Brown - The DPRK connection
I am grateful to Dizzy for pointing this out, having missed it yesterday:
"Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much aid the Government has provided to North Korea in each of the last 10 years; how much is planned to be provided; and what the (a) purpose and (b) nature of this aid is".
The answer is not 'not one brass farthing', but little short of £37 million. So much for the DPRK's Juche policy, and one has to wonder quite how odious a regime has to be for this rabble to get a fit of the vapours and turn off the tap. Perhaps Pyongyang provided Brown with some of his dimmer policy ideas as a quid pro quo.
Elsewhere, it is from Le Monde rather than the KCNA that I discover who is the heir apparent to the Kim Dynasty: Kim Jong-Un, the 24 year old third son of KJI, who has presumably earned the undying enmity of big brothers Jong-Nam and Jong-Chul.
There are some curious definitions for Jong over at the Urban Dictionary site, by the way. These include a term of abuse used by skiers and a type of pizza.
"Mr. Gray: To ask the Secretary of State for International Development how much aid the Government has provided to North Korea in each of the last 10 years; how much is planned to be provided; and what the (a) purpose and (b) nature of this aid is".
The answer is not 'not one brass farthing', but little short of £37 million. So much for the DPRK's Juche policy, and one has to wonder quite how odious a regime has to be for this rabble to get a fit of the vapours and turn off the tap. Perhaps Pyongyang provided Brown with some of his dimmer policy ideas as a quid pro quo.
Elsewhere, it is from Le Monde rather than the KCNA that I discover who is the heir apparent to the Kim Dynasty: Kim Jong-Un, the 24 year old third son of KJI, who has presumably earned the undying enmity of big brothers Jong-Nam and Jong-Chul.
There are some curious definitions for Jong over at the Urban Dictionary site, by the way. These include a term of abuse used by skiers and a type of pizza.
Labels: DPRK-watch, Where your money goes
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Brown probably has dreams about being referred to as Great Leader.
Or maybe 'The Great Helmsman'.
ah, this has great Clerihewic possibilities
Kim Jong-Un
is obviously a wrong 'un
Could he ever really fill
the boots of Kim Jong-Il ?
Topic segué but I haven't seen this one aired since 1983 and I hope you will agree that it is a deserving case. From PE's late lamented Clerihew Corner:
Miss Sara Keays
Proved impossible to please
After she had been laid
By the Minister of Trade.
Nick - like it. Any further efforts would be most welcome.
T - well remembered. My favourite was this:
Indira Ghandi
is terribly randy
But she doesn't shout about it
And personally I doubt it.
That prompted a letter of complaint from the Indian High Commission denouncing 'the scurrilous limerick'. Sic.
i have summoned in aid Mr Idle, a man known to turn his hand ...
The DFID has this thang
About Pyongyang
Rather than encourage them to change their ruler
They send them moolah
An aside: is the mother of the boys known as MaJong ?
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