Off Topic The QPR Not 606 Rolling Election Poll

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Not sure how important this election is, except for the EU referendum if the Tories get in.

 

1. Would you place people addicted to benefits in the same bracket as people who avoid paying their taxes?
2. Did Labour cause the collapse of the world financial markets?

 

I think the issue on the referendum is Dave wants it after a renegotiated deal with the EU. The EU wont negotiate. I can see this being spun into a bullshit excuse for not having the referendum?

The Torys are slippery on this and always will be because if half the party get wind that were leaving, they'll just join labour and take us back in. They will have to shift soon but Dave isn't the man to do it.

I think this is where Ukip are getting votes, not all anti-immigration as many would think but the original idea. Independence from Europe.

 

1 No there worse, Tax evasion is your money, benefit fraud is other peoples.
2 Yes they assisted and weakened our position.

 

1. Tax evasion isn't withholding YOUR money. The correct amount of tax is supposed to be paid to the state to pay for hospitals etc. Tax evasion is theft from your fellow countrymen.
2. Did Labour cause the collapse of the world financial markets? (Try answering the question this time)

 

1. yes it is. I fix your ****, you pay cash, I don't declare. Not theft. My 'labour'
2. no twice is enough but please enlighten us as to who 'exactly' was responsible for the banking collapse, I warn you, if you say Tony Fernandes then you've made a friend for life.

 

Oslo,
the Falklands are not "OFF" Argentina they are about 1200 miles apart

 

1. That's why the country is in a mess.
2. The bankers

 

How far are they from, say, Cornwall?

 

Not quite. More like 300

 

1. At heart, yes. They whored themselves out to the centre of the spectrum to get into power, much to the discust of true left socialists, but at heart they are all about big government being in control of everything wand having the nation utterly dependent on them for everything.
2. What they did was screw up what could have been a far easier ride for the country, by effectively bankrupting the exchequer in an attempt to buy themselves another five years. Had they tightened their belts properly at the time, we wouldn't have needed all the deficit reduction measures. And don't forget, there was only one person in charge of the finances of a developed nation throughout the financial crisis, and that was Gordon Brown. He was there throughout and royally cocked it all up. So they certainly created the environment for the crisis to hit the country far harder than it needed to, tried (and failed) to buy themselves out of trouble, and then joked about having spent all the money when they left office.

 

How Far is France then?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_claims_to_the_French_throne

Two can play that game and at least we do have a 'recognised' claim to France.

 

You're comparing the year 2015 to medieval times Rhino. I think that's part of the problem regarding the hangover from colonialism. That old imperial mindset is still prevalent among some people. Besides, 300 miles compared to almost 8,000 is quite a difference. A cursory glance at a map would make it clear as to the oddity of the current arrangement.

Still, such historical anomalies do crop up having not that long ago emerged from an age of conquest & annexation (by all powerful nations) and the British have as much a claim to the islands as the Argies. The truth is though, it has nothing to do with Argentine territorial integrity nor for the British is it anything to do with the rights of a few inbred Goat herders.

The real reason for wanting ownership is much more unidealistic (is it ever not thus?)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...-and-gas-discovered-off-Falkland-Islands.html

 

It was deliberately farcical to highlight and compare the Argentine claim based on a second hand landing from the age of the Spanish Inquisition.

London is closer to Calais than Paris is, by your rationale it should be ours then, I like peace, but am prepared for war with France if you insist.

Come the **** on Swords, We used to hunt whales down there, then commercial fish, next gas & oil. Of course there are advantages of having territory, that was rather the point of building an empire. why throw away what you've got left when living on an over crowded rock in the middle of the sea? Just wait until Antarctica thaws out.

Rule Britannia...........

 

The Falklands are about 300 miles off the Argentinian mainland. They are over 8000 miles from Glasgow.

 

Of course Galtieri started it. But Thatcher had plenty of alternatives other than the military action she took imediately. Even her colleagues in the US tried to persuade her out of it. She needed to get her wavering support behind her. Their actions, the Junta and the Tory's, cost over 900 lives and nearly 2000 casualties for those rocks off Argentina.

 

Argentina invaded British sovereign territory.
Britain took it back.

End of!

 

the falklands war was over 30 years ago
get the **** over it
cant imagine its going to make any difference to this years election
unless a massive amount of Argentinians have recently moved to england

 

Doubtful. Argentina still claims the Falklands, and now we know there is oil. It is also relevant for you voting in the UK, if you want to vote for a political party so ready to use military action, with little time given for finding possible other non- violent solutions, as the Tory party has shown itself to be .

 

did the tories send troops to Iraq to find the wmd