* Posts by Ted Treen

1738 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2007

Europe agrees on exchange of criminal records

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@JasonW

I sincerely hope the Des O'Connor discs are an unwanted present.

If you purchased them voluntarily and of your own free will then either you should be sectioned for your own safety, or you should cut back on the use of exotic substances.

I can think of no other (or indeed ANY) rational explanation.

The New Order: When reading is a crime

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@John Stirling

Your profile is almost me. I'm with you 100%. I suppose there really IS a "silent majority".

However, I cannot understand the political apathy of such a large part of the UK electorate, who vote Labour :...because it's a working man's gummint, innit?"

No it's not - and never has been really. What originally started as a working-class movement rapidly became hijacked by self-proclaimed intellectuals of varying marxist hues - I believe Uncle Joe referred to them as "useful idiots",

They always become excessively authoritarian when in power - their smug, arrogant patronising mindset will brook no dissent:- since we're all naughty children, they know what's best for us and by God, they'll make sure we have it - willingly or otherwise, but have it, we will.

Their tenacious hold on authority is nothing more than an ego trip for those concerned.

A plague on their houses, and would that there were some real way to hold them to account for the damage they've done.

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Paris Hilton

@ Several of you

"...likely to be of use to..."

Of course it was deliberately left vague and unspecific.

That way both Plod & the gorgeous pouting Jacqui can decide that whatever you have with you or to which you have access when you're picked up can be deemed to fall into that category.

By Plod, I don't mean the majority of traditional thief-takers (PC up to Sergeant) but the high rankers (I think that's how it's spelt) who are fast-tracked University Graduates - generally in social studies ore something equally leftie & nebulous.

If it weren't so painful for us, it would be a very funny irony that all these lefties & liberals, when given a taste of power become super-chekists who make the Gestapo look like amateurs.

"It's a free country, innit?" is no doubt a phrase which will be deemed to be seditious if NuLab aren't removed (one way or another) soon.

Paris, 'cos like her, this country is well & truly fcuked...

EU project scans air passengers for terrorist tendencies

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Gates Horns

Clever...

Can't wait until the first genuine "flying phobic" gets picked up and vanishes for 42 days....

Economist: girls actually better than boys at maths

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Paris Hilton

A step too far

We should never have given them the vote. My Grandad said it would all end in tears...

Paris - she knows her place

Optical boffins cut the cost of quantum cryptography

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Alien

I think it's terrific.....

Something to totally confuse the gorgeous pouting Jacqui and Sir Ian when implementing the "Gimme your encryption key but don't dare tell anyone I've demanded it" bit of their draconian RIPA.

I seriously doubt if either has the intellect to comprehend "photon" or "polarise" - undoubtedly they believe the former to be a weapon used by the starship Enterprise, and the latter to be a property of certail sunglasses.

Stand by for mass arrests at Trekkies' conventions, and of anyone out wearing shades...

Alien? Well, neither of the aforementioned worthies are on (or from) the same planet as the rest of us.

French FNARRista speed-cam bomber scores own goal

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Boffin

@g e

Shouldn't worry about the watch list:- I frequently rail against the brain-dead twats who call themselves a government, their stalinist PC bed-mates and the oh-so-smug liberal elite supporters.

I have even been known to admire the pragmatic approach of one Guido Fawkes, from time to time.

So undoubtedly I'M on a watch-list, and I shouldn't wonder if the gorgeous pouting Jacqui (hope they've checked her driving licence) hasn't issued an advance copy of a 42-day disappearance warrant for me.

However, as this shower not only couldn't organise jollities in an ale production facility, but probably couldn't even fall over pissed properly afterwards, I'm not holding my breath over the efficiency of the execution of said warrant.

Sir Ian's Ploddery probably couldn't even find me in a line-up of African-Eskimo pygmies...

ID fraudsters soak the rich

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Coat

‘ID fraudsters target affluent’

Sensible.

Not a lot of point in targeting the impoverished.

Do I get my prize now?

Or do I just get my coat?

UK to outlaw cartoons of child sexual abuse

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Coat

Consistency

Well, NuLab have made a big thing on inclusivity:-

Don't discriminate on the grounds of race:

Don't discriminate on the grounds of gender:

Don't discriminate on the grounds of race:

Don't discriminate on the grounds of faith:

Don't discriminate on the grounds of ethnic origin:

to which can now be added

Don't discriminate on the grounds of mental incompetence

Mine's the lasciviously and erotically-drawn picture of a raincoat.....

