Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
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Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
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Depressing, isn't it? All the miserable gits can come up with is oppression of the poor and fear of the disadvantaged. Never mind, here's something that can make us all feel better about the human race - even if it does have to include Cameron and Company .........
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/pictures-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity
Depressing, isn't it? All the miserable gits can come up with is oppression of the poor and fear of the disadvantaged. Never mind, here's something that can make us all feel better about the human race - even if it does have to include Cameron and Company .........
http://www.buzzfeed.com/expresident/pictures-that-will-restore-your-faith-in-humanity
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You know Bluey, it must be the easiest thing in the world to stand for greed and selfishness, because these are peoples lowest basic instincts
Youre getting my post all wrong Ivanhoe. I was trying to point out that we don't have an alternative because ALL of the current partys are too similar and out for the own personal gains rather than putting serious real effort to help the people that put them into power....that goes for this lot and the last
I do NOT stand for greed and selfishness, but I am a realist and Bobby's earlier post spelled out our problems with manufacturing perfectly
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blueturando wrote:You know Bluey, it must be the easiest thing in the world to stand for greed and selfishness, because these are peoples lowest basic instincts
Youre getting my post all wrong Ivanhoe. I was trying to point out that we don't have an alternative because ALL of the current partys are too similar and out for the own personal gains rather than putting serious real effort to help the people that put them into power....that goes for this lot and the last
I do NOT stand for greed and selfishness, but I am a realist and Bobby's earlier post spelled out our problems with manufacturing perfectly
Greed and selfishness was what Thatcher was all about. And we are left with her legacy.
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tlttf wrote:Does this count as an alternative?
Labour MP Margaret Moran ‘took £53,000 in false expense claims’
Moran 'had £53,000 in false claims'
08 November 2012
Labour MP Margaret Moran cheated the taxpayer out of more than £53,000 on her Parliamentary expenses, a court heard today.
The Luton South MP allegedly falsely claimed for repairs and upkeep of her homes including £22,000 for dry rot and £14,800 for a replacement boiler, central heating and a conservatory.
She “flipped” her designated main and second homes between properties in her Luton constituency, a Westminster flat and another house in Southampton, the court heard.
However, since the Commons expenses scandal broke, Moran’s health has deteriorated.
In April, Mr Justice Saunders ruled that she was unfit to stand trial. A jury at Southwark crown court was sworn in today not to decide whether she is guilty or not but whether “she did the alleged acts complained of”.
In all she faces 15 charges of false accounting and six counts of using a false instrument by submitting phoney invoices. Moran, 57, was not in court.
Yep another alternative!
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/labour-mp-margaret-moran-took-53000-in-false-expense-claims-8297677.html
I notice there is none of the Tory or L/Ds fraudulent activities like Duck Houses and Moat cleaning or Laws paying his boy friend £60.000 in rent money does that mean he is a rent boy ? and what about the recent expenses scandal renting one another's flats? So if you are going to talk about wrong doing pleas do not forget the Tories and L/Ds wrong doing and to end what about the Peado rings H.Q. No10 Downing St during the Maggots time in office why do you not start a thread about that tittf ?
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Yes they were wrong Red, however they did declare what they were claiming for and didn't write false receipts. As for Paedo's your walking a dodgy line there my friend and should be aware of allegations without proof. I'm sure Ivan will have a word.
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tlttf wrote:Yes they were wrong Red, however they did declare what they were claiming for and didn't write false receipts. As for Paedo's your walking a dodgy line there my friend and should be aware of allegations without proof. I'm sure Ivan will have a word.
It has been announced on the TV news a person that was abused gave an interview to reporter and the Tory MP concerned was the MP for Chester plus advised the Maggot during her reign of terror plus the two inquiries that they set up where shredded and let 23 nasty pieces of work away with it. So why do you not mention the wrong doings of the Tory and L/Ds when it comes to the scandal of EXPENSES your just as bad as your party tittf they still will not take RESPONSIBILITY for the TWO & HALF years they have been in power or all the fcuked up policies they have brought in.
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Still not sure what the point is --- something about whether there are any alternatives to the Tory's attitude to government?
Or is it just who knows the most stories about greed and corruption.
There's greed and corruption in all walks of life - I thought we were talking about alternatives?
Or is it just who knows the most stories about greed and corruption.
There's greed and corruption in all walks of life - I thought we were talking about alternatives?
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I thought we were talking about alternatives?.
You'll be lucky Boatlady.....I can see the tumble weed blowing through the forum as we speak.
Endless criticism and tribalism is easy....coming up with alternatives seems to be a step to far for most posters
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blueturando wrote:I thought we were talking about alternatives?.
You'll be lucky Boatlady.....I can see the tumble weed blowing through the forum as we speak.
Endless criticism and tribalism is easy....coming up with alternatives seems to be a step to far for most posters
Ill tell you what, bluey.
Yes its easy to be critical of the Tory right wing and what this elitist dogmatic crap has done for the most vulnerable in our society since Thatcher.
So let's bring it down to grass roots.
The vulnerable need more money in their pockets, from the elderly, to the disabled. And that's just for starters.
