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Kingfisher

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  1. That's not quite true is it. He has declared it in Brussels every year. And it hasn't cost the taxpayer a penny. He hasn't claimed any money for it. I wouldn't trust tax dodger Farage on anything, his accounts are as vague as his policies.
  2. Atos pay £30m fine for failures to asses disabled people. Are the government going to use it to compensate the people they've failed? If they did (they wont), I wouldn't trust their competence to arrange it. £29m of it would be privatised.
  3. Farage is facing questions over a rent free office he seems to have claimed over £200,000 tax payers money for. Mr I'm not like the others - my arse!
  4. Sums him up perfectly really doesn't it, holding a sun newspaper. Part of the 'establishment'. Just like the Sun he has nothing interesting or enlightening to say, he'll happily be xenophobic if it suits his agenda and his cabinet, just like the paper, is full of tits. Caroline Lucas wore a ban page 3 t-shirt and got told to 'cover up'...
  5. Threaten to shut down or censor charities who dare to say anything that might make the government look bad. This must be one of Michael Gove's 'British values'? TBH censorship of this kind is more akin to Putin's Russia. http://www.civilsociety.co.uk/governance/news/content/17632/trussell_trust_chair_told_the_government_might_try_to_shut_you_down
  6. This war will be a disaster, it won't bring peace, democracy or stability to the region. I doubt Sadam has any weapons of mass destruction or the means to create any. The country will end up a fractured failed state, and a breeding ground for terrorism and we will have succeeded only in fanning the flames of hatred. Those were my views back in 2003, and the views of millions of anti-war protesters which were completely ignored by a war hungry Blair government, a complicit conservative opposition and a blood thirsty media.
  7. It was a rhetorical question. Quite obvious we need radical changes in voting, debating, accountability, transparency, methods...So many areas of our democracy are out of date and not fit for purpose anymore. It's really quite embarrassing. But we have a load of greedy businessmen within (MP's) and around (Lobbyists) the political system who know it works for them and they're milking it. With help from the Rothemere, Murdoch machine they'll do their damnedest to make sure it stays that way. Tory, Labour, Lib Dem ..now UKIP too, all cut from the same cloth. There's no choice there.
  8. David Cameron asked about his support of TTIP deal being done behind closed doors by corporate lobbyists at PMQ's. No answer. (Does anything ever come out of this form of debating at PMQ's?)
  9. The cost of living crisis deepens as wages rose just 0.4% in year to April (single month figs). Apparently the lowest annual rate on record. ONS. Well below inflation whichever way you cut it. Recovery, what recovery?
  10. Conor Burns, the Conservative MP for Bournemouth West is said to be 'shocked' by an Oxfam campaign poster which highlights rising poverty and its causes in the UK. ...of course not shocked by the content, but rather their audacity to highlight it. It's your party's doing mate, stop trying to censor the truth and start dealing with the problems. Idiot.
  11. A free, experience and a creative midfielder. If he can stay fit, and if he still wants it, he could be an excellent signing for us.
  12. Tories talking about cultural plurality, what next a Gary Glitter sex education video.
  13. I don't think we should grant export licences to sell arms to countries like Saudi Arabia, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, Yemen and Zimbabwe. I value human life over money, the government don't. So Gove has very little room to talk about values whilst he's an active member in that horrible little gang of arms dealers.
  14. Michael Gove wants British schools to teach British values. My mind boggles as to what values Michael Gove could possibly have in mind seeing as he's a member of a political party that have hammered the poorest, lied, stolen, sold public assets to friends on the cheap whilst simultaneously eroding our democracy.
  15. Defensively suspect, no cutting edge, bad passes galore, plenty of athleticism though.... A symptom of England's obsession with creating players who can go 100% over 90 mins to the detriment of being able to actually play football? Against the top teams, in the heat, you're going to need to be fit if you can't keep the ball. Good luck with that one England.
  16. It's complex, but I think the problem in the UK is with the difference between wholesale price and the price we pay. We have relatively low taxes on energy, but our prices are still quite high. The winners seem to be the private pockets of the energy firms.That's the 'perceived' problem - it doesn't have a great deal to do with the actual problem. There isn't much correlation beteween the 'wholesale' price for gas on any particular day and what is charged to the retail customer, nor should there be.What is the actual problem, and in your opinion, what would be the best course of action to ensure energy needs are met, in the short and medium term?
  17. It's complex, but I think the problem in the UK is with the difference between wholesale price and the price we pay. We have relatively low taxes on energy, but our prices are still quite high. The winners seem to be the private pockets of the energy firms. In Germany prices are high because of the tax, so the government get a much bigger slice, which is then reinvested into renewable schemes. I can't help but get this nagging feeling that they're doing it the right way. But the energy markets, the future of energy, and the complexity of supply seems mind boggling. I think a federal EU needs to work closely on this, I don't think the right wing free market, law of economics will solve this problem.
  18. Our energy bills remain fixed even though the wholesale prices have tumbled doubling energy companies profits according to ofgen, the times is reporting this morning. The way these private energy companies behave is a disgrace. Another Tory failure, who do they work for, us? or big business?
  19. Michael Gove's free schools are three times more likely to fail than normal schools. Funds are being diverted from normal schools to fill an £800m funding black hole. His pet project is failing.
  20. Can only cover recent **** ups then? Do we pretend three of the last for years didn't happen? 'They didn't do it, it's not their fault, stop talking about it'
  21. I'm not sure what your point is here? Are you blaming the government for the horse meat in burgers or George Galloway? How the hell are you confused as to my point?? I'm blaming the government, for the reasons stated by Galloway in the clip.
  22. George Galloway, Labour, who else can we blame who hasn't been running the country for the last four years of ineptitude?
  23. Ah it was George Galloway's fault then. I see...
  24. Remember the horse meat scandal. Don't blame the government, not their fault. http://youtu.be/xit10AtNiAE Whatever happened to Maria Miller? Oh yeah she was caught stealing £48,000. Not her fault, it was an accident.
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