The Politics Thread

[bwfcdan94]

Let's add Danial Hannan to the list.

Yes, let's.

And Kim Jong-un, he's a b rank amateur at speaking but knocks the socks off of Galloway and Obama at looking at things.

, "Kim Jong un looking at fish". .

[seanworth]

[Bruce Rioja]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

[thebish]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

same as usual - local council elections.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

same as usual - local council elections.

Choose a party, any party. Because of course democracy is the greatest gift to mankind we've ever had. That is until you realise that the politicians abusing the process are just there for their own personal gain/aggrandisement/influence/corruption and the people voting for them are either the same, or completely thick or totally deluded.
Call me a cynic.

[William the White]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

County councils Bruce, not Met boroughs like Bolton. no local elections for us this year.

[as]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

same as usual - local council elections.

Choose a party, any party. Because of course democracy is the greatest gift to mankind we've ever had. That is until you realise that the politicians abusing the process are just there for their own personal gain/aggrandisement/influence/corruption and the people voting for them are either the same, or completely thick or totally deluded.
Call me a cynic.

You've got my vote!

[Bruce Rioja]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

County councils Bruce, not Met boroughs like Bolton. no local elections for us this year.

Ah reet. Cheers Will.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

same as usual - local council elections.

Choose a party, any party. Because of course democracy is the greatest gift to mankind we've ever had. That is until you realise that the politicians abusing the process are just there for their own personal gain/aggrandisement/influence/corruption and the people voting for them are either the same, or completely thick or totally deluded.
Call me a cynic.

You've got my vote!

Why thank you. There'll be a sinecure in place for your good self once I've settled into the trough of power.

[thebish]

behind the headlines.....

http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/tru ... many-lies/

[Lost Leopard Spot]

behind the headlines.....

http://www.jointpublicissues.org.uk/tru ... many-lies/

*splutter* but, Bish, they're always manipulating the figures, usually downwards when it suits them, and the papers always follow the government prompt.
I was, actually, unemployed once - shocking I know (lazy lounging layabouts), and I had to re-sign on after six months. When I asked what the hell that was all about I was told, straight faced by the Benefits Officer [otherwise known as a Stalaggauleiter], that it was designed to artificially and temporarily (about one minute) to take me off the unemployment register so that I wouldn't be counted as one of the long term unemployed, but that officially it was because I could now claim means-tested mortgage or some other mumbojumbo I didn't have a clue what he was on about. I think his first unguarded comment was closer to the truth.

[Lord Kangana]

A close relative of mine works for an agency that deals with these things. Its fun and games in the run-up to elections when they get edicts handed down to them to massage the figures.

Yes Minister is spot on.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

yet more bollox from the Department of Work and Pensions here > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/25/dwp_psych_test/
Try filling it in with the mindset of a psychopath and revel in how it then tells you what a good team worker you are

[Raven]

We apparently go to the polls on the 2nd May. I've had nowt through the door - no polling card, no propaganda, no nowt. I haven't the foggiest idea as to what it is that we're meant to be voting for.

Anyone?

same as usual - local council elections.

Choose a party, any party. Because of course democracy is the greatest gift to mankind we've ever had. That is until you realise that the politicians abusing the process are just there for their own personal gain/aggrandisement/influence/corruption and the people voting for them are either the same, or completely thick or totally deluded.
Call me a cynic.

And mine, always thought that since i was 18, lying cnuts the lot of them

[as]

So I'm not being overly cynical when I don't believe a single figure they release then? Or a word they say?

That's good to hear, I thought I was losing my mind thinking that politicians only give a f**k about the manilla envelopes they pocket off big business and their billionaire chums.

I've got a pal who's a Labour party member, he met Tessa Jowell recently and was so star-struck he swallowed every b*llocking thing she told him (and he didn't even mention her husband - booooo!)

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

"Star-struck" when meeting Tessa Jowell?!

[as]

"Star-struck" when meeting Tessa Jowell?!

Exactly my point - he'd slated her previously, then he met her and turned to putty!

[Lost Leopard Spot]

"Star-struck" when meeting Tessa Jowell?!

Exactly my point - he'd slated her previously, then he met her and turned to putty!

It'll be the interchange of pheromones. I once asked a neighbour why he'd agreed to be co-opted onto the parish council and he replied that it was a very prestigious appointment up there in terms of local kudos with when he'd become a Rotarian, he then did a kind of weird leer cum wink and stated that it was a turn on for the ladies. He wasn't in the slightest bit kidding.

[thebish]

RIP NHS...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -as-nhs-gp

[mummywhycantieatcrayons]

RIP NHS...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... -as-nhs-gp

"I believe the way a society delivers its healthcare defines the values and nature of that society."

Which other society delivers healthcare in the way he would like it to be delivered?

And has the NHS delivered world-class outcomes on any metric during his career?