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    Belgium outlaws the Burka.

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    As Awol was saying, visit a Muslim country, and count how many people you see wearing a Burka or Niqab. It won't be many. Far fewer than I saw last time I was home in Bolton anyway, I bet.

    visit a muslim country and have your bird walk round in shorts and a boob tube and see how long it lasts

    bottom line is its perfectly fine for them not to allow that, same way its perfectly fine if belgium choose not to allow the burka

    I have never really understood the whole "We can't do X in their country so they shouldn’t be able to do Y in ours" argument.

    We make our laws based on what we think is right, not as a reaction to what people do in a backwards liberty denying country.

    Surely the point is that wherever one lives one expects residents and visitors to respect the "norms" and the "norm" in Western Europe isn't religious zealotry

    Bollitics: The General Election 2010 Exit Poll

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    The key here is the morale of the would be Lib Dem voter. For how many years have they simply not voted as 'there is no point'? Since the televised debates the Lib Dems feel they are on an equal footing. I reckon with Lib Dems getting the most votes, but not enough for a majority. *Ducks and when the Tories get a landslide I shall hope I am drunk*

    Edited for accuracy :winkold:

    Bollitics: VT General Election Poll #6 - Leaders Debate 3

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    if that continues I wouldn't be surprised to see a Labour majority of around 15 seats.

    could be interesting as that would then suggest Clegg will have failed to have won many seats and may have to fall on his sword , Cameron will have to fall as well and Brown could still also be removed by his party

    so we could get 3 new leaders in the event of a Labour majority ?

    Almost makes it worth voting Labour

    Bollitics: VT General Election Poll #5 - Leaders Debate Two

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    ‘Greece infection’ spreads as stricken nation’s debt is rated junk

    Greece plunged deeper into financial turmoil last night after its government bonds were rated as junk by financial markets. The Portuguese government debt also took a hammering after panic spread that a Mediterranean virus of insolvency and bad debts would infect the rest of Europe.

    Doubts are being openly expressed that a €30 billion (£26 billion) rescue package supported by Greece’s eurozone partners will be enough to tide the country over.

    Norbert Barthle, a budget spokesman for Germany’s ruling party, made the financial mayhem worse yesterday when he said that banks holding Greek bonds might need to accept less than full repayment.

    “Whoever bought Greek bonds wouldn’t get 100 per cent of their value but, say, only 80, 90 or 70 per cent — it depends,” he said.

    The decision by the leading credit rating agency Standard & Poor’s to cut Greek debt to junk and reduce the sovereign rating for Portugal sent investors scurrying to the safer havens of UK gilts, German bunds and US Treasury bills.

    The threat of a “haircut” for investors in eurozone bonds caused stock markets to fall across the world.

    The euro continued its slide against the dollar but steadied after its fall against sterling on Monday. The London share market dropped 2.61 per cent, or 150 points, to 5603.52 and the Dow Jones industrial average was off 212 points at 10,992. Markets in Frankfurt and Paris also plunged.

    The financial turmoil began on Monday when bond investors hammered Greece, forcing up the cost of short-term borrowing for the debt-strapped nation to 14 per cent.

    Eurozone leaders have called an emergency summit on May 10 in the hope of approving a rescue package. Last night it was reported that the International Monetary Fund was prepared to put in another €10 billion.

    Greece needs to repay €8.5 billion of maturing bonds on May 19. George Papaconstantinou, the Greek Finance Minister, said yesterday that the country could no longer afford to borrow.

    Greece faces a formidable obstacle to rescue cash. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, has promised to join the rescue only if Athens makes budget cuts lasting several years.

    German public opinion, however, is set against the rescue package, of which Germany would pay €8.5 billion. “People in Germany ... worry that we will have to pay for a long time for Greece,” Klaus Abberger, an economist at the German Ifo Institute, said.

    A temporary exit from the eurozone was mooted as a solution by the German Free Democratic Party, the liberal coalition partners of Ms Merkel’s Christian Democrats. This could offer Greece a partial reprieve if a devalued currency boosted the Greek economy and helped to avoid mass unemployment, Ben May, an economist at Capital Economics, said.

    He added: “Exiting the euro temporarily is not going to solve all their problems. They need to make structural adjustments that ensure competitiveness isn’t lost when they rejoin.”

    Are you watching, Brown lovers?

    Massive deficits and policies of unsustainable public spending are to blame for this and Greece is now in deep trouble with Portugal possibly heading for the rocks too.

    The canary has fallen off it's perch but will the British people and politicians start waking up to the issues that our election is really about?

    All of these so called entitlements that Labour have brought in (to buy off a large chunk of the electorate) are going to have to be reviewed, even if they themselves were to get back in. The welfare state is going to get battered, whoever is in charge post May 6th.

    Sorry Jon, but the above part of the artice you posted seems to me to negate the purpose of the post.

    I'm no supporter of Gordo but when we challenge somethin we need to get our ducks in a row please

    Bollitics: VT General Election Poll #5 - Leaders Debate Two

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    Rubbish Levi - if you were correct then explain

    - Minimum wage

    The US, notoriously Right wing have had that longer than us

    - Banning of Fox Hunting

    WTF has that got to do with left or right wing

    - New Deal

    Not something I'd be boasting about

    - NI Peace process

    Granted, they finalised it but again not specifically right or left wing

    - Sure start

    Not sure

    - Tax credits

    new names for old benefits

    etc etc etc

    Sorry Drat, I don't think you can argue with Levi on this

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