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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 17:39:04 GMT -5
Haha! That's great, also funny (to me) is the fact that you are called Daniel Waddell, who is a classmate of mine
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2015 17:40:04 GMT -5
Haha! That's great, also funny (to me) is the fact that you are called Daniel Waddell, who is a classmate of mine Send him my regards.
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Post by jakob61907 on Mar 31, 2015 0:22:46 GMT -5
Hmm.... Just a shame those in employment are getting paid petty wages, with many on zero hour contracts. Disgusting. And it's my age group that can't stand on it's feet thanks to the government. Besides, the employment figures aren't good enough to bring in tax revenue for the government considering how low paid they are. So you would raise taxes, then? How about close tax loopholes for multinational corporations in the UK who get away without paying billions of tax money. If that tax revenue comes in it can stimulate the economy greater. Rupert Murdoch got away last few years with paying less than 5% tax. Its a discgrace! One rule for them and one rule for others.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 1:46:46 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 5:21:20 GMT -5
Hmm.... Just a shame those in employment are getting paid petty wages, with many on zero hour contracts. Disgusting. And it's my age group that can't stand on it's feet thanks to the government. Besides, the employment figures aren't good enough to bring in tax revenue for the government considering how low paid they are. So you would raise taxes, then? It's amazing that you jump straight to taxes, rather than thinking we need a substantially higher minimum wage.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2015 17:21:16 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Mar 31, 2015 21:58:26 GMT -5
The funniest thing about that interview is he says he wanted to be a lorry driver. 'I only made my mind up I wanted to be a politician after university'. So he went through his priveleged up bringing at Eton and Cambridge considering to be a lorry driver? What next? Boris Johnson revealing he wanted to be a bin man during a Bullington Club dinner?!
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Apr 1, 2015 15:57:05 GMT -5
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Post by NYR on Apr 1, 2015 16:51:37 GMT -5
Cameron is a twat. The only issue is that most—if not all—of his competition are even bigger twats.
Sounds like any major country's election, really.
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Post by matt on Apr 1, 2015 17:45:19 GMT -5
Cameron is a twat. The only issue is that most—if not all—of his competition are even bigger twats. Sounds like any major country's election, really. I'm not a fan of Ed Miliband, I do think he's out of touch BUT saying that, he isn't afraid to tackle big businessmen like Rupert Murdoch. He's been getting away with murder for decades in the UK, tax evasion, influencing public policy, phone hacking, and generally bringing the journalistic standards of this country to depths of depravity. What is a free press anyway if it is controlled by a select elite? If Ed Miliband can form a government at the expense of the bile and lies that has been spouted against him in right wing rags like the Daily Mail and Murdoch's papers, then it will be a good day for democracy in my opinion.
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Post by tomlivesforever on Apr 4, 2015 6:03:53 GMT -5
Cameron is a twat. The only issue is that most—if not all—of his competition are even bigger twats. Sounds like any major country's election, really. I'm not a fan of Ed Miliband, I do think he's out of touch BUT saying that, he isn't afraid to tackle big businessmen like Rupert Murdoch. He's been getting away with murder for decades in the UK, tax evasion, influencing public policy, phone hacking, and generally bringing the journalistic standards of this country to depths of depravity. What is a free press anyway if it is controlled by a select elite? If Ed Miliband can form a government at the expense of the bile and lies that has been spouted against him in right wing rags like the Daily Mail and Murdoch's papers, then it will be a good day for democracy in my opinion. I don't think Ed Miliband is great statesman (his brother had more of that about him) but I do think he is a decent man and maybe that is all we need. I believe he will take on big business etc. The SNP have me concerned that they will help bring in another Tory government with there efforts to oust Labour from Scotland. I understand why they want to do that of course but 5 more years of the tories is fucking frightening. Might end up needing UKIP to suck away some Tory votes without getting enough to have any say in anything.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 6:11:18 GMT -5
I seem to be in the minority here but I think Ed Miliband conducted himself well in the TV debate. In fact none of them preformed particularly badly. Nicola Sturgeon in particular came across very well. The only one who I really can't abide is Nigel Farage.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 4, 2015 6:30:43 GMT -5
Be interesting to see which of those seven will get to pretend to be running the country for five years....
