One thing nobody has mentioned is that Ming is actually a little over three years younger than Prescott. I know the latter didn't have a lot upstairs to begin with but it's worth making the point that Ming is not useless because he's old, but just because he is a fuckwit.
May 10, 2006 at 1:03 PM
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Has anyone asked Lembit Opik's view? If he is giving Ming his unqualified support, then the agreeable old duffer really is done for.
May 10, 2006 at 1:04 PM
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He's clearly misunderstood the job description of Lib Dem leader. It's all about getting drunk and appearing on Have I Got News For You. If he can't do at least two bottles of wine every lunchtime I say sack him now.
Sorry, did I miss something? Who is the Ming guy? And Clegg?
May 10, 2006 at 1:33 PM
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As far as I'm aware, Lembit still refuses to tell anyone who he voted for in the LD leadership contest.
May 10, 2006 at 1:38 PM
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Hey, hands off the Minger!
He's the best possible leader of the Liberal Party, (at least from the Conservative Partys point of view)
He has recently won an election and cannot possibly name the date of his departure - because it would destablise the party.
May 10, 2006 at 1:40 PM
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As revolting as Prescott is, a diet of pies and porn has been far kinder on him than whatever Ming gets up to. Personally I will not vote Libdem until the short alcoholic ginger one is returned to the leadership.
Good afternoon, my name's Charlie Kennedy and make mine a double.
Yes, Ming reminds me of the Goons character, a hapless old colonel?? played by Spike Milligan, who's "lines" consisted of: "I, I, I, I, well...I, I, I, I mean...I, I, I, I" before someone shoots him.
Call me Tony must enjoy the temporary respite the harmless old duffer's questions afford him.
May 10, 2006 at 2:19 PM
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Who says Ming does't subsist on a diet of pies and porn as well?
RM
May 10, 2006 at 2:25 PM
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hands off our Lemsip, he's the only decent one among them. Norman Baker ferinstance, is an evil little toad.
May 10, 2006 at 2:28 PM
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Charlie walks up to the bar and says "small scotch and ginger". The barman says " I can see you are, now what are you drinking". groan, I'll post that as annonymouse.
Well Gudio, you're right about Ming, but wrong about Clegg. He had his chance to go for the leadership and he bottled it.
May 10, 2006 at 2:38 PM
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It's sad that the libdems are just a weak alliance of woolly-jumpered greens and woolly-brained lefties and there isn't space for a truly rational truly liberal party based on small government, low taxes, civil liberties and agovernment which leaves private citizens the fuck alone.
David Cameron is enough of an operator to know that if he proposes tax cuts he will be shafted by labour but there should be a party that is prepared to honestly say to citizens "You know better than us what to do with your money so we'll give it back".
The Lib Dems are for posh people with a social conscience - they feel better knowing they will never achieve anything but really, really care. Personally, I have heard Ming has a bit of a drink problem.
Phoenix, the colonel you mentioned was Major Bloodnock. I'm sure he would have been grateful for the promotion.
May 10, 2006 at 3:26 PM
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The LibDems are what will ensure a hung parliament in the next Big Gameshow to blow £40 million on useless posters commonly known as an General Election.
So Tories and Labour ought to be nice to them as Tories need Lib Dems to stay in Northern Councils like Bradford and Leeds, and Labour needs LibDems to keep their ship afloat in Scotland and Wales
May 10, 2006 at 3:45 PM
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I don't think there is much chance of a hung parliament due to the LibDems - even if everyone voted for them twice, they'd still only get 50 seats under the current system.
I'm not being facetious but... that's not Ming in the foreground, is it? It's Vinnie, with Ming sat down, yes? Want some trivia? The two Muppets (lower pic) are named after New York hotels: Waldorf and Statler.
May 10, 2006 at 4:22 PM
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euro_trash said: "who'd have known so much shit would come up about Oaten"
Tone's PMQ performance was equally dreary and flat- what with him rattling off the same set of tired old statistics and Nu Labour cliches to a backdrop of mostly-silent Labour backbenches.
But then at least Bliar has a real job (for the moment) unlike Ming or Two Shaggs for that matter.
I still don't understand why they didn't go for Huhne. He was pretty impressive in the Question Time they did, Ming came across as unfunny and was incredibly flustered when asked why he didn't want Kennedy to go on the anti-war march. The thing Clegg has against him is that he was of those behind the Orange Book, which won't have made him many friends with the lefties in the party.
redpesto, are you really suggesting that the Libdims appoint Iain Duncan Smith as leader? Not a bad idea, actually: decent chap, ethnic minority, religous minority...
