Just when you thought UK Politics had hit rock bottom ....


	Just when you thought UK Politics had hit rock bottom ....

summer70

12-20-2007 7:22 AM

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summer70 says:

It's been a while since I looked at UK Politics (if that's what you can call it) in great detail... maybe I'll leave it a bit longer next time ...

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