Now if you were PM, what would you do about sorting that out ?
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Ivanhoe wrote:blueturando wrote:I thought we were talking about alternatives?.
You'll be lucky Boatlady.....I can see the tumble weed blowing through the forum as we speak.
Endless criticism and tribalism is easy....coming up with alternatives seems to be a step to far for most posters
Ill tell you what, bluey.
Yes its easy to be critical of the Tory right wing and what this elitist dogmatic crap has done for the most vulnerable in our society since Thatcher.
So let's bring it down to grass roots.
The vulnerable need more money in their pockets, from the elderly, to the disabled. And that's just for starters.
Now if you were PM, what would you do about sorting that out ?
I would like to know that myself Ivanhoe, his party is quite good at asking the Labour party for what they would do instead of taking it off the elderly and vulnerable.
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Redflag wrote:Ivanhoe wrote:blueturando wrote:I thought we were talking about alternatives?.
You'll be lucky Boatlady.....I can see the tumble weed blowing through the forum as we speak.
Endless criticism and tribalism is easy....coming up with alternatives seems to be a step to far for most posters
Ill tell you what, bluey.
Yes its easy to be critical of the Tory right wing and what this elitist dogmatic crap has done for the most vulnerable in our society since Thatcher.
So let's bring it down to grass roots.
The vulnerable need more money in their pockets, from the elderly, to the disabled. And that's just for starters.
Now if you were PM, what would you do about sorting that out ?
I would like to know that myself Ivanhoe, his party is quite good at asking the Labour party for what they would do instead of taking it off the elderly and vulnerable.
The right wing always attack the old and the vulnerable, because they know that Britain largely is a politically apathetic nation.
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Ivanhoe wrote:Redflag wrote:Ivanhoe wrote:blueturando wrote:I thought we were talking about alternatives?.
You'll be lucky Boatlady.....I can see the tumble weed blowing through the forum as we speak.
Endless criticism and tribalism is easy....coming up with alternatives seems to be a step to far for most posters
Ill tell you what, bluey.
Yes its easy to be critical of the Tory right wing and what this elitist dogmatic crap has done for the most vulnerable in our society since Thatcher.
So let's bring it down to grass roots.
The vulnerable need more money in their pockets, from the elderly, to the disabled. And that's just for starters.
Now if you were PM, what would you do about sorting that out ?
I would like to know that myself Ivanhoe, his party is quite good at asking the Labour party for what they would do instead of taking it off the elderly and vulnerable.
The right wing always attack the old and the vulnerable, because they know that Britain largely is a politically apathetic nation.
I do not think that will last past April 2013 Ivanhoe, then the entire UK will wake up and smell the coffee.
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I do not think that will last past April 2013 Ivanhoe, then the entire UK will wake up and smell the coffee.[/quote
Not a chance. Apathy is this country's middle name.
Ivanhoe wrote:Redflag wrote:Ivanhoe wrote:blueturando wrote:I thought we were talking about alternatives?.
You'll be lucky Boatlady.....I can see the tumble weed blowing through the forum as we speak.
Endless criticism and tribalism is easy....coming up with alternatives seems to be a step to far for most posters
Ill tell you what, bluey.
Yes its easy to be critical of the Tory right wing and what this elitist dogmatic crap has done for the most vulnerable in our society since Thatcher.
So let's bring it down to grass roots.
The vulnerable need more money in their pockets, from the elderly, to the disabled. And that's just for starters.
Now if you were PM, what would you do about sorting that out ?
I would like to know that myself Ivanhoe, his party is quite good at asking the Labour party for what they would do instead of taking it off the elderly and vulnerable.
The right wing always attack the old and the vulnerable, because they know that Britain largely is a politically apathetic nation.
I do not think that will last past April 2013 Ivanhoe, then the entire UK will wake up and smell the coffee.[/quote
Not a chance. Apathy is this country's middle name.
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So - err, what would you all do if in government?
How would you arrange society in a way that is fairer for everyone.
Personally, I'm a bit of a big government person - I know there is a risk of various abuses, but haven't the last several years shown us that there will be abuses in any form of society?
Question is, would you rather be abused by an unregulated banking sector, and by the outsourcing of essential services, which as far as I can see always means less service for more money, or by the 0.1 percent of fraudulent benefit claimants, and a few lazy public servants?
I know this is simplistic, and I'm waiting in fear and trembling for you all to descend on me with a barrage of (hopefully) relevant and illuminating refutals of my position.
How would you arrange society in a way that is fairer for everyone.
Personally, I'm a bit of a big government person - I know there is a risk of various abuses, but haven't the last several years shown us that there will be abuses in any form of society?
Question is, would you rather be abused by an unregulated banking sector, and by the outsourcing of essential services, which as far as I can see always means less service for more money, or by the 0.1 percent of fraudulent benefit claimants, and a few lazy public servants?
I know this is simplistic, and I'm waiting in fear and trembling for you all to descend on me with a barrage of (hopefully) relevant and illuminating refutals of my position.
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boatlady wrote:So - err, what would you all do if in government?
How would you arrange society in a way that is fairer for everyone.
