By Denis Campbell
First they closed 2,000 small local Royal Mail Post Offices, now Postman Pat’s company is looking for a business partner to sell a minority stake. I wonder if he is still quietly smiling or has his blood pressure burst a vein?
The UK Government expects a £7 billion pound deficit in the Royal Mail [...]
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The Vultures Circle Postman Pat
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Welsh Farming Community Dumbfounded By Palin, Supports Obama
Posted on 25 September 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: "not trustworthy", "this woman [Sarah Palin] scares me", "two-faced", 1383, 38-residents, Alistair, Americans will vote for a change from Bush's party, bought a copy of Obama's book, Chicago stories, clearly Obama, confuse sailors, Conservative Party, definitive word, deliberately crashed on the rocks below, Dumbfounded By Palin, Gareth, Gayle, he seems to have stronger character than the old guy, holds little respect for politicians, I can relate to Barack Obama he seems to speak a bit mo, I just don't understand it, I work, initially suspicious of Obama, it was a mystery to us as well, It's all so peculiar, It's just bizarre, known as Miv, Landowners tied lanterns to sheep necks, local recruiting business owner, make sure I have my [cell] phone topped up, Margaret Thatcher, McCain seems to go strictly by the book, microcosm of rural Great Britain, Monknash, no one here can understand the choice of Palin as VP, not a better place on earth to discuss American politic, obama, Old South Wales, one could understand having grown up in the apartheid r, only Yank in the village, Philippa, Plough and Harrow pub, politicians have lost touch, pub's newspapers, seem so far away, shipwreck bodies were stored in the bar until coffins c, sitting high above the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, South African transplant, stone and timbres of ships, Supports Obama, surf as much as I can, Thatcher's Black Rat Ale, the behavior of calling each other piggies and things?, the old guy is just scary, the pub haunted, the pub's owner, to be honest the whole thing has just been bizarre, Welsh, what do I know, with the history of her country, woman Prime Minister
As appeared in The Huffington Post Off the Bus Page
For decades I prayed for a woman Prime Minister, then we got Margaret Thatcher,” said Sam(antha) dismissively at a local village store, “this woman [Sarah Palin] scares me.”
Here in the village of Monknash, 38-residents strong and sitting high above the Glamorgan Heritage Coast, is a microcosm [...]
The Brown Mutiny, Chapter One
Posted on 04 August 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: 2012, 48-hour media blitz, Alistair Darling, BBC, Beijing, Blair memo, blood sport, Chancellour of the Exchequer, Conservative Party, courageous, David Cameron, David Miliband, Deputy Party Leader, Foreign Secretary, General Alexander Haig, Glasgow, Gordon Brown, Harriet Harman, John Prescott, Ken Livingston, Labour, London, London Mayoral, Margaret Thatcher, Number 10, Number 11, Olympic Closing Ceremonies, over/under bets, President Reagan, Prime Minister’s holiday, Scottish National Party, Shirley MacClaine, shot in 1981, Sir Humphrey Applegate, Sir John Major, SNP, State Secretary, The Brown Mutiny, The Telegraph, Tony Blair, Tories, White House, Yes Minister
It begins with one whose ambition gets ahead of him or herself. Like the proverbial drip, drip, drip of the tiniest hole in the dyke, Labour front bench cabinet ministers sat silently for the first few moments of Gordon Brown’s holiday and then one-by-one began to stick toes or more in to test the waters [...]
“Senator Clinton, You’re No Margaret Thatcher”
Posted on 26 July 2008 by Denis Campbell | Comments (0) | Tags: Baroness Thatcher, clinton, delegates, democratic party, democratic primary, Lady Thatcher, Margaret Thatcher, McCain, obama, pennsylvania primary, presidential election, Prime Minister Thatcher, results, super delegates
(Reprise article)
Sen. Lloyd Bentsen eviscerated GOP VP rival Dan Quayle with this debate remark stating “he was no Jack Kennedy.” Four years ago I cast a vote AGAINST George H. W. Bush’s son rather than FOR John Kerry. I intend to vote FOR a candidate this year.
You are making it very difficult.
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