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Geoff Boycott comments on the England cricket team heard this morning on radio:
"Couldn't bowl out my mum!"
"Away with the fairies!"
"More brain in a pork pie, in't there!"

I don't like the man, I have a long memory but he does have a colourful turn of phrase....

Great example of British understatement. Aggers - On the retirement of Graeme Swann part way through an Ashes series. . .

"The timing is certainly not ideal"

An insurance 'expert' on MoneyBox:

"Being caught using your mobile phone whilst driving, can add 25% to your next motoring insurance premium"

George Burns was asked why he didn't go out with women his own age. He said "There aren't any!"

Ho Ho Ho!

Comrade Nolic, several times over Xmas.

...and there I was thinking it was Comrade Santa doing the hohoing. (The red suit seems appropriate for Comrade Santa and I assume his elves have a Workers' Co-operative.)

He makes a very convincing Santa, apart from anything else he's the right size and CRB checked!

When politics are used to allocate resources, the resources all end up being allocated to politics. - P.J. O'Rourke

Just what the Tories are doing at the moment......

Headline from The Times -

"Lawyers stage one day strike over legal aid cuts"

The idea that one day's delay in almost any legal process will make any difference is hilarious.

BBC News today: "A survey from Lloyds bank said UK business confidence was at a 20-year high."
I'll bet the actual statement followed with "Would you like to buy some risky bonds in the Far East and some payment protection insurance?"

When you subsidize poverty and failure, you get more of both. - James Dale Davidson

Like paying Income Credit to keep wages down?

Radio 4 Today programme, a man being interviewed about the jump in new car sales.
Justin Webb (BBC): "All fuelled by more debt, I suppose?"
Motor industry man: "No, not really, the customers are buying the cars by paying for them monthly."

Has the definition of debt been changed?

Emma Goldman famously denounced wage slavery by saying: "The only difference is that you are hired slaves instead of block slaves."

Buenaventura Durruti: "No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges."

"It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!" Upton Sinclair

Tiz, to the younger generations debt is a way of life. They haven't got the memory of the workhouse fixed firmly in their heads like the people who taught us money management.

See this LINK for the 'news' that Morrissey has said: 'I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia' .
Do you ever get the feeling that outrageous public statements like this have more to do with raising a celebrity profile than any concern for the world?

Where the people fear the government you have tyranny. Where the government fears the people you have liberty. - John Basil Barnhill

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. - George Orwell

The Lib Dems couldn't run a bath - Dame Anne Leslie #BBCPM

Man must have the right of choice, even to choose wrong, if he shall ever learn to choose right. - Josiah C. Wedgwood

I could never be a conspiracy theorist; conspiracy theorists believe in government competence. - Will Spencer