http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/tags.php?tag=prime-minister The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Sat, 25 May 2013 19:01:56 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45159#post-129539 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 21:13:08 +0000 woodymellor 129539@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yep. You couldn't have pointed that out before the editing cut off? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45159#post-129525 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 20:10:52 +0000 Golgo13 129525@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wasn't it just called "Do They Know It's Christmas" ? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45159#post-129516 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:40:22 +0000 woodymellor 129516@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Unfortunately not topical at all. Never mind. I can drag it out again at Christmas. Or when one of them dies/is arrested for cottaging. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45159#post-129312 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 06:25:03 +0000 Gerontius 129312@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Love this sub too.<br /> The fleeting hall of fame<br /> Where are they now?<br /> No...the politicians, not the singers. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=45159#post-129282 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:19:39 +0000 woodymellor 129282@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Speaker of the House John Bercow struggled to restrain an agitated house during Prime Minister’s Question Time on Wednesday, after Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Harriet Harman challenged the Prime Minister to name which artist sang each line of the original ‘Do They Know it’s Christmas Time?’ single.</p> <p>After an initial look of panic, the Prime Minister displayed some clever political nous by trying to evade the question on a technicality, claiming that ‘the official artist was Band Aid’ and that he felt it was ‘not appropriate to comment on individual artist’s contributions’. Shouts from the opposition benches suggesting the Prime Minister was stalling for time and ‘answer the question you big girl’s blouse’ seemed to hold some truth, as after the Speaker settled the House once again, the Prime Minister retook to the dispatch box and reeled off Paul Young, Boy George and George Michael.</p> <p>The salvo seemed to take the Shadow Culture Secretary by surprise as she was clearly about to move in for the kill. Seeing the PM retake his seat next to Nick Clegg, Harman blurted out something about Clegg being the Andrew Ridgeley of their particular relationship, and asked Cameron when he was going solo. Looks from the more seasoned Labour backbenchers indicated that this was a poor retort and possibly an own goal. She then rallied by asking the Prime Minister to clarify who was the co-singer of George Michael’s second line. The PM, emboldened by chanting from his own backbenchers and a shout of ‘go on Dave, nail the bitch’ from Michael Gove, rushed to his feet and shouted ‘Sting!’</p> <p>A moment of awkward silence presaged a smattering of laughter from all sides of the house. Speaker Bercow reprimanded Dennis Skinner for making masturbatory signs with his hand, near his mouth, while jabbing his tongue into his cheek, and also threatened to name Kenneth Clarke for calling the Prime Minister a ‘twat’.</p> <p>Crippled with embarrassment, the Prime Minister gave way to Harman, who, smelling blood, pressed home the advantage by putting her tongue into her bottom lip, making what Nick Robinson later described as a ‘bit of a spastic noise’, and finished Mr Cameron off with ‘It was Simon Le Bon, you pillock.’</p> <p>It was a clear Labour victory, as signified by shouts of ‘gutted!’ from the Speaker’s left, and Ipsos Mori polls released later that day showed an almost immediate dip in popularity for the Conservatives. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=22035#post-59456 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 18:25:22 +0000 OldThingy 59456@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>There are now thousands of photographs and media images of our PM on the news and the internet.</p> <p>The public are warned to be vigilant. Any images you see may well be just copies of the original and downloading or copying such images to your hard drive might be construed as cloning. They may also contain malicious codes which could affect your system.</p> <p>Even the original may well be a plagerised copy. The evidence has been noted that the PM seems to be in a lot of places at the same time and with an awful lot of fingers in a lot of pies. Official sources suggest that they are now concerned because he uses many of the words used by other PM's, an indication that he is not original but just an unlicensed copy.</p> <p>Using Ctrl-C and CTRL-V to make further copies of the PM may well turn out to be illegal unless you can verify permissions.</p> <p>Public are advised to use Cntrl-x or delete if they see any pictures/videos/films purporting to be the PM. