RedRazor

You're a massive cunt.

 

Hope this helps.

Right back at you twat face.

Up yours.

Its not even a relevant comparison. One of them is the oppressor.

 

(This isn't aimed at you, Skids, just what I've heard from loads of people), "Oh, I'm neutral on this". No you're fucking not. Anyone sitting on the fence is legitimising apartheid. Fucking wankers.

Seriously? Apartheid?

Oppression on the base of race I can accept but Apartheid? I don't think so. You are crossing the line between upset and hysterical.

The DEC (Disasters Emergency Committee) has launched an appeal in aid of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Our shithouse government is going to match the first £2m raised.

 

You can donate here.

 

http://www.dec.org.uk/?utm_source=Newsnow&utm_campaign=A015&utm_medium=link&utm_content=natnn2

Is it compulsory or can I just leave it to the bleeding heart Support-your-in-vogue-terrorist brigade?

Shame on them.

Well you can say that but other people may think that a GD of 1871 is a damn fine record (that is Gazan Difference in case anyone is confusing it with an abbreviation used in a sport close to everyones heart)

So get rid of Hamas because they want to wipe out the Jews. But leave the Israeli's to it as they want to wipe out the Arab's?

 

What was it that Israeli minister called for the other day in the Jerusalem Times? Mass Genocide?

 

Give your head a wobble. There is a massive difference to behaviour of Hamas and Israel. The number of Palestinian deaths prove that.

So the Palestinians are Arabs are they Skid?

In your narrow minded ignorant and blinkered exiatence Palestinians are Arabs? You complete retard.

The Arabs don't think they are Arabs. The Israelis don/t think they are Arabs. The Palestininians don't think they are Arabs. But you want to make a point on the basis that you think they are Arabs........

God save us.....

It's called disproportional representation.  The new thing in town.

But clearly you are just a Jew hatinf prick. Not because they have done anything in particular - but just because they are Jews.

Blah blah vlah you all screech in horror - just go back and read the posts.

That map really from 600 AD? So the world of 1400 years ago is comparable to today. What was the population of the planet then. Plus do the people who live in a land only get considered to be it's natural inhabitants if we deemed they had the correct paperwork. This land is ours.., but we live here... Do you have the paperwork to prove it.... No. Then it's ours fuck off.

 

It boggles the mind that people can go to every length to justify killing hundreds of children. It's not acceptable what's going on over there, no argument will justify it. I pity the person who puts political reasons or defends political reasoning for such actions before they see the absolute horror, cruelty and suffering of fellow human beings. That's not just about isreal it's about britains eagerness for bombs as solutions too alongside all the other fuckers who see human life as worthless and order death like ordering a takeaway. Those with the power should find better solutions but I guess large scale murder is a profitable business.

We didn't have too much of an issue with it after Dresden and the Dam Busting raids did we?

I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit

Our debt to GDP ratio at the start of this government was better than Germany, France, Japan and The US. As far as I'm aware.

 

The idea is that if you spend well then you increase tax revenue as you have people earning. The idea that this lot give a shiny fuck about the health of the economy other than to be able to shine it well enough to get in again is something I simply won't buy.

According to worldbank 2010 figures Germany was way lower at 55% (UK & US 85% France 89% and Japan 175% - but they've been fucked for decades)

http://voteforpolicies.org.uk

 

Mine was 100 percent Green Party. If I'm honest with my vote I've no choice but to go green.

 

In reality there's also a fair bit I don't agree with the greens but they are the best fit for my beliefs.

I came out 50-50 Labour - Lib Dem but didn't feel comfortable with any of the choices I had to make. Most interesting was that my constituency, one of the strongest Labour seats in the country had the Greens ahead of Labour (23% v 21%) from 185 people who had completed the survey.If I had a tenner I would be willing to wager this is not reflected at the next election.

Congrats

I'm with you, I've got friends who moved to Spain years ago and can't speak a word of Spanish. I'd never say they are integrated.

I've got family out there and through them have met many of their expat friends. Everyone of them speak fluent Spanish and most of them also speak Catalan. There are some who even speak a more obscure regional dialect/language. I suspect the difference is that the size of the expat community is not large enough to create an angliscised "ghetto" where they can secure all the services they need without the need to learn the language. Some I know well and they definitely see themselves as part Spanish. How the Spanish see them I don't know.

Oh dear. A little knowledge, etc.

Feel free to bring light where there is darkness.

It's not a discussion about morals, it's a discussion about practicality. Whether one person would rather live in the old Iraq or the new is open to debate, what isn't open to debate is that a violent strong arm ruler kept a lid on a lot of the religious and ethnic tension.

Except that if you had been murdered by that violent strong arm ruler in old Iraq you never got to participate in that debate. I am sure nearly every one of them would choose to be alive in the new Iraq than dead in the old Iraq.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a mass land grab by gangsters and the almost total collapse of its economy, the rise of Mao in China led to the almost total elimination of the Triads, a mass purge of corrupt officials and a crackdown on things like opium dens which the British had helped export there as a means of controlling the people.

 

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to a mass land grab by gangsters and the almost total collapse of its economy, the rise of Mao in China led to the almost total elimination of the Triads, a mass purge of corrupt officials and a crackdown on things like opium dens which the British had helped export there as a means of controlling the people.

And the starving to death of about 20 million of his own people.

