Labour versus Conservative

[alanbakewell]

Many a true word................

Subject: FW: Labour & Conservative
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> I asked a friend's daughter what she wanted to be when she grows up.
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> She said she wanted to be Prime Minister some day.
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> Both her parents, Labour supporters, were standing there, so I asked her,
> "If you were Prime Minister what would be the first thing you would do?"
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> She replied, "I'd give food and houses to all the homeless people."
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> Her parents beamed, and said, "Welcome to the Labour Party!"
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> "Wow...what a worthy goal!" I told her.
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> I continued, "But you don't have to wait until you're Prime Minister to do
> that. You can come over to my house, mow the lawn, pull weeds, sweep my
> drive and I'll pay you £25.
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> Then I'll take you over to the shop where the homeless guy sits outside.
> You can give him the £25 to use toward food."
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> She thought that over for a few seconds, then she looked me straight in
> the eye and asked, "Why doesn't the homeless guy come over and do the work
> and you can just pay him the £25?"
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> I smiled and said, "Welcome to the Conservative Party."
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> Her parents still aren't speaking to me...........
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[roninnes]

Absolute cracker.
I go for option 2.

Ron

[des mcneill]

and me. Many a true word spoken in jest.
Des.