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[Nickbat]

I'm gratified and indeed proud that HM Government has taken the courageous step of providing the funds and facilities so we might hear the very sound reasons of why it was deemed essential - on the basis of irrefutable intelligence - for our forces to be dispatched, to a distant land, in an effort to deny a very dangerous dictator the means to use his stockpile of weapons of mass destruction against our nation.

I can sleep safely with sublime contentment in the full realization that the government of the day led with wisdom and determination by Prime Minister Blair, so ably assisted by Mr A Campbell, Chancellor G Brown and a select group of other far-seeing personnel took the necessary steps to ensure that our nation would never be threatened by such an unstable despot.

I will humbly remember in prayer all those in government and other agencies who selflessly put this nation’s interests before party politics, infatuation with other national leaders and self aggrandisement to work so tirelessly for the good of each and every one of us.

Lord show them mercy and preserve them.

Yank!

Wrong! Go and sit at the back of the class! 

"realiz/e, -able, not -is-"

Oxford Writers Dictionary, Oxford University Press, 1990. ISBN 0-19-282669-7

Many believe that the -ize endings are automatically American, but many stem from old English and indeed are correct, though largely falling out of usage. Some -ize endings (especially among newer words) are, however, American only.

Good article about it here:
http://www.metadyne.co.uk/ize.html

[jereboam]

I think I may give up the English language altogether and resort to expressing my opinions mathematically. 

[Nickbat]

I think I may give up the English language altogether and resort to expressing my opinions mathematically. 

You could always try Esperanto...

[Kevin Wood]

I think I may give up the English language altogether and resort to expressing my opinions mathematically. 

.. you could always resort to grunts and mumbles like the younger generation. 

Kevin

[Dishevelled Den]

I agree about the Falklands. It was indeed, IMHO, a necessary defence of UK sovereignty and whatever faults Mrs T may have had, she was at least a true patriot, unlike the present incumbent. (Heard about the defence cuts he's planning?  )

Of course, we have now surrendered our sovereignty to the EU, but that's a different story. 

 I'm sort of with you on that Nick and indeed wish that we had a Prime Minister who was able to exhibit a similar strength of character when acting in the present interests of this nation, but it must be said that her determination over the issue didn't do her any harm in the subsequent election in 1983.

Whether that was the prime motivating factor during the period in those early years when she worked to consolidate her position - she was after all a consummate reader of the political runes - I suppose it depends on from whatever side of the line the opinion of her true motives is drawn - or the level of cynicism held by those expressing those opinions.

[Vamps]

Not this one........

[jereboam]

I hear that our beloved PM is going to appear before the Chilcot Enquiry.

I suspect the scenario will be as follows:

• in he will go, brimming with confidence, and he will make a complete fool of himself, because he is unable to present any argument without confusing himself and his audience. 
• The press will then attack in force, and his cabinet colleagues will rush to his defence after a week or so. 
• At which point his press office/spin doctors will announce that his performance was triumph, and everything is now absolutely wonderful, and it was an act of towering statesmanship to deprive the armed forces of money and equipment and commit them to a war.

Still, only 4 months till he's gone.

[STMO999]

I hear that our beloved PM is going to appear before the Chilcot Enquiry.

I suspect the scenario will be as follows:

• in he will go, brimming with confidence, and he will make a complete fool of himself, because he is unable to present any argument without confusing himself and his audience. 
• The press will then attack in force, and his cabinet colleagues will rush to his defence after a week or so. 
• At which point his press office/spin doctors will announce that his performance was triumph, and everything is now absolutely wonderful, and it was an act of towering statesmanship to deprive the armed forces of money and equipment and commit them to a war.

 

Still, only 4 months till he's gone.

Rejoice!


Until we realise who his replacement will be.