Topically and in a spirit of motoring nerdiness, I've been googling around to find out what, if any private cars the the men and women of the moment drive.
For a bit of wet weekend fun, see if you can match the wheels to the politician ( or ex politician in some cases ) cheating by looking it up on the internet is of course between you and your conciences...
1/ battered old Toyota Previa
2/ battered old Ford Galaxy
3/ Ford Focus
4/ Ford Mondeo
5/ doesn't have a licence
6/ used to have a Honda CR-V but doesn't have a car now
7/ Volvo V70
Correct answers will be posted tomorrow sometime, if someone hasn't cheated...
;-)
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2. I think its the PM
3. Ed m
5. Green leader
7. Got to be nige.
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Not bad Sooty, but not all correct...
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What a pathetic collection.
Not a Westfield or Elise to be seen
And I bet the Mondeo is a smelly diesel
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I've a suspicion 6 maybe Gordon Brown. Eyesight and/or life history meant he was either (a) unable to get a licence or (b) never needed a car.
It's not that difficult provided you can accept the restrictions on career and place of residence.
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>> I've a suspicion 6 maybe Gordon Brown. Eyesight and/or life history meant he was either
>> (a) unable to get a licence or (b) never needed a car.
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Do you mean 5, no licence?
GBs house is in my area, it is a couple of minutes walk from a rail station and has some inconspicuous but serious CCTV cameras.
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>> GBs house is in my area, it is a couple of minutes walk from a
>> rail station and has some inconspicuous but serious CCTV cameras.
Thankfully he does not seem to have escaped unnoticed
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>> GBs house is in my area, it is a couple of minutes walk from a
>> rail station and has some inconspicuous but serious CCTV cameras.
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We didn't have sight nor sound of Gordon during the election.
What happened - did the Socialists keep him very firmly under his stone?
(Awaits complaint from AC, along the lines of 'you nasty man')
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>> We didn't have sight nor sound of Gordon during the election
>> What happened - did the Socialists keep him very firmly under his stone?
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>> (Awaits complaint from AC, along the lines of 'you nasty man')
He wasn't standing for re-election and has been on backbenches since 2010. He was certainly deployed in Scotland but his credibility there was perhaps reduced by his association with the referendum.
At that time, if you remember, a panicking Cameron called on him to pull the no campaign together.
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Gordon threw his toys out of the pram when he lost the 2010 General Election (largely thanks to a certain Gillian Duffy).
It revealed his own insecurities in that he called off a General Election at the last minute in September 2007 after his self-appointment as Prime Minister, because he realised that he might lose, even though he was pretty certain to win.
As a result, he lost the chance to govern until, at the latest, 2012, and the rests, as they say, is history.
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6. The PM, he wouldn't need his own car these days would he?
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The ones I know:
7. Nigel Farage
6. David Cameron I know had a Honda and now as PM no longer needs a car
2. Nick Clegg
Now the ones I don't, guesses
1. ??? Family man and no mention so far, Milliband?
3. ??? UKIP MP, man of the people claim etc...
4. Ed Balls, he was reported a while back for reversing a Mondeo into a Pug in Leeds. I think it was a Mondeo.
5. Nicola Sturgeon.
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You're the closest gmac but have not quite toppled the coconut !
1/ Boris Johnson
2/ Nick Clegg
3/ Ed Miliband
4/ Ed Balls
5/ Nichola Sturgeon
6/ David Cameron
7/ Nigel Farage
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>> 5/ Nichola Sturgeon
I would have thought that her method of transport would be a broomstick !
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I don't like her politics one bit. But I think she is probably one of the most refreshingly honest politicians I've ever heard speak. Doesn't duck the questions, says what she thinks and believes. Like I say, most of her opinions are absolutely not mine but you are left in no doubt as to hers.
Perhaps she'll get better at the game in due course.
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Refreshing maybe, but merely a continuing mouthpiece for Alex Salmond and one leading a party that has developed a level of aggression far outside the worth of just 56 Parliamentary seats.
Even the LibDems had 57 seats in 2010 even though they lost five in the election and even then their pre-2015 election back biting and criticism of the coalition played a large part in finally emerging with just eight seats.
You reap what you sow and the majority of voters didn't like what they saw.
Despite its staggering reverse of fortunes in the last two elections, Labour is still the second most powerful political party in the UK, although it will take it (and other struggling parties) many years to truly make progress back to something like the status quo.
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I see Nicola Sturgeon doesn't have a licence. I never trusted women who couldn't drive - always found them to be free-loaders scrounging lifts...
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