Parasites that are very difficult to dislodge
An out-voted Labour parliamentarian, earlier
Ticks are blood-feeding parasites that are often found in tall grass and shrubs where they will wait to attach to a passing host. Physical contact is not the only method of transportation for ticks. Ticks can’t jump or fly, although they may drop from their perch and fall onto a host. Some species stalk the host from ground level, emerging from cracks or crevices located in the woods or even inside a home or kennel, where infestations of “seed ticks” (the six-legged stage of newborn ticks) can attack in numbers up to 646 at a time…
Yes, folks, for those of us who didn’t vote Labour in this shambolic farce of an election, it comes as absolutely no surprise that the grey-faced, one-eyed ghoul has wedged himself firmly into a crevice in 10 Downing St, and is conspicuously refusing to budge. I privately asserted to my friends and colleagues that I was fairly certain that we’d be treated to the unedifying sight of our former Prime Minister being dragged, kicking and screaming, out of Downing St. As are many Labour ministers who have been given the boot by the electorate. I believe Ms Vera Baird is still enjoying ministerial privileges, despite no longer actually having any kind of mandate!
And certainly, Mr Brown has offered no indication that he is going to leave voluntarily. Within seconds of it becoming apparent that the Tories could definitely not achieve a majority, a number of singularly unpleasant excretions oozed their way onto our televisions to explain how the massive haemorrhaging of LibDem and Labour seats to the Tories represented “a rejection of Tory rule by the progressive consensus.”
To be greeted with Peter Hain, Harriet Harman, Peter Mandelson, Jack Dromey and some other union orifice (who, frankly, looked like he’d been heavily on the sauce!) smiling unctuously as they pronounced this unbelievable tosh — before breakfast! — was more than I could stand. I realise that shameless mendacity is a requirement of the job, but how anyone could portray their evisceration as a moral victory is entirely incomprehensible.
My television has now been replaced by an art installation: “TV with shotgun damage to screen,” by Thaddeus J. Wilson. I’m willing to sell it for the price of a new telly, if anyone’s interested.
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- May 9, 2010 at 09:08
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May 9, 2010 at 09:01 -
Very well said, TJW. But given the parlous state of the remains of the UK economy (which they’re all ignoring in the face of the greater threat to their own power and ego) do you think the country could afford to produce enough DDT to dust the government and civil service ghettoes effectively?
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May 9, 2010 at 09:39 -
The ticks were evident on the Beeb just…….slightly off topic maybe but ….fuming…have just abandoned Marr’s morning farce….newspaper review masquerading as serious discussion of a very serious situation…balanced it definitely isn’t!
Put this sort of biased TV garbage together with,for example, ‘fair vote’ protest groups – which a very much not as innocent as many might take them to be – and the like, and its easy to see that the black arts are being deployed to undermine any prospect that the silent sensible majority’s views (and votes)will be reflected in how we are governed!!
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May 9, 2010 at 09:46 -
In Scotland, a horsefly is a “clegg”
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May 9, 2010 at 09:58 -
The bugger beat me to it.
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May 9, 2010 at 09:59 -
“infestations of “seed ticks” (the six-legged stage of newborn ticks) can attack in numbers up to 646 at a time…”
650 shurely…
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May 9, 2010 at 11:19
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May 9, 2010 at 10:45 -
We have a Labour party rejected by the vast Majority of England.
Not Scotland or Wales.
They have no mandate in England.
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May 9, 2010 at 10:54 -
Me too. Seeing Hideous Harman on tv within hours of the result stating that there was a clear mandate for Lab/Lib to now go forward with the Labour party’s policies on the economy was too much for me. Words fail me.
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May 9, 2010 at 11:38 -
Actions speak louder than words, pay your TV license you get BBC, dump your TV you get rid of the BBC.
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May 9, 2010 at 11:40 -
Pulled three ticks of the white dog yesterday.
Unfortunately, too small to see the colour of their rosettes, but I’m positive one might have been a mentalist. It was an off- brown colour, and far more difficult to extract from it’s favoured position on the jugular, than the other two that seem to have formed an easily removable coalition.
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May 9, 2010 at 11:55 -
If we were Icelandic we would be surrounding Brown’s first/second/third/fourth home (for expenses purposes*) armed with flares and frozen cod demanding he bugger off and stop putting us into more and more debt.
Sadly that is not the convention and we have had revolution educated out of us. Brown is PM by default until he is forced to resign by a failure in Parliament, or before then, a competitor can rightly claim to command a majority.
* First home – Downing Strasse. Second Home – Chequered. Third Home – Fifesetestershire, Fourth – the flat he bought off Captain Bob’s estate. He should have claimed *no* expenses whatsoever.
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May 9, 2010 at 12:52 -
In just a few months the wets managed to reduce a 20-point lead to a 7-point one : likely the outcome they wanted. Now that their leader has done his ‘statesmanship’ act, let the whole lot traipse down to Smith Square and enrol in the Liberal-Democrat Party — where they belonged in the first place — and leave the Conservative Party to rebuild itself under a Tory leader, such as David Davis.
In the meantime those of a reddish hue can try to sort out the economic mess they’ve created and handle the Summer of Discontent (no doubt made glorious Winter by a barrel of pork).
As Norman Tebbit says, what an unholy mess !
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Don’t sell your old proculvisor as trash, Thaddeus : given what is to-day regarded as art, it might be worth a small fortune.
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May 9, 2010 at 16:23 -
Berenike
Many a husband has said that before.
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May 9, 2010 at 16:58 -
In just a few months the wets managed to reduce a 20-point lead to a 7-point one : likely the outcome they wanted. Now that their leader has done his ‘statesmanship’ act, let the whole lot traipse down to Smith Square and enrol in the Liberal-Democrat Party — where they belonged in the first place — and leave the Conservative Party to rebuild itself under a Tory leader, such as David Davis.
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May 9, 2010 at 19:30 -
Saw Baird making her farewell speech. Her face turned even uglier as she threatened that Labour WILL BE BACK.
The concept of being voted out seems to be beyond her.
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May 9, 2010 at 22:29 -
There’s a clip of that Baird speech online. Her local paper covered the story.
Given that the Lib Dems are just as keen on carbon credits etc, the Corus closure would have happened just the same under them. The carbon credits allowed at the plant are transferrable and anyone who could make steel somewhere cheaper and use the credits there would do so.
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May 10, 2010 at 12:17 -
I bet the shredders are going full tilt
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