UK: Gordon Brown snubbed by soldiers curtain protest.

God bless them. (President Obama please take note. Read the comments!)

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From The Times UK: (h/t FReeper mware.)

Gordon Brown was snubbed by badly injured Afghan veterans when they closed curtains round their beds during a hospital visit and refused to speak to him.

More than half the soldiers being treated at the Selly Oak hospital ward in Birmingham either asked for the curtains to be closed or deliberately avoided the prime minister, according to several of those present.

The soldiers, who have sustained some of the worst injuries seen in Afghanistan, described his visit as “opportunistic” and a “waste of time”. Furious about equipment shortages and poor compensation for their injuries, one soldier said: “It is almost as if we are the product of an unwanted affair ... he has done nothing for us.”

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British Prime Minister calls skeptics of manbearpig 'flat earthers'

Gordon Brown, the prime minister of Britain, has compared skeptics of man made global warming to people who believe the earth is flat.

I think think Gordon Brown has popped a few too many pills.

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From Telegraph

The Prime Minister launched an outspoken attack on climate-change sceptics amid growing signs of public doubts about the scientific and political consensus on the environment.[...]

Mr Brown last night insisted that the science on climate change in settled, and accused those who question the consensus of being outdated.

He said: "With only days to go before Copenhagen we mustn't be distracted by the behind-the-times, anti-science, flat-earth climate sceptics. We know the science. We know what we must do.”

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