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=20036#post-54009 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 20:22:19 +0000 Peter749400 54009@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><img src="http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00792/460-berlusconi_792155c.jpg"></p> <p>Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has angrily denied rumours that he went into Parliament last month and introduced a proposal which attracted sufficient support from his fellow politicians to enable it to become law. </p> <p>The sordid claims were made by a member of the Italian Parliament, who claims he has video footage of the Premier speaking in the Senate shortly before his proposal - to introduce greater regulation to the construction sector - became law. The video, which has become an overnight You-tube sensation, appears to him standing fully clothed complete with shirt and tie, making a concise and factual pitch which emphasised the need for greater accountability among a profession which, Mr Berlusconi said "has in the past occasionally bordered on the corrupt". </p> <p>The video has shocked many Italians and has the leader of the opposition has led calls for the leader's resignation: “When people vote for a Prime Minister, they want to see him working hard to de-flower virgins, take control of all media-outlets, and amass a huge personal fortune from a corrupt business empire. This so called “law-making” will not be tolerated by the Italian people nor by us as politicians” he said.</p> <p>In a measure designed to restore trust in the Prime Minister, Mr Berlusconi today appeared at a rally in the centre of Rome at which he made a number of graphically illustrated threats against his political opponents, after which his limousine passed through the cheering crowds while the Premier stripped naked and began to snort cocaine off the back of one of three Brazilian hookers he had hired for the occasion. Mr Berlusconi is 74. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=16575#post-44849 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 23:54:01 +0000 thesheriff 44849@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Prime Minister David Cameron today created a new Cabinet position for the Daily Mail. </p> <p>"We considered a peerage," Mr Cameron said, "But that's for old has-beens. We needed to recognise the key role that this august publication plays in setting policy in this country on a day-to-day basis." </p> <p>With a similar roving portfolio to the Deputy Prime Minister - except more powerful - the Mail (as it's known to close friends) will continue in much the same vein as it does now, making snap judgements on the basis of scant information before moving onto another of its seemingly endless list of bête noires. </p> <p>The Mail will also hold a key position at the Department of Health where it will continue its quest to categorise everything in the known universe according to whether it causes or cures cancer. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12554 Thu, 13 May 2010 21:44:09 +0000 Skylarking 12554@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I refer the right hon gentleman/lady to the previous 16 remarks... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12547 Thu, 13 May 2010 21:22:11 +0000 The All New Jeni B 12547@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>GC, another stonker old chum!</p> <p>I was chortling along as my Butler read it out to me, what?<br /> Jolly good stuff.<br /> Keep it up old chap.</p> <p>Toodle pip!</p> <p>Oh, and have five of those gold thingummies. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12545 Thu, 13 May 2010 21:07:07 +0000 Doctor Moptop 12545@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Genghis - I keep coming back to this and chortling. I read it out to a very depressed friend (depressed for political reasons) and even he couldn't help smiling.</p> <p>More please! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12387 Thu, 13 May 2010 10:55:44 +0000 Genghis Cohen 12387@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Thanks all. Very kind.</p> <p>o b sensible - you are right, but of course Cameron campaigned on a platform of change. Plus he's a colossal twat.</p> <p>And Moptop. Leave some change in the royalties tin, won't you? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12364 Thu, 13 May 2010 08:57:49 +0000 Doctor Moptop 12364@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Top hole, what!</p> <p>Ok if I send this to various chums around the country? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12349 Thu, 13 May 2010 08:19:04 +0000 o b sensible 12349@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>ok Major Wilson Callaghan not posh but Douglas Home Eden Churchill and the rest very posh so I still don't see it but don't mind me </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12339 Thu, 13 May 2010 08:03:56 +0000 Oxbridge 12339@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>On second thoughts, 9.5 was stingy. This is political satire of the highest order and - if it makes FP, which it surely must - would be the best of the year so far. