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The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
Could it happen? It'd still be the UK, of England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Then we can all watch Scotland nose dive spectacularly as they realise independence isn't the panacea they thought it would be. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Could it happen? Will Cameron shoot himself in the foot if his plan backfires on him . Is he gambling with the country's future on plans not thought out well . |
The Simonator Send message Joined: 18 Nov 04 Posts: 5700 Credit: 3,855,702 RAC: 50 |
What price austerity? Cutting Welfare & other benefits to reduce the deficit & get Britain back in the black... One would be entitled to redundancy pay from any long term job, and £11.5m really isn't that much in the grand scheme of things. Typical DM. Life on earth is the global equivalent of not storing things in the fridge. |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
And this? Another weapon that both England and Scotland uses. Use goggles as protection. Pale Scotsman Jack, brown Swede "Svenne" Sandra, pale Englishman Matthew. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Simon now why am i not surprised . Funny Howard finally won the Senate here in his last term . Had full control . Misused it a shoot himself in the foot too . They have a tendancy to trick there way to full control and the people and country end up suffering Don't you guys think 5 years between elections is a bit to long ?? How long has it been like that ? |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
Don't you guys think 5 years between elections is a bit to long ?? Sweden had for a short period 3 years between elections. Now its 4 years again. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
she's got a better tan than me Janne and she's a swede , bbbrrrr cold snow great TAN ? |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
bbbrrrr cold snow great TAN ? Yes Glenn. We can ski here and get tanned. Actually too much sometimes:) And Midnight Sun of course. |
Iona Send message Joined: 12 Jul 07 Posts: 790 Credit: 22,438,118 RAC: 0 |
Unfortunately there is also something of a problem with the Electoral Register on this country, which probably impacts on the number of people who vote. There are essentially two registers, one of which, the edited register, allows every spiv, charlatan and con-man access to your name and address. This 'Open Register' can be seen by anyone (for a fee, naturally!) and is frequently and regularly abused, although one can remove one's details from this register, which is something that the individual had to do themselves. The other, full register, can apparently only be used for purposes relevant to voting, crime detection (although, not ones pertaining to privacy, one could argue!) and checks by credit companies. Yes, private companies, staffed by all manner of honest souls! Given the massive increase in the number of credit companies that seems to have taken place in this country under recent governments, I shudder to think how many people that could be. Why the Hell does being able to vote in this country, come at the price of your privacy being invaded? Don't take life too seriously, as you'll never come out of it alive! |
Мишель Send message Joined: 26 Nov 13 Posts: 3073 Credit: 87,868 RAC: 0 |
Why the Hell does being able to vote in this country, come at the price of your privacy being invaded? Actually under Cameron the idea is that being able to live in the UK comes at the price of your privacy being invaded on a near constant basis. Aside from all the CCTV cameras everywhere (to be fair, thats not his idea), the guy has constantly been trying to censor the internet and have the intelligence agencies log and save everyones online history. So far the Lib Dems have successfully been able to take some of the worst aspects out of those laws, but now Cameron doesn't have to take them into account anymore, he can just do what he wants. Remember that this is the guy the guy that tried to make it possible that companies had to save peoples online behavior for 12 months and that data included the content of the stuff you said on Facebook, Skype, games or some other form of voice call, as well as what you write in emails. And he is actively censoring the internet with his anti porn laws which also include stuff like information about hard drugs and homosexuality. Yeah, trust Cameron, he will totally not abuse his power and neuter the internet. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24904 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Why the Hell does being able to vote in this country, come at the price of your privacy being invaded? Hmmn, funny that isn't it? Over the past couple of years, just how many posts on this board shown that? Aw, they were only from a "rabid anarchist" |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24904 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
I see that certain of his previous supporters do not now sport his party logo. Ah well, politics is full of fair weather friends, name of the game. I'm staying loyal. You just cannot stop can you? Current avatar shows a fool on a precipice which is what this country could be facing. Unlike some whose dogmatic principles shine on these boards like a blinding light instead of a guiding light says much. At least we'll never see this again... |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
