The Simpletons

Compo:

Guido unexpectedly put a response comment on  "Comment of the day."
Done too quick for real thought. Only really happy with Flanders and Poochie.
I would have added Patty and Selma as the Eagle's sisters. 
And someone had Diamond 'Joe' Quimby as Boris, which is a good spot.
And 'Fat' Tony as Ed Balls.

Bill Quango MP says:

May 22, 2013 at 1:18 pm 

Ned Flanders – Clegg
Lisa Simpson – Natalie Bennett
Milhouse – Hilary Benn
Martin Prince – Andy Burnham
Edna Krabappel – Luciana Berger
Crazy Cat Lady – Glenda jackson
Comic book guy – John Prescott
Carl – Chucka
Lenny – Philip Hammond
Willie – Eric joyce
Poochie – Gordon Brown
Reverend Lovejoy – Tony Blair

Sure we can do better.
Your best Simpson characters as political and business leaders into the comments

Question Time : Loony edition

 David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Belfast, where the panel includes Northern Ireland secretary Theresa Villiers, shadow Northern Ireland secretary Vernon Coaker, education minister John O' Dowd, MP for North Antrim Ian Paisley Jnr and gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell

N.Ireland edition so take the clues from the panel. I don't think i'll be back in time to watch, which might prove a blessing. I always find Northern Ireland so totally different to the mainland UK politics. The laws are different. The Police. The Army. The politics. Terrorism means something else. Religion means something different. Watching is like viewing an episode of Question Time from France. 
..Anyway... 

BQ thiks
1. What to do about angry men with a thin grasp of history and a Koran ? Who's to blame?
2. Gay marriage. How well did that go down over there? 
3. Swivel eyed loons. Yes, its official. CCHQ can't manage to shut down the mildest of mild stories.  Alistair Campbell must spit out a contemptuous "Amateurs!"every  day he opens the morning papers.
 4. Political prisoners excluded form Spad jobs..
5. Gove's education reforms and the impact on N.I. examinations.




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Week 17

DtP 124 

Measured 112

Timbo614 111

BQ(MP) 104

  ND 100

 Hopper 91
GSD 91

Budgie 88 
Malcolm Tucker 82

 Botogol 65

kynon 66

Blue Eyes 64
Taff -52
Idle 48

CU 47

Sackerson - 11
 Andrew -13

James Higham - 7 
EK -6
anon - 3
 Phil5 - 2

EMED, bugger

Never can I recall owning a share like EMED mining where the event driven news was moved forward by one quarter, every quarter. This is now going on for 4 years, so that is 16 postponements of opening the mine in my book.

Unsurprisingly the share price is down again to and now at almost 5 year lows. Sigh, my investment nous has long since departed and my share portfolio seems to ride around every year and somehow or other end up with a zero increase or decrease overall. Very exciting, boring and unrewarding all at the same time.

What a day for EMED to release news though on the first real big day of market sell off that we have had for months. As they say, timing is everything!

Interests to Declare

With Peter Lilley increasingly vocal in the public energy debate ** (what's the opposite of mealy-mouthed ?), we have the amusing position of heavyweight vested commercial interests ranged against each other - on the Tory benches.

It's long been a source of ad hominem ammunition against Tim Yeo and "Lord Deben" (Gummer the Bummer, © Jasper Carrott) that they stand to gain materially from the pro-renewables policies they promote so assiduously.  Why, we've even pointed them out on these pages.

But of course Peter Lilley is up to his eyeballs in oil interests, some of which are in distant and none-too-salubrious parts; and fairness dictates we draw attention to these 'n all.

Does it matter ?  As far as we can tell they put their interests into the public domain.  We get the picture: they are unashamedly talking their own book.  And if they are the more knowledgeable for their vested involvement, perhaps it adds to the quality of the debate - capitalists at work ...

What do we think ?  I still can't abide Gummer or Yeo.

ND

** but why is his Spectator piece so badly written ?  that's the real offence.