Personally, I'm a bit of a big government person - I know there is a risk of various abuses, but haven't the last several years shown us that there will be abuses in any form of society?
Question is, would you rather be abused by an unregulated banking sector, and by the outsourcing of essential services, which as far as I can see always means less service for more money, or by the 0.1 percent of fraudulent benefit claimants, and a few lazy public servants?
I know this is simplistic, and I'm waiting in fear and trembling for you all to descend on me with a barrage of (hopefully) relevant and illuminating refutals of my position.
I believe in the role of the State. Does this answer your question ?
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boatlady wrote:So - err, what would you all do if in government?
How would you arrange society in a way that is fairer for everyone.
The first thing to recognise is that many of the people who get themselves elected to govern do so precisely in order to maintain the unfair principles on which Capitalist Democracy is founded.
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Hello boatlady. What I believe we need is a return of the younger Tony Blair.
He with the much berated Gordon Brown gave us over 10 years of unprecedented growth, coupled to stability that I can not remember at any other time. Blair’s Britain was for everyone, the wealthy, the businessman/woman (the main wealth earner), the workers and the poor. I know we keep hearing how the rich got richer and the differential between the two grew, but in my opinion that is not what matters, what matters is, how many people where taken out of poverty and how the workers where given a better deal, Labour introduced the minimum wage, winter fuel allowance (since reduced by the filthy Tory Bastards), the Social Chapter which gave employee’s rights of employment (something the Tory shits are now in the process of dismantling).
Labour under Blair allowed business to flourish in the certain knowledge that if you choke off business its those lower down who suffer the most, look what’s happening now, exactly that.
Blair’s Government was the first Government that Governed for the country as a whole and not for any particular group, in the years he was in the guvnors chair, he did make some errors, but he made far fewer in 10 years that the herd of crap headed by Herr David Cameron, has in the past two and a half years.
Now I’m waiting for Ivanhoe (who’s name is as old as his politics) to preach that Labour under Tony Blair where not Labour but Thatcherite, or some such bollocks.
He with the much berated Gordon Brown gave us over 10 years of unprecedented growth, coupled to stability that I can not remember at any other time. Blair’s Britain was for everyone, the wealthy, the businessman/woman (the main wealth earner), the workers and the poor. I know we keep hearing how the rich got richer and the differential between the two grew, but in my opinion that is not what matters, what matters is, how many people where taken out of poverty and how the workers where given a better deal, Labour introduced the minimum wage, winter fuel allowance (since reduced by the filthy Tory Bastards), the Social Chapter which gave employee’s rights of employment (something the Tory shits are now in the process of dismantling).
Labour under Blair allowed business to flourish in the certain knowledge that if you choke off business its those lower down who suffer the most, look what’s happening now, exactly that.
Blair’s Government was the first Government that Governed for the country as a whole and not for any particular group, in the years he was in the guvnors chair, he did make some errors, but he made far fewer in 10 years that the herd of crap headed by Herr David Cameron, has in the past two and a half years.
Now I’m waiting for Ivanhoe (who’s name is as old as his politics) to preach that Labour under Tony Blair where not Labour but Thatcherite, or some such bollocks.
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Many famous men became famous for having ONE good idea ONCE. Blair is included, because he recognised that Labour was unelectable to Government so long as it threatened to nationalise every business in sight.
Once in government he became a control freak and passed more new Law than any other administration before or since. He refused to delegate authority, and riding the back of a landslide majority made most decisions at Number Ten, without troubling the House of Commons.
The one word "Iraq" will forever be attached to his name, unfortunately, and goes a long way to explaining the apalling situation in which we find ourselves now.
Once in government he became a control freak and passed more new Law than any other administration before or since. He refused to delegate authority, and riding the back of a landslide majority made most decisions at Number Ten, without troubling the House of Commons.
The one word "Iraq" will forever be attached to his name, unfortunately, and goes a long way to explaining the apalling situation in which we find ourselves now.
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bobby wrote:Hello boatlady. What I believe we need is a return of the younger Tony Blair.
He with the much berated Gordon Brown gave us over 10 years of unprecedented growth, coupled to stability that I can not remember at any other time. Blair’s Britain was for everyone, the wealthy, the businessman/woman (the main wealth earner), the workers and the poor. I know we keep hearing how the rich got richer and the differential between the two grew, but in my opinion that is not what matters, what matters is, how many people where taken out of poverty and how the workers where given a better deal, Labour introduced the minimum wage, winter fuel allowance (since reduced by the filthy Tory Bastards), the Social Chapter which gave employee’s rights of employment (something the Tory shits are now in the process of dismantling).
Labour under Blair allowed business to flourish in the certain knowledge that if you choke off business its those lower down who suffer the most, look what’s happening now, exactly that.
Blair’s Government was the first Government that Governed for the country as a whole and not for any particular group, in the years he was in the guvnors chair, he did make some errors, but he made far fewer in 10 years that the herd of crap headed by Herr David Cameron, has in the past two and a half years.
Now I’m waiting for Ivanhoe (who’s name is as old as his politics) to preach that Labour under Tony Blair where not Labour but Thatcherite, or some such bollocks.
booby, if you dont know yourself that Tony Blair took Labour to the right for 13 years, then there's no hope for you.