Internet censorship and mission creep

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Freedom - a vanishing commodity

I've never visited a porn site, a contact site, a "social networking" site or even an anarchist/revolutionary site. None of the preceding interest me (well, maybe the last one, just a bit).

I do however regard as totally abhorrent and unnaceptable the idea of some self-appointed "worthies" telling me what I can & what I can't access.

Thanks to the British electorate being dumb enough to return NuLab to power since 1997, we have lost more freedoms in that 10 years than have been lost in the preceding 100 years and a freedom lost, even if temporarily, is NEVER regained.

These to$$pots need a reminder that WE are THEIR masters; they work FOR US.

It is NOT the other way round, and we are entitled to remove them by the ballot box or by other means if necessary!

Enough is enough.

For truth about Europe, read The Reg

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Unhappy

Just Americans???

After 10+ years of a liberal elite pseudo-socialist government in the UK, and 30-odd years of an undemocratic unelected federal corrupt bureaucracy foisted upon us by lying politicians, it ain't just Americans who can't afford to live here - us poor bloody natives can't, either.

Social networking site bans oldies over sex offender fears

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Flame

Nostalgia

Someone from Faceparty has just seen "Logan's Run"......

Mind you, a younger Jenny Agutter in her mini-toga is always worth seeing....

Garage sale genius juices software-hawking eBayers

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Unhappy

Whatever..

Whatever happens, however this & future cases go, it won't be in the consumer's favour and it probably won't be to the S/W publisher's benefit either.

It WILL however, ENORMOUSLY benefit those wonderful champions of everyman - I refer of course, to m'learned friends - some of whom, whose magnanimity knows no bounds, now work for a daily fee which is as little as my gross monthly income.

Apple sued over Mighty Mouse

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Coat

@Vernon Lloyd

"/Paris cause even she can see hypocracy"

So you share an English/spelling teacher with Paris?

Don't claim it was ironic - that would be hypocrisy.

Mine's the one with the OED & Roget's in the pockets, and "PEDANT" across the back......

The economy: A big Arab did it and ran away, claims PM

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Paris Hilton

@Most of you...

Like most of the liberal self-proclaimed elite, Broon is a bad case of arrested adolescence, and is still living (intellectually and politically) in the late 60's/early 70's radical student politics world.

Paris, 'cos she's actually smarter than most of 'em.

Man barred from posting crimes on YouTube

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Pirate

More awards

Let the tw@t (and hiss buddies) have cars on an empty but wet road.

With luck, we'll be able to present them with a Darwin Award to accompany their ASBO.

UK.gov plans central database for all your communications

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Pirate

RIP?

RIP Act:-

Freedom R.I.P.

Liberty R.I.P.

Privacy R.I.P.

One assumes Gordon Brown's unused first name is Kenneth or something similar - making his initials a highly apt KGB.

Although I will now install PGP or similar - just for the buggeration factor - it appears more and more than "Ownlife" is moving from being discouraged to being prohibited.

And if any tw@t misses the point completely, and chants the NuLab mantra "If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear", then I'll swing for the b@st@rd...

Cue for a quick chorus of "Oceania 'tis for thee"?

Brits more fearful of ID fraud

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Coat

With good cause.....

My mate Sid was the victim of ID theft.....

Now he's just known as S

Mine's the one without the name-tag or label.....

HP pays $13.9bn for EDS

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Paris Hilton

Gov't contracts?

So now the NuLab's Gov't contracts will be screwed up by HP instead of EDS.

Why are civil servants so stupid over commissioning IT contracts - and why is it anathema to them to actually ask the end users what they actually need & what they actually want?

This is obviously a rhetorical question, as we all know Whitehall to be the last refuge of the terminally incompetent and the otherwise unemployable.

Paris, 'cos she has the intellectual capacity of which most Whitehall occupants can only dream...

Gordon Brown claims a Brit invented the iPod

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Boffin

Of course it was.....

Americans are Brits, anyway.

Just living (for the past 230-odd years) under a succession of rebel colonial governments.

