Should the UN go after the UK or Serbia? We all remember the pictures of the awful orphanages and mental asylums pictured at the breakdown of Romania. There were similar places here. Since the UN sanctions imposed on Serbia in the 90s the country has been decimated. There is still a fragile Health Service and there are many private organisations doing what they can for the disabled but the majority are cared for at home with no help from the Government. Basically the country is skint and for the foreseeable future will remain so. Should the UN come down on Serbia? what would be the point? There ain't no money to improve things. The UK is one of the wealthier nations, it should be leading the world or is mediocrity ok?
Let me see now. It is OK to have two houses if you are rich and to have reduced council tax on the second home. However if you are poor and live in social housing with a spare bedroom then you'll get screwed for extra tax. More power to the UN's elbow and let us hope they show that the shallow bastards who run our country look after the privileged elite and screw the poor, the sick and the elderly. Second homes are what have caused our housing crisis not a shortage of building land.
Very well compared St.G. It is an example that shows that the natural instinct of a Conservative government is to cut off the weak and poor and distance the rest of the able and comfortable population from them. And by the way, let's not waste undue amounts of money in trying to keep them alive, so squeeze the NHS until it creaks badly. Then what you do is portray them in a bad light so that those who are able and strong see them as a different sort instead of being fellow humans along life's journey. And these weak and poor are anybody who has hit a crisis at some point in their life. From being born into it to losing their job while they are comfortably off. Earlier this evening Radio 5 was interviewing a steelworker who may find out he has lost his job tomorrow morning [now today], amongst several others. He said it's all he's done in his life. When he entered the steel industry as an ordinary worker he was told he would have a job for life. When asked how he felt at the prospect of losing his job he said he was very frightened indeed. He would probably lose his BMW in the driveway, and have to sell his house, and maybe, if he can't find another job, which was very likely, it might become a real disaster for him and his family. Being frightened, and with little or no hope, is a way of life for the genuine weak and unemployed. They are just used to coping with it in the best way they can. And, as the steelworker proves, we are all a gnat's away from a personal downturn.
Does it matter if we are the first? Some of you are acting as if the UN is attacking UK the country and we must stick up for it!! It isn't it is looking into how the government and ATOS have destroyed lives. Can we not be pleased that this is actually being looked into and hopefully something will be done? Instead of thinking why us.
Agree 100% with this post. What a load of idiotic bull this news item is. When i travel around the world in my job i see so much that world regulatory bodies should be trying to deal with, not concentrating on an easy target like the UK where they know they will be received and assisted properly. And i just shake my head with distain at the leftie types who just love to have a crack at their own country from the relatively comfy life that they live here. This country is not perfect, no country is - but its far from being in need of being investigated by an organisation such as the UN, which is in itself full of corruption on many levels. I have dealt with various UN bodies and it is they who be investigated.
Why have the Americans never been able to move beyond eating with Christening cutlery. I took the spoon and pusher away from my children when they were two and yet you see grown up Yanks unable to use cutlery like an adult should and even worse it seems even our young people have lost the ability to use cutlery properly. Bloody hell they'll be eating with their fingers next! Oh wait a minute.
Strictly by the forum rules, it is banned. However, the site owner gives us a little leeway 'cause we're such nice pepys [I believe]. We try not to overdo it though. We can have an exchange, but we don't want Koeman's to become a political thread. My earlier post was about as far as I'd go. Extremely strictly, we're not even supposed to have a non-sport thread [Koeman's Korner oops, bit late now], but now they're all over Not606. Just one in each participating forum. That's *cough* our fault, I think. We're such radicals on here.
Hard to avoid politics.....everybody has their own opinion on various subjects, and their own motivation for those opinions, that's politics. When the set of subjects is everything including football at all level, nearly every serious comment can be considered political even on a football only forum. If we can respect each others opinions whilst not always agreeing on all subjects then the forum will remain healthy. The most important step is knowing when to agree to differ and move on.
My rule of thumb is state your opinion and maybe reply once, then that's it. Except about football....when I can go on and on and on....
I usually hit the reply button, mumble about how someone doesn't know what they are talking about, type furiously, take a deep breath and cancel my comment. It's saved a lot of arguments
Problem is the sick/disabled/ poor etc is a passionate subject for me. Seeing as I know people who have (I have myself as well) suffered and been through the pain of it. If it takes the UN to get the Cons to change something for the better then I am all for it.
Beefy - I agree. Just because other countries are 'worse' than the UK is no argument that the UK cannot be improved. You may argue why the UN have to be involved but as you state, anything that prompts improvement can only be good. IMHO
Just a quick aside. I've been running a Win7 PC on the net today and a system alert pop-up came on the screen through Firefox browser. It wasn't Firefox doing the alert, it was a hoax system alert resident on a sports media site that I clicked through a few videos on. Just so that you should not panic if it happens to you. The rogue system alert pop-up suggested [almost demanded] that I not restart my PC but to call a phone number because my system had been compromised. Unfortunately for them I do not give a monkey's wotsit if a hardware tested PC is compromised because I can clean it no problem without giving away huge amounts of money as the hoax was hinting at. To cut to the chase, it is BS, so don't worry, even though it looks convincing. Just to be 100% sure I have run a system scan with Malwarebytes Free Edition, as well as the onboard MSE. There's nothing there. So if it happens to you on your favourite PC, just hit the back-button out of there on your browser. If you want to panic just close the browser. Restart it by all means and just don't return to the place you were at. Also run a scan if it gives you peace of mind. You might catch something else anyway. Incidentally, I researched the hoax. It has appeared on all formats, including Apple OS, shock horror, bar Linux, so you can kind of guess what it was written on. Carry on.
Working for a US company, this made me laugh. We had a US colleague over for Sunday lunch when he stayed over a weekend. We had chicken. As the guest he was offered first cut of the meat and being an American he chose the wings. He then watched as my kids, who had a leg each, proceeded to use their knife and fork. Quietly he ate his dinner, using his knife and fork for the tiny wings. I waited until the very last mouthful of wing was eaten using a fork before I told him that was the first time I'd ever seen an American eat wings with a knife and fork. He said the only reason he did was because he was amazed that my kids were eating a leg with knife and fork.
