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The Politics Thread

Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by Wandering Yid, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. Left on the Shelf

    Left on the Shelf Well-Known Member

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    On this note..... Feck off. you frog-faced, Putin-sponsored, deceitful, treasonous SOB!
    This is what your fascist endeavours amount to? Feckin' pitiful.... <doh>

     
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    And DO watch to the end...... <laugh><laugh><laugh>
     
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    And that's why he got slapped with an egg

    Oh, you mean the other idiot looking for attention?

    When you compare it to when Prescott was egged there's a clear difference: when Prescott got egged he punched the bloke that did it and then a scuffle broke out in the space of a second - but in Anning's case he turns around and slaps the kid, clearly pauses, and then realising it was somebody smaller than him goes in with a jab, something he wouldn't have done if he was face to face with somebody built like a brick ****house, as demonstrated by how he wasn't feeling like such a hard man when confronted by an adult later the same day
     
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    If you want to find an example of a pure evil, racist, fascist opportunist then check out this piece of works Twitter page. Anning is a white supremisist so closely allied to Trump and the forces behind him that the bigger disgrace is that he IBS still allowed to be an Australian senator.
    But the egg-throwing is an unnecessary distraction and counter productive.
     
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  5. humanbeingincroydon

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    The most notable thing about his career is he shouldn't be senator, as he finished third on the ballot to be a Queensland senator (which begs the question how few votes the person who came fourth got) but one of the two that finished above him got the boot a year after the election for not renouncing their British citizenship so Anning got ushered into his place in the Senate

    Just to show how worthwhile that move was, within three months of being sworn in he decided to walk out of the party and sit as an independent...and six months after that he decided to join a different party, only to be booted from that party within six months for calling for a final solution (his actual words) on immigration.

    By complete coincidence he's been trying to get his own party off the ground since January, at which point his initial comments and his need to look like a hard man for the cameras take on a very different context...
     
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    Doesn't that 'varied' political career remind you of someone closer to these shores? A certain frog-faced buffoon who may have met his Waterloo yesterday - and how ironic that might be <laugh>

    Anyway, just leaving this here as sure it will come in handy....

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    I have no idea what Prescott has got to do with this, but you overlook the fact that he only had an egg thrown at him and then decided it would be a good idea to turn around and assault the perpetrator by hitting him with a clenched left fist to the jaw. Prescott was not struck or assaulted in any way. He should have behaved like Miliband or dare I say it Farage who have both been egged on more than one occasion and had the sense to walk away.

    Anning was assaulted. This kid slapped Anning to the head from behind and then Anning retaliated likewise with a slap and then another. There were no punches thrown. What happened in the minds of those involved during or after is pure conjecture.

    And just for the avoidance of doubt, I don't condone Anning's comments by the way. I know little about the man except for his inflammatory comments which we all can agree were awful. I just don't see what this teenager is going to achieve by taking his phone out, recording or possibly live streaming (no the sad irony isn't lost on me) himself assaulting an elected official apart from notoriety or a custodial sentence. It's brainless and achieves nothing.

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    Prescott got egged and punched the bloke who threw it, which makes him the most direct like-for-like comparison there is.
    The clear pause between the first and the second is not conjecture, it's clearly there in the video - and, as I said before, that pause eliminates any defence of saying he acted in the heat of the moment.
    There's going to be no custodial sentence, as the police released him without charge - on the other hand Twitter suspended his account, which has led to people pointing out that Anning's account is still active in spite looking indistinguishable from that of the average Tommy Robinson acolyte prior to their trying to mow people down in a van outside their mosque.
     
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    I'm really not interested in discussing issues with whataboutery. If the world tries to resolve its problems like that, all hope is lost.
     
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    Where's the whataboutery?
     
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    Anning is so far to the right of the extreme fascist line that David Duke might have baulked at supporting him...... <yikes>
     
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    But their numbers are limited for security reasons. Isabel Oakeshott told us so it must be true :emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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    Very limited! <laugh>
     
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    As limited as their IQ's.... <laugh>
     
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    1.I assume if Britain leaves Europe they will save millions which Britain usually hands over for...…?
    2.What will Britain do with this money?
     
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    Seems a bit late in the day to be asking these questions (unless rhetorical), especially for pro-leavers. And basic cost/benefit analysis is not black and white. But you would have hoped this knowledge influenced the original Referendum choices made..

    CBI sum it up as follows...
    The UK’s net budgetary contribution is a small net cost relative to the benefits. The UK’s net contribution to the EU budget is around €7.3bn, or 0.4% of GDP. As a comparison that’s around a quarter of what the UK spends on the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, and less than an eighth of the UK’s defence spend. The £116 per person net contribution is less than that from Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Germany and the Netherlands.

    http://www.cbi.org.uk/insight-and-a...t-2-benefits-of-eu-membership-outweigh-costs/

    Other links that might help answer the questions:

    https://fullfact.org/europe/our-eu-membership-fee-55-million/

    https://www.open.ac.uk/ikd/sites/www.open.ac.uk.ikd/files/files/events/uk and eu.pdf
     
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  19. The RDBD

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    1. The UK is a net contributor to the EU of N bn.

    We hand over X, that the EU uses for whatever.
    The EU hands back Y to the UK, and they influence what it is spent on.
    So N = X - Y. Net contributor : X > Y.


    2. At the very least you might expect :

    - Y to be continued to be used as it already is
    - N to be used for what a UK govt decides on
     
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  20. deedub93

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    Well it won't be fixing the roads that's for sure, we used to drive on the left, nowadays we drive on what's left.
     
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