I'm not sure how grown up they are, really. Labour MP Tony Banks once described Tory MP Terry Dicks as "living proof that a pig's bladder on the end of a stick can be elected to Parliament".
Churchill said Clement Attlee was "a sheep in sheep's clothing". Harold Wilson described Edward Heath as "a shiver looking for a spine to run up". Clement Freud called Margaret Thatcher "Attila the Hen". -- Bob > ========= > The only system I've seen that looked grown up (and > admittedly I haven't > seen very many) was a while back. They carried some of the > British Parliament > meetings on CSPAN. I think it was when John Majors was in. > Veddy, veddy polite, > so veddy polite you had to listen really, really hard to > realize how much > the politicians were dishing each other. Now THAT'S adult. I > was impressed. > > Maybe it's changed. Humans have a way of reverting to adolescence. > > Marnie aka Doe :-) > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
