Off Topic who will win?

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Will be pretty easy I'd have thought mate, beautiful country, good people, great choice mate.

Botany hot spot too fella. We've been holding off plans until the election results. We both agree Holland would suit us professionally. Now to start learning Dutch.

Where do you fancy?
 
Botany hot spot too fella. We've been holding off plans until the election results. We both agree Holland would suit us professionally. Now to start learning Dutch.

Where do you fancy?

I'm one foot out of the door mate. Applied for a prospective marriage visa for Aus. Short of something catastrophic I'll be over there at the start of next year, married in the summer and on a permanent visa by the end of the year.

It's really ****ing far away but that doesn't bother me all that much. I didn't grow up here so I've never felt very at home here.
 
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I'm one foot out of the door mate. Applied for a prospective marriage visa for Aus. Short of something catastrophic I'll be over there at the start of next year, married in the summer and on a permanent visa by the end of the year.

It's really ****ing far away but that doesn't bother me all that much. I didn't grow up here so I've never felt very at home here.

All the best fella. My best mate moved to New Zealand and married. Leaving this cesspit is the best thing he's ever done.
 
Don't have any particular issue with Tories or Labour, they both bring something different to the table.

What I do have an issue with is the SNP. Discriminatory bastards. Lots of people in the NE will be looking to move to Scotland before their next referendum.
 
More bollocks..Income tax will go down which will obviously benefit those that earn the most..However, VAT, taxes on water, electricity, and many other essentials will go up that hits the less well off..That is how the Tories have always operated and that is how they will continue to operate..
It's just like the lottery. They collect small amounts from the masses, in order to give larger amounts to the few.
 
All I can say is I'm happier with this government than the last one. We all have our own opinions, but in fairness, I don't know how good or bad Cameron has been because he was working with his hands tied by the LibDems. At least next time I can make a judgement and either vote for or against the man. Whether the PM is called Cameron or Milliband makes no difference - you can't fairly judge a man on watered down fudges that have been forced on him. I hope I never see another coalition. That's the worst government of all.
 
Botany hot spot too fella. We've been holding off plans until the election results. We both agree Holland would suit us professionally. Now to start learning Dutch.

Where do you fancy?
You should have no problems with Botany in holland mate 6 months working on nowt but grass and six months off as its all covered in pig slurry.<laugh><ok>
 
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It's a lab I want to be in fella. Developing hybids. Or maybe micro grafting not sure yet.
Used to work a lot in Holland really enjoyed it but you have to get usedto how they talk to each other always sound as they are going to kill each other if you can't understand the lingo the belgiums are the same.
 
Used to work a lot in Holland really enjoyed it but you have to get usedto how they talk to each other always sound as they are going to kill each other if you can't understand the lingo the belgiums are the same.

Oh aye I'll be learning Dutch. It's only polite to learn the language and follow the customs after all.
 
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All I can say is I'm happier with this government than the last one. We all have our own opinions, but in fairness, I don't know how good or bad Cameron has been because he was working with his hands tied by the LibDems. At least next time I can make a judgement and either vote for or against the man. Whether the PM is called Cameron or Milliband makes no difference - you can't fairly judge a man on watered down fudges that have been forced on him. I hope I never see another coalition. That's the worst government of all.

The one good aspect of the coalition was that the Lib Dems tempered the right wing of the Tory Party. If anyone from the right wing wanted to push something too radical, Cameron could always say that that the Lib Dems wouldn't support it. It allowed him to find a middle way and keep the coalition alive.

He doesn't have that option now, so we might see the government move to the right. There's nothing to hold the right wing back now.

And if you never want another coalition, then Proportional Representation, as some would like on here, can never be an option. We will always be stuck with first past the post elections. Especially so with more and more parties in the mix now.
 
The one good aspect of the coalition was that the Lib Dems tempered the right wing of the Tory Party. If anyone from the right wing wanted to push something too radical, Cameron could always say that that the Lib Dems wouldn't support it. It allowed him to find a middle way and keep the coalition alive.

He doesn't have that option now, so we might see the government move to the right. There's nothing to hold the right wing back now.

And if you never want another coalition, then Proportional Representation, as some would like on here, can never be an option. We will always be stuck with first past the post elections. Especially so with more and more parties in the mix now.

Correct, that's exactly what I'm saying. "There's nothing to hold the right wing back now" - yes there is mate - us. If they go too far we vote them out next time - fair and square - and Cameron knows it. This time, the Tories are responsible for what they do or don't do. With a coalition, nobody's clearly responsible for anything. The fact is, in 2015, we might have voted in a bloody good PM, or a bloody lousy one - we just can't know. With first past the post, we do know and we can make the appropriate decision.

I like proportional representation in theory. In practice, keep it.
 
Correct, that's exactly what I'm saying. "There's nothing to hold the right wing back now" - yes there is mate - us. If they go too far we vote them out next time - fair and square - and Cameron knows it. This time, the Tories are responsible for what they do or don't do. With a coalition, nobody's clearly responsible for anything. The fact is, in 2015, we might have voted in a bloody good PM, or a bloody lousy one - we just can't know. With first past the post, we do know and we can make the appropriate decision.

I like proportional representation in theory. In practice, keep it.

We can't keep what we don't have mate.
 
I'll tell you another thing that gets on my tits about these public schoolboy Tory twats.
Since the decimation of Britain's heavy industries such as coal mining, shipbuilding & heavy engineering under Thatcher all the Tory ****s can bleat on about is how they've created new jobs.
Aye, all new jobs for minimum wage.
Highly skilled men who could turn stuff to a tenth of a thou on a manual lathe or milling machine answering phones in some poxy call centre.
All MP's should be put on minimum wage & not be allowed another job, let's see how the greedy bastards get on.
All MP's sons & daughters should be conscripted.
All MP's with disabled children should have benefit revoked.
Let's see how they get on then.
 
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