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Reid humbled

  • Michael Crick
  • 21 Jun 07, 06:42 PM

John ReidJohn Reid may be the great bruiser and hardman of British politics, but he doesn鈥檛 frighten everyone.

I hear that on the evening of the Scottish elections he and the Scottish First Minister Jack McConnell went for a curry in Wishaw with a few Labour colleagues, ahead of going off to their local election count in Motherwell. After consuming a large main course the waiter asked if anyone would like a pudding. Conscious of the time, they all said 鈥楴o鈥, with the exception of Dr Reid who specified that he鈥檇 like a single ball of vanilla ice-cream. A few minutes later the waiter returned with a bowl containing three balls of ice-cream, and the customary wafer. 鈥淏ut I asked for a single ball,鈥 the Home Secretary complained. 鈥淔***ing eat it!鈥 the waiter shot back.

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  • 1.
  • At 12:03 PM on 22 Jun 2007,
  • The Doctor will see you now wrote:

My favourite image of Dr Reid features him playing his electric organ and singing 'Wind beneath my Wings'. As he allegedly does.
All together now - 'Fly...Flyyyyy...'

  • 2.
  • At 01:40 PM on 22 Jun 2007,
  • ice cream face wrote:

Well said that waiter.
Docter Reid gets brought down a peg or two, good, his self approval rating may be high, but the rest of us know he's a no talent jarhead, and that title of the 'hard man of politics' is relative, the rest of the MPs haven't got a good punch between them , well okey, Prescott maybe.

I studied in 1993 in how to use my video remote control, and got my self a doctrate; i still pat my self on the back for that achievement. As for the 'wind beneth my wings, more like "talking out of my a***"

  • 3.
  • At 02:23 PM on 22 Jun 2007,
  • Ms Debate wrote:

Did Kirsty tell you that one ?

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