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Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:12 pm
by JBoy
W's best moment was when his aide whispered in his ear that the twin towers had been hit and he just looked at the camera and carried on with what he was doing.
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:23 pm
by Dub_freak
Gearge w bush is one of the biggest retards i have ever seen, how the hell did he get elected?
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:41 pm
by yoowan
Dennis Skinner. man is an absolute legend and one of the only respectable MP's serving

Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:48 pm
by cityzen
Honourable mention

Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:53 pm
by kay
Does he count?
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:58 pm
by cityzen
^If that's how we're goin on, then

Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:17 pm
by wormcode
Pauline Hanson, but not because of her policies. Because without her, this wouldn't exist:
TUNE!
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Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:20 pm
by DRTY
Borris Johnson or Vladimir Putin
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:43 pm
by magma
cityzen wrote:Honourable mention

I'm pretty sure seeing him debate with Ken Clarke on a trip to London at some point when I was in 6th form was what made me interested in politics. Still got a lot of time for both of them as people, tbh, but I actually agree with things Benn says! Great man.
Pour a saline drip out on the ward floor for Nye Bevan:
And some mercury for Qin Shi Huang, First Emperor of China... Idi Amin and Colonel Gadaffi ain't got SHIT on that dude...
and he got shit done.

Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:53 pm
by JBoy
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 7:57 pm
by James Kofi
Dub_freak wrote:Gearge w bush is one of the biggest retards i have ever seen, how the hell did he get elected?
in the land of the blind....
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:04 pm
by pkay
Dub_freak wrote:Gearge w bush is one of the biggest retards i have ever seen, how the hell did he get elected?
Karl Rove being a political genius and capitalizing on the shortcomings of bill clinton practically handed W 2 terms.
Despite my opposing views, and the fact i think he's satan, karl rove is a political genius.
Karl Rove could likely have made a ham sandwich president after Clinton
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:14 pm
by James Kofi
so what you're saying is.... americans would vote for a ham sandwich
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:16 pm
by alphacat


▬▬▬▬ Nestor Makhno ▬▬▬▬
Peasant-born fighter in the Russian Revolution who went from partisan communist guerrilla to being the co-founder and chief strategist of the anarchist Black Army, which was feared by both the Tsarist White Army and the Bolshevik Red Army in Russia during the Revolution. Once the Bolsheviks got the upper hand they went after him with all their might and finally succeeded in disbanding the Black Army and exiling Makhno... by some accounts, just barely. The history of modern Russia might be very different today had he succeeded though. His influence on 20th century politics is totally overlooked by the West, although most every Russian I've ever met sees Makhno as sort of a hopeful Robin Hood trickster type who arose to fight on behalf of the people because of the dual excesses of the imperialist Tsar and the bureaucratically authoritarian Bolsheviks.
This quote is more true today than ever, I think:
The fact that the modern State is the organizational form of an authority founded upon arbitrariness and violence in the social life of toilers is independent of whether it may be ‘bourgeois’ or ‘proletarian.’ It relies upon oppressive centralism, arising out of the direct violence of a minority deployed against the majority. In order to enforce and impose the legality of its system, the State resorts not only to the gun and money, but also to potent weapons of psychological pressure. With the aide of such weapons, a tiny group of politicians enforces psychological repression of an entire society, and, in particular, of the toiling masses, conditioning them in such a way as to divert their attention from the slavery instituted by the State.

Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:18 pm
by scspkr99
yoowan wrote:Dennis Skinner. man is an absolute legend and one of the only respectable MP's serving

The beast of Bolsover himself, one of the few with a conscience
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 8:31 pm
by wormcode
James Kofi wrote:so what you're saying is.... americans would vote for a ham sandwich
If it could raise enough money it could win.
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:06 pm
by pkay
James Kofi wrote:so what you're saying is.... americans would vote for a ham sandwich
Americans vote for the opposite of what was recently in power.
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:38 pm
by magma
JBoy wrote:
I very almost posted Hadrian for essentially inventing the warless invasion and putting a stop to all the squabbling with people like Boudika. They went through a good patch between him and Aurelius.
Bloody Romans.

Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 9:56 pm
by JBoy
^We could learn a lot from them plus we wouldnt be what we are today if it wasnt for them.
Re: who's your favourite politician
Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2012 10:06 pm
by cityzen
Hmm, if we're allowed Emperors then
