tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post4746443683240650329..comments2024-03-04T17:54:32.559+00:00Comments on Iain Dale's Diary: Politicians Must Have Sense of Humour BypassIain Dalehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03270146219458384372noreply@blogger.comBlogger105125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-63302253050804394542009-06-17T12:40:31.997+01:002009-06-17T12:40:31.997+01:00"And that's why a Conservative government..."And that's why a Conservative government will abolish ID cards"<br />Except they can't Iain as you should know.<br />It's that Elephant in the room again that the two-faced Tories don't make eye contact with.<br />Once the Lisbon treaty is implemented Europe will have an interior ministry and this will definitely not be 'COSI'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-68381326104263582362009-06-17T12:00:46.498+01:002009-06-17T12:00:46.498+01:00The criticism DC has copped is frankly pathetic.
...The criticism DC has copped is frankly pathetic.<br /><br />What he said was not at all offensive unless you are a sandal wearing outreach diversity officer who wants to ban Xmas.<br /><br />The PC brigade have done untold damage to the UK. Where has our sense of humour and ridicule gone? Do Germans never take the piss out of the Brits? Or the Spanish or the French?. Of course they do.<br /><br />Those who are offended by DC's remark really do need to get a life and worry less about 'hot water burning your hands'!PIENOMICShttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11846925617061061673noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-882552460635578422009-06-17T11:46:14.015+01:002009-06-17T11:46:14.015+01:00Very amusing and a point well made. Joined up gove...Very amusing and a point well made. Joined up government on the horizon.Osama the Nazarenenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-4251215410901241612009-06-17T10:55:50.218+01:002009-06-17T10:55:50.218+01:00The hoo-hah over this totally innocuous remark ref...The hoo-hah over this totally innocuous remark reflects the sad, miseerable times we live. <br /><br />Nobody should be surprised.<br /><br />I don't believe it will do any damage to Cameron's standing. In a day or two's time it will all be fogottenAndrewJKnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-89173025613707298362009-06-17T10:17:47.161+01:002009-06-17T10:17:47.161+01:00Miriam Jones said...
"If the comment was...Miriam Jones said...<br /><br /> "If the comment was so innocent, why has our ambassador in Berlin had to send a diplomatic note apologising for Cameron's behaviour?"<br /><br />Because his master at the Foreign Office, David Miliband, told him to.<br /><br />We are well up to understand current Labour tactics. Without a leg to stand on, and discredited in every way, you have nothing to do but to try to chop off the legs of the Tory leadership. Cameron isn't funny, Hague is too funny....and so on.Victor, NW Kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14778890471547456396noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-34540755799803651952009-06-17T10:10:57.696+01:002009-06-17T10:10:57.696+01:00Come on Iain, it was bad taste and (albeit mildly)...Come on Iain, it was bad taste and (albeit mildly) offensive. Cameron should know better. Not exactly statesmanlike. The tories are seen as xenophobic enough without the leader going for a poor joke at the Germans' expense.Mattnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-61305211235638197852009-06-17T01:59:39.637+01:002009-06-17T01:59:39.637+01:00Laughed? I nearly did.Laughed? I nearly did.Jimmyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01542633492362670045noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-91595193476220991982009-06-17T00:16:25.934+01:002009-06-17T00:16:25.934+01:00"So that's two egg mayonaise, a Prawn Goe...<i>"So that's two egg mayonaise, a Prawn Goebbles, a Herman Göring, and four Colditz salads"</i><br /><br />lol! Even reading this from the classic Fawlty makes me laugh!Beware of Geeks bearing GIFshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01593142105719207212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-86249245108670550582009-06-16T23:25:38.766+01:002009-06-16T23:25:38.766+01:00So that's two egg mayonaise, a Prawn Goebbles,...So that's two egg mayonaise, a Prawn Goebbles, a Herman Göring, and four Colditz salads.Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10904181998734097782noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-32600536676391131982009-06-16T22:57:38.221+01:002009-06-16T22:57:38.221+01:00Blue voter:
Have you ever actually had any dealin...Blue voter:<br /><br />Have you ever actually had any dealings with our "wonderful" modern coppers.<br /><br />If you ever do i guarantee you'll change your mind.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-5880928618278941222009-06-16T22:38:55.106+01:002009-06-16T22:38:55.106+01:00Several people have attempted to prove by their co...Several people have attempted to prove by their comments that they believe David Cameron was a racist because of his cod German accent.<br /><br />For Gord's sake (sic) grow up! We know you are pretending! <br /><br />The idea of asking people for their papers in a German accent is an old, old joke dating back to East German, during a time of great oppression when officials really DID demand to inspect people's papers.Martin Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04148241391183658112noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-74246743117394921812009-06-16T22:19:58.305+01:002009-06-16T22:19:58.305+01:002+2 equals 4 as Winston Smith did not utter. CMD h...2+2 equals 4 as Winston Smith did not utter. CMD has vays of maeking you er...not vote fascist labour, simplesAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-75313956483671061512009-06-16T21:20:38.281+01:002009-06-16T21:20:38.281+01:00A point,very well made by DC. Nicely done.
