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Old 02-03-2009, 09:24 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Great British Government - makes me proud...

Not really.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7866938.stm



General 'dumbing down' of Britain, started by Messrs Blair and Brown
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Old 02-03-2009, 09:46 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Par for the course I'm afraid and I'll bet the flag was made in China!
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Old 02-03-2009, 02:47 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Did the flag go upside down before or after the shoe was thrown at the chinese minister?
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Old 02-03-2009, 04:17 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Just be glad it wasn't the Red Flag. I'm sure that's the one they'd prefer to see flying.
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Old 02-03-2009, 07:21 PM   #5 (permalink)
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They did exactly the right thing. It was a distress call.
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Old 02-03-2009, 07:32 PM   #6 (permalink)
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Yawn.
Who cares.
Actually chaps we do care.
This is not on.
Lets adopt a working solution.
Get rid of the red.
Just have blue on white.
Like the St Andrews flag of Scotland.
Clear, simple, it works.
It cannot ever be upside down.
The point at which Mandelson came back was the end of so called new Labour.
Roll on the election. We are governed by idiots.
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Old 02-03-2009, 07:35 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Seriously, you would have to be some what of an expert to notice it, i bet it was "Sum yeung Gai" who pointed it out
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I hear the Libyan state department has this problem all the time.
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I just want to make clear....unambigious.. ..succinct. I had nothing to do with flying that flag upside down.
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It depends on where you look at it, looking at it from down-under it always looked upside down, now it looks the right way up !


For instance this is our flag:


Now some of you may think this is upside down but that's because you're looking at it from up-over, from where I am it is the right way up !

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