Best put down of a politician?

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One that always sticks in my mind is actually completely unrelated to politics. It was in the aftermath of England vs Brazil at the 2002 World Cup. One England player remarked how given England had conceded the equaliser on the stroke of half time, they were deflated in the dressing room and needed a half time team talk as inspiring as Winston Churchill, but instead they got Ian Duncan Smith.
 

just watching Kingpin, the bit where Woody Harrelson punches Randy Quaid and says ...

"take that you freaky piece of sh!t, you don't mow another guy's lawn!"

I know they're not politicians but made me LOLOLOLOL
 
Tempted to post some of the best of Nigel Farage taking the piss out of the EU lege, but that wouldn't do in here, I'm sure.

He does get off some gems, mind you.
 

Here's a few of Paul Keating's on some local (Conservative) OZ pollies (as they are called here):-
On Peter Costello: "The thing about poor old Costello is he is all tip and no iceberg."
On John Hewson: "(His performance) is like being flogged with a warm lettuce."
On Andrew Peacock: "I suppose that the Honourable Gentleman's hair, like his intellect, will recede into the darkness."
 
Maggie gets fronted by citizen Diana Gould over the Belgrano sinking:

[video=youtube;O184yGKknSQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O184yGKknSQ[/video]
 

I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the female MP that started this exchange with Churchill in a full session of the House of Commons, but he destroyed her:

Female MP to Chruchill: "if you were my husband sir, I would put arsenic in your tea!"

Churchill's response: "Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it."
 
I cannot for the life of me remember the name of the female MP that started this exchange with Churchill in a full session of the House of Commons, but he destroyed her:

Female MP to Chruchill: "if you were my husband sir, I would put arsenic in your tea!"

Churchill's response: "Madam, if you were my wife I would drink it."

Hahaha classic!
 
The assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand was a doozy...........

Arguably the saddest from that period was of Jean Jaures. He was one of the architects of the growing pacifist movement back then along with Bertha von Suttner (who created the Nobel Peace Prize along with Alfred Nobel) and tried to use his socialist party to stop war breaking out by organising strikes etc.

He was assassinated two days after war broke out in 1914. Ironically von Suttner died a month earlier.
 
Maggie gets fronted by citizen Diana Gould over the Belgrano sinking:

[video=youtube;O184yGKknSQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O184yGKknSQ[/video]

Thatcher got absolutely destroyed there. Shows her personality - ridiculously stubborn, unable to even consider the possibility of being incorrect about any given matter.
 
This sort of thing should be taught to kids. I see Gove is out to rewrite history again by saying all our knowledge of WW1 is unpatriotic cos it takes the piss out of the toffs who didnt have a clue what they were doing.

I can not recommend this book enough. A fantastic read. As you say, most talk about WW1 begins with Ferdinand, with everything that led up to then largely ignored. It means we fail to heed any lessons from the period because it focuses on what happened rather than why it happened.

http://www.amazon.com/The-War-That-Ended-Peace/dp/140006855X

I mean it seems strange that Nobel made a peace prize seeing as he invented dynamite, yet he hoped that his new weapon would make warfare so barbaric that it would ensure no state would be mad enough to embark on it. A weapon to end wars if you will.

As you say, there have been a few things in the media recently about re-doing history to look again at how WW1 is taught. Kids could do worse than simply read this book.

I mean I wonder how many kids know that Willhelm was the grandson of Queen Victoria, or that Tsar Nicholas' wife was also a grand-daughter of Victoria?
 

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