The Politics Thread

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Who will you be voting for?

Labour
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41%
Conservatives
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38%
Liberal Democrats
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6%
UK Independence Party (UKIP)
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Green Party
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9%
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Other
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Sun Nov 02, 2014 4:32 pm

Hoboh wrote:
Prufrock wrote:And yeah, sweatshops are hilarious.
I know especially those working for the good 'ole fems and socialists :mrgreen:

And some nutters want a cretin like Harman in government with her good judgement :crazy:
which person "with good judgement" - out of those who will most likely stand for election would YOU want in government?

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Sun Nov 02, 2014 11:09 pm

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/n ... d-migrants" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

So, who will blink first?

Odds on it will be our pillock PM aided and abetted by that thing Clegg.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Mon Nov 03, 2014 4:00 am

Newsflash Hoboh

Cameron is pretending to be tough on the EU. He knows, you know and everyone else knows that the EU is not about to start restricting free movement of people in the EU. Most of the folk that fund the Tory party would not be pleased at an EU exit and Scotland would almost certainly bugger off if we did.

We need change, not an exit. The change really needs to start in Westminster before we worry about the EU.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Lord Kangana » Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:24 am

Does that mean we'd get to bar Farage's wife from working here, the filthy workshy benefit-cheating scumbag, and pack her off back to wherever she came from? And would his two children be forced to live on Radio Caroline out in the Channel?
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:03 am

Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:Newsflash Hoboh

Cameron is pretending to be tough on the EU. He knows, you know and everyone else knows that the EU is not about to start restricting free movement of people in the EU. Most of the folk that fund the Tory party would not be pleased at an EU exit and Scotland would almost certainly bugger off if we did.

We need change, not an exit. The change really needs to start in Westminster before we worry about the EU.
Lets suppose Scotland did, it would leave with far less than Salmond was demanding and even less than we were prepared to give them.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Abdoulaye's Twin » Mon Nov 03, 2014 10:19 am

Hoboh wrote:
Abdoulaye's Twin wrote:Newsflash Hoboh

Cameron is pretending to be tough on the EU. He knows, you know and everyone else knows that the EU is not about to start restricting free movement of people in the EU. Most of the folk that fund the Tory party would not be pleased at an EU exit and Scotland would almost certainly bugger off if we did.

We need change, not an exit. The change really needs to start in Westminster before we worry about the EU.
Lets suppose Scotland did, it would leave with far less than Salmond was demanding and even less than we were prepared to give them.
But they'd have what they want, unlike the rest of the UK, that would have just lost it's easy and cheap access to it's 2 biggest markets. I suppose at least you'll be able to buy some cheap houses...

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:35 pm

She succeeds Ashton, who kept a low public profile, won few friends in Brussels and focused on the Iranian nuclear issue and the Balkans, not being very engaged on the Ukraine crisis where Berlin and Angela Merkel have dominated the diplomacy.
“I will be very involved in Ukraine,” pledged Mogherini, while confirming that Berlin now wielded greater clout in the foreign policy councils of the EU, supplanting the British and the French.

Step one of three steps to The Fourth Reich.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Prufrock » Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:49 pm

Because both ourselves and the French have a flawless record when it comes to responsibly wielding power and influence!
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by William the White » Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:56 pm

Hoboh wrote:She succeeds Ashton, who kept a low public profile, won few friends in Brussels and focused on the Iranian nuclear issue and the Balkans, not being very engaged on the Ukraine crisis where Berlin and Angela Merkel have dominated the diplomacy.
“I will be very involved in Ukraine,” pledged Mogherini, while confirming that Berlin now wielded greater clout in the foreign policy councils of the EU, supplanting the British and the French.

Step one of three steps to The Fourth Reich.
You know, I have a feeling the Fourth may be quite a bit better than the previous three... don't you? :roll:

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Tue Nov 04, 2014 9:36 am

William the White wrote:
Hoboh wrote:She succeeds Ashton, who kept a low public profile, won few friends in Brussels and focused on the Iranian nuclear issue and the Balkans, not being very engaged on the Ukraine crisis where Berlin and Angela Merkel have dominated the diplomacy.
“I will be very involved in Ukraine,” pledged Mogherini, while confirming that Berlin now wielded greater clout in the foreign policy councils of the EU, supplanting the British and the French.

Step one of three steps to The Fourth Reich.
You know, I have a feeling the Fourth may be quite a bit better than the previous three... don't you? :roll:
Your dreams of being a perfect Europhile are heading for the rocks.

Actually I look forward to the day you nailed on, sell out the country, Europhiles move to the continent and create lesser pressure on the country's resources.

Relocate council estates and spongers to Bonn like we are having to put up with,
Rebeca State, seen rattling her cup at the Labour leader, hails from Romania. (Perhaps she’s got a brother called Welfare.) She tells reporters that she is forced to live on the £5 a day she ‘earns’ as a beggar. She came here with her parents two years ago, but they have since returned home to care for a sick relative.
Rebeca lives with her aunt, mother-of-nine Livia Stoica, in the Levenshulme area of Manchester. She doesn’t attend school. A visibly embarrassed Miliband dropped ‘60p or 70p’ into her cup, but couldn’t look her in the eye.
Stick your Kraut Euro plan up your ass Merkel, even the blind over here are slowly seeing what your doing mien fuhrer!

