RedRazor
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So do you think we are heading for a federal Europe? Do you think that will be a good thing if we are?
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Really? They are going to cut Education and spend the money on three aircraft carriers? I've heard them saying they would build three aircraft carriers (god alone knows why) but never heard them say that it would be funded by cuts in Education. Thay they would make it legal for a man to rape and/or assualt his wife? Cancelling all planned house building? The rest I don't know and can't be arsed checking. All this for a party that may get a few seats in a European parliament that can't do anything anyway. God help them when the real election comes around. Come on Bobby. The title should have been "Things I have made up about UKIP because I want them to be true" and signed by A Numpty. Maybe they should go for "Farage's Wife's Grandad Bombed My Chippy".
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The answer varies depending on a number of factors such as: - whether or not I've been drinking - whether or not they're loadsamoney fucking money grabbing cockney bastards (bit of a giveaway there) - whether or not I like them - whether or not it affects me personally. Depending on the extent to which an applicant satisfies my criteria I would be prepared to consider anything from under one mile to 450+ miles.
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Exactly and all it does is reinforce the inflated prices that landlords charge. Agreed that they need to build more but they need more affordable housing, more social housing and more sheltered accomodation. And if the demand is there more housing for private rental. But even if they started tomorrow it would be years before they made any real impact.
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If they are applying for social housing that is exactly what happens now. You don't get to walk in and ask for 32 Acacia Avenue - if you are lucky you will get offered something that happens to be available at that time. So it is a question of distance not principle.
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End of Season question: Do you consider this season a success?
RedRazor replied to WhiskeyJar's topic in FF - Football Forum
I don't have the words to adequately express how I feel but I am very proud of the way the club has played and what it has acheived this season. This season will live long in our memories. But I am also heartbroken and gutted. So if this is success then it doesn't feel that great although targets have been acheived and all that. -
They aren't buying all of the houses - just some of them. I nearly got myself a job a couple of months back that would have meant working away from home during the week. I would have looked to rent privately because - it would have been short term (probably 18 months), - I would want to pick where I rented and - I guess that I wouldn't have met any of the social housing criteria for getting a property. If there were no private landlords my only option would have been a B&B. What about the hundreds of thousands of students who look for temporary accomodation each year? I think there is a place for private landlords and have no issue with them. Justt like any other section of society there will be good and bad landlords. The bedroom tax is a disgusting piece of legislation imo. But I maintain that it's primary focus, coupled with the benefits cap, was to reduce what the state was paying for housing in London and the South East. The fact that the fallout is felt throughout the country was incidental to the Tories. Even in a shitty area of London rents start at about £2k per month for a flat and £3k for a house in the private market. I don't feel the state has any obligation to house people at these prices just because they feel they "belong" or want to live in a particular area.
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But that isn't really telling the whole story is it? Foreign corporations would only be able to sue if governments made laws that discriminated against foreign corporations that had invested in a country. If a law impacts both foreign and national corporations in the same way (as they should) then they can't sue. Governments retain the right to pass any laws that they choose that are in the public interest and cannot be sued for doing so. I'm not sure much is changing with TTIP.
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How does this help? There are people who do not want to buy and like having the choice over where they rent. Where I live there is a mix of privately owned, privately rented, sheltered and social housing. Prices are affordable (starter homes from £60k upwards, private rents £500 per month), there is no-one living on the streets and as far as I am aware there isn't a housing problem. Are you proposing another national solution to a problem that primarily exists inside the M25? A bit like the bedroom tax?
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Oh. and your post made as much sense as an Edward Lear poem. Here is one reproduced for your delectation: "How pleasant to know Mr. Lear, Who has written such volumes of stuff. Some think him ill-tempered and queer, But a few find him pleasant enough. His mind is concrete and fastidious, His nose is remarkably big; His visage is more or less hideous, His beard it resembles a wig. He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers, (Leastways if you reckon two thumbs); He used to be one of the singers, But now he is one of the dumbs. He sits in a beautiful parlour, With hundreds of books on the wall; He drinks a great deal of marsala, But never gets tipsy at all. He has many friends, laymen and clerical, Old Foss is the name of his cat; His body is perfectly spherical, He weareth a runcible hat. When he walks in waterproof white, The children run after him so! Calling out, "He's gone out in his night- Gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!" He weeps by the side of the ocean, He weeps on the top of the hill; He purchases pancakes and lotion, And chocolate shrimps from the mill. He reads, but he does not speak, Spanish, He cannot abide ginger beer; Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish, How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!"
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And I respond in kind to you good Sir - go and jolly well roger yourself up the bottom. I never voted for the "inside the M25 party" and never intend to.
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I've been to Montevideo and have a photo somehwere of me standing next to the anchor of the Graf Spee. Other than that I thought it was a shithole - although I am impressed with one of their more recent exports.
