A bit of fun to start off with because this story made me laugh out loud. Anachronism Queen Liz will be visiting the Irish Republic next week and she’s taking along her Prime Minister, David “Call me Dave” Cameron. That wasn’t what made me laugh though. This was:
Mr Cameron has described her visit as a symbol of the “strong partnership and friendship” between the two countries.
Yeah. Right! All those jokes down the pub about Paddy and Mike that we English don’t tell are certainly not returned with a general feeling of discontent with the English that has pervaded Ireland for well over two centuries. No, we’re the best of friends.
The thing is that the Irish and English aren’t enemies and we aren’t an occupying force in their country any more (OK, maybe a little bit) so there really is good reason to strengthen political and economic ties for both our benefits. Pretending that we’re all chummy is just silly though. Like Dave.
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Bad parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, are courting the media again with an open letter in the Sun asking David Cameron (him again) to please do something about finding poor Madeleine McCann. Curiously Kate McCann’s book was released on the 3rd May but let’s not be cynical about this. If it were up to me these neglectful parents would be lamenting the loss of their innocent daughter from behind bars but we don’t prosecute people for abandoning children in a foreign country so that they can get pissed with their mates, do we?
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The Magnificent Frog 
Re McCanns: *applauds*
Ditto.
Has this story spread to Denmark too? What is the general opinion of the McCanns over there?
Um, to many in Ireland, the British are still occupying and the British and Irish ARE still very much enemies.
And try eight centuries, at an estimate.
Eight? I bow to your greater knowledge and experience. That just makes Cameron a biger twit though.
Hang on. Cameron a *bigger* twat? That’s not even possible, is it?
Yup. 800 years, or so, marks the first occupation. All debatable of course but that’s probably the outside estimate.
I think that we haven’t seen the limits of Cameron’s twatishness. Not by a long stretch.