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Offline Sparks

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« Reply #15 on: May 04, 2005, 11:59:24 AM »
No doubt Blair will get in again.

Unfortunately I'm out of the country at the moment and didn't have time to register for postal so I miss out but my vote would have gone for the non-PC Veritas ............  I can almost hear Beetle and Skydancer choking from here :D.

There isn't a single reason to vote for any of the main 3 - they are all corrupt, lying, useless wasters.

To my mind the big thing to watch will be the turnout - I predict record low.

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« Reply #16 on: May 04, 2005, 12:04:22 PM »
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Well, when you consider the alternative...


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« Reply #17 on: May 04, 2005, 12:05:52 PM »
Yes, indeed. I see the same sentiments expressed as to the quality of the available options and the disinterest of the voters.

Amazing how alike the two situations appear to be.
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« Reply #18 on: May 04, 2005, 12:17:44 PM »
And theres me thinking that "tory scum" was a phrase used by three million plus unemployed people. Teachers and doctors working in tumbling down ,due to lack of investment, schools and hospitals. People living in substandard council housing or on the streets because the council house stock was sold off cheap. people who could see the rich getting richer, the poor getting poorer, and the growth of the "loadsa money" society where you stopped caring for others and lined your pocket the best way you could. Look after number one and to hell with everyone else.


Oh yeah it was schaden who invented it?

Purrlease.

Beetle the last time the tories were in the economy was in tatters, We spent our oil revenue on unemployment benefit, bought stupid trident missiles, let our country crumble away to the point where it looked more like India than England and why? All in the name of efficiency and saving the taxpayer money.

It costs to live in a well maintained infrastructuraly sound place nowt comes cheap these days.

As for the management thing well maybe there is some truth in that but the bigger problem is the ammount of red tape and paperwork and a lot of that is a result of the litiginous culture we are growing and the  accidents aren't allowed somebody must be to blame culture.

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« Reply #19 on: May 04, 2005, 12:21:41 PM »
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And theres me thinking that "tory scum" was a phrase used by three million plus unemployed people.


We're you one of them?

I was.  And the 3 million mark didn't last as long as people seem to think.  We hit 3m in about 1984.  By the time I hit the workforce (or not, as the case may be) the unemployment rate was much lower.


And how, exactly would you compare the country now cos it hasn't gotton any better ya know.
The only difference I can see is no Tory ever tried to piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining.

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« Reply #20 on: May 04, 2005, 12:32:59 PM »
my vote is on the flat earth society , they will come from behind u mark my words !!!!!
The problem with the political parites in the uk is ....u have blair ..he's the lieing spin bloke
then u have .....some old bloke for maggies old lot
and some ginger bloke for the other lot .....im afraid the main oposition is soooo forgetable Blair will get in again ....Have i voted ......nope ...didnt get my postal vote papers through  ,am i that bothered ? ...nope  the one thing they all have in common is they lie like cheap japanease watches to get your vote !!!!!besides  im bloody miles away   :D

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« Reply #21 on: May 04, 2005, 12:35:23 PM »
I was one of them.

It didn't last too long. But it was still a big mess and a huge waste of money.

Look at Coal. Now a hot commodity on the international market. fetching high prices. Canada is reopening mines as fast as it can. We can't because the pits were not mothballed but closed and built on. So we're sitting on a gold mine we can't actualy mine anymore. What a bloody waste. Mayb if we had invested in mining instead of Trident submarines or a war over sheep for example, we could have been getting the black gold out now.

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« Reply #22 on: May 04, 2005, 12:40:22 PM »
No-one is denying that Maggie made her fair share of mistakes.


It's the level of blatant lying that's been going on that's pissed me off.  GD Blair says one thing and does another, always has done.  And the power of peaceful demonstration doesnt exist in this country anymore, look at the crap that went on with student grants.  Every SU in the country protested, hundreds of thousands of signatures were recorded on petitions, etc, people marched through London and what did Blair do?  He closed his curtains and went ahead anyway.


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« Reply #23 on: May 04, 2005, 12:47:14 PM »
Oh and I just thought of a difference between now and Thatcherism:  Under Thatcherism we didn't have thousands of scroungers from eastern bloody Europe learning one word of English (asylum!) and hopping on the next boat leaving Calais.


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« Reply #24 on: May 04, 2005, 12:48:30 PM »
I'm not saying Blair is the man for me. I agree he's getting to the point where he decides, the country does. Iraq is a good example. I don't want this country to become mini america and serve their foreign policy agenda. I would rather we took ou own decisions. Like wise I can't believe Blair wants to spent millions if not billions replacing Trident. For what. way too blunt an instrument for a war on terror!

As for the Student thing I think he's got it way wrong. But part of the problem is our constant drive to get more young people into Uni. Bring back apprenticeships, technical and vocational qualifications, let schools determine the curriculum best suited to its pupils.

Its my opinion that the high drop out and exclusion rate amongst kids is a direct result of the Tory govt introducing the national curriculum which only recognises academic achievement.

So no Mr Blair's labour is not my fave at the moment. but the Tory's are way way worse.

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« Reply #25 on: May 04, 2005, 01:20:29 PM »
Labour will win again.

I'm abstaining because there isn't a single party I can identify with(plus I have no option than to abstain 'cos they screwed my overseas vote up!).

The thing that really angers me about Blair is that everything he is promissing at this election is stuff he's been promissing for the last two elections?!  Golly-geen, he's been in power for two terms but he hasn't anything at all to show for it, well, apart from taxes, debts, taxes, asylum seekers, taxes and Mandelson the tosspot!  When he first got into power he blew the emergency war chest (for times of war) then moaned that he didn't have any money for the Gulf War mk2.  No wonder our guys were so under equipped.

Bliar: "If you vote for me I will give you this"... if it's that good then why haven't you already 'given' me this?

I'd like anyone in power as long as it isn't Bliar, even the Green Party and that's saying something!! :)
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« Reply #26 on: May 04, 2005, 02:43:36 PM »
blair = hitler.

don't be offended.... we don't hate brits... just everything about your lifestyle and politics.

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« Reply #27 on: May 04, 2005, 03:03:53 PM »
So, I guess Blair isn't as hated and reviled over there as the American Press and the BBC would have us b'leve. True? Or not?

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« Reply #28 on: May 04, 2005, 03:09:03 PM »
Blair is probably hated as much as Bush.  So if that makes Bush = Hitler too then???
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« Reply #29 on: May 04, 2005, 03:17:05 PM »
The Tories are a bunch of failed Thatcherites, Labour are a bunch of failed Thatcherites and the Liberal Democrats are a bunch of failed everything.

Vote for the only honest party, this election. Vote BNP.
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