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Ivanhoe said: booby, if you dont know yourself that Tony Blair took Labour to the right for 13 years, then there's no hope for you.
Firstly Ivanhoe, I suffered the loss of two businesses because of Conservative recessions, and also had to sell my home both times, it was because of the continued growth and stability Labour gave us that I am now quite a wealthy man and can employ others. Had you have had your way, and Labour where led by someone in the mould of Michael Foot, we would have had 30 years of real right wing Tory Government.
Ivanhoe, I am not as obsessed by right and left as you are. I am more interested in right and wrong.
You have been prattling on for ages about New Labour being Thatcherite, for no other reason than they helped business to flourish. Tell me my old fashioned Knight, how else do you think all of the benefits of Blair’s Labour funded things like the Winter Fuel Allowance and the minimum wage, do you really think Blair had the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, no of course not his exchequer got funds mainly from the Tax Take, which of course you can only take whilst people are working and people can only work whilst there are Companies to employ them. You really need to get on grip on what the real world is all about, I don’t care if you call parties conservative with a big C or a small c, or if you call Labour just Labour or New Labour, all I will say is for you to keep saying Blair was Thatcherite is a total load of bollocks, they are and have been Labour, but unlike you they needed and did change with the times and did.
What do you think the UK would be like now, if Blair hadn’t won his landslide victory in 1997, I personally shudder to think, but then I guess there are more than one dinosaur around, its just that you are the only one on these boards.
Firstly Ivanhoe, I suffered the loss of two businesses because of Conservative recessions, and also had to sell my home both times, it was because of the continued growth and stability Labour gave us that I am now quite a wealthy man and can employ others. Had you have had your way, and Labour where led by someone in the mould of Michael Foot, we would have had 30 years of real right wing Tory Government.
Ivanhoe, I am not as obsessed by right and left as you are. I am more interested in right and wrong.
You have been prattling on for ages about New Labour being Thatcherite, for no other reason than they helped business to flourish. Tell me my old fashioned Knight, how else do you think all of the benefits of Blair’s Labour funded things like the Winter Fuel Allowance and the minimum wage, do you really think Blair had the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, no of course not his exchequer got funds mainly from the Tax Take, which of course you can only take whilst people are working and people can only work whilst there are Companies to employ them. You really need to get on grip on what the real world is all about, I don’t care if you call parties conservative with a big C or a small c, or if you call Labour just Labour or New Labour, all I will say is for you to keep saying Blair was Thatcherite is a total load of bollocks, they are and have been Labour, but unlike you they needed and did change with the times and did.
What do you think the UK would be like now, if Blair hadn’t won his landslide victory in 1997, I personally shudder to think, but then I guess there are more than one dinosaur around, its just that you are the only one on these boards.
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bobby wrote:Ivanhoe said: booby, if you dont know yourself that Tony Blair took Labour to the right for 13 years, then there's no hope for you.
Firstly Ivanhoe, I suffered the loss of two businesses because of Conservative recessions, and also had to sell my home both times, it was because of the continued growth and stability Labour gave us that I am now quite a wealthy man and can employ others. Had you have had your way, and Labour where led by someone in the mould of Michael Foot, we would have had 30 years of real right wing Tory Government.
Ivanhoe, I am not as obsessed by right and left as you are. I am more interested in right and wrong.
You have been prattling on for ages about New Labour being Thatcherite, for no other reason than they helped business to flourish. Tell me my old fashioned Knight, how else do you think all of the benefits of Blair’s Labour funded things like the Winter Fuel Allowance and the minimum wage, do you really think Blair had the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, no of course not his exchequer got funds mainly from the Tax Take, which of course you can only take whilst people are working and people can only work whilst there are Companies to employ them. You really need to get on grip on what the real world is all about, I don’t care if you call parties conservative with a big C or a small c, or if you call Labour just Labour or New Labour, all I will say is for you to keep saying Blair was Thatcherite is a total load of bollocks, they are and have been Labour, but unlike you they needed and did change with the times and did.
What do you think the UK would be like now, if Blair hadn’t won his landslide victory in 1997, I personally shudder to think, but then I guess there are more than one dinosaur around, its just that you are the only one on these boards.
I agree with you up to a certain point bobby, Tony Blair had to do what he had to do to get the normal tory voter to vote Labour that is how we got a landslide in 1997 but he never forgot about the every day Labour member/voter but maybe he took us a bit too far to the right and that is what a lot of people did not like about him, but I would never say that Tony was a Thatcherite.
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Hello Red, If you mean that occupying the middle ground (mondeo man as they where called) then yes that was a move to the right, but that was a move to the right from where they where, but still nowhere near where the Tory Bastards stood and stand now, in my opinion, that is exactly where Labour should have been then, and exactly where Labour should aim its sight's now.
Traditional Labour as Ivanhoe calls them where great in their day, when the working man was so totally downtrodden, after being promised a Country fit for Hero‘s, The Trades Unions own party, the Labour Party, did what they could to put much right, unfortunately the trades Unions got too powerful and only fought the corner of the members who paid their wages, all very good for the members (in the short term) but no good for the rest of the Nation.
