howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Just posturing Howard, a veiled threat to Ed to toe the line
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Conservatives not right wing enough Labour not left wing enough, the times they are a changing.
Audere est facere.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Correct Martin, at least now there's an alternative
And a lot of us are Spurs fans
Guest 715- Registered: 9 Jun 2011
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Interesting times for sure, I would not advertise the Spurs fan at the moment, could be seen as a sign of poor decision making ;)
#COYS
Audere est facere.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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i'm not so sure it is posturing, ed miliband has no leadership qualities and his party is drifting with no coherent alternative policies to the coalition.
we know that the late bob crow was unhappy with the reds over their european stance so if his successor is of the same mind then their money put together with unite could finance a new party.
Guest 714- Registered: 14 Apr 2011
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Howard if it was anything but posturing they'd start a new party now, before the election. Its just a threat to Ed to toe the Unite line, interesting to see how he responds.
Guest 745- Registered: 27 Mar 2012
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Action and reaction
The union will not keep paying for a party that will not support there views.
You Pay the pipers, you call the tune.
The unions have been under attack for years, in one way or other .
Would the rich bankers keep paying for the conservative party if that party never supported there paymasters ?
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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A new party for me to join.
Guest 725- Registered: 7 Oct 2011
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Great idea. It might steal even more votes from the useless labour party giving them even less influence over crucial matters which affect us all. Let's face it labour are a dead duck. They deserve that status. A cobbled together clan of professional career politicians who serve their apprenticeship in local government and mid management public sector jobs banging on about cuts, climate change and food banks. What an appalling prospect if these muppets manage to get back into power.
I mean they must be rubbing their collective hands in glee at the prospect of hundreds of jobs disappearing from the coal sector so that the useful idiots can say that they are helping to save the planet.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/energy/10740600/Britain-to-have-just-one-remaining-coal-pit-after-UK-Coal-announces-closures.html
Not a peep from Miliband on this issue for obvious reasons.
Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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It is very sad about more coal mines going we in the UK ARE SITING ON OVER 500YEARS OF COAL POWER which if mined in a safe way would bring 1000s of new jobs and give 1000s of our young folks a very good trade.
I have been saying this more many years now coal mining can e done a lot safer now then years ago and we need to get them open up again and stop importing coal.
Guest 698- Registered: 28 May 2010
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The safe way is CBM extraction, which many confuse with fracking.
I'm an optimist. But I'm an optimist who takes my raincoat - Harold Wilson