Politics's Hardest Men

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a spin-off that needs to happen. let's share memories and appreciation of politicians past and present that could definitely crush a grape.

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:31 (five years ago)

50 push-up man Kier "Starmzy" Starmer lays down a marker

Keir Starmer challenges Boris Johnson to see who'd be 1st to do 50 press ups at #PMQs this week.#GMB pic.twitter.com/SJWUCz3Hxm

— Haggis_UK 🇬🇧 🇪🇺 (@Haggis_UK) June 29, 2020

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:32 (five years ago)

gone too soon

Owen Smith: 'I fought off hundreds of lads to get my wife so I know how to win' https://t.co/bXg0WHHs48 pic.twitter.com/RfEUIXp8WV

— Daily Mirror (@DailyMirror) September 9, 2016

devvvine, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:35 (five years ago)

who could forget the OG Hardman, Fightin' Billy Hague (aka Billy the Pop)?

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/politics/i-no-longer-drink-14-pints-day-hague-1831033

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:36 (five years ago)

https://flashbak.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/People6.jpg

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:37 (five years ago)

https://i.insider.com/5162cd12eab8ea5977000000?width=1200&format=jpeg

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:41 (five years ago)

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article7560728.ece/ALTERNATES/s810/Chancellor-of-the-Exchequer-George-Osborne-Visits-Crossrail-Station-Construction-Site

I love to get my hands on some thick hard galvanised tube!

calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 10:41 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/gibdG52.jpg

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:43 (five years ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/prJXfsWh/4748fe85-4432-4be4-af32-7703846269fd.png

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:45 (five years ago)

Oh no, wrong link.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:46 (five years ago)

https://i.postimg.cc/yx4yg8x6/JM.png

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:46 (five years ago)

That's better.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:46 (five years ago)

Major's DJ sets were legendary in the early rave scene

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:50 (five years ago)

Ted Cruz gets Rambo on yo' ass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myd8sc320Hg

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 10:58 (five years ago)

gives a whole new meaning to Russian Bear amirite?

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:00 (five years ago)

Haiti's Jean Marie Ralph Féthière upped the bar

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/sep/23/haiti-shooting-senator-gun-parliament-photojournalist

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:02 (five years ago)

Lembit Opik ftw

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:03 (five years ago)

Lembit Opik has all the confidence of a smarter, tougher, generally better person, and never made the mistake of standing for anything, it's amazing that he found it so difficult to fall upwards with the rest of them. Guess his fatal mistake was joining the lib dems instead of the tories.

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:13 (five years ago)

That Opik photoset is magic.

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:18 (five years ago)

https://mediastore.magnumphotos.com/CoreXDoc/MAG/Media/TR2/6/2/4/7/LON128650.jpg

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:19 (five years ago)

Klitschko would be cheating but the fact that there's controversy over whether Boyko Borisov is an actual 7th Dan Karate expert or is just pretending to be one brings him within scope, i think.

https://i.postimg.cc/wMBtfK18/boiko-knee-punch.jpg

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:21 (five years ago)

He said to United States President Barack Obama that he has a 7th dan black belt in karate, but his coach argued this being not true, and claimed that Borisov has never been even a karate competitor, but only an administrator of the team

Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:23 (five years ago)

https://i2-prod.hulldailymail.co.uk/incoming/article2809612.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_egged.jpg

the bournemouth supremacy (Matt #2), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:25 (five years ago)

Went looking for images of this guy and stumbled across this recent story. What a specimen.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8408429/Former-MP-Eric-Joyce-appears-court-child-porn-charge.html

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:27 (five years ago)

^^ Dick Advocaat when he still had his own hair? xp

Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:27 (five years ago)

needs prescott in motion

https://media3.giphy.com/media/NVtsBsgtnvsbe/giphy-downsized.gif

neith moon (ledge), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:29 (five years ago)

Always liked his reflexes there, no time to react, straight with the fist to the jaw.

Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:33 (five years ago)

No backlift either, quick stun then in for the kill

the bournemouth supremacy (Matt #2), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:35 (five years ago)

You can definitely tell he'd boxed when he was younger.

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:42 (five years ago)

No Rubberbandits song, no contest
https://amp.independent.ie/business/irish/b57f3/29470771.ece/AUTOCROP/h400/BUS_20130804_BBI_001_28471246_I1.JPG

In November 2005, O'Dea was photographed during a media event at the Curragh Camp pointing an automatic pistol at a photographer. The photo appeared on the front page of The Irish Times the following day. O'Dea apologised saying that it was not his intention to glamorise gun crime.


I mean what else would you expect from the TD for Limerick City?

Mr O’Dea, the subject of another of the duo’s songs which portrayed him selling hash to make ends meet after resigning from the Dáil, was rejecting suggestions by callers to RTÉ’s LiveLine yesterday that the song promoted drug use and was extremely vulgar. “I can laugh at myself. I was remorselessly lampooned by them and I didn’t ring you. They portray me selling hash and swearing on my tash that it’s decent hash,” he said.

“If you don’t like it don’t watch it. I don’t support drug usage. I support a group that laughs at that. For heaven’s sake, get a life. If it (Horse Outside) gets to Number 1 for Christmas it will reflect well on Limerick.”

scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 11:48 (five years ago)

he took that lad down on purpose, look at the eyes

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 13:06 (five years ago)

xp poetry in motion

scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 13:48 (five years ago)

Sometimes he gets football and rugby confused

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44616000/jpg/_44616195_tackle_long.jpg

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Monday, 29 June 2020 13:49 (five years ago)

I can't help but see he has a shopping bag in his hand in that first pic

Ste, Monday, 29 June 2020 13:54 (five years ago)

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article19027629.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/0_BUFFALO-RUTH-DJ2.jpg

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:17 (five years ago)

http://s3-origin-images.politico.com/2013/11/01/dukakis_tank_2_c.jpg

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:19 (five years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_begin_bombing_in_five_minutes

Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:20 (five years ago)

https://i2-prod.mirror.co.uk/incoming/article4298905.ece/ALTERNATES/s1200c/Ed-Balls-elbows-reporter-Rob-Merrick.jpg

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:21 (five years ago)

24 Tory Party People

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:54 (five years ago)

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/695/cpsprodpb/1904/production/_108540460_031349759.jpg

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Monday, 29 June 2020 14:56 (five years ago)

Apparently the dogs were straining at the leash and he was absolutely shitting it and had to ask the troops to keep them at a safe distance during this:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/nintchdbpict000370928535.jpg?w=670

Matt DC, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:00 (five years ago)

dogs trained to know a wrong 'un when they smell him

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:02 (five years ago)

Sorry for YouTube but may I suggest this as the winner?

https://youtu.be/078q4F1TDnY

scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:22 (five years ago)

Gordon Brown in general wasn't a big man for this sort of thing but wow:

https://i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk/incoming/article3647783.ece/ALTERNATES/s615b/Screen-Shot-2014-06-05-at-103458.png

Matt DC, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:26 (five years ago)

Judging by Google image search, Blair appeared to be kicking or saving a football for virtually his entire tenure.

Matt DC, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:33 (five years ago)

not entirely true because he also spent a decent chunk of his tenure clutching a guitar iirc

scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:36 (five years ago)

might've mentally excluded UKIP from politics but yes great shout

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:41 (five years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EAK0dOXUwAIWyAj.jpg

calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 15:43 (five years ago)

leaping out

BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:45 (five years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i0DMbCKnAg

Two Spocks Clash (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 29 June 2020 15:52 (five years ago)

disappointed it’s taken so long for rory to appear, thx for yr service cal

scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:10 (five years ago)

idk need to see him wrestling

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:10 (five years ago)

With his conscience.

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:12 (five years ago)

ahem, he's a Tory

i have no scampo and i must scream (Noodle Vague), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:12 (five years ago)

Holding out for a fucking hero.

