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The Politics Thread

1958Villan said:
Europe has got too big too fast and is already eating itself from the inside out.
They have plans to keep on expanding, taking in more and more former USSR states from eastern europe.
If what is now the European Union, had of stayed the Common Market it could have worked well for everyone but, the powers that be within the structure just had to seek the power to meddle with each individual country's rights to rule itself, enforcing rule and law changes on countries that were not culturally ready yet to make such changes. Rather like the USA's obssession with exporting it's brand of democracy, in the most undemocratic of ways.
People who cry about business losing half a billion guarenteed customers, have no faith or belief in our businessmen. Leaving the Union would give our businesses a possible six and a half billion customers outside of the Union, that is thirteen possible customers for every one possible customer within the Union.
So I ask those who cry about us losing jobs, are you really that stupid, that defeatist.
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You are absolutely right about the EU but there is an issue with the numbers. Those half a billion in the EU have similar tastes and income levels to British customers. The 6.5bn people outside the EU don't. There are around 1.3bn people in India but very, very few of them could afford a Land Rover. There are also roughly 1.3bn people in China but more than 1bn of them live in abject poverty.
 
Now we can get an idea of why Boris is the way he is. This is his old man behaving disgracefully.

 
The apple doesn't fall far from the tree BBJ - I don't particularly like her either, but Boris sister (that utter....behave myself's) daughter - has called them both out on occasions when she pushed and stated it's for effect, people fall for it, and they hold different views privately. She just doesn't do it often enough in my humble.

We can argue who and what Trump has emboldened, I think Boris is proof of the fact - aided regularly by his old man.
 
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Isn't it fascinating watching them lie through their teeth because they can't tell their supporters the truth.

My brother in law believes that the Brexit negotiations have stalled because the EU are being "complete *****". The echoes of Trumpism in Brexit are astounding.

Meanwhile, the unity of the United Kingdom has been laid bare by people like Stanley Johnson.

The Tory party has totally exposed themselves over Brexit and yet the current Labour mob can't present a viable alternative. Such a sad state of affairs.
 
Christ on a bike - David Cameron is apparently open to the idea of a return to frontline politics!

Just when you thought things couldn't get much worse, the spineless architect of Brexit (and the likely destruction of the union of the UK) is apparently interested in joining the government of whoever succeeds Theresa May.

The sheer arrogance of the man is breathtaking. Hasn't he done enough damage? Totally bizarre.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...secretary-prime-minister-brexit-a8613696.html
 
Politicians, on both sides of the Atlantic, will never again be respected, until they allow George W. Bush and Tony Bliar to be arrested and charged with war crimes, instead of covering for them.

The USA will never be respected while they insist on electing idiots as president.
 
Nice for some eh.

Former First Minister Alex Salmond has been criticised for receiving a reported £91,000 payout ahead of crowdfunding a legal challenge against allegations of sexual misconduct. Mr Salmond withdrew a dividend of £91,000 from his company ‘Chronicles of Deer Ltd’, which was established after his resignation as First Minister to manage revenues from his media work.

Read more at: https://www.scotsman.com/news/alex-...-while-crowdfunding-legal-challenge-1-4830916
 
The whole family get airtime on TV and make millions. You can almost picture Xmas lunch when the whole facade is on pause - and the Johnson household having a glass of red united on the mugs of the nation who have kept them in the media for the past however long. To be fair to Jo, he comes across as the most humble and rational but then I don’t know much about him so he could be as orchestrated as his useless brother.
 
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Three unusable water cannon bought by Boris Johnson when he was mayor of London have been sold for scrap, at a net loss of more than £300,000.

Johnson bought the crowd-control vehicles from the German police in 2014, in anticipation of social unrest, without checking whether they could be used on London’s streets. In one of his most humiliating episodes as mayor the then home secretary Theresa May banned them from use anywhere in England and Wales. It left the capital’s taxpayers with three expensive white elephants.
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news...ed-water-cannon-sold-for-scrap-at-300000-loss
 
danvilla2 said:
Water cannons
Bridge over the Thames for flowers
New Airport in the sea
And the one he managed to spunk a load of money on - a cable car over the Thames to the eyesore that is the o2.

No doubt all the above wasted lots of money just employing bureaucrats to entertain the idea.
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Don't forget the one where he wanted to build a bridge over the English Channel to France which I always thought was odd for a hardline Brexiteer.
 
BodyButter said:
Isn't it fascinating watching them lie through their teeth because they can't tell their supporters the truth.

My brother in law believes that the Brexit negotiations have stalled because the EU are being "complete *****". The echoes of Trumpism in Brexit are astounding.

Meanwhile, the unity of the United Kingdom has been laid bare by people like Stanley Johnson.

The Tory party has totally exposed themselves over Brexit and yet the current Labour mob can't present a viable alternative. Such a sad state of affairs.
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And why would Labour get involved, there is absolutely nothing they could do or say, that would, or could, make the Tories look any worse.
 
We, as a country, are now paying for Margeret Thatchers acceptance that the Conservative Party was going to die out, unless something radical was done.
Her way of being radical, was to make the majority of people home owners, and/or private landlords, as a way of turning people from being concerned about society in general, to being only concerned about themselves and their possessions.
Sort of another step in the Americanisation of our society. Where a person isn't judged by the content of their heart but, by the contents of their bank accounts.
It is unfortunately true, that the more things a person owns, the more insular they become. Scared I suppose that the big bad bogey man who has nothing, will come and take their things away.
By forcing councils to sell off their housing stocks and refusing to allow them to use that money, to build new social housing, Thatcher is directly responsible for the housing crises we are in now, with homelessness growing year on year. We are also seeing the return of the 1950's disease that was known as Rachmanism.
Rachman was a slum landlord who made a fortune of the backs of his tenants.
Today landlords are making fortunes by renting flats to councils on a nightly basis. Some if not the majority of these flats are unfit for human habitation but, if the homeless who are put into them refuse to stay, they are removed from the housing lists as being intentionally homeless. These flats have no boilers/hot water supply, holes in the roofs, mould growing in every room and numerous other things wrong. Why, you may ask, do councils rent these premises. The answer is simple, they have a duty to house the homeless but, they have no resources to check the standard of the places they rent.
In the latest budget the chancellor mentioned £2.5 billion for new affordable homes, not social housing you'll note, most of that is not new money but money made available earlier in the year. £2.5 billion will produce somewhere in the region of 25,000 new homes. At the last count, there were 104,000 people awaiting housing on council lists, not much of a help is it.
 
Seen on the news that UKIP have appointed Tommy Robinson in some sort of advisory role. Wouldn't have really registered if they hadn't mentioned that his real name is stephen yaxley-lennon. Obviously thought Tommy Robinson gave him more a man of the people cred the little twat.
 
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