Free Bananas!

[Ant]

Hurrah for the great British political system

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_1965000/1965569.stm

<b><i>"The win comes in the town whose residents are famously said to have hanged a monkey during the Napoleonic wars because they thought it was a French spy." </b></i>

[KvHagedorn]

But Labour chairman Charles Clarke said the monkey mascot's success was "a serious issue".

The government might have to think again about the system of directly-elected mayors, he said.

While there had been a positive mayoral result in Doncaster, where the Labour candidate won, "the other end of it is the other guy elected in Hartlepool, the one in the monkey suit, who ridicules the whole system", he said..

This guy Clarke sounds like he's the real problem here. If the people en masse decide the system deserves to be ridiculed, perhaps it does.. in no small part because of folk like Mr. Clarke.

[The PIT]

Perhaps they ought to think why People voted in a Monkey.

[ayoub_ibrahim]

I'll take a monkey anyday!
for non brits, a monkey is a slang word for £50.

[MadScot]

I guess its better than the other monkeys in office.

MadScot

[Jammrock]

Ant, if a monkey can win the an election over there, then you should be a shoe in.

To win in the States though, you have to be a snake.

Jammrock

[MadScot]

"Populist politics allow for populist solutions and the mayoral idea allows for that above all."

Heven forbid that the winner of a popular election comes to power! You guys want to borrow the Electoral Collage?

MadScot

[ZokesPro]

Ah monkeys. Is there anything they can't do?

[dZeus]

RC like they did on those labrats recently

[impact]

Originally posted by Jammrock
Ant, if a monkey can win the an election over there, then you should be a shoe in.

To win in the States though, you have to be a snake.

Jammrock

A snake? I've just watched Cripplefight again and I'm quite sure they said you gotta be a retard, not a snake.

[Lizzard[MPE]]

monkeys are funny.

[Greebe]

Just wait til I strap 4 wheels onto him

[Greebe]

4wheel drive monkeys, hehe

[dZeus]

but would you feel comfortable by the way you will present this experiment to the general public? you need to show respect for the monkey, otherwise I will judge the usefullness of the experiment by that!!!


p.s. in case you wonder about this: the person who came up with this didn't need any alcohol or drugs to do so.

[Pisang Goreng]

BANANAS??? WHERE!!!!!!!!!!??????