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  1. Master Bates
    <<Why is that relevant?>> It's relevant insofar as I think that whatever the complexion of the government following this year's general election, it would have been deemed necessary to increase the cap on tuition fees. It would have happened had any of the 'big 3' parties won an outright majority or under any of the possible coalition permutations. To pretend that Labour wouldn't have done much the same is self-deception I think. And the Lib Dems were conditioned by decades of irrelevance into believing that it didn't matter what they said in an election campaign. But why are we still surprised when political parties renege on manifesto pledges? To me, that is the more fruitful question to ask.
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    They've called it off. Common sense has prevailed for once.
  3. Master Bates
    Disabled drivers who park their vehicles outside of the designated disabled bays. I mean what is wrong with those people. I stay out of their bays, why can't they stay out of mine?
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    Hmm. Remind us again which party it was which introduced tuition fees in the first place.
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    Now we are into the first week of November, we are approaching one of the great abiding rituals of British public life, the annual furore surrounding the refusal of Channel 4 News presenter Jon Snow to bow to what he calls 'poppy fascism'. This year the row has been further enlivened by the appearance on the scene of no less a figure than Roy Hattersley (remember him?). Lord Hattersley has told Snow in no uncertain terms to get over himself and to remember that World War II was a great battle against real fascism. But what do forumites make of these shenanigans? Will you be wearing a poppy, and do you look askance at those who don't? Or do you regard poppies, wreath-laying at the Cenotaph and the two minute's silence as a gratuitous glorification of war and conflict?
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    Carry on Sawing?
  7. Master Bates
    From now on, whenever I hear that old Frank Sinatra tune ''Cum Fly With Me, let's fly, let's fly away'', I'm going to be reminded of this unsavoury episode.
  8. Master Bates
    The experience might I suppose be preferable to having a freshly boiled egg inserted up one's anus. This, I gather, was an interrogation technique once favoured by the provisional wing of the Women's Institute.
  9. Master Bates
    In my own experience, those budget airlines are the worst. They charge you a small fortune for a couple of Kleenex tissues.
  10. Master Bates
    Was he flying Aer Lingus or Cunni Lingus?
  11. Master Bates
    He made him an offer he could refuse.
  12. Master Bates
    Only one of the Banana Splits? She should have shagged them all. ''One banana, two bananas, three bananas four, Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.'' She could have had a Split Roast.
  13. Master Bates
    I used to live in Kendal, just off the Windermere Road. People think it's a quaint town full of ye olde teashops and antiquarian bookstores. But in my experience the place was full of rampant slappers. I couldn't wait to get away.
  14. Master Bates
    Just imagine their surprise when they reach the surface and they discover that it was Ed and not Dave Miliband who won the Labour leadership election. But there are some consolations. At least they missed Anne Widdicombe's performance on Strictly Come Dancing.
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