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Missing Lambo said:
OK. Don't get religion, get political!

I heard Alan Bennett describing how Thatcher made him become politically active. If this lot's diet of cuts and austerity leading to lower growth doesn't get people going then it's time to put up the CLOSED sign on the concept of a healthy democracy.
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You can see the headlines already in the Express Sun and Mail to stoke up the level of activity - pity it is fostering right-wing sentiments!!!
 
Is anyone from the UK going to represent the UK at Castro's funeral? Boris Johnson, perhaps and Prince Charles. Funny how they all turn up for the funerals of duff US Presidents like George H Bush and Reagan. Putin will be there so it would be a good chance to say hi to him.
 
The Ides of March said:
Has the world really got to put up with his bullshit for the next 4 years, or can someone do everyone a favour and push him off the edge of a cliff?
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He'll push himself off eventually. Despite the reverse-gaff effect by which Trump, contrary to all political precedent, actually benefits from his unguarded comments, eventually he'll destroy himself. The worry is how much damage he may do to US democracy in the process.
 
Beefy said:
Nutall makes Farage look sane sadly.
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You've added him to your list of politicians with mental illness! - I don't believe he's insane personally, I don't support everything he says and does, as is the case with any politician, but I stop short of calling people ill just because I don't agree with them.
 
Rorschach's Journal said:
You've added him to your list of politicians with mental illness! - I don't believe he's insane personally, I don't support everything he says and does, as is the case with any politician, but I stop short of calling people ill just because I don't agree with them.
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It's a saying. No I do not believe being a racist is a mental illness. He has no excuse for some of the stuff he says.

I am a mental health sufferer myself.
 
Beefy said:
It's a saying. No I do not believe being a racist is a mental illness. He has no excuse for some of the stuff he says.

I am a mental health sufferer myself.
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That's fair enough Beefy. At the end of the day, Nuttall is a career politician who often says what is politically expedient to his particular cause - I tend to take everything him and his ilk across all parties say and do with a large pinch of salt, even Trump to a lesser extent.
 
Rorschach's Journal said:
That's fair enough Beefy. At the end of the day, Nuttall is a career politician who often says what is politically expedient to his particular cause - I tend to take everything him and his ilk across all parties say and do with a large pinch of salt, even Trump to a lesser extent.
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Triump is a narcissist with weird hair. :emoticon-0110-tongu
 
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Beefy said:
Triump is a narcissist with weird hair. :emoticon-0110-tongu
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This hairism has to stop, I have always suffered with a severe lack of hair, even as a nipper the little hair I had was terrible, I had this weird cows lick thing going on. When i win the lottery i'm going straight to the belgravia centre and getting them to Fellaini me up.
 
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saintkitch said:
This hairism has to stop, I have always suffered with a severe lack of hair, even as a nipper the little hair I had was terrible, I had this weird cows lick thing going on. When i win the lottery i'm going straight to the belgravia centre and getting them to Fellaini me up.
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Long as your hair doesn't look like Trump's all is good.
 
Beefy said:
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The guy is insane and the next US president...
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This is the stuff that annoys me. Because people believe this and so they keep passing these awful, racist voter ID laws. Voter fraud is non-existent. But vote suppression is very real.

All because Trump is an idiot, and has to spout off at the tiniest bit of criticism or opposition. He thinks the election was rigged like he thinks Hamilton is overrated or Alec Baldwin isn't funny. It's not important, he has no evidence, he's just lashing out like a five year old.

Someone called him a name, so now a million voters will get disenfranchised.
 
Donald Trump picks Georgia Representative Tom Price as Health Secretary.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-t...ary-1480387501




Voted YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion. (May 2011)
Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-life stance. (Dec 2006)
Bar funding for abortion under federal Obamacare plans. (Jul 2010)
Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)
Prohibit federal funding to groups like Planned Parenthood. (Jan 2011)
No family planning assistance that includes abortion. (Jan 2013)
Grant the pre-born equal protection under 14th Amendment. (Jan 2007)

Voted YES on repealing the "Prevention and Public Health" slush fund. (Apr 2011)
Voted NO on regulating tobacco as a drug. (Apr 2009)
Voted NO on expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Jan 2009)
Voted YES on overriding veto on expansion of Medicare. (Jul 2008)
Voted NO on giving mental health full equity with physical health. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on Veto override: Extend SCHIP to cover 6M more kids. (Jan 2008)
Voted NO on adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility. (Oct 2007)
Voted NO on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D. (Jan 2007)
Voted YES on denying non-emergency treatment for lack of Medicare co-pay. (Feb 2006)
Repeal any federal health care takeover. (Jul 2010)
Deauthorize funding for Obamacare. (Jul 2010)
Repeal the Job-Killing Health Care Law. (Jan 2011)

Guy sounds like scum.

More on him:
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
 
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Beefy said:
Donald Trump picks Georgia Representative Tom Price as Health Secretary.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-t...ary-1480387501




Voted YES on banning federal health coverage that includes abortion. (May 2011)
Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Jan 2007)
Voted NO on allowing human embryonic stem cell research. (May 2005)
Voted YES on restricting interstate transport of minors to get abortions. (Apr 2005)
Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-life stance. (Dec 2006)
Bar funding for abortion under federal Obamacare plans. (Jul 2010)
Prohibit federal funding for abortion. (May 2011)
Prohibit federal funding to groups like Planned Parenthood. (Jan 2011)
No family planning assistance that includes abortion. (Jan 2013)
Grant the pre-born equal protection under 14th Amendment. (Jan 2007)

Voted YES on repealing the "Prevention and Public Health" slush fund. (Apr 2011)
Voted NO on regulating tobacco as a drug. (Apr 2009)
Voted NO on expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program. (Jan 2009)
Voted YES on overriding veto on expansion of Medicare. (Jul 2008)
Voted NO on giving mental health full equity with physical health. (Mar 2008)
Voted NO on Veto override: Extend SCHIP to cover 6M more kids. (Jan 2008)
Voted NO on adding 2 to 4 million children to SCHIP eligibility. (Oct 2007)
Voted NO on requiring negotiated Rx prices for Medicare part D. (Jan 2007)
Voted YES on denying non-emergency treatment for lack of Medicare co-pay. (Feb 2006)
Repeal any federal health care takeover. (Jul 2010)
Deauthorize funding for Obamacare. (Jul 2010)
Repeal the Job-Killing Health Care Law. (Jan 2011)

Guy sounds like scum.

More on him:
http://www.vox.com/2016/11/28/13772342/trump-tom-price-obamacare
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I am looking forward to the BIG DAY. Trump will take the oath, someone (obviously not someone 'of colour') will sing "Wonderful World" and we'll all hold hands and shed a tear. A world of Donald Trump and UKIP beckons, and we should all share the love, brothers and sisters ... who mentioned madness?

I'm bloody old and purely selfishly don't give a ****. But my children and grandchildren have got to survive in this new order. Maybe that old 60's conversation opener "Come the revolution" needs to be heard again.
 
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