Off Topic The Politics Thread

[factamondo]

I'd like to wrap the budget case around Osbournes head....can't stand the bloke or Cameron.... N I voted Tory at last election!

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

Dave's grovelled to his masters in Brussels to have VAT taken off the price of tampons in the UK. Someone needs to tell the faceless greysuits in Brussels that tampons are not non-essential luxuries. The greysuits are surrounded by enough non-essential luxuries (5 star dinners, chauffer driven cars, opulent expense budgets..) to recognise the difference surely - or may be their wives need to take them aside and explain just what a tampon is for

 

[Chaz]

If the EU law says that VAT is payable on tampons, and David Cameron has managed to make them exempt - how the hell is that 'grovelling'? Sounds to me like he went there with an objective and got it.

By all means have a political stance, but please don't let it make you write dumb posts, mate.

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

If the EU law says that VAT is payable on tampons, and David Cameron has managed to make them exempt - how the hell is that 'grovelling'? Sounds to me like he went there with an objective and got it.

By all means have a political stance, but please don't let it make you write dumb posts, mate.

He has to grovel because he's bound in his own country by ridiculous rules, and has to rely upon the benevolence of foreigners to change it

See if you can understand that, mate. If not, I'll give you more help

 

[Chaz]

He has to grovel because he's bound in his own country by ridiculous rules, and has to rely upon the benevolence of foreigners to change it

See if you can understand that, mate. If not, I'll give you more help

You're still not making sense. If the EU says one thing, and he gets them to do something else, what you read as 'grovelling', others would see as getting some stupid law changed. He went there to achieve getting tampons exempt from VAT, and he's got it. Would it give you a heart attack to allow the man some credit for that?

 

[QPR Oslo]

Dave's grovelled to his masters in Brussels to have VAT taken off the price of tampons in the UK. Someone needs to tell the faceless greysuits in Brussels that tampons are not non-essential luxuries. The greysuits are surrounded by enough non-essential luxuries (5 star dinners, chauffer driven cars, opulent expense budgets..) to recognise the difference surely - or may be their wives need to take them aside and explain just what a tampon is for

Of course a tampon is a luxury. You can use all kind of sanitary towels in the size and shape that suits you, can't you.

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

You're still not making sense. If the EU says one thing, and he gets them to do something else, what you read as 'grovelling', others would see as getting some stupid law changed. He went there to achieve getting tampons exempt from VAT, and he's got it. Would it give you a heart attack to allow the man some credit for that?

Dave went over there and asked:

"Please European leaders and greysuits, will you allow me to change the law of my own country so that women aren't penalised for buying tampons? If you won't agree, it will play badly with the electorate, prejudice the IN case still further, and if there's an OUT vote, I'll lost my job, you'll lose your naive deep pocket and my legacy will be as fc uked at Tony Blairs."

So the European leaders and the unelected greysuits go into a huddle, and say to themselves:

"Fc uk Cameron's job and legacy...but if we lose our naive deep pocket, we may be looking for new jobs."

So the European leaders and greysuits say to Dave:

"We'll consider your request, Cameron. May be, may be not."

And Dave replies

"Thank you, EU leaders and greysuits. I'll go back to my country and tell them I'm hopeful..."

Sad

 

[sb_73]

Dave went over there and asked:

"Please European leaders and greysuits, will you allow me to change the law of my own country so that women aren't penalised for buying tampons? If you won't agree, it will play badly with the electorate, prejudice the IN case still further, and if there's an OUT vote, I'll lost my job, you'll lose your naive deep pocket and my legacy will be as fc uked at Tony Blairs."

So the European leaders and the unelected greysuits go into a huddle, and say to themselves:

"Fc uk Cameron's job and legacy...but if we lose our naive deep pocket, we may be looking for new jobs."

So the European leaders and greysuits say to Dave:

"We'll consider your request, Cameron. May be, may be not."

And Dave replies

"Thank you, EU leaders and greysuits. I'll go back to my country and tell them I'm hopeful..."

Sad

Jesus Goldie, I daren't say what this kind of bitter ranting makes you sound like. Foreigners and our own weak leaders are to blame!

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

Of course a tampon is a luxury. You can use all kind of sanitary towels in the size and shape that suits you, can't you.

