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Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Saturday, 26 March 2016
Thursday, 10 April 2014
CAMERON...AND THE BIG SOCIETY'S DRAINS
Comedian Bill Bailey has a nice turn of phrase.
The Labour supporting politician pretty much sums up the UK political leaders for the Huffington Post.
Of the Liberals he says that soon all that will be left of them is some flowers tied to a fence. David Cameron, he describes as "congealed laminated weasel".
He thinks UKIP are a troupe of sozzled berks who want an electric fence at Dover and a a "no women in the bar" rule.
And of Ed he says... "He's like a plastic bag in a tree. No one knows how it got up there and no one can be bothered to get it down".
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Michael Fabricant has been sacked as a deputy chairman of the Conservative Party for tweeting "about time" over the demise of the ex-culture secretary, Maria Miller. He says he was asked to resign, refused and so Greg Shapps sacked him.
In further gossip from the Tory party, it is rumoured that George Osborne was behind Miller's decision to "resign" as she was dominating the news, when he wished to dominate it.
(Of course when I say dominate and Tory in the same sentence some of you may be the idea that there was something sexual behind it, but as far as Minguin can make out no such deviation occurred...not that they'd tell him anything!
What I thought was interesting about this situation was that Michael was sacked for a tweet, and Maria had the confidence of the prime minister after stealing tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money. Funny old party... funny old country.
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David Cameron appears to have lost the plot, In his Easter message to religious leaders at Downing Street, he claimed that he is carrying out the work of Christ. Jesus invented the Big Society 2000 years ago, he told them, and he was simply carrying on the good work.
Meanwhile down at the food bank there were volunteers thinking that it might have been a better idea if he hadn't bothered, and wondering how it was that you fed 5000 out of 5 loaves and 2 tins of supermarket own brand tuna.
Then, having likened himself to Christ, he went on to compare himself to a drain cleaner. (He's versatile; you have to give him that.)
He urged church leaders to do more to serve Jesus's Big Society (Jesus/Cameron...whatever) and indicated that if they encountered any problems with that, they should think of him as a giant dyno-rod.
I'm sure you'll agree that the less said about that, the better.
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Meanwhile Anas Sarwar's brilliant scheme to involve blue blooded Labour in the campaign, and Lord Robertson of Gaelic Doesn't Exist's part in it, continue to attract press coverage. Unfortunately for Anas, not the kind that he is accustomed to.
Of the Liberals he says that soon all that will be left of them is some flowers tied to a fence. David Cameron, he describes as "congealed laminated weasel".
He thinks UKIP are a troupe of sozzled berks who want an electric fence at Dover and a a "no women in the bar" rule.
And of Ed he says... "He's like a plastic bag in a tree. No one knows how it got up there and no one can be bothered to get it down".
In further gossip from the Tory party, it is rumoured that George Osborne was behind Miller's decision to "resign" as she was dominating the news, when he wished to dominate it.
What I thought was interesting about this situation was that Michael was sacked for a tweet, and Maria had the confidence of the prime minister after stealing tens of thousands of pounds of taxpayers' money. Funny old party... funny old country.
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David Cameron appears to have lost the plot, In his Easter message to religious leaders at Downing Street, he claimed that he is carrying out the work of Christ. Jesus invented the Big Society 2000 years ago, he told them, and he was simply carrying on the good work.
Meanwhile down at the food bank there were volunteers thinking that it might have been a better idea if he hadn't bothered, and wondering how it was that you fed 5000 out of 5 loaves and 2 tins of supermarket own brand tuna.
Then, having likened himself to Christ, he went on to compare himself to a drain cleaner. (He's versatile; you have to give him that.)
He urged church leaders to do more to serve Jesus's Big Society (Jesus/Cameron...whatever) and indicated that if they encountered any problems with that, they should think of him as a giant dyno-rod.
I'm sure you'll agree that the less said about that, the better.