Will be...A point,very well made by DC. Nicely done.<br />Will be understood by nearly everyone in the Pub tonight- even those in Labour supporting areas.Dunhumouringnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-44714956615304541492009-06-16T21:16:41.031+01:002009-06-16T21:16:41.031+01:00@ Miriam Jones
Where to start?
Who do you thin...@ Miriam Jones<br /><br />Where to start? <br /><br />Who do you think might have instructed HM Ambassador? How do you think this information has become public? <br /><br />And, really, do we care what 'Europe' may or may not think of Cameron? Why? Since when have the Krauts cared less about us? Do you honestly believe that the vast majority of Britons would give a toss if a German Leader of the Opposition made a similar comment about the British?Unsworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08307116169498533047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-13043784513210280832009-06-16T21:08:40.983+01:002009-06-16T21:08:40.983+01:00Well said Iain.Well said Iain.Magical_Misthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07446193963152993371noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-43959944468694797032009-06-16T20:53:53.492+01:002009-06-16T20:53:53.492+01:00Wassat? It's from the old German Knock-Knock j...Wassat? It's from the old German Knock-Knock joke isn't it? You know the one.....<br /><br />Knock, knock.<br />"Who's there"?<br />"Vere are your papers"????<br /><br />Chortle, chortle.Brett Trevalyannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-23340830580455471442009-06-16T20:33:38.828+01:002009-06-16T20:33:38.828+01:00These damned Labour morons wouldn't know a jok...These damned Labour morons wouldn't know a joke if it jumped up and bit them! As others have commented here, the only left wing humour is filth,(just look at most of the "cutting edge" BBC "comedy"),and anti-Tory propaganda.We're not allowed to laugh at ourselves anymore - seems that's a "hate crime".Can't wait for the general election!Barking Spiderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00968827142725464915noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-29261038490961633752009-06-16T20:18:48.725+01:002009-06-16T20:18:48.725+01:00I think it has been made a fuss of over nothing in...I think it has been made a fuss of over nothing in fact you can barely here that he is pronouncing the W as a V. I have lived in Germany for three years as a service wife several years ago and you were spat on and called English pigs the Germans have attrocious manners. It was just a piece of humour and everyone knew what he meant it is a standing joke. Better than Brown calling Ohamha Beach Obama during the Normandy rememberance service. or I have saved the world. It is of the PC brigade that this has been picked up and I bet it was a Lbour plant in the audience. I am sick to death of all the PC these people who do not speak English how do you know what they are saying about usAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-22865166141754665182009-06-16T19:21:02.515+01:002009-06-16T19:21:02.515+01:00Good bad or indifferent it has propelled ID cards ...Good bad or indifferent it has propelled ID cards back onto the agenda, just when Cyclops didnt want to mention it...It usefully reminds us not to drop our guard and keep defending our freedoms...<br /><br /> Danke schon Herr Cameron....Mirtha Tidvillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07940977481295375071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-76905581110055321892009-06-16T19:11:32.767+01:002009-06-16T19:11:32.767+01:00Just "Don't mention the war."
http:...Just "Don't mention the war."<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgAi7DYHA94" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgAi7DYHA94</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-30501333705231688422009-06-16T18:21:17.109+01:002009-06-16T18:21:17.109+01:00"They remember what the Germans did in the Se..."They remember what the Germans did in the Second World War and know leopards don't change their spots."<br /><br />Oh, you absolute wanker.<br /><br />Bet you're a Roundhead.Donut Hinge Party.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-91156361885781097932009-06-16T18:19:42.803+01:002009-06-16T18:19:42.803+01:00It'd be like Angela Merkel saying "If we ...It'd be like Angela Merkel saying "If we keep closing down our quality restaurants we'll be eating rubbish like the British and all of our teeth will fall out." Possibly in a cock-er-ney accent.<br /><br />It's an unfair anachronistic characterisation of a modern state which is counter to the furtherment of tourism and investment of that country. And just rudejonnyargleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02028724564042913308noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-48755401733053782362009-06-16T18:17:08.562+01:002009-06-16T18:17:08.562+01:00I thought they were very witty Bonn mots...I thought they were very witty Bonn mots...JanRamzonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05542395367133176082noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-58392679935358326562009-06-16T18:12:48.424+01:002009-06-16T18:12:48.424+01:00Good on Dave. The majority of people in this count...Good on Dave. The majority of people in this country won't be offended - in fact, quite the opposite: they remember what the Germans did in the Second World War and know leopards don't change their spots.<br /><br />In leaving the EPP and now with this comment Cameron is making it clear that his government will have nothing to do with the Germans - unlike our Prime Minister, who will happily share a stand with Angela Merkel, something downright offensive to anybody who lost relatives in WWII.<br /><br />He's got my vote.ProudBritnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6214838.post-3353349054163918312009-06-16T17:49:04.143+01:002009-06-16T17:49:04.143+01:00Pathetic. It's an indication of how desperate...Pathetic. It's an indication of how desperate Gordon is.Twighttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16698620636313191152noreply@blogger.com