You have a strange idea of a luxury for women, Oslo. As in - tonight she'll have a massage at Champneys before being taken out for a 5 star meal, then being served some fine cognac before sleeping with George Clooney under a duvet of pure goose down...or she could just insert a tampon

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

Jesus Goldie, I daren't say what this kind of bitter ranting makes you sound like. Foreigners and our own weak leaders are to blame!

It's a fc ukiung stupid law, Stan, and Cameron's had to go cap in hand just to lift it. It shouldn't have anything to do with anyone outside the UK. This kind of stuff drives me mad. What has this to do with the Common Market?

 

[QPR Oslo]

You have a strange idea of a luxury for women, Oslo. As in - tonight she'll have a massage at Champneys before being taken out for a 5 star meal, then being served some fine cognac before sleeping with George Clooney under a duvet of pure goose down...or she could just insert a tampon

At the end of all that puce she'll wish she'd gone with the Tampon.

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

At the end of all that puce she'll wish she'd gone with the Tampon.

 

[TWGWTDT]

I work for an organisation that has fifteen thousand employees, based in all corners of the globe. Of COURSE there are some there whose ability you question. Of COURSE there are some who have their job due to being recruited by a former boss. (Those two groups are not mutually inclusive, by the way). If that's your yardstick, then I suggest you also look at France, Germany, the USA, in fact everywhere. You'll see exactly the same the world over. It's not a problem that's exclusive to the UK, and your point therefore holds no water, mate...

Sorry but it's exclusive to the UK and the US is worse. You do not see the same world over that is total rubbish

I work for a worldwide agency owned by DHL and marketing different cultures is an art.... Easy in England it's one big shop. The U.K. and US have the largest numbers of class divides. In my job I make the yardstick

If you believe there is no difference then you can't be very good at your job . Possible the very dead wood I mention

 

[kiwiqpr]

What exactly does the setting of individual taxes on individual items in individual countries have to do with the EU

 

[sb_73]

What exactly does the setting of individual taxes on individual items in individual countries have to do with the EU

Everything. Look it up. It's about level playing field markets.

 

[kiwiqpr]

Yeah
Would hate all those foreigners coming over to buy cheap tampons

 

[sb_73]

I work in a company with 40,000 people all over the world. And every single one of us, without exception, owes our job to Uncle Vernon, in return for him showing us his puppies. We are universally **** at what we do, haven't got a clue. We just hang around all day making up new acronyms and talking bollocks, as we scheme our way to the next rung of the ladder.

The pay and conditions are ****ing brilliant though.

 

[GoldhawkRoad]

What exactly does the setting of individual taxes on individual items in individual countries have to do with the EU

The Brexit argument is that it shouldn't have anything to do with it. It's all about the greysuits in Brussels gradually taking control over sovereign nations in the name ultimately of political union. Polls here presently show IN and OUT voting will be really tight

 

[KPDHoopster]

The Brexit argument is that it shouldn't have anything to do with it. It's all about the greysuits in Brussels gradually taking control over sovereign nations in the name ultimately of political union. Polls here presently show IN and OUT voting will be really tight

Goldhawk that is exactly the long-term objective of the EU.

More and more integration, it is the only way (economically) it can survive.

This will only ostracise Britain more and more, over time, and compromise our ability to control our own nation, to our benefit.

You will never hear the "In campaign" ever talk about integration.

 

[Chaz]

Dave went over there and asked:

"Please European leaders and greysuits, will you allow me to change the law of my own country so that women aren't penalised for buying tampons? If you won't agree, it will play badly with the electorate, prejudice the IN case still further, and if there's an OUT vote, I'll lost my job, you'll lose your naive deep pocket and my legacy will be as fc uked at Tony Blairs."

So the European leaders and the unelected greysuits go into a huddle, and say to themselves:

"Fc uk Cameron's job and legacy...but if we lose our naive deep pocket, we may be looking for new jobs."

So the European leaders and greysuits say to Dave:

"We'll consider your request, Cameron. May be, may be not."

And Dave replies

"Thank you, EU leaders and greysuits. I'll go back to my country and tell them I'm hopeful..."

Sad

You were there, were you? You heard that drivel you are pretending is real?

Of course you weren't.

Stop twisting what is actually a good thing into an opportunity to show how childish you can be when it comes to politics...