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jon_c

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  1. I think a coalition whilst not great, is a better prospect than some of these parties getting Carte Blanche.
  2. Exactly, despite looking completely clueless towards the end of his tenure, we actually lost 4 under RDM. 14 under Bruce, that isn't harder to beat.
  3. I don't care about his past talks with the IRA, it's his appearances on Russia Today and articles about Ukraine in the morning star. That's why I don't inherently trust Corbyn. And saying the Crimea invasion "is not unprovoked" isn't exactly standing up for the oppressed. http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-972b-Nato-belligerence-endangers-us-all#.WSvUjMvTXqB
  4. I only had a choice of Lib Dem or Plaid in the locals and that is exactly what I did. There were only two spoilt votes in my area too. The other one was my other half.
  5. Replace the word "Christian"in these arguments with the word "White" "White" extremists, "white" radicals, wanting to eradicate non-"whites". These things exist. (Hell one of them is chief strategist to the White House)
  6. This is absolutely Corbyn's biggest problem. Yes the Tories have similar issues (see Fallon) but Labour rarely put anyone on TV who isn't Abbott or McDonnell. They really need to push some of the other shadow cabinet.
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    Steve Round

    The dream team.
  8. Are you stipulating from which division the promotion has to be?
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    U.S. Politics

    I'm sorry but that is just mental illness.
  10. When discussing government policy as a motivating factor for terrorists. I've always wondered why there are no major attacks by Islamic fundamentalists on any of the former Yugoslavian states, after all they had a campaign of ethnic cleansing against Muslim's. It goes to show how little the motivations are religious or political. And it's just mainly nut-jobbery.
  11. You should, because it's a great film.
  12. It feels like I'm watching the two main party leaders trying their best to make sure they're not winning the election. Corbyn may not be wrong about the interventions of the army motivating acts of terrorism, but he must know how this will get attacked politically during the election. He's just handing his detractors an easy narrative to turn against him, at a time when the people are particularly prickly about terrorism. And as for May, it's like her entire Manifesto has been designed to lose votes. The dementia tax? Targeting you're core vote, with something they'll hate. Does anyone actually want to win? Or are they just looking at impending Brexit negotiations and thinking, "No Thanks."
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    U.S. Politics

    Turkey for example doesn't meet the 2% criteria, yet has the second biggest deplorable military in NATO by far.
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    U.S. Politics

    Just listening to Trump's speech at NATO right now. Uses Manchester bombing to attack immigration, (when he said "beautiful little girls", it was creepy as hell) then went on about other countries owing money to NATO, like he doesn't understand how NATO works. The faces of all the other leaders were just completely incredulous.
  15. Fat Sam resigned, Monk resigned, come on Steve get with trend.
  16. We don't need to share Intel with the US anymore, if they have anything we want to know, we can just bug Mar a Lago, or just goad Trump into telling us.
  17. I agree with your sentiment, but would just like to note that Moeen Ali is from Birmingham.
  18. They claim responsibility for everything, they claimed the Dortmund bus attack. They are essentially the terrorist version of John Terry changing into his kit to collect the champions league trophy.
  19. Keep hearing these campaigns for getting young people to register to vote. Honestly the number of young people I speak to, I'd say the majority wouldn't even know who Jeremy Corbyn was, and it'd be 50:50 on whether they know Teresa May. They have absolutely no interest or knowledge of politics or even current affairs. They may be some but they are the exception. I encouraged a guy at work to register, and he hadn't got a clue about any politics, and actually said that I seemed to know a bit, he'd just vote whoever I did. As much as I like the power, I'm trying to get him to make his own decision, by what he feels is right. I happen to think that's important, even if he votes Tory.
  20. Literally the first article I found googling this.
  21. A Tory free prime time slot to promote his policies. Policies which are mostly very sound, and if he couldn't debate those successfully against the leaders of the minor parties, then he wouldn't deserve to lead the Labour party, let alone the country. It really should've been a free hit for Labour here.
  22. Won't stand up to a non-partisan crowd and take scrutiny, pathetic. Any politician worth their salt, should jump at the chance to persuade the public.
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    U.S. Politics

    You might not care for NATO, but the protection of NATO treaties is currently the only thing stopping Russia invading other countries in Eastern Europe like they did Crimea.
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