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Sunday, 22 April 2012
PICTURE PARADE...
Some cartoons I've found amusing over the last few weeks.... (click on images to enlarge)
Saturday, 3 April 2010
Joyeuses Pâques....Happy Easter
The message of Easter somehow got buried today in several rows over the Catholic Church and paedophilia.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Williams, criticised the Catholic Church in Ireland saying that it had lost all credibility stunning the Archbishop of Dublin. Rowan Williams also made it clear that he was angry about the Pope’s plans for a new ‘ordinariate’ to take Anglicans, dissatisfied with the idea of women bishops and gay bishops, over to the Roman Church. He refused absolutely to give his blessing to Anglicans who seek to take up the Pope’s offer to help them convert.
He was speaking in a recording for an Easter Monday broadcast of the Andrew Marr show on Radio 4 “Start the Week”. He talked about an Irish friend who told him that it was difficult to walk down the street in Ireland now wearing a clerical collar. He said that, “an institution so deeply bound into the life of a society suddenly becoming, suddenly losing all credibility — that’s not just a problem for the Church, it is a problem for everybody in Ireland.”
This comes on the same weekend as Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pope, said that the outrage over the child sex scandals in the Catholic Church could be compared with anti-Semitism, which has caused uproar within certain sections of the Jewish community.
It seems that although child abuse in the Church has been making headlines across the world for many years, with some diocese in America being bankrupted by the claims against them, the recent revelations that the Pope, as Cardinal in charge of discipline of the clergy, was aware of individual cases (including one where the priest abused over 200 children) and yet did nothing, has blown the whole thing sky high. This time it will not go away.
In what is supposedly the most holy weekend of the Christian calendar, this story is dominating the news. I think that the question on everyone’s mind in Scotland and the wider UK, is how this will affect the visit of Pope Benedict planned for September? What kind of reception will he get? Will it even be able to go ahead, or will there be a new Pope by then?
Oh well.... It's a question for another day. In the meantime.....Happy Easter everyone. Don’t overdo the eggs!
Pictured: Pope Benedict washes 12 pairs of feet following the example of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.
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The Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Williams, criticised the Catholic Church in Ireland saying that it had lost all credibility stunning the Archbishop of Dublin. Rowan Williams also made it clear that he was angry about the Pope’s plans for a new ‘ordinariate’ to take Anglicans, dissatisfied with the idea of women bishops and gay bishops, over to the Roman Church. He refused absolutely to give his blessing to Anglicans who seek to take up the Pope’s offer to help them convert.
He was speaking in a recording for an Easter Monday broadcast of the Andrew Marr show on Radio 4 “Start the Week”. He talked about an Irish friend who told him that it was difficult to walk down the street in Ireland now wearing a clerical collar. He said that, “an institution so deeply bound into the life of a society suddenly becoming, suddenly losing all credibility — that’s not just a problem for the Church, it is a problem for everybody in Ireland.”
This comes on the same weekend as Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pope, said that the outrage over the child sex scandals in the Catholic Church could be compared with anti-Semitism, which has caused uproar within certain sections of the Jewish community.
It seems that although child abuse in the Church has been making headlines across the world for many years, with some diocese in America being bankrupted by the claims against them, the recent revelations that the Pope, as Cardinal in charge of discipline of the clergy, was aware of individual cases (including one where the priest abused over 200 children) and yet did nothing, has blown the whole thing sky high. This time it will not go away.
In what is supposedly the most holy weekend of the Christian calendar, this story is dominating the news. I think that the question on everyone’s mind in Scotland and the wider UK, is how this will affect the visit of Pope Benedict planned for September? What kind of reception will he get? Will it even be able to go ahead, or will there be a new Pope by then?
Oh well.... It's a question for another day. In the meantime.....Happy Easter everyone. Don’t overdo the eggs!
Pictured: Pope Benedict washes 12 pairs of feet following the example of Jesus washing the feet of his disciples.
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