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Seriously what did you expect from a Tory government - fairness for all !
Just to say though people being denied a vote because of admin cock ups is a very bad situation.
#deniedmyvote trending on Twitter. Certainly doesn't seem to be just a handful of people. Socking.
Uk people abroad didn't receive postal voting papers in time and EU citizens here who are entitled to vote are being turned away from polling stations. Many say they completed the required forms but have still be turned away.
Not sure what the EU will make of the handling of this. I guess the preparation time didn't help as we should have left on the 29th March! Even so, another shambles.
MPs and media crowed approvingly about people getting milkshakes thrown at them...
Let's hope things calm down and the we'll see a better market.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/05/23/brexit-party-pensioner-hit-milkshake-outside-polling-station-9661212/#share-item-0-622
I knew what I was voting for in 2016 as I do today when I vote for the Brexit Party along with many others.
End of debate. Have a good day!
notts, and equally I could say if the truth had been told in 2016 then that result may have been very different. I'm not getting into another brexit debate because I don't care one way or the other, I just think it's a sad reflection of human nature.
Except that the European Union now is no longer just about a 'common market'. If people knew back then that it would evolve into what is is now I doubt the vote would have been the same result.
Fortunately for me my life is not blighted by the doctrines of religion or politics, I have no time for any of it. The only thing I have ever voted for was to remain in the common market in 1975 and I don't see how my vote then being turned over in 2016 is any different from those asking for another referendum now. Every other vote I have used to try to keep (as I see it) the worst of the self serving parasites out of power. All I ever wanted was to get here on a permanent basis, remove myself from the rat race as far as possible and potter around until it's time for the big bonfire at the bottom of my hill. Like to see some unelected french bureaucrat telling me off for a fire in the garden when i have liberated my atoms back to the atmosphere.
Oldie Didn’t the nazis favour population control ? The bottom line is that irrelevant of your or my views we are all doomed, doomed I tell you doomed, let’s just hope that WRES comes good quickly enough for me to make life easier for my kids and for you no doubt to make life easier for yourself
STV. 500 million is considered by many scientists as a viable long term number. Sadly no one has told the continent of Africa. Population explosion due to medical advancement but no societal advancement to the same degree and speed. The UN ( ass holes) dropped the best bits in and left. Here you go, have lots of vaccines and medicines (which is brilliant and as it should be. I'm all over that). Oh no, we wont look at infrastructure, long term health care, pensions, investments, aging populations and EDUCATION and so on. So birth rates remained high but mortality rates fell and are now low. For a stable population you can just have one part of the package. Religious dogma isnt helping matters either...see the mess in the Phillipines.
Oh GIT you are a card. The left are anti free speech. Very anti. I am all for free speech, and have written so many times. I am a great believer in the following,and have quoted this many times,
'I don’t agree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Wrongly attributed to Voltaire I hasten to add. Right now the left are right behind one of the biggest threats to free speech in living memory in this country.
Free speech suppression, no one does it better than communists....that'll be the socialist peeps then. Yes, I know someone will say what about the Nazi's. The same person will ignore the FACT that the Nazi's were the National Socialist Party (please insert German Workers if you wish). The Nazi were socialist. Facists and communists sing from the same song sheet. I find it somewhat amusing when the left shout facist at the so called 'right'. Always strikes me as odd that one. The fact they shout it out to shut down a point of view or debate says a bit more too. Odd.
Ned to convince Asia first, Europe has already seen a decline in family numbers.
A future ? Perhaps a better one?
http://www.vhemt.org
Safety, very little splits humans and pigs. Our species (genetically) ha e much in common hence science exploiting that for medical advancements (cue Vegan rage).