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This will sound extremely harsh, normally I am a really caring and sensitive person, but if you are talking about anything that relates to housing for anyone living inside the M25 ..... then they can just fuck off, rot in the streets or move back to their parents. I really do not give one flying fuck about the house price obsessed shower of shite. They are the reason we have the bedroom tax. They are the reason we have the current house price bubble. Fuck 'em. Anywhere else then we (the government) need to sort it out.
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It really isn't that black and white though is it? Someone needs to write a book on this. Maybe they could call it 50 Shades Of Gray (not tp be confused with 50 Shades Of Grey which is chick lit porn)
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Monday's choice is Typhus or Cholera. Tuesday's choice is Typhus or Cholera. Wednesday's choice is Typhus or Cholera. Thursday's choice is Typhus, Cholera or Polio. At least Thursday will be a bit different from the rest of the week.
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What funding would that be? Could it in be the money that we paid to Europe that they agreed to pay back to us by way of a rebate (negotiated by Her Who's Name Shall Not Be Mentioned)? Sounds like dogmatic claptrap to me. What are these "assaults on the common man" to which you refer?
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Claptrap? Pistols at dawn Sir. Defend yourself or forever hide behind your internet anonimity. Seriously though my second last sentence was "If you want to buy into this then all you need to do is absolutely nothing." is this the one you meant?
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It isn't Bobby it is dead straightforward.. If you have enough money you will buy/rent. If you don't then you won't. If more people buy/rent then prices go up - if they don't then prices go down. It is about as simple as it gets.
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Do you have any response to the final paragraph of my post above re: United States of Europe. Because this is the big issue but no-one ever seems to want to discuss it.
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A bit of a fudge though isn't it? 6.5 bn Euros in "mistakes" (or fraud) is not a small amount of money. The ECA is the EU's own auditory body. It comprises members from the EU states that will include the benficiaries of any fraud. It has nowhere near the level of independence that is required imo. It is neither "external" (as it pretends to be) or impartial (how can it be?). They produce the audit report and the European Parliament then have to sign it off - which they have failed to do on several occasions. It is a bit like putting Jimmy Saville's mates in charge of the investigation into his behaviour. I'm not sure what percentage of our laws originate in the EU. What is the real number?
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I don't disagree with the sentiment but the two phrases in bold - to me they are the same people. It isn't the Greek small holder overstating the number of olive trees he has but the large landowners and corporations who are creaming the system. The EU is as corrupt as fuck which is why they cannot find an independant accountant to sign off their audited accounts. You mention waste and a massive contributer to this is the bi-annual switch between Brussels and Strasbourg. Why the fuck do they do this? It costs absolutely millions. Have it in one place - and I don't care which. You mention the clean up of the Mersey and condemn the Tories yet the prime mover behind the set up of the Merseybasin cleanup was Michael Hesletine. Admittedly the EU contributed to the process both financially and through ever more stringent legislation but we had already begun to move in that direction. There is no doubt that the EU have made it happen much faster.The bulk of the cost, though, was borne by the water rate payers of the north west. You mention the number of hours that people have to work yet the UK (under the Tories) negotiated an opt out. To the shame of New Labour they failed to correct this despite being in office for 13 years. But my view is that it is a load of rubbish anyway. Not just in the UK but across Europe. People largely choose to abide by it or ignore it depending on which suits their personal circumstances. As for reining in bankers excesses I think we need to be very careful. There are over a million people in this country who work in financial services and very very few earn big money. It represents about 3% of the workforce but contributes about 10% of the government's income. No other large country in the EU relies on financial services for such a disproportionate level of their income. It is galling that the people who caused the economic challenges we now face appear to have got off scot free and continue to be rewarded obscenely for their incompetence. But I am suspicious of the EU motivation for their stance. Is it really just an attempt to shift a nice little earner from London to Paris and Frankfurt? But I think the big question that needs to asked is where is the EU heading? My view is that the political classes are driving towards an ultimate goal of creating a "United States of Europe" where all significant power and decision making will be centralised at the heart of Europe. There will be one army, one currency, one central bank, one overiding set of economic policies. All the individual states will be able to do is vote on whether pubs can open on a Sunday and similar. If you want to buy into this then all you need to do is absolutely nothing. I want to be asked the question so that I can make my own decision and have my say.
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Agree entirely with your post. Who on here is praising them? Hopefully you are not putting me in that camp? For the record, I see them as a single issue protest party. The fact that they have no depth to any of their other policies is, imo, a sympton of that. I am sure that if I could be bothered looking at the policies of people like the Green Party there would be some fairly immature proposals in there also. (but I can't be bothered). But it is all irrelevant as they will never gain any power or influence anyway. So why do you, the media and the other three parties focus so much on these irrelevancies? Is it to dodge the primary issue on which they standing? They want us out of the EU and it is as simple as that.
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"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" Evelyn Beatrice Hall from her biography of Voltaire. Just a thought.
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Such as? Any examples?
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I must have missed that bit. What did he say that was remotely racist?