What we needed and still need is for Unions and Government to actually work together and not to attend every meeting, looking for a fight which invariably they get. They both walk into any meeting room with a totally intransigent attitude, is it any wonder the power of the Unions needed curbing, the only problem was that the Bitch Thatcher took them on with not a care of the long term damage to our manufacturing base, and lobbed out the Baby with the Bath Water.
Ivanhoe is quite right when he says that things where better in the 60’s and 70’s , but with the unnecessary loss of our manufacturing base, those days are long gone.
We can not renationalise our utilities as many of the shares are owned abroad. Many of them are now in the hands of Frances largely nationalised EDF, so unless the French Government want so sell back un Anglais Cash Cow, we will never see those shares again. The only way to end up with publicly owned Utilities is to rebuild new efficient industries, and let them trade in direct competition with the Private companies, the thing is, the Unions must work with management or we will go down exactly the same path as we where taken in the 80’s, and what we have now is a direct result of that.
I shall end this for now as my Dog needs a walk, and he’s more important to me than anything political.
Traditional Labour as Ivanhoe calls them where great in their day, when the working man was so totally downtrodden, after being promised a Country fit for Hero‘s, The Trades Unions own party, the Labour Party, did what they could to put much right, unfortunately the trades Unions got too powerful and only fought the corner of the members who paid their wages, all very good for the members (in the short term) but no good for the rest of the Nation.
What we needed and still need is for Unions and Government to actually work together and not to attend every meeting, looking for a fight which invariably they get. They both walk into any meeting room with a totally intransigent attitude, is it any wonder the power of the Unions needed curbing, the only problem was that the Bitch Thatcher took them on with not a care of the long term damage to our manufacturing base, and lobbed out the Baby with the Bath Water.
Ivanhoe is quite right when he says that things where better in the 60’s and 70’s , but with the unnecessary loss of our manufacturing base, those days are long gone.
We can not renationalise our utilities as many of the shares are owned abroad. Many of them are now in the hands of Frances largely nationalised EDF, so unless the French Government want so sell back un Anglais Cash Cow, we will never see those shares again. The only way to end up with publicly owned Utilities is to rebuild new efficient industries, and let them trade in direct competition with the Private companies, the thing is, the Unions must work with management or we will go down exactly the same path as we where taken in the 80’s, and what we have now is a direct result of that.
I shall end this for now as my Dog needs a walk, and he’s more important to me than anything political.
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Redflag wrote:tlttf wrote:Yes they were wrong Red, however they did declare what they were claiming for and didn't write false receipts. As for Paedo's your walking a dodgy line there my friend and should be aware of allegations without proof. I'm sure Ivan will have a word.
It has been announced on the TV news a person that was abused gave an interview to reporter and the Tory MP concerned was the MP for Chester plus advised the Maggot during her reign of terror plus the two inquiries that they set up where shredded and let 23 nasty pieces of work away with it. So why do you not mention the wrong doings of the Tory and L/Ds when it comes to the scandal of EXPENSES your just as bad as your party tittf they still will not take RESPONSIBILITY for the TWO & HALF years they have been in power or all the fcuked up policies they have brought in.
Do you believe all you hear Red?
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
tlttf wrote:Redflag wrote:tlttf wrote:Yes they were wrong Red, however they did declare what they were claiming for and didn't write false receipts. As for Paedo's your walking a dodgy line there my friend and should be aware of allegations without proof. I'm sure Ivan will have a word.
It has been announced on the TV news a person that was abused gave an interview to reporter and the Tory MP concerned was the MP for Chester plus advised the Maggot during her reign of terror plus the two inquiries that they set up where shredded and let 23 nasty pieces of work away with it. So why do you not mention the wrong doings of the Tory and L/Ds when it comes to the scandal of EXPENSES your just as bad as your party tittf they still will not take RESPONSIBILITY for the TWO & HALF years they have been in power or all the fcuked up policies they have brought in.
Do you believe all you hear Red?
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Here we go again tittf, I am not supposed to believe everything I hear BUT you are allowed to believe the SHYTE your party says is that because this gov't is going to be as scandal ridden (financial and sexual) as the Maggots gov't I will leave you with an old saying.
THERE IS NO SMOKE WITHOUT THE FIRE
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
Come on Red once you realise they're all at it life gets easier, as a matter of interest I'm a libertarian that believes in minimal government interference whoever they may be.
Here's another of your alternatives in action.
Margaret Hodge's family company pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business generated in the UK
Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, is facing embarrassing revelations over the tax affairs of her family company just days before she is due to lead the grilling of US companies over controversial tax arrangements.
London 2012 Olympics: Government furious over Margaret Hodge's criticis of Games budget
Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, faces potential embarrassment over the tax affairs of her family business Stemcor Photo: DANIEL JONES
Helia Ebrahimi
By Helia Ebrahimi, Senior City Correspondent
The Labour MP has been one of the fiercest critics of tax avoidance by companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon. However, she is likely to face questions over the limited tax paid by Stemcor, the steel trading company in which she owns shares and which was founded by her father and is run by her brother.
