The Politics Thread

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The Weakest Link is really scraping the barrel now, isn't it?

 

Dead or not, you condone this?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...-protestor-video-emmanuel-macron-fuel-reforms

It's the Express so I'm sure it has zero credibility.

 

The Express does have zero credibility, but nobody's going to condone that.

You've neatly demonstrated that your link was crap though, as it's something that happened in December and he didn't die.
All but one of the deaths have been due to vehicles hitting people and the other was due to a tear gas grenade.
It doesn't absolve the police of blame for their appalling actions and they should be appropriately dealt with.

 

So apparently being shot in the back of the head isn't anything close to the treatment the Orange Overlord receives...

 

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It's Fifteen to One - which it really is!

 

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Alternatively....

 

First thing that I said.

However, the 50k threshold has not been increased in line with inflation since it was introduced and anyone paying a modern mortgage and bring up a few young kids (remember child benefit is cut off at 50k) and is on 50-80k by no means can be described rich. I think it is a very fair change. Personally I would have raised it to 100k.

 

William Gladstone (not Paul) Stewart.

 

Why is it used as part of the Brexit debate? Nobody is suggesting French police will come here, so it is just old fashioned Police brutality, something that happens here very often with little or no commentary. Anybody would condemn that treatment, but to use it in the Brexit debate is pointless and a little unsavoury.

 

Priorities, eh?

 

There is an argument for it - as you say it should be increased in line with other tax thresholds - but it would not be on my first 30 priorities for things to change in the Tax and benefit system at the current time. Not when disabled people are having benefits taken away and dying before an appeal is heard, not when benefits are taken from people with a spare room, not when in work poverty is at record levels

"One in every eight workers in the UK - 3.8 million people - is now living in poverty. A total of 7.4 million people, including 2.6 million children, are in poverty despite being in a working family. This means that a record high of 55 per cent of people in poverty are in working households."

Choosing to benefit those earning over £50k is immoral in my opinion.

 

This country's ****ed beyond any measure of saving.

Turkeys are voting for Christmas, buying the Paxo and packing it in their own cavities...

 

Conservative members would rather have Brexit than a Conservative Party? Really? It's the only one that tempts me to be fair.

 

Because they're all shifting over to the new Farage Cult of Personality Party.
That's what happens when you intentionally push bullshit and misinformation to your voters for decades.
Someone comes along and takes advantage of your circle of nonsense, leaving you out in the cold.

 

The latest American shooter hasn't been well received on social media:

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Polar opposite to the sheeple in Labour "brood mare" constituencies
(who if voted to leave the EU would rather have that overturned than
vote for a non Labour councillor/MP) .

 

I notice Sadiq Khan isn't demanding the Orange Overlord be removed...

 

I think that you need to sort all of it out independent of the other issues. The spare room tax is bollocks, easy to sort out, abolish it. Work poverty has always been there, when I was a kid we didn't have a tv, fridge, washing machine, telephone, nor did most of our neighbours. Nowadays a mobile phone appears to be a necessity. Anyone running a mobile phone is not in poverty in my book.