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Post by Repat Van on Oct 17, 2012 7:44:45 GMT
Labour being utterly inept isn't the scary thing. But the fact that the British public may happily vote them in again is truly scary.
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Post by lala on Oct 18, 2012 10:23:11 GMT
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha bollocks. The coalition binned them after years of Labour fudging. McKinnon's extradition was blocked and his bail conditions lifted, again after years of Labour limp wristed Yank gobbling. I'm willing to agree on McKinnon, as it did involve the Home Secretary intervening. That's why I acknowledged it. Not aware of any direct Gummint intervention in the Hamza appeals process. Feel free to provide contrary evidence.
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Post by lala on Jan 25, 2014 21:03:19 GMT
It's been a while, largely because the coalition has settled into a sort of steady state of ongoing incompetence. +1 ... Increase in minimum wage -1 ... Greenest government ever? Yeah, right. -1 ... Continuing spinelessness over Syria. OVERALL: -2/10. Broken promises and vacillations mount up over the parliament. This government will be looked upon as a crucial missed opportunity - to respond adequately to the recession, to the disaster of Syria, and to climate change.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Jan 26, 2014 8:09:53 GMT
It's been a while, largely because the coalition has settled into a sort of steady state of ongoing incompetence. +1 ... Increase in minimum wage -1 ... Greenest government ever? Yeah, right. -1 ... Continuing spinelessness over Syria. OVERALL: -2/10. Broken promises and vacillations mount up over the parliament. This government will be looked upon as a crucial missed opportunity - to respond adequately to the recession, to the disaster of Syria, and to climate change. That appears to add up to minus 1.
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Post by lala on Jan 26, 2014 10:27:30 GMT
It's ongoing. They were already on -1 from previous crimes against What Lala Thinks Is Best. When the coalition formed, they started off at 5/10. I think, in the early days, they may have got up to 7 or 8/10. Now they are in the unutterable depths of negative numbers, which doesn't really make sense when rating something out of 10, but there you go.
Review the whole thread to see their sorry plunge into hopelessness.
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Post by mids on Jan 26, 2014 10:52:16 GMT
"Greenest government ever, yeah right" gets a +100000000000000000000 from me.
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Post by lala on Jan 26, 2014 11:27:49 GMT
Looking back over the various credits and debits, I note I've failed to account for Michael Gove. -1 ... Michael Gove. -1 ... Free schools OVERALL: -4/10. A combination of imbecility and ideology in education drives the coalition down, down, down into the depths.
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Post by mids on Jan 26, 2014 11:40:15 GMT
Michael Gove gets a massive number of plus points as do his wildly successful free schools.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2014 13:48:45 GMT
Politicians for you... "Osborne has moved his mortgage to an exclusive bank for the super-rich, it was claimed. The Chancellor is said to have cut his interest rate on the loan on his £4million house in Notting Hill, west London - which he rents out for £10,000 a month while living in Downing Street. Mr Osborne reportedly switched the loan on the house - which has doubled in value since he bought it in 2006 - from Barclays and C. Hoare & Co to RBC Europe, part of the Royal Bank of Canada."
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Jan 26, 2014 14:25:28 GMT
Politicians for you... "Osborne has moved his mortgage to an exclusive bank for the super-rich, it was claimed. The Chancellor is said to have cut his interest rate on the loan on his £4million house in Notting Hill, west London - which he rents out for £10,000 a month while living in Downing Street. Mr Osborne reportedly switched the loan on the house - which has doubled in value since he bought it in 2006 - from Barclays and C. Hoare & Co to RBC Europe, part of the Royal Bank of Canada." I'm not entirely clear what the issue of Gidders switching motgages is.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2014 14:52:54 GMT
While he lives at the taxpayer's expense waited on hand and foot in a mansion in central London - remember that he's instrumental in reducing benefits to some of the country's poorest - he lets out his other London house for £120k a year. That's the issue.
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Post by Minge är en jävla besserwisser on Jan 26, 2014 15:19:49 GMT
While he lives at the taxpayer's expense waited on hand and foot in a mansion in central London - remember that he's instrumental in reducing benefits to some of the country's poorest - he lets out his other London house for £120k a year. That's the issue. What should he do?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2014 15:32:25 GMT
Resign and make way for someone less hypocritical and insensitive, someone like, er, oh, hang on a minute...
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Post by voice on Jan 26, 2014 17:41:46 GMT
While its clear Gidders has been the worst chancellor since Howe I don't see an issue whith him renting out his house when he's living at No11, and what he does with his mortgage is irrelevant, he's a very rich man, as they all are, and very rich men make sure their money is safe. The fact he is making the poor pay to keep other rich men like himself rich while distasteful, is not hypocracy cos its what he said he would if he got the job.
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Post by hammerhead on Jan 27, 2014 13:50:42 GMT
Blimey, I'm sure most politicians are hypocritical in many ways but a Tory taking care of his money? Don't think that goes against their philosophy much.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2014 15:59:18 GMT
I was just going along with the 'austerity' theme.
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Post by mids on Jan 27, 2014 18:16:20 GMT
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Post by flatandy on Jan 27, 2014 20:33:49 GMT
He's clearly not been reading his Bjorn Lomborg, has he?
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Post by flatandy on Jan 27, 2014 20:34:39 GMT
And, seriously, it's not like the 30 million quid they were spending to start with was enough to do much good.
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Post by mids on Jan 28, 2014 17:59:29 GMT
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