Analysis of Stemcor’s latest accounts show that the business paid tax of just £163,000 on revenues of more than £2.1bn in 2011. However. it is not known whether the company – which made profits of £65m – used similar controversial tax avoidance measures criticised in the past by Mrs Hodge.
Stemcor’s tax bill to the exchequer equates to just 0.01pc of the revenues it booked through its UK-based business. In accounts filed with Companies House, Stemcor revealed that despite generating about one third of its revenues in Britain, its UK tax contribution made up only 2.7pc of the tax the company paid globally.
There's much more regarding one of your alternatives so please read on!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9668396/Margaret-Hodges-family-company-pays-just-0.01pc-tax-on-2.1bn-of-business-generated-in-the-UK.html
Here's another of your alternatives in action.
Margaret Hodge's family company pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business generated in the UK
Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, is facing embarrassing revelations over the tax affairs of her family company just days before she is due to lead the grilling of US companies over controversial tax arrangements.
London 2012 Olympics: Government furious over Margaret Hodge's criticis of Games budget
Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, faces potential embarrassment over the tax affairs of her family business Stemcor Photo: DANIEL JONES
Helia Ebrahimi
By Helia Ebrahimi, Senior City Correspondent
The Labour MP has been one of the fiercest critics of tax avoidance by companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon. However, she is likely to face questions over the limited tax paid by Stemcor, the steel trading company in which she owns shares and which was founded by her father and is run by her brother.
Analysis of Stemcor’s latest accounts show that the business paid tax of just £163,000 on revenues of more than £2.1bn in 2011. However. it is not known whether the company – which made profits of £65m – used similar controversial tax avoidance measures criticised in the past by Mrs Hodge.
Stemcor’s tax bill to the exchequer equates to just 0.01pc of the revenues it booked through its UK-based business. In accounts filed with Companies House, Stemcor revealed that despite generating about one third of its revenues in Britain, its UK tax contribution made up only 2.7pc of the tax the company paid globally.
There's much more regarding one of your alternatives so please read on!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9668396/Margaret-Hodges-family-company-pays-just-0.01pc-tax-on-2.1bn-of-business-generated-in-the-UK.html
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
It hadn't really registered with me that so much of our utilities were foreign owned - bit of a bummer, that, because it seems to me that state ownership of utilities, transport and public and social care services would be one of the better ways to move towards a fair and equitable society.
Corruption and greed are both it seems to me part of the human condition, so it's quite important that the necessities of civilised life - housing, warmth, education, pubvlic safety and care of the vulnerable - should be provided without reference to the profit motive. I know monolithic institutions are often slow to act and wasteful of resources, but it ought to be possible to build in a system of checks and balances to keep things working smoothly enough to keep the population (voters!) reasonably safe and well served.
Operating essential public services for profit leads, as far as I can see, to more expensive (because shareholders want profits) and less effective (because one way to increase profits is to reduce staffing numbers and/or quality) services, which is surely in no-one's interest?
Corruption and greed are both it seems to me part of the human condition, so it's quite important that the necessities of civilised life - housing, warmth, education, pubvlic safety and care of the vulnerable - should be provided without reference to the profit motive. I know monolithic institutions are often slow to act and wasteful of resources, but it ought to be possible to build in a system of checks and balances to keep things working smoothly enough to keep the population (voters!) reasonably safe and well served.
Operating essential public services for profit leads, as far as I can see, to more expensive (because shareholders want profits) and less effective (because one way to increase profits is to reduce staffing numbers and/or quality) services, which is surely in no-one's interest?
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
tlttf wrote:Come on Red once you realise they're all at it life gets easier, as a matter of interest I'm a libertarian that believes in minimal government interference whoever they may be.
Here's another of your alternatives in action.
Margaret Hodge's family company pays just 0.01pc tax on £2.1bn of business generated in the UK
Margaret Hodge, chairman of the Public Accounts Committee, is facing embarrassing revelations over the tax affairs of her family company just days before she is due to lead the grilling of US companies over controversial tax arrangements.
London 2012 Olympics: Government furious over Margaret Hodge's criticis of Games budget
Margaret Hodge, chair of the Public Accounts Committee, faces potential embarrassment over the tax affairs of her family business Stemcor Photo: DANIEL JONES
Helia Ebrahimi
By Helia Ebrahimi, Senior City Correspondent
The Labour MP has been one of the fiercest critics of tax avoidance by companies such as Starbucks, Google and Amazon. However, she is likely to face questions over the limited tax paid by Stemcor, the steel trading company in which she owns shares and which was founded by her father and is run by her brother.
Analysis of Stemcor’s latest accounts show that the business paid tax of just £163,000 on revenues of more than £2.1bn in 2011. However. it is not known whether the company – which made profits of £65m – used similar controversial tax avoidance measures criticised in the past by Mrs Hodge.
Stemcor’s tax bill to the exchequer equates to just 0.01pc of the revenues it booked through its UK-based business. In accounts filed with Companies House, Stemcor revealed that despite generating about one third of its revenues in Britain, its UK tax contribution made up only 2.7pc of the tax the company paid globally.
