Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:41 am  

Do you think it ought to go to Maggie? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... aggie.html

Do you think it ought to go to Maggie? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... aggie.html

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 11:48 am  

Oh Jesus. Let the sparks fly.

[DaveO]

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:28 pm  

I don't think it should go to an institution whether the institution is the EU or not. Seems a bit daft to me and not what the prize was intended for.

However doesn't everyone know that a big reason the Common Market, (which evolved into the EEC and then the EU) was set up was the political desire to avoid another European war? No one can deny it has achieved that so I assume that is why it won the prize.

As I said though giving it to an institution of any kind doesn't seem right to me.

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 1:39 pm  

I'd have given it jointly to Blair and Bush for their War on Terror. It,s going well. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/world/middleeast/insurgents-carry-out-wave-of-attacks-across-iraq.html?_r=0

I'd have given it jointly to Blair and Bush for their War on Terror. It,s going well. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/10/world/middleeast/insurgents-carry-out-wave-of-attacks-across-iraq.html?_r=0

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 2:52 pm  

Sam Tomkins should be in the running, surely?

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 3:31 pm  

Probably too late for this year, but how about Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani standing up for girls' education – and shot by the Taliban?

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:17 pm  

Split it between Thatcher, Blair and Bush.

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 5:44 pm  

DaveO wrote:

However doesn't everyone know that a big reason the Common Market, (which evolved into the EEC and then the EU) was set up was the political desire to avoid another European war? No one can deny it has achieved that so I assume that is why it won the prize.

NATO has had plenty to do with that particular achievement.

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:41 pm  

Mintball wrote:

Probably too late for this year, but how about Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old Pakistani standing up for girls' education – and shot by the Taliban?

That would be a good idea and I only found out today she is being treated in Birmingham. I hope she recovers soon and is back to her usual self before the cowards shot her. She might be safer off here as I think the Taliban are going after her again.

Re: Nobel peace prize : Mon Oct 15, 2012 6:43 pm  

Dally wrote: Do you think it ought to go to Maggie? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... aggie.html No way in hell should that old witch get anything apart from being thrown to the wolves.

Dally wrote: Do you think it ought to go to Maggie? http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/colu ... aggie.html No way in hell should that old witch get anything apart from being thrown to the wolves.