The Mail vs David Cameron

glasgowgril · **Joined:** Fri Jan 29, 2010 2:51 pm **Posts:** 1439

The amnesia of voters is something that can always be relied on, however. Two or three years down the line most people will have forgotten things weren't always as they will be by then. Boy, that's a complicated set of tenses in that sentence. Glad I don't have to translate it into Latin.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:29 pm

glasgowgril wrote:

The amnesia of voters is something that can always be relied on, however. Two or three years down the line most people will have forgotten things weren't always as they will be by then. Boy, that's a complicated set of tenses in that sentence. Glad I don't have to translate it into Latin.

You could get Toby Young to do it for you. Oh, hang on...

Paul · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:37 pm

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Get rid of Cameron, put Dave Davis in as pm, with Hague. Watch them deal with Europe.

- dave, rolands castle, 2/10/2010 13:33

So Davis would be unelected then, in much the same Brown was. You only seem to favour democray when the result suits you.

- Anne, West Midlands, 02/10/2010 15:22
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Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 3:43 pm

Far too subtle, their heads will rotate as they try to decide on red or green arrows...

AOB · **Posted:** Sat Oct 02, 2010 7:17 pm

glasgowgril wrote:

The amnesia of voters is something that can always be relied on, however. Two or three years down the line most people will have forgotten things weren't always as they will be by then. Boy, that's a complicated set of tenses in that sentence. Glad I don't have to translate it into Latin.

True. Plus, we now have the televised debates factor. Come April 2015, the previous 4 and a half years will count for nowt for Ed Miliband if the only thing he does wrong during that time is have a bad hour or so in the 1st of the tv debates. And Cameron and Clegg will have experience over him. In fact, Clegg probably isn't arsed at all what happens in the next 4 and a half years. He'll put in another cracking performance, have everyone eating out the palm of his hand again, and get back all the disenchanted Lib Dem voters from last May.

Paul · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 4:49 pm

Cameron 'stalling over publication of No10 guest list because Rupert Murdoch was among first visitors'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... l#comments#ixzz12RWc2aDm

Rothermere hurt at being left out?

Fflaps · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:15 pm

To be fair the Mail (or rather, its owners Associated Newspapers) is one of the organisations protesting about Murdoch's proposed buyout of BSkyB, so we can probably expect to see a few more stories along these lines.

mojojojo · **Joined:** Fri Mar 19, 2010 1:33 pm **Posts:** 4264

AOB wrote:

glasgowgril wrote:

The amnesia of voters is something that can always be relied on, however. Two or three years down the line most people will have forgotten things weren't always as they will be by then. Boy, that's a complicated set of tenses in that sentence. Glad I don't have to translate it into Latin.

True. Plus, we now have the televised debates factor. Come April 2015, the previous 4 and a half years will count for nowt for Ed Miliband if the only thing he does wrong during that time is have a bad hour or so in the 1st of the tv debates. And Cameron and Clegg will have experience over him. In fact, Clegg probably isn't arsed at all what happens in the next 4 and a half years. He'll put in another cracking performance, have everyone eating out the palm of his hand again, and get back all the disenchanted Lib Dem voters from last May.

No. I reckon Cameron will get awya with it - he's doing what revolting Tories do. Clegg's fucked though.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 5:59 pm

mojojojo wrote:

AOB wrote:

glasgowgril wrote:

The amnesia of voters is something that can always be relied on, however. Two or three years down the line most people will have forgotten things weren't always as they will be by then. Boy, that's a complicated set of tenses in that sentence. Glad I don't have to translate it into Latin.

True. Plus, we now have the televised debates factor. Come April 2015, the previous 4 and a half years will count for nowt for Ed Miliband if the only thing he does wrong during that time is have a bad hour or so in the 1st of the tv debates. And Cameron and Clegg will have experience over him. In fact, Clegg probably isn't arsed at all what happens in the next 4 and a half years. He'll put in another cracking performance, have everyone eating out the palm of his hand again, and get back all the disenchanted Lib Dem voters from last May.

No. I reckon Cameron will get awya with it - he's doing what revolting Tories do. Clegg's fucked though.

Yeah. Clegg's been found out now. The title of that well-known Who song springs to mind. "The Kids are Alright". Erm, no, sorry, meant "Won't Get Fooled Again" .

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 6:01 pm

How about Boris the Spider?

Fozzy · **Posted:** Fri Oct 15, 2010 11:26 pm

Could be interesting to see what happens if Cameron goes ahead with the suggested cut in the cold weather allowance. Can any self-respecting Lib Dem really support that?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:03 am

Self-respecting LibDem? Contradiction in terms...

Adam · **Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2010 12:18 pm

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Self-respecting LibDem? Contradiction in terms...

Especially now. I still feel dirty. Won't be doing that again. Although the alternative is that I have to place an X in the box next to Hazel Blears' name. Which isn't a great deal more conducive to feeling good about oneself.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7319

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Could be interesting to see what happens if Cameron goes ahead with the suggested cut in the cold weather allowance. Can any self-respecting Lib Dem really support that?

And think of the angry letters from our readers in Thailand.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Sat Oct 16, 2010 1:31 pm

glasgowgril wrote:

Two or three years down the line most people will have forgotten things weren't always as they will be by then.

Boy, that's a complicated set of tenses in that sentence. Glad I don't have to translate it into Latin.

I've got a future perfect of a deponent verb (obliti erint), followed by indirect statement, which means an infinitive. I think a perfect infinitive (fuisse). Then I suppose there's sometime of subjunctive in "as they will be by then"- present subjunctive?

Can anyone do any better?

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