There's much more regarding one of your alternatives so please read on!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9668396/Margaret-Hodges-family-company-pays-just-0.01pc-tax-on-2.1bn-of-business-generated-in-the-UK.html
As I have said before tittf , go into your own parties cupboards and see how many skeletons are hiding there, then come back and cast up about the Labour party how many of the Tories today are fiddling there Expenses renting out there second homes to fellow MPs while charging the tax payer an arm and a leg for it while still claiming there own fiddle with there expenses. Just take a look at the two inquiries the Jillingham and Waterhouse inquiries both of them covered up letting 23 pieces of nastiness away with child abuse, these where held within the Maggots time in office, is the same thing going to happen this time with Scam..er..on looking for a SCAPEGOAT.
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Redflag wrote:bobby wrote:Ivanhoe said: booby, if you dont know yourself that Tony Blair took Labour to the right for 13 years, then there's no hope for you.
Firstly Ivanhoe, I suffered the loss of two businesses because of Conservative recessions, and also had to sell my home both times, it was because of the continued growth and stability Labour gave us that I am now quite a wealthy man and can employ others. Had you have had your way, and Labour where led by someone in the mould of Michael Foot, we would have had 30 years of real right wing Tory Government.
Ivanhoe, I am not as obsessed by right and left as you are. I am more interested in right and wrong.
You have been prattling on for ages about New Labour being Thatcherite, for no other reason than they helped business to flourish. Tell me my old fashioned Knight, how else do you think all of the benefits of Blair’s Labour funded things like the Winter Fuel Allowance and the minimum wage, do you really think Blair had the Goose that laid the Golden Egg, no of course not his exchequer got funds mainly from the Tax Take, which of course you can only take whilst people are working and people can only work whilst there are Companies to employ them. You really need to get on grip on what the real world is all about, I don’t care if you call parties conservative with a big C or a small c, or if you call Labour just Labour or New Labour, all I will say is for you to keep saying Blair was Thatcherite is a total load of bollocks, they are and have been Labour, but unlike you they needed and did change with the times and did.
What do you think the UK would be like now, if Blair hadn’t won his landslide victory in 1997, I personally shudder to think, but then I guess there are more than one dinosaur around, its just that you are the only one on these boards.
I agree with you up to a certain point bobby, Tony Blair had to do what he had to do to get the normal tory voter to vote Labour that is how we got a landslide in 1997 but he never forgot about the every day Labour member/voter but maybe he took us a bit too far to the right and that is what a lot of people did not like about him, but I would never say that Tony was a Thatcherite.
Blair's father was a Tory. Blair embraced Thatcher's right wing free market from 1997. End of story.
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Ivanhoe said: Blair's father was a Tory. Blair embraced Thatcher's right wing free market from 1997. End of story.
Ivanhoe, My Paternal Grandfather who had including my Dad 14 Kids, was apparently a right miserable git, something akin to what I think you to be, yet my old Dad woke up happy and remained that way till something serious happened. But according to you, If a person is of a type then the children must also be the same. Why else would you say such rubbish as, because Tony Blair’s Father was a Tory so Tony Blair must also be one. I have explained in my previous post how and why Blair moved to the right (but no where near as far as you keep implying) but you with your myopic look on politics can not see further than the nose on your face.
And for you to say that Tony Blair was Thatcherite shows just what a no nuffin sod you are, and this story will only end when you stop posting your continual crap. So you keep posting your nonsensical drivel and I will keep popping up to tell the truth of the matter.
Ivanhoe, My Paternal Grandfather who had including my Dad 14 Kids, was apparently a right miserable git, something akin to what I think you to be, yet my old Dad woke up happy and remained that way till something serious happened. But according to you, If a person is of a type then the children must also be the same. Why else would you say such rubbish as, because Tony Blair’s Father was a Tory so Tony Blair must also be one. I have explained in my previous post how and why Blair moved to the right (but no where near as far as you keep implying) but you with your myopic look on politics can not see further than the nose on your face.
And for you to say that Tony Blair was Thatcherite shows just what a no nuffin sod you are, and this story will only end when you stop posting your continual crap. So you keep posting your nonsensical drivel and I will keep popping up to tell the truth of the matter.
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
Ivanhoe, Yesterday I asked you a simple question, even simple enough for you to understand, The question was:
"What do you think the UK would be like now, if Blair hadn’t won his landslide victory in 1997,"
An answer would be nice Ivanhoe.
"What do you think the UK would be like now, if Blair hadn’t won his landslide victory in 1997,"
An answer would be nice Ivanhoe.
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bobby wrote:Ivanhoe, Yesterday I asked you a simple question, even simple enough for you to understand, The question was:
"What do you think the UK would be like now, if Blair hadn’t won his landslide victory in 1997,"
An answer would be nice Ivanhoe.
So sorry bobby, I forgot. If the Tory's had regained power in 1997, Britain would be in the same shitty mess as it is now. There, is that better ?
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boatlady. What happened to our Utilities and Transport is exactly the same as the evil Tories are now doing with the NHS.