Oldie I’m not lazy - I just couldn’t be bothered ! Try this link then, it says that libertarians are liberals and amongst other things broad minded and believing in free speech, and yet you constantly berate what you call lefties, which I find a little strange :-) https://www.thefreedictionary.com/libertarian
Even pigs with high moral standards become humans in the end. Greed, indolence and ambition lies there waiting for all of us. If we are granted enough wit at birth and circumstances allow for growth then hard work and application can, in the end, lead to some form of security if health permits. Having worked hard you get enough shekels to try using the money to make some money, again there will be circumstances you cannot predict, so you are taking risk on board. Anyway that’s what I have done, ie, worked, saved, invested. This is capitalism, if successful in my practice of it I will have created work for others who can then choose their path and wealth fo myself. Socialism is failing, however, it is through prudent management of capitalism ( the least worst of the systems) that we can fulfill some good socialists works such as the NHS. Ultimately capitalism has to be used to allow for success, if society fails we all suffer. Socialism on its own does not work, there is far too much indolence and expectation of provision by those that are not incapable of work, or indeed birth control. As a lad from a Council estate in the fifties and sixties with Ill parents I understand the need for support, but also the necessity of application of mind and muscle. I know successive generations that do not work, have no intention of doing so, they are also successful at breeding.So I am invested in Wres because that is my socio- political view. I am also a greedy bar steward.
Cutting and pasting of Wiki is lazy research. That wiki entry has a number of inaccuracies straight off. The first paragraph you cut and pasted contradicts, in many ways, the second paragraph. I will settle on the first paragraph as a starter. Left, right, conservative, facist, socialist, theocracy (unicorns) and so all sit at different points on the same triangle. The zeitgeist moves.
You must also put this in context. My experience of many liberals and liberal lefties especially (crunchy conservatives have some liberal views) of today is that they love sound bites, they are keyboard warriors. They like soft targets, like Trump. His shocking wall and his shocking immigration stance and his shocking fake news blah blah blah. Easy to spit at as he is across and ocean but it allows them to feel all 'hard' and empowered. The same liberals who want equality and equal ops for all (shouting down Trump on such matters)appear to be lacking when real challenge is required, and in their doorstep. Oh, where is my safe space as 'x' said a nasty thing.
Oldie So, if you are truly old skool then you are in fact a lefty as that was the traditional old skool meaning of libertarianism mate, welcome aboard ! Who would have guessed !
Oldie So you are :- Libertarianism (from Latin: libertas, meaning "freedom") is a collection of political philosophies and movements that uphold liberty as a core principle.[1] Libertarians seek to maximize political freedom and autonomy, emphasizing freedom of choice, voluntary association, and individual judgment.[2][3][4] Libertarians share a skepticism of authority and state power, but they diverge on the scope of their opposition to existing political and economic systems. Various schools of libertarian thought offer a range of views regarding the legitimate functions of state and private power, often calling for the restriction or dissolution of coercive social institutions.[5] Traditionally, libertarianism was a term for a form of left-wing politics. Such left-libertarian ideologies seek to abolish capitalism and private ownership of the means of production, or else to restrict their purview or effects, in favor of common or cooperative ownership and management, viewing private property as a barrier to freedom and liberty.[6][7][8][9] Classical libertarian ideologies include—but are not limited to—anarcho-communism, anarcho-syndicalism, mutualism and egoism, alongside many other anti-paternalist, New Left schools of thought centered around economic egalitarianism. Modern right-libertarian ideologies, such as minarchism and anarcho-capitalism, co-opted the term in the mid-20th century to instead advocate laissez-faire capitalism and strong private property rights such as in land, infrastructure and natural resources.[10][11][12]
Indeed Orwell was. Much of his stuff is very relevant today, from the obvious Animal Farm and 1984 to the social commentary in ‘the road to Wigan pier’ , Down and out in Paris and London’ ‘ Homage to Catalonia’ . In fact sadly relevant , the human condition does not change it seems.
Strange how he died (not the heart stopping bit as that is responsible for all deaths)....
Orwell....a visionary in many ways.
OMR...I like their music ;-)
Oldie, if I had the energy, I'd be a Libertine ;-))
Oldie, Orwell was, when he went to the Spanish CIvil War, fighting for left wing libetarianism in the form of the anarchists. It was the best of the political ideas available to fight for at the time. Although they were on the socialist side, the Russian Marxist boys shot them all for treason or such, just before they redistributed the Spanish gold back to Russia.
Whenever I get the opportunity I set light to me farts. This prevents methane getting to the upper atmosphere where it is 20 times worse as a greenhouse gas than CO2, every little helps.