Con win, and thereafter no time wasted, is there? Poor Britain. I know the tories never liked the human rights act. As a citizen living in a country that has a very good bill of charter rights to protect us from government over-reach I have to say it makes a big difference. But the British never were citizens, we were subjects, and there are some of the old school that would like you to stay that way. Reality Internet Personality |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24904 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Has "Red Ed" started something that will cost Labour? Peer quits Labour Party "I signed on to New Labour in 1997 but more recently, particularly in relation to business, I sensed a policy shift moving back towards what Old Labour stood for." & that friends is why we ended up with the Tories getting a majority. The Lib-Dems could have prevented this from happening several years ago & Clegg knew that his actions would cost his party... ...lovely politician isn't he - he himself does what many did not want to see - hand the country over to the Tories! |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
You just cannot stop can you? They DO look the same. Only their ties have different colors. Blue, yellow and red. Margot is right:) |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24904 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Hope is a wonderful thing... There isn't much honour in politics these days, but there is one hell of a sight more in the party that I support, than the one that you dallied with briefly. Hence today's Farage U turn. So are you suggesting that you know who I voted for? The Lib-Dems are not that old a party, so you must have "dallied" with other parties before they arrived on the scene. Did you use your vote in what you considered to be in the best interests of the country? Or did you vote for your cronies? |
Nick Send message Joined: 11 Oct 11 Posts: 4344 Credit: 3,313,107 RAC: 0 |
Did you use your vote in what you considered to be in the best interests of the country? ....I did...and now that Brussels is going to dictate to the UK the exact amount of immigrants it has to let in....then I'm glad that I voted the way that I did.....UKIP The Kite Fliers -------------------- Kite fliers: An imaginary club of solo members, those who don't yet belong to a formal team so "fly their own kites" - as the saying goes. |
Sirius B Send message Joined: 26 Dec 00 Posts: 24904 Credit: 3,081,182 RAC: 7 |
Did you use your vote in what you considered to be in the best interests of the country? As did I. Unfortunately, didn't like the candidate for our local election, so voted in who I thought (as did many others) would be best for the community... ...& I'm glad to say, Bella was re-elected - she deserved it! |
Es99 Send message Joined: 23 Aug 05 Posts: 10874 Credit: 350,402 RAC: 0 |
No it isn't.
I totally disagree with your assessment. The lib dems got what they deserved. The British media is controlled by about six right wing men who ran a scare campaign to keep labour out. Nobody liked the Human Rights act You don't speak for everyone, much as you think you do. I liked the human rights act. Last time I looked, I wasn't nobody. You might think otherwise, but again, you don't speak for everyone. ...that allowed out and out Terrorists to remain in the UK, saying to be deported contravenes their 'uman rites. (deliberate spelling) You are going to have to provide evidence of that statement and explain at what point terrorists (assuming they have actually been tried and proved to be terrorists) stop being human beings. History shows that the Canadian Bill of Rights was flawed. They started again with the Charter, and even that has criticism. Canada will never sort itself out whilst a large chunk is French. That's pretty insulting. No document is going to be without its criticisms, but the Canadian Charter of Rights is held up as a blueprint of how to do it. I am not a citizen neither am I a subject, I am a person. You are a subject of the Queen. I accept that generally speaking people living within a Monarchy are described as subjects, people living within a republic are citizens, and in a dictatorship prisoners. (I am not a number, I am a free man). You are by no means free. However lets look at the freedom scores: An Index of Freedom in the World (pdf document.) The list in on the 10th page of the document and it lists Canada in the top 5 whereas the UK is in 18th place. That will obviously change if you get rid of the Human Rights Act. The kindergarten group need to grow up. More snitty comments from you? Reality Internet Personality |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
You are by no means free. However lets look at the freedom scores: 1 New Zealand 2 Netherlands 3 Hong Kong 4 Australia 5 Canada 6 Ireland 7 United States of America 8 Denmark 9 Japan 10 Estonia 11 Switzerland 12 Norway 13 Finland 14 Austria 15 Luxembourg 16 Chile 17 Iceland 18 United Kingdom 19 Slovakia 20 Costa Rica 21 El Salvador 22 Uruguay 23 Spain 24 Albania 25 Portugal 26 Bahamas 27 Malta 28 Panama 29 Sweden 30 Mauritius. New Zealand here I come:) Or perhaps the Netherlands. I can understand what they are Writing:) Denmark are much closer. But it's very hard to understand what they say. |
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