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Nigel Lawson

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Another of the old skool gone 
“Ken sent me.”
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 16332
    edited April 2023
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  • guitartangoguitartango Frets: 954
    popular then !
    “Ken sent me.”
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  • axisusaxisus Frets: 27656
    Immortalised by spitting image, as were all that batch of politicians. I can’t say much really as I have no idea what he was like. 
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    as long as they dont show more of his horrendous fucking daughter pretending she can cook 
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4314
    bertie said:
    as long as they dont show more of his horrendous fucking daughter pretending she can cook 

    Who cares if she can cook or not? (I believe that she can but heigh-ho).  She has something which appeals to me more than her cooking skills.
    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    edited April 2023
    rlw said:
    bertie said:
    as long as they dont show more of his horrendous fucking daughter pretending she can cook 

    Who cares if she can cook or not? (I believe that she can but heigh-ho).  She has something which appeals to me more than her cooking skills.
    only to a blind man  - she's awful,  abhorrent even
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • slackerslacker Frets: 2093
    Make that deaf as well
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  • markguitarblazemarkguitarblaze Frets: 39
    axisus said:
    Immortalised by spitting image, as were all that batch of politicians. I can’t say much really as I have no idea what he was like. 
    I lived through it - in my humble opinion not far short of a Nazi - a member of the "every man for himself and f*** everyone else" brigade. Tried to take on the international money markets and took a mighty spanking that cost the tax payers multi multi millions and never apologised for what by any standards was an incredibly idiotic move. 
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  • BlueingreenBlueingreen Frets: 2506
    edited April 2023
    Always loved that his name was an anagram of 'we all sign on'.
    “To a man with a hammer every problem looks like a nail.”
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  • martmart Frets: 5165
    Blueingreen said:
    Always loved that his name was an anagram of 'we all sign on'.
    Instant Karma is never gonna sound the same now. :)
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  • EricTheWearyEricTheWeary Frets: 15603
    edited April 2023
    I have a Nigella book which is probably my most used cookbook. How much of it she wrote I don't know. 

    Nigel. Yes less of a Tory tosspot than the current Tory tosspots but he made his career on Thatcherite economics which laid the foundations of our housing and public transport problems, dismantling public services and he supported homophobic legislation. Eventually resigned (I suppose that's a good thing as today's tosspots won't) over mishandling of the economy. Tramp the dirt down as Elvis Costello might say.

    Edit: there was a 2 day gap for anyone to be nice about him and no one managed it.
    I’ll handle this Violet, you take your three hour break. 
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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 3605
    mart said:
    Blueingreen said:
    Always loved that his name was an anagram of 'we all sign on'.
    Instant Karma is never gonna sound the same now. :)
    That’s very clever 
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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4314
    bertie said:
    rlw said:
    bertie said:
    as long as they dont show more of his horrendous fucking daughter pretending she can cook 

    Who cares if she can cook or not? (I believe that she can but heigh-ho).  She has something which appeals to me more than her cooking skills.
    only to a blind man  - she's awful,  abhorrent even

    So what did she do to upset you.....
    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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  • usedtobeusedtobe Frets: 3841
    Some people just naturally take against other people. My wife can’t stand her.. 
    I find her attractive, physically..
    Never thought much of her dad..
     so if you fancy a reissue of a guitar they never made in a colour they never used then it probably isn't too overpriced.

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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 20197
    EricTheWeary said:
    Nigel. Yes less of a Tory tosspot than the current Tory tosspots but he made his career on Thatcherite economics which laid the foundations of our housing and public transport problems, dismantling public services and he supported homophobic legislation. Eventually resigned (I suppose that's a good thing as today's tosspots won't) over mishandling of the economy. Tramp the dirt down as Elvis Costello might say.

    Edit: there was a 2 day gap for anyone to be nice about him and no one managed it.
    He was also the BBC's climate-change-denier of choice in the days when they thought it was "unbiased" to always have one person from each side of the argument whenever they discussed Global Warming.