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.6510379!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg

Future England Captain (Tom D.), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:18 (five years ago)

if that plane had just hit the ground a little bit harder we’d be living in a very different world today

scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 29 June 2020 16:18 (five years ago)

I bet Rory could take out Dan Jarvis and Johnny Mercer in a feit, but he would be using the deadly stick-fighting skills he mastered on his quixotic adventures in Johnny Foreigner-land.

calzino, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:21 (five years ago)

https://i.imgur.com/h0s0F.gif

mookieproof, Monday, 29 June 2020 16:32 (five years ago)

Rory has never graced a shower gel ad for REAL MEN though tbf

https://youtu.be/dbBMreLEk3o

scampos mentis (gyac), Monday, 29 June 2020 17:02 (five years ago)

Great to try a bit of #parkour this morning with @ParkourUK President @SebastienFoucan to learn how anyone can #GiveParkourATry pic.twitter.com/2BcCGKgwmM

— Matt Hancock (@MattHancock) July 2, 2018

Boris the Spreader (NickB), Tuesday, 30 June 2020 19:15 (five years ago)

seven months pass...

"Onlookers described [Starmer] as maskless, “rattled” and “puce”" https://t.co/jkWyphDeR1

— Rory Scothorne (@shirkerism) February 3, 2021

Scampi reggae party (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 3 February 2021 17:39 (four years ago)

eleven months pass...

Scrappy doo pic.twitter.com/yb1u2Rpifc

— Flying_Rodent (@flying_rodent) January 25, 2022

Buchiko and The Man (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 13:36 (three years ago)

it's gonna be a very bad month for the Johnny Concretes of UK pol

Buchiko and The Man (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 13:42 (three years ago)

🐦["Onlookers described (Starmer)as maskless, “rattled” and “puce”" https://t.co/jkWyphDeR1🕸
— Rory Scothorne (@shirkerism) February 3, 2021🕸]🐦


Had completely forgotten this classic bit of forensic managerialism

mardheamac (gyac), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 13:48 (three years ago)

Maskless, Rattled and Puce was the law firm he started at

Buchiko and The Man (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 25 January 2022 13:51 (three years ago)

Jon Lansman and Neil Kinnock give accounts of Kinnock's punch up with an unnamed Tony Benn supporter in the gents at the 1981 Labour party conference, with Kinnock doing that style of bragging where you affect to be magnanimous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZPeCYCNLjs

soref, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 14:10 (three years ago)

(starts at 8:15)

soref, Tuesday, 25 January 2022 14:11 (three years ago)

one month passes...

Van Horn Street has been banned permanently. 20+ FPs in the past month (22 in past 48 hours). 1 week ban. Unban date 5 March 2122

I have a voulez-vous? with death (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 26 February 2022 08:19 (three years ago)

Ahhh

Tracer Hand, Saturday, 26 February 2022 11:12 (three years ago)

real name Hornst, Ivan

Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Saturday, 26 February 2022 11:16 (three years ago)

I must admitted to chuckling at calz calling him Betamax.

Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 February 2022 11:36 (three years ago)

now featuring journalism's hardest men

My biggest worry of those viral videos of Ukrainians encountering Russian troops is how they just talk to them and then move on, all too often no conflict.

As if those killing machines would just go home?

Needs to be a far more universal guerrilla spirit. Before it’s too late.

— Tom Harwood (@tomhfh) February 26, 2022

I have a voulez-vous? with death (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:19 (three years ago)

Ugh.

Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:27 (three years ago)

Let him have it, calz... oh, hold on.

Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:29 (three years ago)

the "hf" stands for "hard fucker"

I have a voulez-vous? with death (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:29 (three years ago)

imagine the total lack of self-respect it would take to actually be Tom Harwood, going about your life

Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:43 (three years ago)

I'm sure he respects himself enormously.

Meet the Irish Queer Archive Poet In Residence (Tom D.), Sunday, 27 February 2022 10:48 (three years ago)


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