Okay i guess only the British and maybe Bosco will have any real opinion on this and while we all hate the tories as a party, we hate what they stand for and even hate many individually. However, i wonder do you have any you secretly quite like?

I will probably get shot down for this and some will remind me of terrible things they have been partly responsible for.

Firstly, ever since he left government i have grown to quite like Michael Portillo It's rather annoying when on This Week you find yourself agreeing more with the ex Tory cabinet minister and thatcherite than the so called Labour member.

There's David Davis, i disagree with almost everything he says, until recently. He has become more a voice for the oppressed and minorities than any front line politician. That is how bizarre British politics have become.

Another one is Ken Clarke. I don't know too much about him in government apart from being one of the few pro europe tories. However, like Portillo when on TV i find myself agreeing more with him than his Labour counterparts.

And i suppose Boris is always worth a mention. Yes, he is a bafoon, an imbecille and borderline racist, but he is always good for laugh.

Likewise, William Hague, yes he is a dirty thatcherite, but dynamiote entertainment and a great speaker. I love his lie about drinking 18 pints a day

I better stop there before you start to think i've been abducted and someone has hacked my profile

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"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

My favourite tory? Any dead one.

Seriously, the only one of the ones you mentioned that I could stand is Ken Clarke, I disagree with him on many things but you get the impression that he's a good, straight up guy. David Davies serves only his own ego and the rest of them you only agree with sometimes because the albour cabinet is a tory cabinet in proxy and because the tories take their position based on the opposite of what labour is doing, their only aim is election and will say anything to get there. Not that New Labour won't do also.

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lmao, not even IDS

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"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

I updated my post a bit.

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There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg

I'm actually not so sure, i take the point on Davis though. For one, Portillo isn't even in politics anymore, he's only a pundit and he actually critices the Tories almost as much as Labour these days. Don't get me wrong he's still a pompous twat and looked a fool when he had Galloway on Dinner With Portillo (everything he said turned out wrong and everything Galloway said turned out to be right)

Hague and Boris i dont even agree on anything, they're just good viewing, you gotta admit that.

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"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

Favourite Torie....


should this not be in Michaels Oxy-Moron Thread?


suppose Boris Johnstone is slightly entertaining, and if I go ahead with my planes to emigrate he'll be my mayor

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With all the racial and nationalistic comments he's made, he must have insulted the Irish at some point, surely

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Viva Fidel

"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

Winston Churchill. There's a good Tory.

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I ain't met her but I get her when I do...

~Shwayze

Yeah fair play to him, for the war anyway. Outside of WW2 he was a pretty shady charachter.

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Viva Fidel

"If there ever was in the history of humanity an enemy who was truly universal, an enemy whose acts and moves trouble the entire world, threaten the entire world, attack the entire world in any way or another, that real and really universal enemy is precisely Yankee imperialism"

"North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity"

Maybe, as entertainers only.

On Churchill, I agree with Joe but this proves my point, the only good tory is a dead tory. Disraeli for example.

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Trust me, I'm a socialist!

There's power in a factory,power in the land, power in the hand of the worker. But it all amounts to nothing if together we don't stand, there is power in a union.
The union forever defending our rights, down with the blackleg, workers unite. To our brothers and our sisters in many far off lands, there is power in a union.
Money speaks for money, the devil for his own. - Billy Bragg