The scandal across the pound is really

[nadinbrzezinski]

delicious But on a serious note, there is no way in hell this will not lead to LAWS to prevent this from happening again. Tea Pot dome comes to mind, Oh and this makes Tea POT dome AND watergate look like small potatoes.

[malaise]

1. Only if Miliband holds his nerve

Cameron is already scared.

[nadinbrzezinski]

2. I think Cameron is done for, to be honest.

[malaise]

5. I don't see how he survives this

either

[HipChick]

14. They got rid of Thatcher

I don't see dodgy Dave lasting...MP's are calling for his resigination

[Taverner]

12. Can you say "Vote of No Confidence?"

[HipChick]

13. Dodgy Dave is earning his name..

Hope it brings him down...

[Fire1]

3. nadin! Change pound to 'pond.' n/t

[robinlynne]

4. teapot dome?

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. US History the scandal that led to the Sherman Anti Trust

Act... Short version... it went all the way to the Cabinet where land was given to an oil company. and there was a tiddy, bity of corruption... it almost brought Harding down. If we had a Parliamentary system it would have.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

[Art_from_Ark]

10. Sherman Anti-trust was enacted in 1890

The Teapot Dome scandal was in the 1920s.

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. Sorry I confused my scandals

still this is tea pot dome\ watergate\ profumo affair, and international...

[Obamanaut]

16. Scandals confused? By a self-declared historian? No way! When

lecturing the unenlightened masses, accuracy is a good thing.

[robinlynne]

17. As one of the unenlightened masses, why don't you tell me then?

[Obamanaut]

18. What would you like to be told? That the poster who bungled that is

a self-declared historian who regularly bungles lectures to us, lectures which are often dripping with condescension?

Here's one: “After all we are not even talking of Richard V and his invasion of Normandy (and Agincourt)…”
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=439&topic_id=418040#419101


I think you will find that it was Henry V at Agincourt. One wonders if there was a Richard V in the list of British monarchy.

[robinlynne]

19. The question is what is teapot dome?

[Obamanaut]

21. "...The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal

took place in the United States in 1922-1923, during the administration..." <more at link>

[deaniac21]

20. She knows absolutely everything. Shut the fuck up.

[Obamanaut]

22. My bad. (Slinks to corner in self-loathing) nt

[Obamanaut]

6. 'pound' =/= 'pond'

'tea POT dome' =/= Teapot dome'

[cwydro]

7. pound?

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Pond, miswrote.

too late to change

[Taverner]

11. News Corp is about as close to SPECTRE as you can get

And Murdoch is Bloefeld