I’ve made a small promise to myself to stop having opinions on things the second I read about them. I honestly feel like one of our current biggest problems in society is a snap reaction that isn’t processed, dwelled on, and thought about carefully before we spew more vile into the endless sick puddle of […]
TAGGED WITH: Labour, Lib Dems, Politics, tiernan douieb, voting CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservative Election News Electoral Dysfunction May 4th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebHaving already written about The Conservative Party, The Labour Party, and the other possible kingmaker parties, I was going to write a blog about all the other itty bitty parties and independent candidates that are running in the election. But it turns out, there are 426 of those in Great Britain alone, with a further 36 in Northern […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, Politics, Steve Coogan, tiernan douieb, voting CATEGORISED BY:Armando Iannucci Blog Comedy Conservatives General Election 2015 News Vote If You Want To February 5th, 2015 by Tiernan DouiebIt’s National Voting Registration Day today*. The name is pretty explanatory and if you haven’t already signed up to vote in this year’s incredibly unpredictable general election then you can now do so online, which finally caters for our sedentary, apathetic online lives. I’m pleased there’s a push to get people to vote and I’m […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, MPs, old people, students, the NHS, tiernan douieb, tigers, TTIP, UKIP, voting, welfare CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives democracy Election EU News Laboured Joke May 7th, 2014 by Tiernan DouiebI find it hugely depressing that Labour aren’t top of the public opinion polls by a long stretch in the UK at the moment. I’m not surprised at all. I have no hope in them, or any intention of voting for them at all. But it’s still saddening, because they should be. It’s exactly one year […]
TAGGED WITH: Green Party, Labour, Lib Dems, MEP, MP, Nick Clegg, Parliament, PEB, Politics, Shoreditch, tiernan douieb, twitter, UKIP CATEGORISED BY:Blog Comedy Conservatives David Cameron Ed Miliband Election News Topical Storm September 20th, 2011 by Tiernan DouiebThe last two days have been a flurry of attempting to write material in time for Old Rope only for me to write only three jokes, all of which will be relevant for a week – one only for a day – before disappearing into the ether along with the news story it represents. There […]
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