Our Utilities and transport where at one time or another starved of funding, leaving them in the position of failure, then the Tories stepped in saying this business is failing so we will sell this burden to the tax payer to the private sector. Whole wodges of the shares where sold off very cheaply to the employee’s, turning them from just employee’s to shareholders. When the share prices rose, which they did quite dramatically, Many of the new share put their shares on the market. This is where many foreign companies stepped in and bought as many shares as they could get their hands on. If it was the case that these Foreign where wholly private owned companies, then I’m sure their would be a mechanism whereby some sort of compulsory purchase could be made to retreive the shares, but as the vast bulk of the shares are now owned by the Foreign (French) tax payer, I’m sure it would be seen as an act of aggression towards France if we tried to force them into selling, hence my statement “ we will never get the shares back”
Exactly what happened then with the utilities is happening now with the NHS, first they starve it of funds, then save it from total failure by selling it off to the private sector, and like what used to be our Utilities, the NHS will be privatised piecemeal, till all of it will be in private hands.
This is happening Now!!!
Our Utilities and transport where at one time or another starved of funding, leaving them in the position of failure, then the Tories stepped in saying this business is failing so we will sell this burden to the tax payer to the private sector. Whole wodges of the shares where sold off very cheaply to the employee’s, turning them from just employee’s to shareholders. When the share prices rose, which they did quite dramatically, Many of the new share put their shares on the market. This is where many foreign companies stepped in and bought as many shares as they could get their hands on. If it was the case that these Foreign where wholly private owned companies, then I’m sure their would be a mechanism whereby some sort of compulsory purchase could be made to retreive the shares, but as the vast bulk of the shares are now owned by the Foreign (French) tax payer, I’m sure it would be seen as an act of aggression towards France if we tried to force them into selling, hence my statement “ we will never get the shares back”
Exactly what happened then with the utilities is happening now with the NHS, first they starve it of funds, then save it from total failure by selling it off to the private sector, and like what used to be our Utilities, the NHS will be privatised piecemeal, till all of it will be in private hands.
This is happening Now!!!
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Ivanhoe, please read the question again, if you are having a problem doing that, just ask and I will re write it in even simpler terms.
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bobby wrote:Ivanhoe, please read the question again, if you are having a problem doing that, just ask and I will re write it in even simpler terms.
Okay bobby, if you could write it simpler, that would make me happy. Ta!
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How about this for simplicity?
Thatcher sold the Nation's property, and Cameron is finishing the task.
Why both of them are not in Jail is a mystery to the Honest Man.
Thatcher sold the Nation's property, and Cameron is finishing the task.
Why both of them are not in Jail is a mystery to the Honest Man.
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
oftenwrong wrote:How about this for simplicity?
Thatcher sold the Nation's property, and Cameron is finishing the task.
Why both of them are not in Jail is a mystery to the Honest Man.
Well put.
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It's a real worry - I did see the parallel re NHS - not really sure what a single voter might do about it, other than agitate, which, while personally satisfying, doesn't really meet the case.
Seems we might be heading into a grim future - I do hope the people who say Cameron won't get another term are right.
Seems we might be heading into a grim future - I do hope the people who say Cameron won't get another term are right.
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
boatlady wrote:It's a real worry - I did see the parallel re NHS - not really sure what a single voter might do about it, other than agitate, which, while personally satisfying, doesn't really meet the case.
Seems we might be heading into a grim future - I do hope the people who say Cameron won't get another term are right.
The British largely are thick enough.
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oftenwrong wrote:How about this for simplicity?
Thatcher sold the Nation's property, and Cameron is finishing the task.
Why both of them are not in Jail is a mystery to the Honest Man.
Your quite right OW, him and Landsley handed over 49% of OUR NHS to the bloody private health care and virgin care had there running shoes on for that one, and from what I have heard its virgin care that is the worst performer I thank God I live in Scotland Scam..er..on and Landsley can not get there bloody hands on OUR NHS.
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boatlady wrote:It's a real worry - I did see the parallel re NHS - not really sure what a single voter might do about it, other than agitate, which, while personally satisfying, doesn't really meet the case.
Seems we might be heading into a grim future - I do hope the people who say Cameron won't get another term are right.
Here in Scotland Noah was still building his Ark was the last time that Scotland voted Tory boatlady, and the next time will be when Hell Freezes over the Maggot ensured that would never ever vote Tory.
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Almost tempted to move to Scotland on that account
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Re: Is there any alternative to the jaundiced Tory attitudes?
boatlady wrote:Almost tempted to move to Scotland on that account
I do not know if you know the reason for Scotland's Hatred of the Tories, when the poll tax was brought in the Scots got it first a year before it was roll out in England and as you know it was the unfairest of all taxes (example one street bought houses on one side council on the other the bought houses where 5 bedroom 2 bathroom homes paying £1800.00 in rates after the poll tax that went down to £1100.00 and some of the people in the council houses where paying more than £1100.00 per year) and that is just part of what the Tories did to us Scots unemployment was very high that is why London and the south have so many Scots still living there I myself worked and lived in London in fact that is where I met my partner. As for you been tempted to come and live in Scotland if the gov't here get there way for independence we will have a Tartan Tory running Scotland so we are trying our best so that we stay part of the UK.
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