Andrew Pierce

Killer Whale · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 10:50 pm

Andrew Pierce - Fuckwit wrote:

Proof positive of why Labour was so opposed to the legislation to reduce the number of MPs by 50 to 650 — legislation which was passed last week after peers sat for a record number of hours in the Lords. Wales, with a population of three million, has 40 MPs, of which 26 are Labour. In Wales they also have 60 members in the National Assembly.

Compare that to Massachusetts in the US, a similarly-sized region which governs itself admirably with only 10 elected representatives — and contains more than double the number of people.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... s-act.html

Not to mention The Massachusetts General Court, the state legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Which has 200 members in total. You fuckwit.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Mon Feb 21, 2011 11:08 pm

So the 12 Massachusetts representatives (2 senators, 10 Representatives - can't even get that right) 'govern' the state. Shows an incisive understanding of the US Federal Government system, does it not?

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:06 pm

I'm sure it would be possible to find a country with fewer politicians than Wales/Scotland. Still, seeing the right only think of America, that'll have to do.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:21 pm

If Wales were a state of the USA it would send 2 Senators and 50 Representatives to Congress instead of the 40 MPs they send to Westminster...

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 7:42 pm

No mention of the cultural history of Wales. Or that they voted to have an assembly.

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:21 pm

Your place for politicians is Sark:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sark_gener ... tion,_2008

28 members, out of a population of 600. And 29 candidates who didn't get elected.

The Barclay Brothers really are cunts, aren't they? Gee, they make you want Conrad Black back.

Bones McCoy · **Joined:** Mon Aug 16, 2010 9:08 am **Posts:** 7419

Tubby Isaacs wrote:

I'm sure it would be possible to find a country with fewer politicians than Wales/Scotland. Still, seeing the right only think of America, that'll have to do.

Libya dosen't have many, and that's working out well

Mr Mordon · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 12:12 pm

40 MPs for 3 million people hardly sounds like overkill anyhow. The party which is generally more popular in the region has the majority of them, shock horror!

Tubby Isaacs · **Posted:** Wed Feb 23, 2011 1:54 pm

I was assuming that the bit quoted here was merely the worst part of a longer article. I was amazed to see it was the whole article. It's Platell's Westminster standard.

It isn't just the left that opposes what's being proposed. Some Tories have noted how reducing backbenchers makes the executive more powerful.

Messianic Trees · **Joined:** Fri Mar 18, 2011 10:50 pm **Posts:** 2898

Margaret Thatcher is twice the woman Meryl Streep could ever hope to be

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The film is a disgrace and should not have been made until after her death. I wonder if it would have won an Oscar if Lady Thatcher had been cast in a positive light. Of course not. As for Streep, in her acceptance speech she did not once pay tribute (again) or even acknowledge the extraordinary life of the woman who delivered her a third Oscar. The least Streep could have done was wished her good health and happiness in her declining years but of course that might have upset the liberal luvvies at the awards ceremony.

Just like the script writers and directors of this abomination of a film the actress could not bring herself to utter one positive word about Margaret Thatcher. Her bad manners and lack of grace merely confirm the fact that Margaret Thatcher is twice the woman Meryl Street could ever hope to be.

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:36 am

Hmm. I went to see the film and it didn't cast Thatch in a negative light in any respect whatsoever. In fact I was disappointed that they let her off so lightly.

As for Streep's "disrespectfulness", she said in her Bafta acceptance speech "The fate of the well-known is to be misunderstood. What The Iron Lady tried to do was to locate something real, or hidden, in the life of someone we've all decided we know all about already" - practically a case study in being non-committal and uncontroversial.

Seems that if you don't sing a 53 verse tribute to how Thatcher was the most bountiful goddess of greatness ever known, you're disrespectful.

Oh and Thatcher "delivered her(Streep) her third Oscar", did she? Nothing to do with Streep's widely acknowledged brilliant acting ability, then.

What A. Stupid. Cunt.

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:40 am

Pierce is a Friend of Margaret.

ezinra · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:45 am

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Margaret Thatcher is twice the woman Meryl Street could ever hope to be.

I don't think I've been to Meryl Street. Is it near the Jardin du Jean?

Abernathy · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:47 am

Malcolm Armsteen wrote:

Pierce is a Friend of Margaret.

That sounds like it has the same connotations as the term "Friend of Dorothy".
It hasn't, has it?

Malcolm Armsteen · **Posted:** Tue Feb 28, 2012 12:12 pm

Pretty much...

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