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Stopped reading there. more fool you then. self censorship is stupidity

And the same to you, Jackboots! By Richard Littlejohn Parliament rose for the summer last week. Not that you’d notice. No one seems to have told the politicians. They continue to behave as if they’re starring in their own soap opera. It had been my intention not to write another word about politics until at least the party conference season in September. Frankly, I’m sick of the sight of the lot of them — and I suspect the same goes for most of you, too. We’ve had politicians in our faces for an eternity. A period of radio silence would be welcome. For the month of August, the Westminster village should be a ghost town, like Paris during les grandes vacances. I don’t want to read another word about the tensions in the coalition; spending cuts; the dismal Labour leadership contest; or what Vince Cable thinks about anything. There was even an opinion poll at the weekend showing how many seats the parties could expect to win if an election were to be held tomorrow. What a pointlessly fatuous exercise. There isn’t going to be an election any time soon. Who cares? We’ve had an election and most people seem content with the result. now shut up, go away and get on with it. Even though I’ve been offering a reward for sightings of Gordon Brown, his vanishing act should be the template for all MPs. Gordon was pictured at the weekend on the water with his two sons. He was wearing a suit jacket under his life jacket. Someone should tell him it’s OK to relax for five minutes. Apparently, he’s spent the past couple of months writing a book about how to get us out of the economic mess he created — which is a bit like Osama Bin Laden submitting a planning application for rebuilding the Twin Towers. He needn’t have bothered. We’re not interested. Despite my plan to declare this column a politics-free zone for the duration of the holidays, I’d reckoned without the resurrection of disgraced former home Secretary Jacqui Smith. With a stunning lack of self-awareness, Jackboots has applied for a £77,000-a-year, part-time post as vice-chairman of the BBC Trust. Quite why the BBC thinks a two-and-a-half-days-a-week sinecure is worth 77 grand is one thing. Where Jackboots gets the idea that she’s just the woman for the job is another. Having being resoundingly rejected by the voters of Redditch, what gives her the right to expect to be reattached immediately to the taxpayers’ teat? If General Sir Richard Dannatt is prevented from becoming a Tory defence minister, because it’s less than a year since he left the Army, why should a Labour ex-minister be allowed to work in a top public sector job just a couple of months after being kicked out of her seat? She used to be a teacher. If she’s short of a shilling, she could always apply to open one of Michael Gove’s new academies. It would be a novelty to see a politician putting something back into society instead of permanently shoving her snout in the public spending trough. Jackboots, you may recall, was forced to resign from the Cabinet after it was revealed she had deceitfully claimed over £100,000 in expenses by pretending that her sister’s spare room was her ‘main residence’. She also submitted a bill for pornographic movies and a patio heater. The real mystery is how she managed to avoid prosecution. The courts have just ruled that four MPs cannot hide behind Parliamentary privilege to escape fraud charges. For the life of me, I can’t understand the material difference between their alleged crimes and the bent expenses submitted by Smith. Although these human sacrifices have a case to answer, they are naturally aggrieved at having been singled out while so many others walked away scot-free. There should be dozens of MPs in the dock, as a basis for negotiation. But rather than show contrition, self-styled ‘honourable members’ have reverted to type and spent the first few weeks of this Parliament trying to subvert the new, stricter, expenses regime. Their misplaced sense of grievance is matched only by their inflated sense of entitlement. They still seem to believe the usual standards do not apply to them. Jackboots spoke eloquently for most MPs when she told a reporter who challenged her, quite legitimately, about her BBC job application to ‘f*** off’. No, pet, that’s what we want you to do. And take the rest of the political class with you.

this. i love big tits but cant stand fakes. dont mind if they're a bit floppy either as long as they're natural.

Im gonna be boring and say walkers worcester sauce flavour.

i remember when he came back from his 2nd serious knee injury and played in the 2002 world cup. at that point he'd lost a fair few yards of pace but had turned into the 'almost' complete striker (michael owen take note). brazil won and ronaldo ended as top scorer. absolutely awesome player. almost untouchable at times. definately one of the best football players ever.

boobs. big ones especially. just cant help mesel looking sometimes!!!

