No.

 

Egalitarian comment.

 

Please state what about having millionaires in power and starving children is good for the country? Get them out.

 

They call me a saint when I give food to the poor. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist.

No.

 

Egalitarian comment.

 

Please state what about having millionaires in power and starving children is good for the country? Get them out.

 

They call me a saint when I give food to the poo. When I ask why the poor have no food they call me a communist.

 

You really need a new spell-checker. ;)

Poor*

 

So am I a communist for highlighting this vile inequality?

 

We have starving children and homeless people and food banks yet have plutocrats with millions ruling us and spending billions to prop up their One Party State government. Spending millions on refurbishments of posh houses.

 

We have the BBC so biased that even GoggleBox is reporting on it! Let that sink in. Gogglebox has their people watching BBC news now due to its bias...

 

Starving. Children. Enough is enough. It's time for them to go.

Because that worked so well for France when they tried it? :rolleyes:

 

well, cuts for the poor, followed by actual cuts for the rich - that's the risk you take when you have money and power and abuse it....

 

Mob rule is ugly, but then so is having an underclass who feels aggrieved.

 

That said, back when I was a kid we had free school meals - it was a ticket we had to hand in to get dinner. Our diet wasn't fabulous, but we weren't starving, and it's a big leap to state that children today in the UK are starving - low income families tend to eat cheap crap, so obesity is more of an issue.

 

Plus: Tesco, Asda, every night, food on sale about to go out of date for next to nothing. I just don't believe local authorities would allow children to be starving, they have an obligation to step in and do something about it - it's the LAW! All anyone has to do is report Child A says they are starving and sit back and watch the shit hit the local authority fan.

Poor*

 

So am I a communist for highlighting this vile inequality?

 

We have starving children and homeless people and food banks yet have plutocrats with millions ruling us and spending billions to prop up their One Party State government. Spending millions on refurbishments of posh houses.

 

We have the BBC so biased that even GoggleBox is reporting on it! Let that sink in. Gogglebox has their people watching BBC news now due to its bias...

 

Starving. Children. Enough is enough. It's time for them to go.

 

Once again you go completely OTT, due to your obsession with the Tories.

 

The reason socialism doesn't work, is :

 

1. There is little incentive for the poor to work because they can get the gov't to steal for them.

 

2. There is little incentive for the rich to work because the gov't will steal most of what they earn - and eventually they will simply emigrate, taking their money with them.

 

Like it or not, we need people with money in our country, as they are the ones with capital to invest in new, job-generating projects.

Once again you go completely OTT, due to your obsession with the Tories.

 

The reason socialism doesn't work, is :

 

1. There is little incentive for the poor to work because they can get the gov't to steal for them.

 

2. There is little incentive for the rich to work because the gov't will steal most of what they earn - and eventually they will simply emigrate, taking their money with them.

 

Like it or not, we need people with money in our country, as they are the ones with capital to invest in new, job-generating projects.

 

Just to point out:

 

Socialism doesn't say people have the freedom to leach off the state indefinitely. It would though presumably force you to take a job you might hate if there isn't one you would rather do (same as capitalism, except they tolerate long-term "jobseekers" less), and without the prospect of career advancement there's no incentive to strive hard

 

there are rich in every political system ever made, they just pretend things are more evenly distributed. Everyone pays tax. Except the rich it seems. People live abroad and pay little personal tax (hi Daily Mail owner!). They should be paying the appropriate tax rate on everything they earn in the UK. Pure socialism though is a loser because as you say incentive goes along with ownership and it doesn't take into account the tendency of those in control towards corrupt "I know better" attitudes. In a democracy people can choose to have it in part (say for transport), in full or not at all and it will be in a constant state of flux. If the choice is removed then it's no longer a democracy it's something else entirely. We used to have tax rates of 95% for the rich, that didn't work, so now we don't

Sometimes decisions made politically may possibly have links to an increase in crime and specifically in one case a murder rate amongst young people:

 

 

 

"@Petersbrooking

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Paul Sharp Retweeted Andrew Pierce

There used to be four police stations in Hackney. There is now one. And who closed them all? Boris Johnson.

 

And who cut funding for the Metropolitan police by £600m from 2010-16? Theresa May when she was Home Secretary."

 

PS I'm not claiming it's the only cause, but it certainly won't have helped the situation to have less police policing and investigating....

Not really a 'lie or deceit', but still amusing...

 

Tories ridiculed in Manchester after misspelling Conservatives on local election leaflet

 

An eagle-eyed Labour candidate in Trafford spotted the 'Conseratives' leaflet

Stephane Savary quipped it might explain failures in Tory control of the council

The Conservatives are fighting to retain control of the Trafford Borough Council

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-55...servatives.html

 

 

:lol:

The campaign is barely underway and we've already had the first embarrassing cock-up :lol: Still plenty of time for other partied to provide us with some more entertainment.

...and if I can pull myself away from the gripping news of a typo in a pamphlet....

 

the Tories have awarded fishing rights off South Georgia to a Norwegian fleet of 4 ships, putting at risk jobs, British ships and millions lost to the local economy of the Falklands Islands. So much for supporting British fishermen. Source: Private Eye. Papers with no mention of this: all of them.

 

Co-incidentally Norway has announced support for keeping trading relations the same during the 2019/20 period between Brexit and final Brexit.