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Post by tomlivesforever on Apr 4, 2015 6:39:52 GMT -5
I seem to be in the minority here but I think Ed Miliband conducted himself well in the TV debate. in fact none of them preformed particularly badly. Nicola Sturgeon in particular came across very well. The only one who I really can't abide is Nigel Farage. I thought he did well too. I would love Farage and Cameron to be forced in to a civil partnership and then have a reality tv show filmed about there life together.
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Post by theyknowwhatimean on Apr 4, 2015 6:56:46 GMT -5
I seem to be in the minority here but I think Ed Miliband conducted himself well in the TV debate. in fact none of them preformed particularly badly. Nicola Sturgeon in particular came across very well. The only one who I really can't abide is Nigel Farage. I thought Milliband did well, he's come on leaps and bounds in the last two years, especially when you consider how he has to contend with Murdoch's press breathing down his neck every second of every day. Farage is a good leader though, there's no doubting that, and you can't deny that his stat of how net migration now stands at 300,000 where it has always before been around the 30,000 mark in previous decades, is startling... However, when he said that HIV victims who aren't british citizens should be turned away, he crossed the line and proved himself and his party to be utterly immoral and not in keeping with the British way of treating people like the human beings they are, and not just walking pound signs, as we've come to expect...(although for how much longer if we get another five years of 'Dave' Cameron, George Osbourne and Ian Duncan Smith?)
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Post by matt on Apr 4, 2015 8:46:21 GMT -5
I'm not a fan of Ed Miliband, I do think he's out of touch BUT saying that, he isn't afraid to tackle big businessmen like Rupert Murdoch. He's been getting away with murder for decades in the UK, tax evasion, influencing public policy, phone hacking, and generally bringing the journalistic standards of this country to depths of depravity. What is a free press anyway if it is controlled by a select elite? If Ed Miliband can form a government at the expense of the bile and lies that has been spouted against him in right wing rags like the Daily Mail and Murdoch's papers, then it will be a good day for democracy in my opinion. I don't think Ed Miliband is great statesman (his brother had more of that about him) but I do think he is a decent man and maybe that is all we need. I believe he will take on big business etc. The SNP have me concerned that they will help bring in another Tory government with there efforts to oust Labour from Scotland. I understand why they want to do that of course but 5 more years of the tories is fucking frightening. Might end up needing UKIP to suck away some Tory votes without getting enough to have any say in anything. Judging by the lies they created about Sturgeon the last 24 hours, expect a shitfest of sleaze in the next five years if the Tories get reelected. Bet it was that rat Michael Gove who came up with the lies.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Apr 4, 2015 20:39:40 GMT -5
I don't really follow British politics, but why wouldn't UKIP and the Conservatives form a coalition? Wouldn't that be in both their interests? Just curious for the rationale behind all of this...?
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 9:06:46 GMT -5
I don't really follow British politics, but why wouldn't UKIP and the Conservatives form a coalition? Wouldn't that be in both their interests? Just curious for the rationale behind all of this...? UKIP at best will get 3 seats and it would be far easier to attempt to run a minority government than have a coalition with UKIP and give them a completely disproportionate influence. As for UKIP there brand of anti politics would be dead if they actually went into government.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Apr 5, 2015 11:34:02 GMT -5
Tories best for workers, say voters..,. The Sunday Times has declared the Conservatives "the workers' party", as voters say the Conservatives are good for most workers by 56% to 12%. 1.3m more full-time jobs, 800,000 more businesses, lower taxes for 30 million people, and the fastest growth of in the G7: a record for workers to really be proud of. www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1540174.ece
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Post by Deleted on Apr 5, 2015 11:40:54 GMT -5
Tories best for workers, say voters..,. The Sunday Times has declared the Conservatives "the workers' party", as voters say the Conservatives are good for most workers by 56% to 12%. 1.3m more full-time jobs, 800,000 more businesses, lower taxes for 30 million people, and the fastest growth of in the G7: a record for workers to really be proud of. www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1540174.eceThe Sunday Times is a Murdoch paper, who is a big Conservative supporter. These things should always be taken with a pinch of salt.
