Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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#116 seemed to indicate it was unique to the Labour Party!
Audere est facere.
Barracking the opposition is the political sport of choice across the board but it is tiresome and achieves nothing of any use to the masses - you and me! - and just serves to bolster the egos and flagging support (what a nasty thought that could conjure!) of the various politicians.
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The greatest exponent of yah boo sucks politics is the Prime Minister himself every wednesday at PMQ. Which I always feel is a pity. His well rehearsed one liners produce ever so fake schoolboy guffaws all around him. So egged on was he in recent times by this guffawing, that he had to make apologies for being offensive later to various groups...women mostly.
A certain amount of opposition happens for opposition sake and we all understand that, but when there is no opposition at all this is also decried, people bemoan the lack of an opposition.
The real opposition this time is coming from the general public who have the ability to voice their opposition these days via the social media...they are making their voice heard on the pension cock-up across the networks this morning...the one bit of the Budget that didnt reach the media beforehand.
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They're all the same, PaulB. Reminds me of a Morecambe and Wise show many years ago when a guest asked Ernie: Where's Eric? Answer: In his dressing room rehearsing his ad-libs.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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just caught a bit on a news channel about dave and george inviting a delegation of pensioners to downing street to explain how the budget is good for them.
Keith Sansum1
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well said post 119
of course its about the opposition doing just that,
but as has been said the tories should be more worried about there own people and the usual supporters of the party weeping,
it will all end in tears,,,,
peter;
you don't need tro rejoin the tories lol
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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#121, no, all parties are guilty. Some more than others though.
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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I would bet any money that everyone posting on here if they were in the 'bear pit' of the Commons would be behaving in exactly the same way. I expect some do, at football matches or other sporting events for instance, it is exactly the same motivation and emotions in play.
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Precisely (some of) my reasons for not getting involved in local government, Barry.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
I think it reasonable to expect a degree of self control in people expecting us to vote them into a position of power...........
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i was listening to the chancellor yesterday pleading poverty about how he does not earn enough to pay the top tax rate then i came across this.
a bit too late as my postal order had already gone off to him.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/theyre-all-in-it-together-tory-rich-list-are-big-winners-from-50p-cut-7582613.htmlKeith Sansum1- Location: london
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BERN;
AGREED
BARRYW;
Don' see that kind ofbehaviour at football matches.
this is about the GREAT SWITCH OFF I hope that not to many people watch
P.M.Q,. otherwise even more wouldn't vote
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Beat me to it Howard...................
50p top rate tax....................
Beneficiary`s ....................they`re all in it together..........................
Cameron`s will receive ....................................£ 5,000 pay rise.....
Boris will receive ............................................£ 10,000 pay rise......
Osborne will receive........................................£ 3,000 pay rise......
Jeremy Hunt will receive.............................................£....unknown ....as yet....
Francis Maude will receive..........................................£ ...unknown.....as yet....
Phillip Hammond will receive.......................................£...unknown ...as yet....
Lord Strathclyde will receive .......................................£..unknown ..as yet.....
Ministers explained salaries are a matter of public knowledge but not their finances..............
...........do they really need this money?.............................
...........will they have up sticks with their families to another country? ( as the fkeauk`s continually tell us )?...........nah!!..
......................................If only they would...........................
...........do they really need this money ............................more than the pensioners etc,etc,etc,etc,etc.............
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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no they dont
thought this was a working mans budget
didnt realise they meant the ministers men
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Brian Dixon
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kieth,do you mean robin hood and frior tuck.you know the story they rob the poor and give it to the rich.
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at least the front bench will be ok
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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The tax grab from the pensioners was not the only hidden bombshell in the budget.......................
Osborne has silently taken £ 500,000,000 from the NHS..............
At the same time Olly gave £ 3 billion tax cut to the richest people in the country...............a tax cut worth £ 40,000 for
the 14,000 people earning over £ 1 million pa.............
We have a government that takes money from pensioners and patients and gives generously to the rich......surprised?..
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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So 40,000 x 14,000 = £3billion ??
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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Only in La-la-labourland, Paul. Where unemployment is nonexistent, borrowings don't have to be paid back, and unions choose the prime minister.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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.........just for the other fkeaunk`s.....................
14,000 the number earning over £ 1 million.........there are lot of other rich people enjoying the rest of the £ 3 billion....
...........best to take more than 2 minutes to think it over..............
