Making the news today....

[eggsarascal]

1 hour ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

There’s still plenty of waste & ineptitude within departments that can be hatchetted out to fund this from within existing departmental budgets

I'm sure there is. Why do you think it's happened now?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

56 minutes ago, eggsarascal said:

I'm sure there is. Why do you think it's happened now?

Pre-election propaganda?

 

Labour promise to dish the sweeties out to garner favour - usually more targeted by Labour though, plenty in public sector have no liking for Toriies, 1% unlikely to change that. 

 

Dunno, what I would say though, it’s about time the ‘public sector’ wasn’t treated as 1 outfit so far as pay rises go. It’s so diverse that to treat it as 1 entity is madness....

[westphalian]

Ok, we have Trump apologists on here but if there is anyone that thinks JRM is anything more than a pathetic left over of the English class system can they please show their colours

[eggsarascal]

6 minutes ago, westphalian said:

Ok, we have Trump apologists on here but if there is anyone that thinks JRM is anything more than a pathetic left over of the English class system can they please show their colours

I think he's a thoroughly decent chap who's got the best interests of the country at heart.

[westphalian]

eggs, be careful, there are people on here that might think you are being serious, not many though

[TIMON]

Ok, we have Trump apologists on here but if there is anyone that thinks JRM is anything more than a pathetic left over of the English class system can they please show their colours

Ok, I’ll bite.....
He’s not my favourite politician, but....
I like the way he didn’t lose his bottle when confronted face to face with ‘loons’ a while back.
Not frightened to speak his mind, which puts him in a much higher bracket than most of the chameleon, shape-shifting vote grabbers on the other side of the house.
He actually demonstrates a good grasp of the subject matter when speaking. (Compare that with Dianne Abbott)
Who would do a better job of running the country.... JRM or Corbyn? I know where I would put my money.

[westphalian]

actually I cannot deny that what you say is true but I just don't want a toff running the country who has no idea how the rest of the 95% live.

Corbyn speaks his mind also but for me I would like someone more in the middle of the two, ie just about every other politician

[eggsarascal]

3 minutes ago, westphalian said:

actually I cannot deny that what you say is true but I just don't want a toff running the country who has no idea how the rest of the 95% live.

Corbyn speaks his mind also but for me I would like someone more in the middle of the two, ie just about every other politician

Ah!, but you can't be left of centre without being a loon around here, it's a fact.

 

See, if you don't agree with those who claim to be just right of centre, but aren't really, you are a wrong'un.

 

more homework needed my friend...

[felixthelogchopper]

I get a strong feeling off of Rees Mogg that he sees most of us as less of an electorate and more of a resource.

[tree-fancier123]

this quote from the Times about Corbyns latest

 

'Launching a “Build it in Britain” campaign in Birmingham at EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation, he criticised Theresa May for allowing billions of pounds’ worth of work on passports, ships and health supplies to go abroad.'

 

Corbyn would allow the country to become even more debt ridden and overcrowded with immigrants on compassionate grounds, but he does have a point - the tories have outsourced a whole host of stuff abroad, just terrible short sighted accounting.

A good way of getting a decent politician would be IVF, if all leaders agree to have eggs and sperm frozen - how about a Stalin/Thatcher embryo, bound to get people working. State run farms and shipbuilding - get the claimants in there for a minimum 20 hours a week or let them starve. Housing benefit scrapped - dormitories only. No that's not fair