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Tue Nov 04, 2014 2:18 pm

Originally, the MoD planned to train 2,000 Libyans, many of them former revolutionaries, at the Bassingbourn base. But now the first cohort of 300 recruits is being sent home and the further training of Libyan soldiers is in doubt.

The Guardian has learned that the scheme has been beset with problems since it began in June and the MoD has admitted that 90 recruits – almost a third of the 325 who were carefully selected to take part in the programme – have “withdrawn”.

The MoD confirmed that some left following disciplinary and behavioural issues while others returned home for personal and medical reasons. It is understood that some of the recruits expressed little interest in the training on offer.

Five officers have also been charged with sexual offences including rape. Recruits had been ordered to stay on the base and trips cancelled, but local MP Andrew Lansley claimed on Monday that this was not being adhered to and wrote to the MoD calling on them to end the scheme. He said the consequences of soldiers going on unescorted trips had been “unacceptable”.

A number of the recruits, believed to be about 20, have also claimed asylum although both the Home Office and the MoD have refused to confirm or deny this. Questions are being asked about the way the MoD has managed this programme.
Either bomb them or just leave them alone, these silly buggers are years and years behind the civilised world.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Tue Nov 04, 2014 3:02 pm

Hoboh wrote: Stick your Kraut Euro plan up your ass Merkel, even the blind over here are slowly seeing what your doing mien fuhrer!
to call Merkel, of all people "Mien fuhrer" (even with the spelling-outrage and a missing umlaut) is a staggering display of your total lack of understanding! bravo! :oyea:

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Tue Nov 04, 2014 4:53 pm

thebish wrote:
Hoboh wrote: Stick your Kraut Euro plan up your ass Merkel, even the blind over here are slowly seeing what your doing mien fuhrer!
to call Merkel, of all people "Mien fuhrer" (even with the spelling-outrage and a missing umlaut) is a staggering display of your total lack of understanding! bravo! :oyea:
Comrade then seeing she kind of sucks up to Putin, she has the background :mrgreen:

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Wed Nov 05, 2014 12:45 am

But Merkel also hit out at pressure to spend and borrow more, declaring:


We want to stick to the Stability and Growth Pact. This is also about growth and that is why we must reject a debate about austerity against growth. This is mistaken and takes us no further.”
What a lovely woman,
Sod the poor eh?

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Worthy4England » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:58 am

Hoboh wrote:
But Merkel also hit out at pressure to spend and borrow more, declaring:


We want to stick to the Stability and Growth Pact. This is also about growth and that is why we must reject a debate about austerity against growth. This is mistaken and takes us no further.”
What a lovely woman,
Sod the poor eh?
That's exactly what our current Government said when they were elected. No Borrow and Spend, need to fund stuff on growth.

It's like she's one of us. Couldn't get any closer aligned.

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Wed Nov 05, 2014 7:33 pm

And now the tip of the iceburg

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/n ... corruption" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by thebish » Wed Nov 05, 2014 8:52 pm

Hoboh - are you on some kind of anti-EU media-watch alert programme that notifies you of any anti-EU-type stories so you can get angry about them - or do you spend most of the day trawling the Guardian and the BBC and the Mail to find such stories?

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Bruce Rioja » Wed Nov 05, 2014 9:45 pm

thebish wrote:Hoboh - are you on some kind of anti-EU media-watch alert programme that notifies you of any anti-EU-type stories so you can get angry about them - or do you spend most of the day trawling the Guardian and the BBC and the Mail to find such stories?
Not sure how he's missed the one about EU migrants paying in a shitload more than they've taken out?!

Maybe we should be welcoming them in by the "Literally busloads" afterall :conf:

Here it is; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29910497" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by Hoboh » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:43 pm

Bruce Rioja wrote:
thebish wrote:Hoboh - are you on some kind of anti-EU media-watch alert programme that notifies you of any anti-EU-type stories so you can get angry about them - or do you spend most of the day trawling the Guardian and the BBC and the Mail to find such stories?
Not sure how he's missed the one about EU migrants paying in a shitload more than they've taken out?!

Maybe we should be welcoming them in by the "Literally busloads" afterall :conf:

Here it is; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29910497" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nope never missed it :)

Was busy with the fruit cakes in the Guardian comments on that one :mrgreen:

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Re: The Politics Thread

Post by William the White » Wed Nov 05, 2014 10:45 pm

Hoboh wrote:
Bruce Rioja wrote:
thebish wrote:Hoboh - are you on some kind of anti-EU media-watch alert programme that notifies you of any anti-EU-type stories so you can get angry about them - or do you spend most of the day trawling the Guardian and the BBC and the Mail to find such stories?
Not sure how he's missed the one about EU migrants paying in a shitload more than they've taken out?!

Maybe we should be welcoming them in by the "Literally busloads" afterall :conf:

Here it is; http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29910497" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Nope never missed it :)

Was busy with the fruit cakes in the Guardian comments on that one :mrgreen:
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