I'm going to avoid this thread. Being from the North-west of England, I have a certain hatred for the Conservative government.
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Yikes, the Tories have you right where they want you then; a nice closed economic supply and demand loop!
There is a joke here about Thatcher and miners, and a certain recent BBC-related story, but I'm not going to make it.
It seems to be really rattling both the other political parties and the media that there may now, again, actually be people in politics. I mean, what kind of precedent does that set?! I knew you lot had pie mines up there.
I used to go out drinking and clubbing a lot with one of my oldest friends. When we would get into a club -- usually smashed -- he used to pull this trick that he thought I wouldn't click on to. Or should I say, he tried to take me for a fool. He would go up to the bar and order drinks, and then, as they were being made, he would walk off to the toilet. So when the drinks were prepared and the bar staff wanted paying, it would be me standing there getting eyed for payment. Basically, he was trying to get my to buy everything, despite the fact that I was a poor student living on a loan, and he was the head of the e-marketing department in his job, earning £40,000 a year. He told me once on the way home from a night out that he supported the Conservatives, and it really didn't surprise me. He was indicative of the typical greedy, money-grabbing, sly, power-hungry cock suckers that I consider most, if not all Tories to be. And so, after he'd pulled that shit a few time, I decided I'd had enough. Next time he ordered drinks and bolted to the toilet, I just told the bar person that they weren't mine and I wasn't paying for them. When he came back, he didn't like putting his hand in his pocket, and got in a bit of a huff. Needless to say, I don't go out with him any more. Can't trust Tories. Fucking conniving cheapskates.
There's a guy in the pub I drink in, goes by the moniker of 'The Blacksmith'. This is due to the fact that whenever it's his round he makes a bolt for the door.
We have Jimmy the Fish. Because if you left your pint unsupervised for long enough he'd think you were not coming back, and steal it. I don't think I've seen him drunk. *side track*
This thread is so very baffling to me. Were this a thread concerning American elections, there would be 17 reported posts, five of which had been reported by multiple members, 4 infractions, and at the very least one temp-ban. Baffled, I tell you. Baffled.
British people are either really bad at politics, or really good. Which one of those is true is the one that pleases you more.
British politics is pretty obsolete in my opinion. The methodology behind it still screws over too many people.
Watch this https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/queens-speech-2015, then watch an episode of Monty Python, then watch it again, and then another episode of Python. It's almost impossible to take British politics seriously then, no matter how much it's screwing up real lives.
I met Cameron, spent a hour or so with him. He's actually not a bad guy, quite pleasant really and seems to care. Problem is, you cant please everyone.
The problem with conservatives is that they don't seem to understand you don't succeed in life on the sweat of your own back, and not everyone can work a normal job.
And did he tell you how his stringent austerity measures rectified the British economy? And how the increased higher education fees and the mass development of apprenticeships have opened up opportunities for skilled and educated people? Not to mention how he made it almost impossible to claim benefits these days, forcing skilled and educated people into piss poor jobs, with no possibility of pursuing an alternate career, or even given the time to find a job within their field of expertise. David Cameron and the Tories are taking the credit for natural occurrences and deceiving people with statistics that their approach is working. When really they are just re-establishing the aristocracy which screws over the lesser man and blatantly divides classes. The Tories even have people convinces that Labour 'borrowed' too much and caused the economic slump; when in reality, every country borrows and spends to the hilt. It was all the bonds tied up in American banks when they crashed that caused the recession. Unfortunately, there were no safeguards in place to counter such an impact, but it was the same for most countries. Luckily, UK has a reasonable economy, so we bounced back pretty fast, as did Germany, Holland, and France. I can see right through Cameron's bullshit, which is probably why I despise them so much.
