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| Red Ken embarrasses Blair with ’hang Saudi royals’ outburst |
| 2004-04-09 |
| One of those WTF? moments. Tony Blair faced renewed embarrassment at the hands of Ken Livingstone yesterday after the London mayor expressed a desire to see the royal family of Saudi Arabia hanged in public. Just three months after he was readmitted to the Labour Party, Mr Livingstone sparked controversy by appearing to call for the death of the country’s ruling al-Saud dynasty and their replacement by a "proper government". He also accused President George W Bush of corruption, urged Israelis to imprison their prime minister Ariel Sharon, and repeated his call for a 50 per cent higher-rate tax on incomes above £100,000 a year. Even stopped clocks... |
| Posted by:Bulldog |
| #11 You know how it goes with these Royals, though. Some people wouldn't be happy if you hung them with a brand new rope. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-11 12:05:38 AM |
| #10 If Home Depot doesn't have enough rope, buy the rest from Lowe's, Hader Hardware, Menard's, or Tractor Supply Company. Don't let a little thing like poor stock levels at one store keep us from hanging the bastards. |
| Posted by: Robert Crawford 2004-04-09 11:03:35 PM |
| #9 Come to a Texas Home Depot sometime. I'm not a Texan, but I'd be willing to bet most of them would prefer using a barbed wire necktie to a hemp one, especially for the Soddy "royals". Thirteen twists and a swift jerk, then dangle 'em beneath the I-10 Trinity river bridge... |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2004-04-09 10:00:43 PM |
| #8 Desert Blondie: There's like 5000 members of that family. I don't think even Home Depot has enough rope. OK. Now you're getting carried away. Come to a Texas Home Depot sometime. (It's like - would you like it in lavender?) |
| Posted by: Zhang Fei 2004-04-09 3:24:11 PM |
| #7 There's like 5000 members of that family. I don't think even Home Depot has enough rope. |
| Posted by: Desert Blondie 2004-04-09 1:13:10 PM |
| #6 Embarrased that Red Ken is a Brit, I imagine. The old bolshies can be awfully embarassing when they start drooling and ranting. |
| Posted by: mojo 2004-04-09 11:12:03 AM |
| #5 Good to see the drunken old Bolshevik making sense for a change. A broken clock, etc. A friend of mine suggests a more picturesque solution to the oil tick infestation: crucify the males of the Soddy royal family at 100 meter intervals along the Mecca-Medina highway. Hey, it worked for the Romans. |
| Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy 2004-04-09 10:12:19 AM |
| #4 I don't understand why this would embarrass Blair? Were Blair's lips moving as Livingstone sat on his lap when Livingstone said it? |
| Posted by: B 2004-04-09 8:59:49 AM |
| #3 THe man finally says something I can agree with. |
| Posted by: Mike 2004-04-09 6:12:53 AM |
| #2 I thought this guy was against death penalty. Now I agree with his proposition but I want it extended to people who perceived money from a foreign power. In other words extended to traitors. |
| Posted by: JFM 2004-04-09 5:13:39 AM |
| #1 expressed a desire to see the royal family of Saudi Arabia hanged in public Just as he was making such a good start of things ... |
| Posted by: Zenster 2004-04-09 4:16:33 AM |