May 10, 2006 at 5:44 PM
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I don't know whether it's his tussle with the Big 'C' or the demands of leading the UK's most significant insignificant political organisation (or a combination of the two) that has left our Ming a quivering, inarticulate heap but something's bit ol' silver tongue.
A more lucid reciter of small print doublespeak I have never heard...
May 10, 2006 at 6:11 PM
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yep, poor Ming performance. However.
It's lucky that the only people that care about PMQs are those in Westminster village.
He'll be alright. Clegg didnt bottle it, it was too early. He'll come through and be fantastic.
May 10, 2006 at 6:16 PM
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They should have looked to the future and elected Chris Huhne. When i saw the final hustings in London I was impressed with both of their speeches but felt that Huhne would help the party to find new direction.
Is there a way to remove ming wothout signaling that their is a crisis within the party? Politics
May 10, 2006 at 7:29 PM
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I don't think there is much chance of a hung parliament due to the LibDems - even if everyone voted for them twice, they'd still only get 50 seats under the current system.
and what exactly is Blair's majority at present ?
May 10, 2006 at 8:29 PM
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guido - are you a libdem? if so i think you should come clean. o'wise i can't see why you spend so much of your time worrying about them
What is the name of that young bald chap who was Tory leader a few years ago and was so good at PMQ?
May 11, 2006 at 11:51 AM
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Hague. He wasn`t a good leader but he was really very good at PMQ`s. The moral of the story was that the majority of the great British public dont watch PMQ`s. That won`t save Ming though, he looks clueless everywhere and seems to be getting very bad advice. Like standing in front of the Prescott shop last week, or messing up over the Nigerian prisoner. The Lib Dems need to pension the old duffer before their support disappears, but I hope they don`t
If Hague wasn't a good Tory leader, what does that make the present one-something from pantomime?
May 11, 2006 at 3:23 PM
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Hague was awful - how anyone could make such a hash of the 2001 Election beats me. It was so amateurish that he must have agreed the plan with Labour beforehand.
If Hague started out in Politics at 16 he was certainly on the wrong track for the past 20 years and in that election it showed - it was a real spoof
nsfl: And for more trivia Waldorf's wife/Statler's sister (she's played by Statler in drag!) is Astoria!
I seem to have the grumpy old men the other way round from Guido, but you can find them and many more muppets (almost all the big characters have been cast now) on blog posts such as this one.
41 comments:
One thing nobody has mentioned is that Ming is actually a little over three years younger than Prescott. I know the latter didn't have a lot upstairs to begin with but it's worth making the point that Ming is not useless because he's old, but just because he is a fuckwit.
Has anyone asked Lembit Opik's view? If he is giving Ming his unqualified support, then the agreeable old duffer really is done for.
He's clearly misunderstood the job description of Lib Dem leader. It's all about getting drunk and appearing on Have I Got News For You. If he can't do at least two bottles of wine every lunchtime I say sack him now.
Because the tories are all right wing nutters.
And Labour are all right wing nutters.
Who are normal nutters meant to vote for?
Since the Liberals solely represent people who don't know what to think... Ming, is, and always has been, the epitome thereof. Dweeb.
Sorry, did I miss something? Who is the Ming guy? And Clegg?
As far as I'm aware, Lembit still refuses to tell anyone who he voted for in the LD leadership contest.
Hey, hands off the Minger!
He's the best possible leader of the Liberal Party, (at least from the Conservative Partys point of view)
He has recently won an election and cannot possibly name the date of his departure - because it would destablise the party.
As revolting as Prescott is, a diet of pies and porn has been far kinder on him than whatever Ming gets up to. Personally I will not vote Libdem until the short alcoholic ginger one is returned to the leadership.
far kinder on him than whatever Ming gets up to
It's called chaemo, and it makes ya puke!
"Ming Muffs PMQs"
Who is the lady with the initials PMQ?
The public has a right to know!
Good afternoon, my name's Charlie Kennedy and make mine a double.
Yes, Ming reminds me of the Goons character, a hapless old colonel?? played by Spike Milligan, who's "lines" consisted of: "I, I, I, I, well...I, I, I, I mean...I, I, I, I" before someone shoots him.
Call me Tony must enjoy the temporary respite the harmless old duffer's questions afford him.
Who says Ming does't subsist on a diet of pies and porn as well?
RM
hands off our Lemsip, he's the only decent one among them. Norman Baker ferinstance, is an evil little toad.
Charlie walks up to the bar and says "small scotch and ginger". The barman says " I can see you are, now what are you drinking". groan, I'll post that as annonymouse.
Well Gudio, you're right about Ming, but wrong about Clegg. He had his chance to go for the leadership and he bottled it.