Good news!

Hi

bought a Peavey JSX head recently. Awesome bit of kit but i'm not quite sure its for me plus wor lass reckons i've got too many amps atm . I'll probably be trying to move it on in the forthcoming months.

all change at the top so the propaganda is different!! "the ministry of truth is your friend"

stuck that into google and got this Prior to rethink the Blues, the former Lyon "must first (to) focus on (its) future in the club." Annoncé partant pour Newcastle ou le Werder Brême, le natif de Clamart dit « ne pas faire attention à ce qui est dit et écrit dans les médias sur le mercato ». Announced leaving for Newcastle or Werder Bremen, the native of Clamart said "do not pay attention to what is said and written in the media about the transfer window." « Ça ne m'intéresse pas. "It does not interest me. Ceux qui balancent des pistes tous les jours sont souvent des girouettes, ceux qui te célèbrent pour tes prestations puis te descendent trois jours après .» Those who drop tracks daily vanes are often those who praise you for your services then you go down three days later. " hope that makes a bit more sense

Wide left drifting into the middle ala Henry. Super duper skillful as well. Think of Ginola and you're not far off.

sign him up!

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Well chuffed if we got Cleverly. We'd actually have a good midfield this season.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economi...four-years.html just sounds like a bunch of bankers whinging that the interest rates arent as high as they would like (less profit for them) anyway, i thought rapid economic growth and the subsequent fall (banking crisis/recession) were what got us into this mess in the 1st place. maybe its a good thing to have a slow rate of economic growth and stability for a while. "gone are the days of boom and bust"

yup, totally agree

summed up brilliantly

Signing confirmed! Ban Kevin!

point is he should be letting his actions speak for him and not mouthing off.

ffs man! "Joey Barton: I'm as good as any anyone in the country, says Newcastle midfielder Joey Barton has insisted that he is "as good as anybody in this country" and set his sights on winning a place in the England squad. The controversial Newcastle midfielder, who has one international cap to his credit, has also called upon England head coach Fabio Capello to select "in form" players rather than "big names" following England's lamentable World Cup finals. "For me, first and foremost, I want to do well for Newcastle United, but watching some of the performances in the World Cup over the summer I think, that on form, I'm as good as anybody in this country," Barton, 27, said. "I don't say that lightly, and I have to go out and prove that, but surely every midfielder in this country should be thinking like that. They should be looking at it and saying 'that's where I want to be and that's where I can go'. The former Manchester City player's solitary cap was gained when England faced Spain in 2007, but since then his career has been punctuated with a litany of disciplinary problems and injuries. Barton is now striving to revitalise a career blighted by a six-month prison sentence after he assaulted a teenage in Liverpool city centre, as well as a four-month sentence served simultaneously for attacking City team-mate Ousmane Dabo in a training ground bust-up. "It seems to me that the dynamics have to change of the national game," Barton added. "Fabio Capello said he will pick players who were in form. Sometimes it hasn't happened like that and people have been picked when they haven't performed a club level. "They (England) were built up to do quite well and I thought they would do well," Barton said. "Obviously it didn't really happen. People are going to chip in with their opinions, but none of us know. None of us played in that atmosphere or played in that pressure. "As an Englishman, though, it wasn't good. Hopefully, this can force the game to change and now they will stop picking big names and instead pick players that are playing well. All of the successful countries do that." With Newcastle due to return to the Premier League when the new season starts, Barton, who mocked England players following their 2006 World Cup exit, is hoping to win over Capello and return to the international fray. "That's my goal and if I break into the England squad, it proves that I am doing fantastic for this football club," the former England U21 player added. "Firstly, I have to do well for Newcastle, though. But, as I say, every midfielder at this club should be thinking like that. "Danny Guthrie, Nobby (Kevin) Nolan and Smudger (Alan Smith) - anybody who comes in and plays in the Premier League, not just at this football club, but everybody else. "I think if we can get anyone from this football club into the England team we're doing really well. It's not usually players picked from the lower echelons of the Premier League - it's from the top."