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Post by jakob61907 on Apr 5, 2015 22:23:59 GMT -5
Tories best for workers, say voters..,. The Sunday Times has declared the Conservatives "the workers' party", as voters say the Conservatives are good for most workers by 56% to 12%. 1.3m more full-time jobs, 800,000 more businesses, lower taxes for 30 million people, and the fastest growth of in the G7: a record for workers to really be proud of. www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1540174.eceThis is the equivalent of you quoting Bill O'Reilly when the U.S election comes by for statistical information on job growth for America.
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Post by globe on Apr 6, 2015 8:06:21 GMT -5
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Post by matt on Apr 7, 2015 11:24:58 GMT -5
Tories best for workers, say voters..,. The Sunday Times has declared the Conservatives "the workers' party", as voters say the Conservatives are good for most workers by 56% to 12%. 1.3m more full-time jobs, 800,000 more businesses, lower taxes for 30 million people, and the fastest growth of in the G7: a record for workers to really be proud of. www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/Politics/article1540174.eceYep, we are definitely paying lower taxes - actually, none at all.... Because we're not earning enough to fucking pay taxes. As for Murdoch, I would quite happily dig his own grave - not content with controlling the media in he country, he's complicit in phone hacking murdered schoolgirls, tormenting Hillsborough victims, while eager to keep up the sexism bordering on paedophilia (how many times has the paper been caught for headlines like 'Just turned 16! She's a big girl now!' in The Sun?), while stalking and slandering ANYONE who speaks out against News Corp. All round, he hasn't been beneficial to British society and nobody has ever taken British culture to the gutters like him. You might say I'm taking it a bit seriously in regards to Murdoch, but the lies that have been perpetuated by him and his papers have more often than not seeped into society and stubbornly remained there - just look at the Hillsborough disaster. Despite the fact that if anyone had bothered to seriously look into the facts ragarding the disaster when the Taylor Report was published in January 1990, it would have ended any speculation that Liverpool fans were to blame. The sad thing is, it was only until 2012 that the lies finally stopped when another report pretty much confirmed everything that knowledgeable people knew. Prior to that, you could walk into a pub and any idiot would spew out the same argument that was trolled out by - yes , you've guessed it - The Sun. It wasn't simply just a ploy to inadvertantly shame Liverpool FC, it was an example of the systemic degradation and humiliation of the working class in Britain at the time, propped up by Thatcher no less. Which still continues today in that paper. And I'm not even a socialist, and you don't have to be a socialist to know that. Yep, that's the democracy we live in when this turd is given a major role in it. Whether it's David Cameron or Alex Salmond, I'm almost physically sick when I see pictures of the people we elect with their arms around the man. There's a great book out by the MP Tom Watson called Dial M For Murdoch - pretty much lays bare how terrible the workings of News International and the phone hacking scandal was, and showing just how the 'free press' isn't so, it is simply state sponsored capitalism. Incidentally, Tom Watson was stalked by the papers for actively speaking out against them. That's one MP with principles, I doubt any will follow. But, in fairness, Ed Miliband has taken a stance against him, but I hear nothing about it in the media - The Express, The Daily Mail and The Telegraph aren't going to speak for him, Murdoch's papers certainly won't, and even the left-leaning Guardian is forgetting it as I think their support may be going to Liberal Democrat. The sad truth ias shown, as a select few gain even more power, the country becomes even less democratic.
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Post by Beady’s Here Now on Apr 10, 2015 14:31:34 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2015 15:56:04 GMT -5
Straight to the heart of the periphery.
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