Credit where it's due

[Saw-sick Steve]

I'm really no fan of any of them to be honest, but the thought of Cameron's cronies getting in makes my blood run cold. The fact that the future leader of this country, his Chancellor, 1 possibly 2 of his Cabinet, and the mayor of the Capital city attended not only the same privileged University but were also members of the same exclusive, super-rich club, says a helluva lot about social mobility (or lack of) in this country.

[Dagmar]

I don't disagree with you. I think that we will see little real change after the election. After December 1st we will subject to the primacy of EU law anyway to the next government is little more than a talking shop with little real power.

[Mr Ed]

I'm really no fan of any of them to be honest, but the thought of Cameron's cronies getting in makes my blood run cold. The fact that the future leader of this country, his Chancellor, 1 possibly 2 of his Cabinet, and the mayor of the Capital city attended not only the same privileged University but were also members of the same exclusive, super-rich club, says a helluva lot about social mobility (or lack of) in this country.

 

My thoughts exactly.

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

Oh. If I could go to Bladen Churchyard, dig up an icon and bring him back to life then he'd do. Otherwise, this lot would surely suit dumbass britain...

 

Official Monster Raving Loony Party - Manifesto proposals

[muldonach]

He has spent the entire period of labour goverment selling the idea that prudent financial management means spending more than you earn and borrowing more than you can afford to pay back.

 

Possibly the biggest long term disaster that has ever been chancellor let alone Prime Miinister

 

Regards

Mac

[nepia]

He has spent the entire period of labour goverment selling the idea that prudent financial management means spending more than you earn and borrowing more than you can afford to pay back.

 

Possibly the biggest long term disaster that has ever been chancellor let alone Prime Miinister

 

Regards

Mac

 

 

Billions and billions of OUR money spent on education, health, police etc and what do we have in terms of improvement to show for it?

Our children, and quite likely theirs, are going to have to pay off all those debts.

[Tree Man Tom]

Oh. If I could go to Bladen Churchyard, dig up an icon and bring him back to life then he'd do. Otherwise, this lot would surely suit dumbass britain...

 

Official Monster Raving Loony Party - Manifesto proposals

 

Makes for some funny reading that does

[TimberCutterDartmoor]

That labour disaster youtube vid is poppycock imo; any gov would have taken us into war; a different gov might have had the balls to act on the realisation that it's a waste of time and get out of Iraq and Afghan. Bowing at the alter of political correctness, eroding traditional values and legislating to popularity rather than what is right, sums labour up for me.

 

........socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance...

 

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

 

...A good many of those gentlemen who have these delightful, rosy views of a great and brilliant future to the world are so remote from hard facts of daily life and of ordinary politics that I am not very sure that they will bring any useful or effective influence to bear upon the immediate course of events...

Edited November 15, 2009 by TimberCutterDartmoor

[nepia]

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

 

 

 

'To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.'

 

Margaret Thatcher

[Saw-sick Steve]

That labour disaster youtube vid is poppycock imo; any gov would have taken us into war; a different gov might have had the balls to act on the realisation that it's a waste of time and get out of Iraq and Afghan. Bowing at the alter of political correctness, eroding traditional values and legislating to popularity rather than what is right, sums labour up for me.

 

........socialist policy is abhorrent to the British ideas of freedom. Socialism is inseparably interwoven with totalitarianism and the object worship of the state. It will prescribe for every one where they are to work, what they are to work at, where they may go and what they may say. Socialism is an attack on the right to breathe freely. No socialist system can be established without a political police. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance...

 

“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy; its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.”

 

...A good many of those gentlemen who have these delightful, rosy views of a great and brilliant future to the world are so remote from hard facts of daily life and of ordinary politics that I am not very sure that they will bring any useful or effective influence to bear upon the immediate course of events...

 

Jeez ! Got any other historical tomes, apart from the 'Daily Mail book of British History' ?