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  1. cini65

    cini65 Well-Known Member

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    Where's the option to view multiple threads from several boards gone???
     
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    goonercymraeg Amnesia Forum Moderator

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    goonercymraeg Amnesia Forum Moderator

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  4. TheOXOCube:5pur2

    TheOXOCube:5pur2 Pride of North London

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    Ask the mods <whistle>
     
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    goonercymraeg Amnesia Forum Moderator

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    ****ing useless mods <grr>
     
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    http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/war/leader-of-uk-must-be-prepared-to-kill-everyone-20151001102480

    Leader of UK ‘must be prepared to kill everyone’

    ANY future prime minister must be willing to guarantee the total destruction of the UK in a nuclear war.

    As Jeremy Corbyn pledged never to use nuclear weapons, voters made it clear they will reject anyone who will not cause them to be vaporised.

    Donna Sheridan, from Stevenage, said: “We should definitely kill millions of enemy civilians because it might cheer us up a bit before we die.

    “Retaliation would ultimately be pointless because widespread destruction would be inevitable and they might just send more missiles to finish us off. So we need to be led by someone who isn’t very good at thinking logically.”

    She added: “It would help if they had a total disregard for human life and a fixation with apocalyptic vengeance. It’s a shame they killed Bin Laden because he’d be perfect.”

    Tom Booker, from Hatfield, said: “A few people would probably survive so fighting back would boost morale. And morale is vitally important when you’re scavenging in the ruins with your teeth falling out.”
     
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    David Cameron about Corbyn:

    "We cannot let that man inflict his security-threatening, terrorist sympathising. Britain-hating ideology on the country we love.""

    Strong words.
     
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  8. lazarus20000

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    So sad to read that the person elected in power possessing little or no class whatsoever. But this is the world we live in, we are being ruled by liars, cheats and psychopaths all around the world.
     
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    Osborne ‘light years ahead of TaxPayers' Alliance on dead pensioner thing’

    GEORGE Osborne has thanked the TaxPayers’ Alliance for its dead pensioners idea, but stressed he is ‘at least five moves ahead of them’.

    The think tank had urged the chancellor to cut OAP benefits as soon as possible because many of the pensioners would be dead by the next election, causing Osborne to smile and nod.

    The chancellor said: “It’s great to see these young guns at the TaxPayers’ Alliance trying to impress me, but we mapped out that particular concept a while back.

    “We’re now much more focused on how we make them die. And the beautiful thing is that cutting their benefits is one of the ways in which you can do that.

    “Welcome to the big leagues, TaxPayers’ Alliance.”

    But the chancellor said the think tank did deserve ‘an extra point’ for suggesting that those OAPs who did not die would be too demented to remember which party had cut their benefits.

    He added: “They’re really getting into the spirit of it. It makes one very confident about the next generation.”
     
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  10. Smirnoffpriest

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    Scary thing is that when you hear Osbourne's and May's speeches at their conference, it's not a million miles away from the truth!
     
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  11. lazarus20000

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    Of course they do and a lot of people know that too, but they'd rather not think about it...But people don't realise that it's important to elect the best of your people, a person with integrity, honesty and ability. We live in 2015 and nothing hasn't progressed at all in the world, in fact we are regressing as a civilisation. People confuse technological and material advances as progression, but it's the state of mind and how well society works together, which is truly important. This reminds me of the satirical piece from the Daily Mash, about our pursuit of Mars below.

    Mars has bad feeling about this

    THE planet Mars is increasingly uneasy about the attention it is getting from humans.

    As Homo sapiens discovered evidence of water on its surface, the planet braced itself for very bad things.

    Mars said: “I was like ‘don’t find the water, don’t find the water, don’t – oh ****’.

    “Because first they find the water, then they send the ships and before you know it I’m home to car factories, cheese-crust pizza and Roadchef service stations.

    “Thankfully the whole ‘mass extinction’ thing seems to be coming along more quickly than space travel.

    “I know it’s wrong to want that, but I can’t help it. Just being honest.”
     
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  12. Smirnoffpriest

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    It's crazy just how much Cameron lies, and how little he's actually challenged on it! The person who is privatising the NHS says that we deserve a strong NHS and that foreigners are trying to take it away from us. The man leading the government responsible for the least amount of social houses being built since the 1920s (140k when we need 240k per year) is harping on about how his government are building more than ever and building 200k which is going to increase to 250k.

    He says that you need to vote Tory to tackle immigration, yet immigration is higher under him and Theresa May than the previous Labour government.

