British Politics

Is it fair of him to drag Rio Ferdinand's conviction in to a question on the cat abuser?

 

Jim was right. Life in the 70s was pretty good for working people, then came the 80s, Maggie's war on the unions, unemployment, mass homelessness, riots, the poll tax etc etc.

 

How was life under Jim just prior to the elections? Remember, you claimed things "Usually works very well" under Labour.

 

crazed lefties are good for a laugh though - if you dont have them on ignore for their stupidity

 

During the 70s there was a little matter of an international oil price crisis, galloping inflation, and the three day week, but the first was hardly down to the UK government and the other two happened on Ted Heath's watch. Fortunately, in the 80s we had North Sea oil to help.us, but Maggie spunked most of that up the wall on unemployment benefits.

 

So it was **** under Labour prior to the election, as the article shows and subsequent elections confirm.

It makes your claim look rather silly, especially with all the global issues currently occurring, and still most people are nowhere near as bad off now as they were under Sunny Jim.

 

*those times.

 

Are you sure Silly Jim wouldnt have been a better name?

 

Amazing how the 70's have been re-written, isn't it? Think it was a certain Not administrator back on the Prem board just a few years ago laying the blame of the three-day week and power cuts on Labour, then getting me banned for pointing out this was wrong...

 

We'd best not mention Harold Wilson's Lavender List, and we're still feeling the ramifications of Blair.

 

The 70s had T. Rex, Led Zeppelin, The Stranglers and The Clash. Pink Floyd and The Stones were both still good, Saints won the FA Cup, The Sweeney, Starkey and Hutch and Kojak were on the telly, and a pint of Worthington E cost 20 pence. Anyone slagging off the 70s wasn't ****ing there imo.

 

Didn't manage it, unfortunately, but I asked Jeeves and he found this one



I actually plumped for a ham, coleslaw and blue cheese baguette in the end btw.

 

Hmmm, if Keith was PM...

From the article.

"After having been appointed head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) in November 2008, Sir Keir’s half decade in the position oversaw cases as large and polarising as the Rochdale grooming gang scandal, mass sexual abuse scandals involving entertainment figures such as Jimmy Savile, and the John Worboys case. Patel noted Sir Keir has a complete ‘lack of interest in prosecuting horrendous crimes against women’, a statement hard to argue with when presented with his record.

Local authorities had previously blamed their reluctance to prosecute on the fear of being perceived as racist due to the fact the perpetrators were of South Asian origin and the victims were mostly white British girls. [Something the 'experts' on the safespace vehemently denied when it was pointed out to them on there.]

A senior Met officer told the Bureau of Investigative Journalism that ‘referrals (to the CPS) had dropped as a result of policy change put in place in response to the CPS director’s 2011 guidance on charging’. This has contributed to the current crisis in the criminal justice system where campaigners have described rape as being ‘effectively decriminalised’. As a result, the End Violence Against Women and Girls Coalition and Centre for Women’s Justice have brought a judicial review against the CPS for their failure to prosecute rape cases.

Starmer also refused to pursue over 100 possible victims of John Warboys, the man that attacked Carrie Symonns."

https://medium.com/@lucynevitt/starmers-shambolic-cps-affabd38bb6d

 

Had Roobarb and Kustard too. Beat that, ****ing Swinging 60's.

 

Having one party govern doesn’t work .

One is right wing and one is left wing.

UK would need a party that could fairly represent the needs of all UK including big business, the rich , the poor , the working class, the middle class , unemployed , the ill , the old etc

Never going to happen .

Would the UK benefit from a coalition government set up represented by parties based on a PR system ? The government must be a coalition not one of convenience(con/lib)

Do other countries operate style of government (Germany?) and is it successful ?

 

I think it's the Dutch system that is set up to do just that (but I'll stand corrected if it's somewhere else), and it seems to work reasonably well from what I can see.

 

Ah , thanks . I’ll look into the Dutch system as a matter of interest .

 

https://nimd.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/Dutch-Political-System.pdf