Off Topic Trevor Sinclair

  • Please bear with us on the new site integration and fixing any known bugs over the coming days. If you can not log in please try resetting your password and check your spam box. If you have tried these steps and are still struggling email [email protected] with your username/registered email address
  • Log in now to remove adverts - no adverts at all to registered members!
Status
Not open for further replies.
Roppa said:
I’ve met laura clancy at Manchester university, and whilst she’s obviously bright, she has an agenda. There will be articles by academics denying her views, but everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I personally think there’s a time for promoting anti royalist sentiments, and now’s not it.
Click to expand...
The papers and bbc also have an agenda. Expressing monarchy is different to disrespect for the family and the corporation. This is possibly the only opportunity for another two or three decades we can influence change. If the prime minister had died we’d respect their death and discuss what happens next.
 
  • Like
Reactions: sheepman and Smug in Boots
Sunderpitt said:
My two pennies worth...

If you have lots of companies trying to provide goods and services, those with the best quality and price will thrive...capitalism if you like, working.

If you have natural monopolies, such as water, power, rail etc. Handing them over to a private company will usually result in poor service, high prices and the owners reaping high dividends.

A case in point, is water, I have read, since privatisation £72bn has been distributed as dividends and cash buy-backs. I believe no new reservoirs have been built, leakage is still about the same and siht and pollution is put into rivers and seas.

Rail privatisation has lurched from one crisis to another, with the Govt having to take over.

As for power..it certainly doesn't seem to have been managed for the benefit of its customers.
Click to expand...
Is it really too much to ask that wealth is created for the benefit everyone not individuals and corporations - especially that made out of the environment/land we live and is accessible to its people ?
 
Pure River Slut said:
The papers and bbc also have an agenda. Expressing monarchy is different to disrespect for the family and the corporation. This is possibly the only opportunity for another two or three decades we can influence change. If the prime minister had died we’d respect their death and discuss what happens next.
Click to expand...
My point is it’s too soon, there may be a time when this nation discusses a change in its constitution, but not three days after its longest serving most popular monarch passes away.
 
Pure River Slut said:
Is it really too much to ask that wealth is created for the benefit everyone not individuals and corporations - especially that made out of the environment/land we live and is accessible to its people ?
Click to expand...
Utopia? Show me anywhere that this exists, the simple fact is that it’s in everyone’s natural manor to want to better themselves and do better for those close to them. In doing so you automatically complete with others, there can never be equality, much as that might be the theoretical goal.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Makemstine Roger, The Norton Cat, Montysoptician and 1 other person
Roppa said:
My point is it’s too soon, there may be a time when this nation discusses a change in its constitution, but not three days after its longest serving most popular monarch passes away.
Click to expand...
The trigger for me being honest was the announcement from King Charles. Maybe that happened too quickly - even for him. I feel sorry for him. He looks overwhelmed.
 
safcfansofaraway said:
Utopia? Show me anywhere that this exists, the simple fact is that it’s in everyone’s natural manor to want to better themselves and do better for those close to them. In doing so you automatically complete with others, there can never be equality, much as that might be the theoretical goal.
Click to expand...
I don’t expect total inequality but a bit more effort / some effort wouldn’t be a big ask. The cabinet - Eton. The royals -Eton. They all piss in the same heated swimming pool and are part of the 1% and while we accept this in our politics and constitution we make negative progress. It’s healthy to flag it up.
 
  • Like
Reactions: sheepman
Pure River Slut said:
Is it really too much to ask that wealth is created for the benefit everyone not individuals and corporations - especially that made out of the environment/land we live and is accessible to its people ?
Click to expand...
Unfortunately it's never going to happen, if that occured here the super rich and rich would move abroad where it doesn't happen.

Your asking for a unicorn
 
  • Like
Reactions: Makemstine Roger
Chunksafc said:
Unfortunately it's never going to happen, if that occured here the super rich and rich would move abroad where it doesn't happen.

Your asking for a unicorn
Click to expand...
Just vote for policies and parties that look after people. They exist. Maybe needs a change of voting system.
 
Pure River Slut said:
Just vote for policies and parties that look after people. They exist. Maybe needs a change of voting system.
Click to expand...
And in this delightful country where big business and rich people give it all to those less fortunate, what happens when they take their business to a country that doesn't do that?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Makemstine Roger
Chunksafc said:
And in this delightful country where big business and rich people give it all to those less fortunate, what happens when they take their business to a country that doesn't do that?
Click to expand...
Shop local. Buy local. Reduce transport. **** Tesco.
 
Chunksafc said:
How is that even answering the question?
Click to expand...
That’s what you do when they take their business to another country. Can probably sell goods to the ones who left cos ‘Britain’s went downhill’ when migrants replaced ginger dole scroungers.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Top Bottom
Back