 

A cycnic might suspect that the Keep Britain British campaign has been replaced with Sell Off Britain At All Costs We Need The Cash Upfront For The Forthcoming Shitstorm.

 

Oddly, English farmers appear to be on the road to getting no support from Michael Gove whatsoever, while Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish farmers via their own governments. So English farmers are set to be undercut by subsidised produce from within the UK, never mind the rest of the world. Govey and Foxy seem keen to allow pesticides and animal-unfriendly husbandry/slaughter to bring in cheaper food so those pesky NHS leeches all die off a bit quicker and save those rich people dining on caviar and the best imports a happier longer life bereft of poor old people.

 

 

Oddly, English farmers appear to be on the road to getting no support from Michael Gove whatsoever, while Welsh, Northern Irish and Scottish farmers via their own governments.

 

That would be news to us.

 

#Tumbleweedsonthehill

The campaign is barely underway and we've already had the first embarrassing cock-up :lol: Still plenty of time for other partied to provide us with some more entertainment.

 

On the subject of the local elections, for the 2nd time in 3 years there's no-one I want to vote for - it is a two-way contest between the Tories & LibDems. :puke:

That would be news to us.

 

#Tumbleweedsonthehill

 

Oopsy! Still, the billion pounds should help....

Poor old Jeremy C Hunt forgot to mention that he'd bought 7 properties in his annual list of declarations of interests.

 

Who among us hasn't forgotten to mention we own 7 flats we bought 6 months earlier. Showing signs of early onset dementia, clearly. In fact his entire political career so far suggests it's not so early-onset as I can't make sense of the illogic and babble that comes out of his mouth. As a carer of an alzheimers parent getting no NHS help or money, I'm allowed to say that based on many years of observation and practical experience...

So the racist policies pursued (booting out British citizens legally living in the UK for nearly as long as I've been born) by Theresa May, for 8 years, are a source of "regret" for her - after 110 MP's, 200,000 signatures and begging from Commonwealth countries that she needs desperately for post-EU trade deals.

 

She's all heart and soul, and not at all cold and calculating - nor rubbish at being an MP, never mind a PM. She has no principles, or else a bit thick when it comes to assessing consequences, even when she takes weeks to make a decision.

So the racist policies pursued (booting out British citizens legally living in the UK for nearly as long as I've been born) by Theresa May, for 8 years, are a source of "regret" for her - after 110 MP's, 200,000 signatures and begging from Commonwealth countries that she needs desperately for post-EU trade deals.

 

She's all heart and soul, and not at all cold and calculating - nor rubbish at being an MP, never mind a PM. She has no principles, or else a bit thick when it comes to assessing consequences, even when she takes weeks to make a decision.

 

This is part of the problem of drawing up blanket laws - there are always unintended consequences, which is why means need to exist to cover exceptional circumstances.

This is part of the problem of drawing up blanket laws - there are always unintended consequences, which is why means need to exist to cover exceptional circumstances.

No, it's what happen when a minster is more concerned about getting favourable headlines in the tabloids than she is about natural justice.

No, it's what happen when a minster is more concerned about getting favourable headlines in the tabloids than she is about natural justice.

 

Well, that *too*. ;)

The last Home Secretary set up an enquiry into child abuse involving Westminster politicians. The first appointment as chair of the enquiry had to resign after it became clear that the Attorney General at the time of many of the alleged offences - and, therefore, possibly somebody involved in any cover-up - was her brother. The next person appointed had to resign when it was revealed that she was a friend of the wife of one of the politicians facing allegations of child abuse. Appointment number three resigned when she decided she wasn’t up to the job. In the course of this shambles a load of files relating to the allegations mysteriously disappeared.

 

The last Home Secretary also closed down an enquiry into the suspected murder of Alexander Litvinenko, an opponent of Putin. The reason given was that it was “not in the national interest” to continue the enquiry. An enquiry that was likely to have concluded that the Kremlin was involved.

 

The very same former Home Secretary, in her haste to get favourable headlines in the right-wing press, introduced the anti-immigration legislation which has been utterly discredited in the last few days. Under her watch, masses of paper work that could have helped thousands of people easily prove their entitlement to remain in the UK was destroyed.

 

It really is time the Prime Minister had words with this serial bungler. It’s not as if she will need to make an appointment.

The last Home Secretary set up an enquiry into child abuse involving Westminster politicians. The first appointment as chair of the enquiry had to resign after it became clear that the Attorney General at the time of many of the alleged offences - and, therefore, possibly somebody involved in any cover-up - was her brother. The next person appointed had to resign when it was revealed that she was a friend of the wife of one of the politicians facing allegations of child abuse. Appointment number three resigned when she decided she wasn’t up to the job. In the course of this shambles a load of files relating to the allegations mysteriously disappeared.

 

The last Home Secretary also closed down an enquiry into the suspected murder of Alexander Litvinenko, an opponent of Putin. The reason given was that it was “not in the national interest” to continue the enquiry. An enquiry that was likely to have concluded that the Kremlin was involved.

 

The very same former Home Secretary, in her haste to get favourable headlines in the right-wing press, introduced the anti-immigration legislation which has been utterly discredited in the last few days. Under her watch, masses of paper work that could have helped thousands of people easily prove their entitlement to remain in the UK was destroyed.

 

It really is time the Prime Minister had words with this serial bungler. It’s not as if she will need to make an appointment.

 

As always, it is a case of 'Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?' :banghead: