Home | Gallery | Forum | About Mike | "Weird But True" | Links
	Search Google
You are in: Home | "Weird But True" | Colemanballs | UK Conservative Politicians	Site Map

In the paper "Private Eye" in the UK they have a section called Colemanballs. It has all the cock-ups that TV/radio announcers make and is named after a sports commentator named David Coleman – the master himself.

Conservative UK politicians quote list
FROM: Private Eye's Colemanballs

• "Suicide is a real threat to health." Virginia Bottomley
• "Anyone would think we were living on some island somewhere." George Walden
• "It's not the future I'm talking about, I'm talking about tomorrow." John Gummer
• "The trend in the rise in unemployment is downward." Gillian Shepherd
• "The more important things, are more important, than the less important things." Stephen Dorrell
• "When the IRA plant such bombs, it proves they can scare people, it proves they can kill people, it proves nothing." Peter Bottomley
• "We said zero, and I think any statistician will tell you that... zero must mean plus or minus a few." William Waldegrave
• "Who Sadam Hussein kills, dies." Jeffrey Archer
• "There's no smoke without mud being flung around." Edwina Currie
• "I will never forget the 1981, -- or was it 1982? -- honours list." Julian Critchley
• "All those people who say that there will never be a Single European Currency are trying to forecast history." Kenneth Clark
• "The British public sees with blinding clarity." Michael Heseltine
• "You know what they say -- don't get mad, get angry." Edwina Currie
• "We are not wholly an island, except geographically." John Major