Radio host James Whale is sacked

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Boris Johnson is a complete buffoon, but he's very funny. It's refreshing to meet a politican anything remotely resembling a sense of humour, let alone one as developed as Johnson's.

However having just visited Liverpool for the first time, I can understand why he's not popular there. For me, the Liverpudlian sentimentality is a good thing, not a bad thing. If Ken Bigley had been from anywhere else nobody would have given a shit. What's better? To care or not give a shit?

Originally Posted by hagbard_celine

Boris Johnson is a complete buffoon, but he's very funny. It's refreshing to meet a politican anything remotely resembling a sense of humour, let alone one as developed as Johnson's.

However having just visited Liverpool for the first time, I can understand why he's not popular there. For me, the Liverpudlian sentimentality is a good thing, not a bad thing. If Ken Bigley had been from anywhere else nobody would have given a shit. What's better? To care or not give a shit?

Agreed, but I'm not convinced that he will not be a puppet for the PTB, though granted he can be quite funny, maybe it's just an instinctive dislike I have of Tories. At least he has a sense of humour, which is more than I can say for the dour Gordon Brown and his motley crew. I always liked Mo Mowlam, and she had a nice sense of humour and despite his enthusiasm for the EU, I reckon Charles Kennedy was ok. Yes a sense of humour has to be a good thing, even if it is in a Tory politician.

Do you remember Billy Connolly said something along the lines of "I wish they'd get on with it" - there was a bit of an outcry, but my sick side secretly found it quite funny. I certainly get more angry about the murdered children of the siege of Gaza than I do for a paid contract worker in an occupied land.

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Originally Posted by drhemp

Agreed, but I'm not convinced that he will not be a puppet for the PTB, though granted he can be quite funny, maybe it's just an instinctive dislike I have of Tories. At least he has a sense of humour, which is more than I can say for the dour Gordon Brown and his motley crew. I always liked Mo Mowlam, and she had a nice sense of humour and despite his enthusiasm for the EU, I reckon Charles Kennedy was ok. Yes a sense of humour has to be a good thing, even if it is in a Tory politician.

Do you remember Billy Connolly said something along the lines of "I wish they'd get on with it" - there was a bit of an outcry, but my sick side secretly found it quite funny. I certainly get more angry about the murdered children of the siege of Gaza than I do for a paid contract worker in an occupied land.

I'm ashamed to say that I voted for Blair in 1997. I'd lived almost my whole life under the tories, first with Thatcher then with Major. In those days there was a kind of end-of-the-rainbow kind of feeling for a future Labour govt. I and many other just thought: "Just wait until we can vote the Tories out, then everything in the garden will be rosy." Bloody hell what idiots we were!

Mo Mowlam was actually very out of place in Blair's cabinet and she knew it. It was largely thanks to her that the Good Friday Agreement was struck in Northern Ireland. She was to be admired in many ways; unlike almost every other poltico. It's sad she died so young.