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12285 Wed, 12 May 2010 20:45:58 +0000 fun and games 12285@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>o b sensible - which site was it you were looking for? I think you may have taken a left turn one too early. Keep 'em coming Gengo. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12260 Wed, 12 May 2010 17:32:51 +0000 mpaterson 12260@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>'I was the first person in my family to go to university by private jet. To be honest, the whole thing hasn’t really sunk in yet – I have to keep asking my valet to pinch me.'</p> <p>Great. :D </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12232 Wed, 12 May 2010 14:53:32 +0000 TehEbilTony 12232@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I lol'd. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12208 Wed, 12 May 2010 12:56:53 +0000 MrChigleysAunt 12208@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p><blockquote>stablehands and their masters will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, but with different menus. </blockquote> Excellent! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12189 Wed, 12 May 2010 11:29:38 +0000 Dickens or Shakespeare 12189@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Wilson was a grubby bugger at times. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12188 Wed, 12 May 2010 11:26:55 +0000 o b sensible 12188@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>don't quite get this, they have nearly all been white upper class males including Blair but not Thatcher </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12177 Wed, 12 May 2010 10:42:34 +0000 Griffin 12177@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>What else can I add to the comments above? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12168 Wed, 12 May 2010 10:17:51 +0000 Scroat 12168@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Absolutely ace. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12165 Wed, 12 May 2010 10:07:07 +0000 Oxbridge 12165@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bwahahahahahahaha - even if I did get there a fraction of a second earlier. 9.5. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12164 Wed, 12 May 2010 10:05:51 +0000 MightyBlair 12164@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Lovely angle, well executed. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=4353#post-12150 Wed, 12 May 2010 09:27:42 +0000 Genghis Cohen 12150@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Only a year after the inauguration of the first black President of the United States, change swept through Britain last night as history was made and a white upper-class man ascended to the highest political office in the land.</p> <p>‘It’s a real fags to riches story,’ said humbled new Prime Minister, David Cameron. ‘When I was growing up on an estate in Berkshire, I never dreamed that someone like me could become anything more than a high court judge or chief executive of an investment bank. I was the first person in my family to go to university by private jet. To be honest, the whole thing hasn’t really sunk in yet – I have to keep asking my valet to pinch me.’</p> <p>Equalities campaigners say that Cameron’s success is all the more striking for the obstacles still faced by white upper-class boys – or the ‘Great Ignored’. Health reforms have done nothing to reduce infant mortality rates among the rich, with many newborn heirs and heiresses continuing to suffer complications from being born with silver spoons in their mouths. And even in the 21st century, segregation still persists in some areas of the South, with state schools often adopting a policy of ‘No paedos, poofs or toffs’, excluding young aristocrats on at least one count and forcing them to fund their own educations.</p> <p>‘I’m so grateful for the sacrifices others have made for me,’ said David Cameron, ‘like Lord Ashcroft foregoing that fourth yacht to fund our campaign. But it is not right in this day and age that someone like me should be reliant on handouts to shatter the glass ceiling which for so long has stopped well-off male Caucasians reaching down and wielding real power over those beneath us. And that is why this Government will be committed to raising the affluent out of the mire of prosperity and helping them onto the road to full-blown, eye-popping wealth.’</p> <p>‘I have a dream,’ continued Cameron, turning to the crowds gathered outside No.10. ‘A dream that one day my children will live in a nation where they will not be judged by the content of their character, but by the colour of their money. A dream that one day on the green hills of Oxfordshire, stablehands and their masters will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood, but with different menus. And until the chance to lead your nation becomes a birthright for all citizens of wealth, I shall continue to rail against prejudice and injustice and dream of a better nation, one where nothing stands between the Eustaces and Tarquins of tomorrow and them taking their rightful place at the country’s head table.’</p> <p>‘He should be careful,’ said a black veteran of the civil rights movement. ‘That kinda talk is liable to get him assassinated.’ </p>