Therefore it stands to reason that whatever is American is, underlying it all, British - albeit somewhat rebellious.

NZ bank robber stashes loot where the sun don't shine

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Coat

I'm sorry

The cheek of it: still, at least NZ Plod got to the bottom of it very quickly.....

OK, I'll leave quietly...

Mine's the very loud oversized check pattern, with the plastic squirty flower in the buttonhole....

Extreme porn bill gets final reading

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Paris Hilton

Damn it

When I saw the headline "Extreme porn bill for Lords" I just assumed it was another huge account us poor bloody taxpayers would have to pay....

Paris - 'Cos she says ponography's no use to her, as she doesn't even own a pornograph.

Washington cops may be compelled to use gun-cams

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Paris Hilton

Down the tubes

How long before the first "happy capping" vids get on You Tube?

Paris - 'Cos she knows all about tubes & vids...

Two arrested over piracy at computer fair

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Paris Hilton

Value or Shock! Horror! Gasp!

So if I print ten copies of a Van Gogh or Monet at A2 on my large-format inkjet, and offer them at a couple of quid each, would that be £20 of illicit goods......

.....or would Plod claim it at £125,000,000.00 (10 x assorted Van Goghs and/or Monets)

Paris, 'cos she's turned "dumb" into an art-form......

BOFH: The Boss gets Grandpa Simpson syndrome

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Happy

More nostalgia....

Yup, I started with Burroughs 30 years ago.

I surely recall "customers" paying loads for an upgrade, which consisted of removal of the restricting "cripple-card".

Not just Burroughs, but it was standard procedure in the days when the IT industry was the DP industry.

Ah, those wood-burning steam-powered computers.....

Men could have kids with chimpanzees - gov must act

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Pirate

Well...........

I must admit the man does have a point, that if animal sperm-> woman is totally illegal, but man sperm-> animal is not, then as sure as eggs is eggs some mad sod will try it.

There are many examples of scientists attempting to, or managing to cross two closely-related but separate species (e.g. horse & zebra, Tiger & Lion etc.,) for little more reason than idle curiosity.

True, such hybrids are generally infertile, but we have seen quite a few examples of dotty scientists messing around with what they don't fully understand...

UK elections vulnerable to fraud - e-voting no solution

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Pirate

@You all

It doesn't matter who you vote for;- the government ALWAYS gets in...

Local council uses snooping laws to spy on three-year-old

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Unhappy

Nostalgia

At one time, Government - both national and local (especially local) had a fair degree of altruism, and generally recognised that it was there to serve its electorate.

Now the boot is on the other foot, and the unholy alliance of Incapability Brown and The Straw Man has shown that all forms of government today is the last refuge of the terminally incompetent. - and regarding The Straw Man, why is it that ex-commies are so damned authoritarian and anti-freedom once they reach office? Must be all that time spent studying Uncle Joe.

The sole purpose of the electorate now is to serve the almighty state - we are the worker bees, Incapability fancies himself as Queen Bee but there is a definitely unnatural number of drones in his hive.

Muggers, buggers, robbers & rapists will always be lightly dealt with - after all, they are merely picking on another worker bee (or "Taxation Revenue Unit" in Brown's Brave New World) - but just let OAPs object to the profligate waste of their excessive Council Tax, or parents be sufficiently middle-class as to have some hopes for their offspring and try to get them into a school which hasn't been reduced to the lowest common denominator by (Talking) Balls, and they are enemies who go up against the authority of the state behemoth. This of course, cannot be tolerated.

No doubt the Ministry for Justice (copyright George Orwell) will soon be "The Committee for State Security", you will be stopped on the streets and checked by a CHEKA, and statues of Felix will abound.

Mine's the one with GULAG written across the back.

Database Trojan infests pro-Tibet websites

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Pirate

@I. Aproveoetc.

"If it were not for the likes of Yahoo, Microsoft and Google, that damned country would have been blackballed years ago."

To Yahoo, Microsoft & Google you had better add pretty damn well every manufacturer who uses Foxconn, inter alia, as component suppliers & OEM manufacturers as virtually ALL high-tech equipment is made in the good old PRC these days,

This means that as well as our systems being cheaper, all our data are belong to them...

Courts slam Blair's 'abject surrender' to Saudi prince

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@Anon. Cow.

