Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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and cant run a country either peter.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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peter;
I share your view on thatchers privatisation fiasco
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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As I said earlier everyone is missing the big picture, unlike this bloke:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/9622068/It-is-wind-power-that-will-send-our-bills-sky-high.html
Still waiting for Barry's balanced view on this issue.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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barryw
balanced view????
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Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
A balanced view from ANY of the political posters (not just Barry) on Dover Forum would make a change but I am of an age when I no longer believe in miracles.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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That's a big ask, as they say, Jan. Where in all of human existence has there ever been such a thing as a 'balanced' anything?
To not encounter a cross-roads or a fork in the path of life, cannot be said to be a life at all. Could the ideal be to follow only the beaten path, to be unchanging in a universe that is ever on the move?
To be faced with nothing but path, as to be standing in a car park, say. Where each choice of direction presents the same ground beneath the feet, even then would we not choose to travel in a line that brings us to our favoured destination? Could we ever choose to wander aimlessly, to be a part of the madding crowd, to simply mill about?
Funnily enough, to go back to the 'beaten path'. This is the route travelled by Utility companies. They assume (quite correctly) that the need for what they sell is on-going and without end. The major difficulty Politically, is that politics has been written out of the story, people have written out of the story. To be replaced by profit.
Utilities, as with house prices recently, are set to have increased and ever increasing profits on and on regardless.
If only, Utilities were such a political-football as Health and Education.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
- Registered: 25 Aug 2010
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Im sure i follow all that tom lol
jan;
nice your support of baz
i try to balanced but imt not in the political arena
but there will always be differences of opinion
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Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,879
Who says I was supporting anyone,
it just made me laugh that Keith was asking for a balanced view.
I know I am not as clever as you Tom but half the time I have not the faintest idea what you are on about.
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Guest 710- Registered: 28 Feb 2011
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You have a point Keith, not enough coffee then, but I have put that right.
Perhaps in wishing for there to be balance there needs to be two distinct, equally sustainable, equally correct, truths? Though, I cannot imagine that anybody could remain balanced in face if such a thing.
The actual difficulty might arise because instead of truths we settle for positions, and so save ourselves from the madness of choosing between two (or more) opposing yet equally plausible options.
I keep myself from such madness by putting People above all else. Therefore what does not work for the common good is wrong, without question.
There is no secret to this. It is probably the one thing all people and all Politicians agree upon. The disagreement arises with regard to how best to achieve the greater good.
Time was that one side claimed that only by granting they few all that they asked for would improvement come to the many. BarryW is a prime example of how this tradition is kept alive, even in the face of countless failures of the trickle down point of view.
Alas, the one side that held that a different, each and all in the one mess together, view was best, has expended all it's energy on agreeing with the first lot. They, the second lot, chose Power over Principle, and the Electorate congratulated them for this coming-together so that you can't get a cigarette-paper between the two Political Partys that are set to hold sway over us for the foreseeable future.
It is we, the Electorate, that have shot ourselves in the foot-chure. In our search for balance we cast aside one of the pans.
It is we, the Electorate, that must right this wrong... guess what?
The first thing that must happen is for all eligible for the Voting Franchise must seize it and must make an issue of having seized it.
There is but one location that has been largely unaffected by any of our recent troubles and that is the Palace of Westminster.
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Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Good post Keith. Philip Davies is amongst a handful of true Tory MPs.
The rest of them are not worth a tinker's cuss. Absolutely useless dog whistle politicians headed by a liberal leader Cameron.
Still if people are happy to see their energy bills double in order to combat a religious belief it's up to them but count me out.
Still waiting for BarryW's "balanced" view on this issue. It's been months now and he is conspicuous by his absence.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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barryw balanced???
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Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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In the case of some contributors to this forum, the only balance I can detect is a chip on both shoulders.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Is Keith berating others for their lack of balance? In a minute he'll be claiming Reg is open minded about the Coalition's performance.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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without wishing to be pedantic david you have missed off the "cobbled together" prefix.
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Guest 716- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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# 34 ....ill-conceived policies do not deserve a open minded balanced opinion.....
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Reg
#37 - you are wrong. Ill-conceived policies deserve an open-minded, well balanced hoot of derision. Sometimes the only thing politicians understand is a well-timed raspberry.
True friends stab you in the front.
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Balance = Profit - Greed
Profit is good but becomes un-balanced by Greed.
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