    And that we should trust him on the economy, even though he's hugely increased the national debt to far higher levels than under Labour, is overseeing the slowest recovery on record. Saw a double dip recession under his watch and is facing a huge productivity gap while seeing cost of living soar while wages continue to stagnate.

    BUT don't worry, his is the part of the workers - the same workers who he's giving an under living wage level minimum wage rise to, who he's cutting back tax credits and working benefits to, so an average minimum wage worker could lose up to £3,000 a year. As well as a lot of the protection unions currently give them against illegal work practices, workers rights infringements, discrimination in the work place, H&S violations ect. Low paid workers have been amongst the hardest hit by the Tories austerity.

    TBH the Britain I love is an open, fair country which stands up for the most vulnerable, which allows people to fight to rise up in life, where equality is fought for and enshrined.

    But this government has attacked our human rights, our workers rights, has decreased social mobility, and has attacked the most vulnerable - such as the tens of thousands left dead by the savage Fit to Work policy, the millions cast to rely on food banks while Bullington Club boys burn £50 notes in front of homeless people. Where the millions of destitute people are insulted and sneered at, and called 'feckless' instead of helped. And then they (conveniently) blame those 'others', those foreigners, for all our problems!
     
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    My fiancée, who studied history said something which at first I laughed at, but the more I thought about, then more sensible I found it, and the more scared I got. She said that what is going on today is similar to how Europe was in the 30s - following a terrible recession/depression where the only people with money and security were the really wealthy, there was a lot of immigration, with growing racial tensions, and a surge in far-right parties and arguments over how to solve crisises.

    Then you look at today with the rise of the BNP, Britains First and UKIP using anti-immigration and mainly anti-Muslim immigration as their central issues, mirroring the far right parties of Hungary, Poland, Sweden, National Democratic Party in Germany (if that name doesn't make your blood run cold then nothing will!), Finland, Austria, Front National in France, Golden Dawn in Greece, Denmark, Netherlands and Italy - the list goes on! There are certain similarities to how Muslims are viewed in Europe now and how Jews were viewed in the early to mid 1930s (though theres a disturbingly strong anti-Semitism wave going through Europe today).

    The refugee crisis is raising huge tensions amongst European countries and anti-EU feeling seems to be at its strongest. The refugee issue is only going to get worse as the southern EU countries suffer disproportionately and tensions rise between what countries should be doing what.

    if it continues then you could easily see the dissolution of the EU and perhaps worse...
     
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    Who's to blame if some people have lots and lots of wealth and others have very, very little?
    Why, it's the people from over there who have even less, of course! Blame them! The media are saying it's their fault, so it must be.
    Along with Jeremy "Rhyming Slang" Hunt's Arbeit Macht Frei speech, it's a rather dangerous road to travel, isn't it?
    It's a good job that none of our papers have form for that sort of thing, eh? <whistle>
     
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    Some of the stuff that comes out of these Eastern European countries is frankly shocking. They really are racist and seriously Islamaphobic. For example, Polish authorities have made it clear that they will only accept Syrian refugees if they were of Christian faith because they are scared that the Muslim's will take over and destroy their entire way of life. Sigh. Sometimes you wonder if this world will ever step out of the dark ages....
     
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    A real PM would have told his party that he was going to stuff the idea of holding an in-out referendum, re-negotiated his party's re-entry into the mainstream of EU politics with the Tories re-uniting with the EPP (Angela Merkel et al) and a commitment to the UK joining the euro. Instead he has flunked it, He is in fact NO DIRECTION DAVE.
     
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    Most people can see that by now - he offers no leadership, no stand on anything (except his austerity ideology) and most things he does actually come out and says something on tends to be bullshit anyway, or deflects from the even more unsavoury things they are doing. Such as deflecting attention away from wanting to get rid of up to 50% of NHS beds, taking away workers rights, our human rights, and the privitisation of the NHS and BBC by the backdoor, or the fact that the economy is in the toilet...
     
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    I couldn't disagree more. A whole generation has had no say on the EU and there is clearly a large eurosceptic feeling amongst the population given the rise of UKIP and pressure from within the Tories (even jeremy corbyn is a eurosceptic) and the lib dems and Green Party both backed an EU referendum when campaigning at the last general election. A referendum allows it to be democratically dealt with one way or the other. And joining the euro in my opinion would be a ridiculous idea. The financial crisis has shown up some of the huge weaknesses of not having control over your own currency and contributed to difficulties in countries like Greece.

    A real PM would stick to his word and carry out the referendum as he promised to do when being re-elected as the PM.
     
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    How often do you think we should have a referendum on the E.U. ?
     
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    Twitter2203aa0.jpg I'm a great believer in judging someone by the company they keep
     
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