I'm not restricting this to the jihadis:- the current judiciary's obsession with the yooman rites of ALL crims, perpetrators, illegals, feral yoof etc. to the total denigration of any rights the rest of us have to a comparatively peaceful existence IS a threat to the rest of us. I agree the other unacceptable threat is McStalin in no. 10 with his total obsession with centralised control freakery.

An independent judiciary SHOULD be the safeguard of our freedoms and liberty, but the current incumbents just ain't cutting the mustard.

It's little more than a bout of willy-waving between two cliques of the liberal elite who see the rest of us as mere fodder for their self-proclaimed intellectual ideas of social engineering.

It can justifiably be described as intellectual masturbation:- giving a warm glow of self-satisfaction to the perpetrator; being of absolutely no use to anyone else; and being rather distasteful to any onlooker(s).

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Coat

Who judges the judges??

So even if Saudi Intelligence give us details of a plot, and names & addresses of would-be jihadis, our wonderful judiciary would refuse to let us imprison or deport them 'cos it would infringe their yooman rites.

Isn't this enough to get most judges sectioned as they are palpably non compos mentis, and present a very real danger to the public in general.

Mine's the one with the arrow pattern on it (or shortly will be, no doubt).

Want to get into 10 Downing Street? Get a Lithuanian ID card

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@ Jamie/Chris

You're getting the picture:- dissent aimed at NuLab is "Serious & Organised Crime". (Burglary is trivial, and doesn't merit a penalty).

We don't get tax allowances, 'cos we know that means we keep more of our own money: instead, we pay high taxes but can claim "benefits" which means we are receiving munificence by the benevolence of the Supreme Leader. This way of course, most will see Broon as being oh-so-generous, and will be afraid to vote against him as they are scared of losing these "benefits".

Dependancy culture deliberately encouraged to perpetuate NuLab's being in office?

Surely the Great One would never be that cynical - would he?

Mobile snap murderer jailed for life

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Pirate

Yeah, right...

At least 15 years - or until his cell is needed for some dangerous pensioner withholding part of his council tax.

"Really dangerous" is reserved for those who question the power & authority of the Dear Leader's monolithic centralised state.

Depraved violence against your fellow citizens is nowhere NEAR as unacceptable to NuLab.

Mega-mortuary creaks open its doors in Westminster

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Coat

Multiples

If we get another 5 built - then that would accommodate virtually ALL the inhabitants of the Palace of Westminster...........

Just a thought.........

(but rather a nice one)

Mine's the one with arrows on - or probably soon will be...

The 'green' car tax grabs that don't add up

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Flame

Succintly

As there were sufficient retards (cerebrally challenged, if that gives you a cosier glow) to vote in this chronically incompetent bunch of cynical pathological liars not once, not twice but thrice, there are obviously sufficient of the said retards remaining to swallow the crap emanating from the Caledonian badger - who is, admittedly, just a glove puppet for The Supreme Leader.

They can count on these idiots, so they don't bother to conceal their contempt for the rest of us.

A plague on their houses!

Why I downgraded from Vista to XP

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Jobs Halo

@Philip

"This article fails at (sic) convincing me to stop using Vista."

Much as Galileo failed to convincing the Clergy that the sun was the centre of the solar system?

Capita buys way into ComputerLand

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Pirate

Ah well...

So, farewell then, Computerland.

A slow(ish) lingering demise awaits.

EU investigates DOJ internet gambling tactics

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Happy

@ Oliver Magee

Oliver, you've missed the red herrings, distractions and plain irrelevancies:

You will have to be shot, stuffed and displayed in a case to show the masses that intelligence and erudition are not dead (yet)...

Smut peddlers and spammers invade Google Groups

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Boffin

Irritation

I belong to several Google groups - spam's been coming for some time (and to Yahoo! groups, too).

Yup, it's an irritant (just like our MP) - but I just delete it (Would that I could do the same with the MP - and ALL others of his ilk...).

Stop worrying & just delete the spam & don't follow iffy links...

Apple unearths Time Capsule

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Paris Hilton

@Shakje

Shakie, old lad:-

Wasn't aware of Jobs saying that:- It's just The Phreakster's preaching (much like an ultra-fundamentalist Ayatollah), lack of reasoned argument and continued diatribe of undiluted venom makes me fear for the old loon's health, as he's bound to rupture something one of these days...

