Off Topic The QPR Not 606 Rolling Election Poll

Naah - it's people like Blair who want to hang onto their jobs at any cost (the cost being thousands of Iraqi and Afghan lives, and hundreds of UK troops. Anyway, the unions atre the biggest lobbyists in the country, and we all know they have Labour in their back pocket.

 

You called the Labour Party, not just Blair, warmongers. Even somebody as one-eyed as you are must be able to see that that is just plain wrong. Everything you post (including that last effort above) reads like it could have been written by Conservative Central Office.

 

"Old food, bags, cans, bottles, rooting fruit, tins, newspapers"

 

Still just insults and no facts?

 

Well, I would have thought that the onus should be on you to back up your assertion that the Labour Party are warmongers.

The Labour Party as a whole was very uneasy about Blair's Iraq war and 84 Labour MPs voted against it, with a further 68 abstaining.

Just 2 Tories voted against.

http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/division.php?date=2003-03-18&number=118&display=allpossible

Another fact is that Cameron wanted to intervene in Syria and was blocked by Miliband because he knew his party wouldn't tolerate it.

You can say what you like about Blair as far as I am concerned, but to try to paint Labour as a warmongering party is ridiculous.

 

Stroller do you think the UK was a better place after 13 years of Labour (mis) government?

 

Currently in the news, research suggests that obesity is more diet than exercise related (with exercise remaining fairly consistent over the last 20 years). What should the next regime (read government) do to address this? Personally, I welcome the labelling that we now see but only use it to differentiate between similar products. I am amazed that there's not a sugar/starch/fat based levy (using percentage content) with consideration to products being bulked out with water.

Also, the RSPCA have said that cruelty against animals has risen and that an eighth of cases involve deliberate acts of violence against animals. How would the good readers of this thread tackle this? Personally, I think heavy fines and seizing assets should be the way forward (and applied to parents of youths involved in such acts).

Thoughts please?

 

Am I to become Labour's official spokesman on here? I didn't even vote for them in 2001 and 2005.

As I've already said on this thread, as a traditional Labour voter the 1997-2010 government was an overall disappointment to me because they didn't sufficiently reverse the excesses of Thatcherism (and got involved in armed conflicts). There were some notable achievements, though - the Minimum Wage, peace in Northern Ireland and significant improvements to the NHS.

Given that the alternative is another Cameron administration (handed on to Boris after a couple years), I will be hoping for a Labour-led government after May 7th, but I am unlikely to vote Labour.

 

That's interesting Strolls, can I ask why you'll unlikely to vote Labour?

 

You could argue the peace process in Northern Ireland began in 1985 during a Conservative term and was finally completed in 2006, the minumum wage was an important achievement but the corner stones of socialism : Education, the NHS and the Welfare System were completely left to ruin.

 

I would vote SNP if I could, Tramore, but I'm intending to vote Green as a protest against the main parties. I may change my mind at the last minute, though.

I live in a very safe Tory constituency, so it's not going have much effect. If it was a marginal I would probably vote Labour.

 

Wanna mention all the work that went on under John Major's administration prior to 1997 (like the Downing Street Accord, the talks between all parties in Northern Ireland, etc.) that means that peace was at all possible? Don't whitewash the groundwork that allowed a tree to be planted, which eventually grew fruit.

 

Q. why would anyone in England vote for the SNP, got me completely baffled.

 

I did wonder if it was a safe seat for Tory or Lib Dems and would therefore be bit a wasted vote. Where we used to live in Maidenhead it was such a safe Tory seat it was said that a cow with a blue ribbon around its neck would get more votes than the Labour candidate......

 

But you didn't ask him about John Major or 1985, you asked him about Labour's achievements during that term in office and he listed some of them, one of which was the Good Friday Agreement.

 

Paddy Ashdown warning of the danger of "right wing bastards"

 

We didn't say "Swords, what do you think?" but yet here you are...

 

Read the post Swords, You could argue the peace process in Northern Ireland began in 1985 and was completed in 2006.

You dont have any comments regarding the ruination of the Welfare System, Education and the NHS for which some reason Stroller thought the Labour government did a good job of. What the NHS now is, is a civil service organisation not a health service. As for teaching, well nothing gets taught now because the teachers are too frightened of upsetting the pupils and disturbing them from their WASSSSSAAAAAAAAP!!!!!! as for the Welfare system...jeeez

 

Do you live in Madrid?

 

Is that a rhetorical question?