalinist Government Minister chasing any faint hope of preserving his post...

Don't blame the passport office for your oversight. Although, given the conditions that they're working in, sacking my be a good career move.

... A TOUGH man in uniform!

(pardon my borrowing and amending Fairuza Balk's quote from The Craft)

Note to Liam: Try less hard darling...

This is exactly the same Mail/Sun pandering excrement that got NuLabour elected ten years ago. It worked then but it won't work now because people have been able to compare the spin with the reality. Who was it that cozied up to the radical immigrant Imams who promptly set about indoctrinating impressionable young Muslims with such tragic consequences for Londoners? And who promptly decided this was a very good excuse to have a bonfire of our rights and liberties because "it would make us all more secure"? The very same people who decided that 9/11 was a good day bury some bad news for the British government.

Byrne is just another Blairite bullshitter inherited by Brown. Nothing less than a root and branch purge of these morons can save Brown from annihilation.

is the phrase that makes me projectile vomit at the screen so, inspired by your example, I googled

"government OR opposition AND "hard working families" AND Labour"

(the "AND Labour" excluded the foreign contributors without excluding the British Tories who nearly always use the phrase in close proximity to an attack on Labour)

...which "brought up" (hmmm... know the feeling) 46,300 examples including this beauty from wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardworking_families

These words and phrases belong to a class of "button pushing" cliches which politicians believe puts them in contact with Joe Public. Every country probably has its own. America has dozens. IF they work as politicians obviously believe they do, then this suggests that We The People are every bit as stupid as they think we are. Not good news for those of us who aspire to Democracy

"...Asenine..."

Are you sure you don't mean "Asinine"?

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/asinine

Sounds about right...

Pack your bags Mr Brown, well soon see the back of your government & its complete bollox

how about "effective" and "consistent", so that things actually get done. Birching is "tough" but unless it stops boys scrumping apples, its hardly effective.

If government was set up to be accredited to ISO9002, I don't think they'd make the first reassessment.

As in crustaceans? Shellfish - prawns, mussels and the like. They don't make me sickk. Politicians do. Explosively and expansively.

Brilliant, I've spotted this precise comment, like 10 times in various comment threads. I've tried to post it myself from time to time, but it never makes it through the moderation. How do you do that?

Cabinet ministers are pretty clueless. Tony Benn revealed how a civil servant for whom he was responsible decided on behalf of the British people to supply Israel with the wherewithal for manufacturing WMD. Almost certainly the Home Office is infested with traitors who are flooding the country with third world immigrants in order to destroy our traditional culture. It matters not what policies ministers invoke when those charged with administration are committing sabotage.