He does serve a purpose, though - as without madness we would be unaware of normality - much as without darkness we would be unaware of light...

Paris because she serves a purpose by making most other blondes seem positively intellectual...

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Unhappy

@Webster

HeyGuys, lay off Webster.

If it weren't for him, we would not be aware of just how sane & normal everyone else is.

Euro MPs want criminal penalties for downloaders

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Go

@Ash

Well said. The most reasoned, sensible, and brief yet straight-to-the-point comment I've read in a long time.

Doctors back more tax on booze

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Pah!

More tax will achieve absolutely nothing other than to make the fat Jock even more smug

Addressing the basic problems (destruction of the family, selling the UK down the river, total open-door policies etc. etc.) which the liberal elite have spawned over the years but which they're just to dense and arrogant to see would be a much better move.

I have no more than 3 or 4 beers per week. I'm taxed to death by the fat Jock already.I do NOT wish to have even more stolen from the meagre remains of my salary just because Fatty is utterly incompetent at anything other than sticking his greasy mitt in other people's pockets.

Away with him & his ilk - then let's address the real problems!

Enraged vegan spitroasts Reg hack

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Happy

Odd points

@Craig: Compassionateness??? Inventive vocabulary indeed!

Vegan? Is this one of Mr Hubbard & Mr Cruise's buddies from the planet Vega?

HOWEVER

When you see the hordes of feral "yoof", and/or the outcome of their actions, you can understand many people thinking animals are superior.

Yes, I'm a believer in animal rights.

No, I'm not a pseudo-terrorist crusader.

Yes, I am an omnivore, but I do buy free-range everything wherever possible. It costs more, but I'm not saving a few bob by condemning some poor creature to a wretched sub-existence - and I don't go in for weirdo slaughter like kosher or halal.

I disapprove of blood sports, but don't have a problem with hunting for the pot. It's the taking of pleasure in slaughter that's indicative of moral, emotional and intellectual damage.

Unless of course, your prey is the ranks of NuLab, any other politicians, and those smug holier-than-thou bastards who read The Grauniad.....

Then it's highly commendable.

Britt Ekland on board for 'Wicker Man 2'

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Paris Hilton

@Fergie

Ian,

"Increasingly pregnant"?

I always believed pregnancy was like death - you either are or aren't.

Still, I can think of several I would like to see become "increasingly dead"...

Anorak please - a coat's not appropriate for me.

Paris because she wouldn't get the difference

Brit firm levitates floating chair

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Gates Horns

Pressie Time

I want to send one to Mr Ballmer. Methinks 'twould drive him potty...

Stopblair.eu tries to halt Tony's march on Brussels

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Alien

What jolly fun!

Aaww c'mon - let it go! Imagine the fun when Prez Tony starts to lord it over fat Gord.....

Either a fatal coronary/fit of apoplexy or a sulk which would make Grocer Heath look positively extrovert in comparison, and probably rapidly followed by a belated referendum so Gordie could secede from Europe, thus saying Yah Boo Sucks to Blair.

It's a prospect for the jolliest fun we've seen in years.

Alien pic is for one Alistair Darling. I have yet to be convinced he is of this world.

Iran fires rocket 'into space', plans satellite for '09

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Boffin

@Ian Hislop

"President Ahmadinejad insists that Iran is not a threat to any country. ®"

and I'm a banana.......

with apologies to Ian Hislop

Mac lambs line up for slaughter

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Happy

Welcome back, Webster

Phreaky, old chap. Good to see you have been granted temporary leave from the place of padded wallpaper & Ritalin.

Love your rants - the web (no pun intended) is lacking in Fawltyesque humour such as yours, & I'm delighted that you've evaded your nurse for long enough to amuse us all again.

Nil carborundum, old boy!

Home Sec in anti-terror plan to control entire web

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Serious question

How in God's name did such a bunch of twats manage to get themselves elected three times in a row? No, I never voted for them: I was a theoretical Labour supporter between the ages of 13 and 15, but then my idealism was dented somewhat by increasing maturity and an awareness of reality.

I'm with "Anonymous", and, being a 1950 model, I suspect I'm a similar vintage.

Orwell wrote a superb salutary warning.

NuLab adopted it as an Instruction Book.