It's sad that the libdems are just a weak alliance of woolly-jumpered greens and woolly-brained lefties and there isn't space for a truly rational truly liberal party based on small government, low taxes, civil liberties and agovernment which leaves private citizens the fuck alone.
David Cameron is enough of an operator to know that if he proposes tax cuts he will be shafted by labour but there should be a party that is prepared to honestly say to citizens "You know better than us what to do with your money so we'll give it back".
The Lib Dems are for posh people with a social conscience - they feel better knowing they will never achieve anything but really, really care. Personally, I have heard Ming has a bit of a drink problem.
Gran - I never quite know when you're taking the piss but I suspect this is one such occasion.
You can't be serious - can you?
Paul - I can be serious. Just not necessarily all the time... have you ever seen him try to drink a cup of tea?
He struck me as sounding a little over fortified today. Maybe it's a change of medication...
They're giving him the Orange pills....
Phoenix, the colonel you mentioned was Major Bloodnock. I'm sure he would have been grateful for the promotion.
The LibDems are what will ensure a hung parliament in the next Big Gameshow to blow £40 million on useless posters commonly known as an General Election.
So Tories and Labour ought to be nice to them as Tories need Lib Dems to stay in Northern Councils like Bradford and Leeds, and Labour needs LibDems to keep their ship afloat in Scotland and Wales
I don't think there is much chance of a hung parliament due to the LibDems - even if everyone voted for them twice, they'd still only get 50 seats under the current system.
I'm not being facetious but... that's not Ming in the foreground, is it? It's Vinnie, with Ming sat down, yes? Want some trivia? The two Muppets (lower pic) are named after New York hotels: Waldorf and Statler.
euro_trash said: "who'd have known so much shit would come up about Oaten"
Good choice of words!
Tone's PMQ performance was equally dreary and flat- what with him rattling off the same set of tired old statistics and Nu Labour cliches to a backdrop of mostly-silent Labour backbenches.
But then at least Bliar has a real job (for the moment) unlike Ming or Two Shaggs for that matter.
A sterling performance from DC, as ever.
Three words: Iain. Duncan. Smith.
I still don't understand why they didn't go for Huhne. He was pretty impressive in the Question Time they did, Ming came across as unfunny and was incredibly flustered when asked why he didn't want Kennedy to go on the anti-war march. The thing Clegg has against him is that he was of those behind the Orange Book, which won't have made him many friends with the lefties in the party.
redpesto, are you really suggesting that the Libdims appoint Iain Duncan Smith as leader? Not a bad idea, actually: decent chap, ethnic minority, religous minority...
I don't know whether it's his tussle with the Big 'C' or the demands of leading the UK's most significant insignificant political organisation (or a combination of the two) that has left our Ming a quivering, inarticulate heap but something's bit ol' silver tongue.
A more lucid reciter of small print doublespeak I have never heard...
yep, poor Ming performance. However.
It's lucky that the only people that care about PMQs are those in Westminster village.
He'll be alright. Clegg didnt bottle it, it was too early. He'll come through and be fantastic.
They should have looked to the future and elected Chris Huhne. When i saw the final hustings in London I was impressed with both of their speeches but felt that Huhne would help the party to find new direction.
Is there a way to remove ming wothout signaling that their is a crisis within the party?
Politics
I don't think there is much chance of a hung parliament due to the LibDems - even if everyone voted for them twice, they'd still only get 50 seats under the current system.
and what exactly is Blair's majority at present ?
guido - are you a libdem? if so i think you should come clean. o'wise i can't see why you spend so much of your time worrying about them
What is the name of that young bald chap who was Tory leader a few years ago and was so good at PMQ?
Hague. He wasn`t a good leader but he was really very good at PMQ`s. The moral of the story was that the majority of the great British public dont watch PMQ`s. That won`t save Ming though, he looks clueless everywhere and seems to be getting very bad advice. Like standing in front of the Prescott shop last week, or messing up over the Nigerian prisoner. The Lib Dems need to pension the old duffer before their support disappears, but I hope they don`t
If Hague wasn't a good Tory leader, what does that make the present one-something from pantomime?
Hague was awful - how anyone could make such a hash of the 2001 Election beats me. It was so amateurish that he must have agreed the plan with Labour beforehand.
If Hague started out in Politics at 16 he was certainly on the wrong track for the past 20 years and in that election it showed - it was a real spoof
nsfl: And for more trivia Waldorf's wife/Statler's sister (she's played by Statler in drag!) is Astoria!
I seem to have the grumpy old men the other way round from Guido, but you can find them and many more muppets (almost all the big characters have been cast now) on blog posts such as this one.