The Politics Thread

[Gravedigger]

I really like Alan Johnson.

Poor man's Norman Wisdom

[ratbert]

Fewer police officers as well.

Hmmmm Hoboh will be happy.

On the point of Police Officers. Now, mine might be a rather simplistic view, but if we have a problem with Coppers spending more time writing about crime than solving it, how come we have Coppers retiring at 52? Shouldn't there be a point at which they're taken out of active service and given jobs back at the station, thus freeing up the Bobby on the beat, and then working to a proper age like the rest of us?

That would be far too easy!

[superjohnmcginlay]

So looks like half a million public sector workers will be out of a job over the next few years.

Estimates suggest the knock on effect will leave slightly more private sector workers out of work, despite what this government might like to spin.

Over a million unemployed.

Unsurprisingly the majority will be middle to lower incomes.

But thats ok, the bankers still get their bonuses.

I have sympathy with those men and women whose lives are ripped apart by this and whose families suffer significantly through this. Its the human element that matters most.

But whats worse is these announcements are used to try and score cheap political points.

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

Rant over.

Fairly restrained BWFCI, I thought you'd be calling for the morphine about now.

[Bruce Rioja]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

[General Mannerheim]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

shut it, smelly poo head!

[BWFC_Insane]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

Well its how I feel right now and I bet I'm not alone.

I did explain it was a rant.

[thebish]

anyone wonder what the libdems think??

"We have protected the most vulnerable, saved cold weather payments from planned Labour cuts and ensured there will be no impact on child poverty."

Commenting on the Comprehensive Spending Review Liberal Democrat Pensions Minister, Steve Webb said:

"These reforms are essential if we are to have a welfare system that protects those most in need and encourages people into work instead of trapping them in poverty. This is something the Lib Dems have long campaigned for.

"We have taken some very difficult decisions and of course some of these cuts will be painful, but we have protected the most vulnerable, saved cold weather payments from planned Labour cuts and ensured there will be no impact on child poverty.

I thought they pledged to cut child poverty?

[William the White]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

Well, Dante envisaged a Hell with nine circles and appropriate punishments for the inhabitants thereof. Obviously people will have different views on whether Cameron etc fit into any of them - but I think it's possible to make a rational case for Circle Eight:

Circle eight - Fraudulent, pimps, seducers, flatterers, simonists, sorcerers, corrupt politicians, sowers of division, falsifiers, alchemists, thieves

Punishments: Eternally walking and tormented. Living in excrement. Stuffed into holes. Heads turned backwards. Boiling tar. Lead capes. Snakes. Flames.

Be fair, Bruce...

It strikes me also that here we can see an amazing similarity between the great Florentine poet of the 13th Century and Hoboh... Though one offers the Inferno as a warning and the other as an advocate...

[TANGODANCER]

Didn't see football agents mentioned in there WTW?

[William the White]

Didn't see football agents mentioned in there WTW?

may come under fraudsters, flatterers and falsifiers - or, indeed, stretching it a bit, thieves...

[thebish]

Punishments: Eternally walking and tormented. Living in excrement. Stuffed into holes. Heads turned backwards. Boiling tar. Lead capes. Snakes. Flames.

the eighth circle is living in wigan?

[Worthy4England]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

You're right, you have to add Thatcher, Lamont, Lawson and Tebbit to that ever so short list, just to make a reasonable start.

[thebish]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

Well, Dante envisaged a Hell with nine circles and appropriate punishments for the inhabitants thereof. Obviously people will have different views on whether Cameron etc fit into any of them - but I think it's possible to make a rational case for Circle Eight:

Circle eight - Fraudulent, pimps, seducers, flatterers, simonists, sorcerers, corrupt politicians, sowers of division, falsifiers, alchemists, thieves

Punishments: Eternally walking and tormented. Living in excrement. Stuffed into holes. Heads turned backwards. Boiling tar. Lead capes. Snakes. Flames.

Be fair, Bruce...

It strikes me also that here we can see an amazing similarity between the great Florentine poet of the 13th Century and Hoboh... Though one offers the Inferno as a warning and the other as an advocate...

You unimaginitive atheist, you! Come up with your own ideas about punishment!

[Prufrock]

anyone wonder what the libdems think??

"We have protected the most vulnerable, saved cold weather payments from planned Labour cuts and ensured there will be no impact on child poverty."

Commenting on the Comprehensive Spending Review Liberal Democrat Pensions Minister, Steve Webb said:

"These reforms are essential if we are to have a welfare system that protects those most in need and encourages people into work instead of trapping them in poverty. This is something the Lib Dems have long campaigned for.

"We have taken some very difficult decisions and of course some of these cuts will be painful, but we have protected the most vulnerable, saved cold weather payments from planned Labour cuts and ensured there will be no impact on child poverty.

I thought they pledged to cut child poverty?

Ah, delivering on your promises then are you? Wankers.

[CAPSLOCK]

The cuts they are making and the speed they are doing them at is very dangerous IMO and the opinion of many economic experts.

At the end of the day though the people who will take the brunt are those who can't really afford to do so. As ever with a Tory government. One of my longest friends is likely to lose her job soon and with it quite possibly her family home and in essence entire life.

And just as many economic experts don't agree with you

And this friend, is she so bad at her job she won't be able to get one in the real world

CAPS - 3 times unemployed in the last 3 years, but had to get on with it

[Gary the Enfield]

The cuts they are making and the speed they are doing them at is very dangerous IMO and the opinion of many economic experts.

At the end of the day though the people who will take the brunt are those who can't really afford to do so. As ever with a Tory government. One of my longest friends is likely to lose her job soon and with it quite possibly her family home and in essence entire life.

And just as many economic experts don't agree with you

And this friend, is she so bad at her job she won't be able to get one in the real world

CAPS - 3 times unemployed in the last 3 years, but had to get on with it

Maybe they just didn't like you?

[CAPSLOCK]

Surely not

[Bruce Rioja]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

You're right, you have to add Thatcher, Lamont, Lawson and Tebbit to that ever so short list, just to make a reasonable start.

Only if you're an absolute cock.

[Lord Kangana]

You can put every politician who ever lived on the list for me.

I'm f*cked if I'm going to defend selfish self serving c*nts and pretend they're in it for anyone but themselves.

Just saying.

[Worthy4England]

Cameron, Osborne and the rest of the Tory lot, I hope you die slow and painful deaths, and then rot in hell where you deserve to be.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.

You're right, you have to add Thatcher, Lamont, Lawson and Tebbit to that ever so short list, just to make a reasonable start.

Only if you're an absolute cock.

I have to say that that really is the most pathetic, childish line that I've ever read anywhere - it really is.