The Political Thread

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Here's one for you instead, as it seems to be me doing all the answering but no one answers my valid points. Explain why those Labour councils never reinvested the money from the council house sales into more housing stock, seeing as no body wants to answer that one.

Or why no one mentions the milk being stopped by Labour.

It's because the posts are ways anti anything but Labour.

I dare you all to write down some things that have upset you from Labour and not just Blair's version. Pretty big lists I bet but it goes against your code.

[Richmond Clements]

Pretty big lists I bet but it goes against your code.

What in the name of hell are you talking about? What code is this?
Oh! Is the the secret one that the left wing junta have?
I have told you before that I never have and never will vote Labour.
I'll ask again a question i asked yo before - why do you assume everyone 'Left wing' votes labour? It's like thinking everyone right wing would vote UKIP...

[Jim_Campbell]

Explain why those Labour councils never reinvested the money from the council house sales into more housing stock, seeing as no body wants to answer that one.

Because the legislation enabling the sake if council houses prevented those same councils reinvesting the proceeds in new house building.

Could the subsequent Labour government have done more about this? Yes. Could they do anything about the vast majority of the housing stock that had already been sold? Not so much.

Cheers

Jim

[vzzbux]

Just to lighten the place up a little.




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[Steve Green]

I noticed that Rimmel are running an advert for 'Apocalips'

Nice to see someone's getting some mileage out of the chubby kid's antics.

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Where did I post that I said everyone who is left wing voted Labour Richmond. I'm at work now so I won't be able to look on my phone for a while. When you've found that particular post I will be happy.

As for the code, its very hard for anyone on the left to pick fault with anything done by the left, especially when you look through this thread.

[Definitely Not Mister Pops]

There are two kinds of people in the world.

Those that can extrapolate from....

...no that's not right.

There're people that have lived past puberty and there are sensible adults.

The problem is, policies (left or right or wrong) are based on the behaviour of the former, and it frustrates the latter.

This sweeping statement was brought to you by a 12 Hour shift followed by pints.

[judgefloyd]

If you think the Oz situation couldn't be resolved on the spot diplomatically then so be it. If this did happen and he was terrified that it would've caused a diplomatic incident, probably along the lines of when some Oz bird touched the back of the Queen the other year, then god help us all.

It really is quite simple I would've thought. The racist Thatcher says her piece and he does a polite laugh. He then says to Maggie something along the lines of 'You must say that to my wife, she will love that' and then he introduces her. Now that wouldn't cause a major incident would it!

Now if he was so terrified that we would invade because of this, why not wait until the next day and go on the news about it then. I refer you to my earlier post about not being sued by the dead.

I don't know what you're getting at Commando Forces.  I think it's pretty simple too.  Thatcher said something kind of racist, he thought it was  a bit insensitive, especially given the proximity of his wife and he remembered this when asked to reminisce about her.  You'll note that he said lots of respectful stuff too.  I don't think he did anything cowardly or wrong at the time.  I don't think he has done anything hypocritical by repeating the story now and your little story about what he should have done hasn't changed my opinion.
  That's about it really.  Feel free to drop Bob Carr a line explaining what he should have done.
      Moving along, there's a piece by an American writer, Lionel Shriver, explaining that Thatcher was a real feminist because she knew what she believed in.  That's a tired alibi for all sorts of obnoxiousness - people used to say it about Joh Bjelke Peterson (pretty much our most corrupt politician ever) -
'well at least you know what he thinks, hah hah'.
   This is not to say that Thatcher was as corrupt as Bjelke Petersen or that everything she did was awful, just that it's a lame reason for respecting someone.
  Shriver doesn't explain why an American thinks its great the the British hold on to Nothern Ireland, but it obviously turns her on. 

[Jared Katooie]

Say what you like about Thatcher, but she was definitely a human female politician.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Say what you like about Thatcher, but she was definitely a SPACE LIZARD female politician.

FTFY

[Trout]

Say what you like about Thatcher, but she was definitely a SPACE LIZARD female politician WITH EVIL LASER EYES.

FTFY

FTFTFYFY

[Ancient Otter]

I always love this sort of stuff from people who know you can't slander the dead and end up in court.

Apparently she commissioned her biography way back in 1997 but said to release it only after her death...muck raking ahoy!

On Thatcher & Britain - what does the board think of opinions that the U.K. was in decline for a good while before she came into power and her position merely delayed/exacerbated said decline?

[Professor Bear]

What I have loved most the last few days is hearing the defensive rhetoric from Tories about what would be said by the deluded hate-filled leftie trots and poofters in the days to come - even before said Tories knew what had been said about Mrs T, or even if anything was said at all, "you'll probably hear from the usual bitter lefties that Mrs T did this or that" kind of thing, usually followed by "but labor did worse back in the day and you don't hear people complaining about that, do you?  No because EVERYTHING IS A LEFTIE SOCIALIST CONSPIRACY TO KEEP THE WHITE MAN CONSERVATIVE VOTER DOWN."

[Silent_Bomber]

I don't really get why the government should be giving out free milk anyway to be honest, shouldn't parents be taking the responsibility of looking after their own children?

[COMMANDO FORCES]

Oh my God!