Problem is,a non Labour vote is a vote for the tories. Their supporters always vote as there is a lot at stake for them(in their self important opinion of course.)

A vote for Labour is exactly the same as a vote for the the Tories or Lib Dems. Another five years of centrist populist political gobshitery. The differences are so small they aren't worthy of discussion or debate. Sure there will be a couple of meaningless headline grabbers. such as getting rid of the bedroom tax (but the damage has already been done), increasing the top rate of tax by 5% (not because it makes any real difference), tax on bankers bonuses (even though they are now only a tenth of what they were in 2009), freezing fuel rates (won't help anyone who can't afford fuel today) and so on. Pressure on NHS spending will remain - the government will continue to expect a Rolls Royce service for the price of a Skoda.

The balance of power in the EU is starting to move slowly to the right so no protection will be coming from there.

There is only one party now - they just wear different coloured ties.

Perhaps sec had omitted to mention the systematic murder of the Kurds, but I suspect Bush and Blairs adventures even made that pale into relative insignificance. Saddam was a madman, but let's not forget who supported him in the first place.

I'm sure that the families of the thousands of Kurds who died will be comforted by the knowledge that their deaths have paled into relative insignificance.

Nice one.

If you think that of Sec. you're sadly mistaken. Just because he said Saddam ruled with a loaded gun, it doesn't mean he supported him or his regime.

 

What's clear is the Iraq war was a total fucking disaster that, for the most part, has left people significantly worse off than before. Does that make Saddam his hero? Erm, no.

Significantly worse off like the thousands of Kurds Saddam murdered in Halajba?

I didn't think you could be any worse off than being significantly dead.

As for Section's comments about Saddam they don't read like a damning indictment of a mass murdering psycho to me. In fact they suggest his approach was an acceptable way to manage internal dissent within that context.

As I said, stupid, ignorant and borderline racist comments.

The harsh truth to my mind is that democracy doesn't work in these places, or at least they'd need some kind of evolution in that direction, it was the same when the Soviet Union collapsed and Yogoslavia imploded. There's this theory that once you get rid of the secret police everyone is going to celebrate and go and get a job at McDonald's, when in actual fact what they really want to do is skewer the bloke who's ancient ancestor shat on your great grandfather's donkey.

 

Pre invasion Iraq was pretty secular, it had more Christians than Pitcairn Island, because Hussein basically put a gun to everyone's head and said 'keep the peace or you're both dead'. Now the gun is gone, nothing has replaced it, not equality, not wealth, nothing, the middle east quite literally has nothing left to lose.

It is probably just me but I find this post stupid, ignorant and borderline racist.

Good ol' Saddam - he knew how to run a country alright. Just like Joe Stalin and Pol Pot. Those boys really showed the democracy jockeys how it should be done didin't they?

Labour have said, pretty unequivocally, they'll scrap the bedroom tax. They certainly don't support it. Of the two main parties, I think they're by far the best. Not voting for them in areas where it's marginal will be cutting off your nose.

So will they also scrap the Local Housing Allowance 2008 regulations which appear to do exactly the same thing for anyone in privately rented accomodation?

Baines was poor and his role in the Balotelli goal is not getting mentioned. Phil Neville even suggested it was Johnsons fault as he should have been behind Cahill (it didn't seem to matter that he was actually covering a runner from their midfield), the complete bellend. He has to be in the top ten of worst ever commentators/pundits.

I suppose it is too much to hope that the scum will still buy Baines for £20+m?

There is a conflict of interest when people in positions of power advertise newspapers.  But, seriously, nobody expects any better from Cameron, Johnson or Farage - selling their arses to their billionaire buddies is part of their job description.  As for Clegg, his entire existence for the last 4 years has been one long sell-out.

 

Naive as it may seem, people still expect better from a Labour leader.

I do.

It is one thing for the leader of an opposition party to be pictured holding up any newspaper as part of a promotion run by that newspaper - it is not something anyone should accept from the Prime Minister of the day. I would apply the same logic if I saw Joe Anderson doing the same thing with the Liverpool Echo.

Drug dealer?

Sadly no. I have applied on several occasions but fail to make it to the interview stage. The only feedback I have had is that I lack any experience in the sector and I'm up against several candidates with strong relevant experience.

Pity really cos I reckon I could do a decent job. I understand it is a high risk occupation but this is reflected in the renumeration package. I also like the flexibility and the "being your own boss side" of it too. Hours to suit etc all a benefit. A little union intervention wouldn't go amiss as I've heard that the grievance procedures can be a bit brutal.

It would be unprecedented from his and Labour's current position in the polls.

 

But, of course, precedent didn't have UKIP as a factor. And while (at least) half of the people who voted UKIP last week won't do so at the general election, they could still end up having a material impact on the result, even while not winning a single seat.

 

A Labour government on less than a third of the popular vote? With huge negative popularity ratings? Stranger things have happened.

The last time any government had a third of the vote was 1979. The last three governments haven't even reached a quarter of the vote.

True.

 

I'd question just how many people on the ground think that unemployment and the economy are going the right way. Hard to feel the good vibes from a London housing bubble if you live in Rotherham on  a zero hours contract.

I can't speak for anyone in Rotherham but I can tell you how it feels from the perspective of a middle-aged man from Kirkby who has no job and who receives absolutely no benefits, pensions or income whatsoever if you are interested?