Cooks Coffee Share Discussion Threads

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[rabbit34] 05/12/2006 11:04

I miss her since her untimely demise.


Please bow your heads and do as I do this time of year, think of poor Johnnie and...............Rip Fanny.








God bless her soul.

Rabbit.

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[maxk] 17/11/2006 17:44

gic in drag....

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[hopiaye] 17/11/2006 16:51

DoctorSmith

watch out rippers about

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[pigs upper] 17/11/2006 15:57

doughnuts just like Fannies.

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[robbb] 19/3/2003 00:08

More resignations this morning :-

[m.t.glass] 18/3/2003 16:04

seela - Can't claim to know her personally. Did do some non-party campaign work with her when I lived in Brum, but that was decades ago.

[bonsai] 18/3/2003 13:10

the problem with the greasy pole is that once you lose your grip
its not easy to hold on
but to let go with both hands and throw your career away
is just ridiculous.

back to tipping horses and not much else

oh yes, there will be a book.

[robbb] 18/3/2003 11:33

She looks to me like she is easily bought. I bet TB just dangled a big govt credit card in front of her and said she can go on a spending spree in Iraq when it needs rebuilding from the rubble. Cook has put her in a bind imo. Whatever his motives she has now confirmed what we all already know :-politicians are venal and self serving and always on the lookout for a way to manouevre themselves into a better position at the trough. She also happens to be an unsubtle gob on a stick :-)

[m.t.glass] 18/3/2003 11:19

Yep. Clare does have the knack of offending her friends, and making life ever more complicated for herself. A tortured soul who does most of that torturing herself.

[seela] 18/3/2003 11:10

Reading the Papers this morning - it seems that prime ministership is regarded as an extremely long shot for Cook, as he doesn't have many friends on the back benches.

So, maybe he is looking to position himself for a return to a high cabinet post instead?

Also, after being humiliated by Blair recently over Lords reform, and then slagging blair on a number of occasions, Cook may have feared that he was about to go in the next reshuffle anyway.

So, one way and another, the further you go into his resignation, the less principled it seems.

Nevertheless, he did get a standing ovation for his commons resignation speech.





Clare Short, however, seems to have really blown herself up - initially calling the PM "reckless" on TV and threatening to resign.

But now, she is proving reluctant to actually resign her £125,000 Ministerial job!!

There are , apparently, accusations of hypocrisy and cowardice - though the press doesn't say from who.

My guess would be from Tories, Labour Leadership, and also her mates in Lib Dems/Labour pacifists - i.e. she has managed to get herself ridiculed by just about everyone.

Will she decide to resign even at this late stage, to redeem the remnants of her reputation?

Or will she cling onto that salary and car for a few months longer - before Blair (if he's still around!) takes his revenge in the next reshuffle?

Come the reshuffle he will be dumping a discredited figure of fun, whereas if he had sacked her after her tv outburst she would have become an instant martyr/hero of the left.


She must be kicking herself with big boots right now!