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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 20197
    FWIW, I'm not a fan of Nigella either.
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  • DannyPDannyP Frets: 1521
    I guess that generation of brexiteers and free-market fundamentalists is passing away, leaving us to deal with their miserable legacy.
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  • mrkbmrkb Frets: 5594
    Philly_Q said:
    FWIW, I'm not a fan of Nigella either.
    Anyone who names their offspring after themselves is of dubious mind in my books, and my daughter Markla agrees…
    Karma......
    Ebay mark7777_1
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  • OffsetOffset Frets: 9212
    Philly_Q said:
    FWIW, I'm not a fan of Nigella either.
    Me neither.  BTW, I didn't realise that one of the things that sealed Nige's fate was his opposition to the Poll Tax.
    Currently for sale: https://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/247085/pro-ject-essential-ii-turntable
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  • KittyfriskKittyfrisk Frets: 16332
    This section is called Tributes for a reason.
    https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/tribute.html
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  • guitartangoguitartango Frets: 954
    Tough crowd in tonight 
    “Ken sent me.”
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  • Philly_QPhilly_Q Frets: 20197
    edited April 2023
    This section is called Tributes for a reason.
    https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/tribute.html
    Maybe starting the thread wasn't the best idea?  No offence to @guitartango, but I doubt The Great Lawsoni has many admirers.
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  • guitartangoguitartango Frets: 954
    Philly_Q said:
    This section is called Tributes for a reason.
    https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/tribute.html
    Maybe starting the thread wasn't the best idea?  No offence to @guitartango, but I doubt The Great Lawsoni has many admirers.
     I wasn't a fan either, but you know RIP 
    “Ken sent me.”
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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4314
    Philly_Q said:
    This section is called Tributes for a reason.
    https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-opposite-of/tribute.html
    Maybe starting the thread wasn't the best idea?  No offence to @guitartango, but I doubt The Great Lawsoni has many admirers.

    Probably far fewer than his daughter in fact.....
    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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  • KilgoreKilgore Frets: 8107
    edited April 2023
    He was phenomenally successful at dieting. Apart from that I'm struggling.
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  • BintyTwanger77BintyTwanger77 Frets: 2172
    RIP and all that, but the best tribute I can give was that he was a climate change denialist who as Chancellor catastrophically deregulated the financial sector and squandered the nations oil reserves on funding his PM's brutal industrial reforms. He wrecked this country.
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  • bertiebertie Frets: 12145
    rlw said:


    So what did she do to upset you.....
    be her 


    she's just slimy overly "mumsy"  annoying smarmy 


    and thats just her good points
    just because you don't, doesn't mean you can't
     just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4314
    bertie said:
    rlw said:


    So what did she do to upset you.....
    be her 


    she's just slimy overly "mumsy"  annoying smarmy 


    and thats just her good points

    I think you have failed bigly to recognise her good points
    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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  • stufisherstufisher Frets: 612
    I totally agree with @bertie ... I can't stand the bint :angry:  ... probably because she looks like her truly abhorrant pater and took both his names essentially, as if we need reminding of his impact on UK life in the 80s & 90s.

    If devil's spawn daughter appears on TV I mute the sound, switch it off or leave the room ... coke-snorting, lying trollop ... the only silver spoon she uses is the one in her gob from birth. 

    I shed no tears for the demise of her slimeball, cretinous father ... another instrumental Thatcherite crony that laid the foundations for the demise of the UK's social, political and economic fabric.

    If you want a realistic (non-political, no BS) assessment of the UK's current status in the world then I compel you to watch this ... the last line uttered in this docu says it all.

    Good riddance to Lawson et al

    www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m001kb3w via @bbciplayer ;
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  • rlwrlw Frets: 4314
    Nigella Lawson in multicoloured striped dress

    You are all left wing radical socialists who hate the establishment..

    Save a cow.  Eat a vegetarian.
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