Comments on: Top of the Blogs: The Dirty Dozen #3 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html Our place to talk - an independent website for supporters of the Liberal Democrat party in the UK. Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:55:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jonathan Calder http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44438 Jonathan Calder Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:46:51 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44438 Thank you very much. Thank you very much.

]]> By: Stuart Fairney http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44433 Stuart Fairney Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:36:45 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44433 "And finally, John “The Vulcan” Redwood shares his views on space travel. Beam me up, Scotty" Congratulations on your contribution to intelligent political debate. “And finally, John “The Vulcan” Redwood shares his views on space travel.

Beam me up, Scotty”

Congratulations on your contribution to intelligent political debate.

]]> By: wit and wisdom http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44431 wit and wisdom Mon, 31 Mar 2008 13:38:57 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44431 Fascinating comments from Nadine Dorries about the encroaching menace of Islam in Oxford. She clearly has never visited Oxford and hasn't got a clue what she is talking about. A new mosque is being built in Oxford, proudly funded by the local community with no external funding from abroad - they are adamant that none would be accepted. It will also be nowhere near the elitist, fossilised 'dreamy spires' that imbeciles like Dorries like to idealise but have probably never seen. The university is just one part of a larger town. You absolutely have to love the Tories when you read dross like her blog. Fascinating comments from Nadine Dorries about the encroaching menace of Islam in Oxford. She clearly has never visited Oxford and hasn’t got a clue what she is talking about.

A new mosque is being built in Oxford, proudly funded by the local community with no external funding from abroad – they are adamant that none would be accepted. It will also be nowhere near the elitist, fossilised ‘dreamy spires’ that imbeciles like Dorries like to idealise but have probably never seen. The university is just one part of a larger town.

You absolutely have to love the Tories when you read dross like her blog.

]]> By: Neil Craig http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44418 Neil Craig Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:49:47 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44418 Not for banning it just that it shouldn't be possible for it to happen. The sort of po-faced illiberalism the party is full of. Since you have raised no opposition to blowing billions on the windmills & bicycles I mentioned it is clear what your opinion of an "approprtate" use of resources & yes if Mr Branson had shared the LD view he would not now be running a whelk stall. Not for banning it just that it shouldn’t be possible for it to happen. The sort of po-faced illiberalism the party is full of.

Since you have raised no opposition to blowing billions on the windmills & bicycles I mentioned it is clear what your opinion of an “approprtate” use of resources & yes if Mr Branson had shared the LD view he would not now be running a whelk stall.

]]> By: asquith http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44392 asquith Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:13:12 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44392 Neil Craig, were you to read my post, you'd see that I didn't call for the banning of anything. I remely suggested that a more appropriate use of resources could be found. I don't labour under the delusion that Virgin care about my opinions, I'm just stating a view. Neil Craig, were you to read my post, you’d see that I didn’t call for the banning of anything. I remely suggested that a more appropriate use of resources could be found. I don’t labour under the delusion that Virgin care about my opinions, I’m just stating a view.

]]> By: Neil Craig http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44390 Neil Craig Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:58:29 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44390 In fact he shares his views on Virgin Galactic, which I assume Asquith & other LudDems would like to see banned in the same way that any journey by Columbus should be banned till we have sorted out all the problems in Europe. Virgin Galactic exists because purely some individuals put up an X-Prize of $10 million for the first non-governmental trip to space. Coinicidentally some years before that launch & obviously before my expulsion from the party for economic liberalism, in response to a call for some "blue sky" ideas I put up a motion saying that we should support slightly larger state funding of such a prize here. Apart from anything else this would have encouraged high technology industries to settle here. I suspect that at the time I was pretty nearly the only person in the party who had heard of X-Prizes & since it didn't involve Victorian technology like bicycles or windmills it wasn't taken seriously. I may remind the party of this in another 7 years, or indeed less. In fact he shares his views on Virgin Galactic, which I assume Asquith & other LudDems would like to see banned in the same way that any journey by Columbus should be banned till we have sorted out all the problems in Europe.

Virgin Galactic exists because purely some individuals put up an X-Prize of $10 million for the first non-governmental trip to space.

Coinicidentally some years before that launch & obviously before my expulsion from the party for economic liberalism, in response to a call for some “blue sky” ideas I put up a motion saying that we should support slightly larger state funding of such a prize here. Apart from anything else this would have encouraged high technology industries to settle here.

I suspect that at the time I was pretty nearly the only person in the party who had heard of X-Prizes & since it didn’t involve Victorian technology like bicycles or windmills it wasn’t taken seriously.

I may remind the party of this in another 7 years, or indeed less.

]]> By: asquith http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44364 asquith Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:51:10 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44364 By the way, you haven't put your clocks forward yet! By the way, you haven’t put your clocks forward yet!

]]> By: asquith http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44363 asquith Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:50:51 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44363 Hmm. I'm a little sceptical about travelling into space because I think we'd be better off sorting out our own planet. And if it's unknown climes you want, there's enough in the deep seas, jungles, and frozen wastes for anyone! Hmm. I’m a little sceptical about travelling into space because I think we’d be better off sorting out our own planet. And if it’s unknown climes you want, there’s enough in the deep seas, jungles, and frozen wastes for anyone!

]]> By: Alix Mortimer http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44359 Alix Mortimer Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:24:29 +0000 http://www.libdemvoice.org/top-of-the-blogs-the-dirty-dozen-3-2439.html#comment-44359 Wot is a dreamy spire? Is it rude? Wot is a dreamy spire? Is it rude?

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