Off Topic The QPR Not 606 Rolling Election Poll

It will be interesting to see how it works if it comes to that. On a vote by vote basis the stuff that the SNP does not support may well get Tory support (personally I think Labour and the Tories have more in common than Labour and the SNP, as I said above the differences are in presentation, scale and implementation, not policy except for EU).

Wouldn't be surprised if we see another election quite soon if the outcome is really messy, but that may not produce anything better. The Tories really have been screwed by Scotland - they (and the other 'No' parties) offered a bribe to keep it part of the union, but that didn't make the SNP go away, quite the reverse. If they had lost, Cameron would have gone, Boris would be in (one Oxford Old Etonian for another), Labour would have lost a bunch of seats.

Now we await Boris and John Major being wheeled out, before the traditional last minute threat of what will happen to the £ and the stock market if Labour get in. I don't think that works, because people resent being bullied by impersonal international markets, even though their lives are of course dominated by them anyway.

 

That was a brilliant read and never before have I seen the existence of mankind critiqued so comprehensively.

The only point I disagree with is your assertion that we're all descendants of a bowl of butterscotch angel delight.

Or in you terms, .-

 

Other people may resent having their country´s gold bullion being sold at knock-down prices or the open invitation to abuse the welfare system by indigenous and foreign alike. Talking of media whores I guess Tony Blair is not too popular on here either?

 

I loved Maggie, I bought my parents house for 20,000 and sold it 25 years later for 525,000.

 

Thatcher made me very happy to emigrate. She was the most selfish, self seeking Facist, Britain has ever had close to it's leadership. I have never got close to hating anyone as much. How anyone could ever consider voting for the political bigotist party she represented let alone thirty something percent of the people on those cold wet islands is beyond me, but maybe it is simply that they are cold wet islands.

 

So I guess you didn't vote for her then!

 

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10 out of 10. Nor her party or the ones that have supported them.

 

Isn´t Norway cold and wet? or is that just Stavangar?

 

Stop quizling - sorry, I mean quizzing Oslo...

 

oh super it's time for Ed Miliband to be grilled by Evan Davis (Denis Healey's great line about being attacked by Geoffrey Howe springs to mind ..'like being savaged by a dead sheep'). Evan is talking over him just as much as he did Dave so far.....if he doesn't show an ancient and irrelevant clip from a Labour Party conference Goldie will be demanding his head on a spike and his licence fee back.

Bloody hell he showed an ancient clip of Thatcher. Some strange questions. I think Davis wanted to ask whether Ed is a socialist, which would have been a good question. As with Cameron, he gave Ed the chance at the end to finish on his election slogans. Can't remember them.

Farage next week. Perhaps he'll get a clip of Oswald Mosley.

 

Does anybody have an idea as to exactly how much one has to earn and/or own in Britain today to be considered rich? How much do I have to have before somebody else says I have too much, makes an assumption about me regarding how I must have come by it, and sets about relieving me of it through taxation and any other means at their disposal?

Because we have 'poor' people in this country why do some consider it immoral to be rich?

 

That's a superb post.

Before Thatcher, Britain was the laughing stock of Europe. She made mistakes for sure, but she put the Great back into Britain and no matter whether you liked her or loathed her, she always stood by her beliefs. There's not many politicians that one can say that about today.

 

Watch Panorama, on now, as to why the morality of some of the 'rich' is questioned.

 

You'll have to give me a précis, Stanners, I'm not near a telly this evening.

 

The class war on here is getting very tiresome!

 

Flawed programme, but shocking description of the conditions in which some housing benefits recipients are housed. Their benefits are paid directly to landlords, some of whom are raking in millions.

Panorama used to be a real programme, 30 or 40 years ago, but it's a bit **** now. This was just filming the truly disgusting conditions, no debate or discussion of how things got like this. Believe me, only the truly desparate and damaged would put up wiht it. And we pay for it.

 

...and yet you keep on coming back for more.

 

My Sister has 4 kids, lives in a 3 bedroom council house and hasnt had a job in 30 years. She has a colour TV, Iphone, Ipad , a car and goes to Teneriffe twice a year. She's one of the British poor!!!

 

Thanks, but not sure how any of that is relevant to my question...?

 

What utter garbage