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Qatartiger Cambridgetiger said:
This thread has amazed me so far ... I know it is still early. If there was one thread that I thought would turn into chaos it would be this one. WOW !!
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it's not chaos because the mods are deleting posts - Ive already had 2 piccies and I video of Ed Miliband already deleted - apparently if you post anti Labour posts they're deleted
 
I just got stuck behind a UKIP van, slowing rolling along with a loud-hailer, I'm not sure that's going to appeal to voters in Kirk Ella. Which is good, as it was probably that ****er Mike Whitehead.

And I've wasted two hours this morning going to a hospital appointment that was a complete and utter waste of time. The consultant didn't know why I'd been given an appointment to see him, the consultant he thought I should be actually be seeing apparently thought he'd given me the results of my CT scan already, but hadn't. Two CT scans three months apart(because the first one didn't show the organs they needed to see), three months and four phone calls before I get an appointment to find out the result of the second one, then the ****er doesn't even know why I'm seeing him. Turns out the second one is inconclusive and I now need an endoscopy and an ultra sound scan, which will no doubt take two months to arrange, then a further three months to advise me of the results. I'll probably die before I find out what's wrong with me. That'll teach 'em.
 
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Castro's Coffin said:
Why do,you think I would vote for his party? You notice I said party. We vote for a party here not an individual. Maybe you are getting mixed up with countries where they elect a President?

Wonder how the SWP and Communists will get on?
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Castro's Coffin said:
Why should anyone vote for Miliband, who is hardly an example of someone who has had it rough and had to make it on their own?
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Logic?
 
charon-the-ferryman said:
it's not chaos because the mods are deleting posts - Ive already had 2 piccies and I video of Ed Miliband already deleted - apparently if you post anti Labour posts they're deleted
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I think it is more a case of reasoned debate rather than propaganda pics.......if you want them I have literally hundreds of Cameron & Farage ones I can post
 
NorthFerribyTiger said:
I think it is more a case of reasoned debate rather than propaganda pics.......if you want them I have literally hundreds of Cameron & Farage ones I can post
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People were murdered in France for the right to publish pictures and the world applauded that right - unfortunately that right has bypassed this forum
 
Lets be honest here......nobody in their right minds can suggest Labour is a left wing, socialist or marxist party ..... you no longer get the average Joe standing for parliament (although I believe the Labour one just down the road in Brigg & Goole is a former social worker)

All you can choose these days is the party with the most or least right wing policies....current Labour are probably what would have been the left wing of Thatchers Conservatives, while UKIP are what would have been the far right of that government.
 
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Castro's Coffin said:
Swan Lake or The Nutcracker Suite?
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took me a while work out what you were on about, but now ROFL. Ballet - along with musicals - are things I really don't like going to see. Mrs OT knows the condition to me accompanying her. She has to go with me to a sporting event of my choice to restore balance to the universe.
 
Walter Sobchak said:
That's gone off point really. You mentioned Posh Dave as if this was a reason not to vote for him -whereas the Milibands are just as posh, monied and priviledged as David Cameron is.
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Maybe so, but compared to chicken Dave who lied before the last election about no top-down reorganisation of the NHS and Osborne who said he would clear the deficit in five years and then actually increased it, I'm prepared to give the other guys a chance.
 
TigerRoo said:
Like Australia, why is Great Britain bringing in thousands and thousands of immigrants when there is no work or accommodation for them? Ask any politician that question and you will get totally ignored.
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There is work for a lot of them. Can't find the report online now, but there was a study published that "proved" (as much as your can with statistics) immigration was currently a net gain to the economy both through what they spent, and what they pay in taxes.
 
originallambrettaman said:
I wish they'd hurry up and have a top down reorganisation of Castle Hill. <laugh>
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It's all the top down reorganisations that have caused the current problems....they looked at the top & decided that the NHS should be tall & solid like an oak tree with branches reaching up & out to the sun......the problem was that they forgot that the top of a tree needs a massive root structure to support it until they dug down & cut off many of those roots
 
Oregon Tiger said:
There is work for a lot of them. Can't find the report online now, but there was a study published that "proved" (as much as your can with statistics) immigration was currently a net gain to the economy both through what they spent, and what they pay in taxes.
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Last year I did some work for the Greencore group & when talking to some managers I discovered that if it were not for migrant EU workers who were willing to do the repetitive jobs in their factories that many of them would have had to close. They quoted the pickle factory in Selby as a prime example, they had tried the UK born locals, they had even tried the surrounding area by providing transport to/from Selby but they could not recruit......they could not increase wages as profit margins were not very high & their main customers...the supermarkets were constantly putting downward pressure on prices. They now employ a workforce which must be around 70-80% Polish & Eastern European, without those workers we would be importing all the things they produce.

At least this way the Europeans are contributing, spending money in local communities, paying tax & NI & the company is supporting local farmers & UK suppliers of the other ingredients they need. The whole situation is not as black & white as it sometimes appears
 
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NorthFerribyTiger said:
Last year I did some work for the Greencore group & when talking to some managers I discovered that if it were not for migrant EU workers who were willing to do the repetitive jobs in their factories that many of them would have had to close. They quoted the pickle factory in Selby as a prime example, they had tried the UK born locals, they had even tried the surrounding area by providing transport to/from Selby but they could not recruit......they could not increase wages as profit margins were not very high & their main customers...the supermarkets were constantly putting downward pressure on prices. They now employ a workforce which must be around 70-80% Polish & Eastern European, without those workers we would be importing all the things they produce.

At least this way the Europeans are contributing, spending money in local communities, paying tax & NI & the company is supporting local farmers & UK suppliers of the other ingredients they need. The whole situation is not as black & white as it sometimes appears
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See what happens when you make benefits too high. <whistle>
 
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