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meregreen

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  1. Tory ineptitude with the economy had almost guaranteed their fall from grace. Politics tends to be cyclical, it's just a case of when, not if, the people decide they've had enough of you.
  2. A Norwegian politician stated that in Scandanavia. Corbyn would be seen as a middle of the road politician. The political landscape was moved to the right by both the Tories and Blairs Labour over the last 30 years. Seeing the Political landscape shift a little to the left is long overdue, and very welcome. A real choice again thankfully.
  3. Corbyn has changed Labour . To me he does offer hope, and certainly a choice for real change. They may not be a "new" party. But they most certainly are not the party of Blair. Saw a survey once which asked people of a certain age which decade they were happiest in. The seventies won. No period in time is ever perfect. But many of the values our country held then, about community and helping each other, about giving our children the best start in life we can, without saddling them with debt, about treating the sick according to the severity of their illness regardless of their income. Many of these things have been eroded over the years. So if Corbyn wants to restore some that compassion from a former decade, then bring it on.
  4. They most certainly are "cowardly" . This person killed themself, and murdered innocent children while doing it. That is not " sacrifice" by my definition.
  5. Oh please give it a rest mate. It's **** all to do with the left. Making political capital about horrors like this makes me sick. I'm a member of the Labour Party and find these acts of insanity quite appalling.
  6. I have memories, it's why I will never vote Tory.
  7. Good for them. Trying to give a counter to the truly massive right wing bias of the British press as a whole. I've travelled the world pretty extensively, and our press are amongst the worst. Sad but true.
  8. It would appear most people support Labours policies above those of the Conservatives. What they don't want, sadly is the man most responsible for those policies, go figure. Occurs to me though, that those pundits and posters predicting the permanent demise of Labour as a political force, are pretty wide of the mark. Corbyn is temporary, keep the policies with a more palatable leader, and we're in a very different scenario. It's just a pity that the British electorate are so bloody shallow that they allow personalities to override policies. It's the policies that will mould our country. The Tories with a large majority could inflict terrible suffering . Been there before, bad times.
  9. We won't get promotion with players as poor as Bacuna. To me, that means he has to go, the sooner the better.
  10. Nice one John. As someone else who knew Pete Wyper well, l add my condolences to his family and partner Wendy. A great Villa fan , he will be sadly missed.
  11. We need a winger who can terrorise defenders. Adomah is simply too easy to mark. Anonymous most of the time, lacks any menace.
  12. The Tories were in favour of the war in Iraq , indeed the only serious opposition came from Labours own back benches, including one Jeremy Corbyn. The Gold sold was actually a drop in the ocean in the general scale of things. He also presided over the longest period of sustained growth in the economy since records began. Not quite the pathetic party you like to portray when you actually get past that right wing bullshit espoused by the Tory press.
  13. Never read the Morning Star in my life. So can't comment. Actually I think Labour were pretty good in office from 97 to 2010. Not perfect by any means, I'm old Labour by instinct, so would have liked to see more done to address the obscene levels of wealth distribution in this country. But hey ho, if the Tories get in with a large majority then you ain't seen nothing yet. Were standing on the edge of a precipice, and this lot it seems, are quite happy to jump off it.
  14. The Tories paid for tax cuts to the rich by cutting welfare and services, if you want to know where the money is coming from to fund Labours commitment to help those struggling under Tory dogma driven austerity, we could try reversing those tax cuts for a start.
  15. Oh please, not this old chestnut again, it was the Tory bankers who "bankrupted" the nation. Public finances under Labour were healthier than they had been for decades. Don't equate private debt from the casino banking industry with public finances. Incidentally if the Tories had been in power during the global banking crisis, chances are things would have been much worse as they were strong advocates of less regulation in the sector. Let's stick to facts shall we and not peddle Daily Heil bullshit.
  16. We could offer a buy one get one free deal to anyone daft enough to buy either .
  17. I'd prefer my full backs to have intelligence, composure and touch thank you.
  18. Trade Union rights, human rights, International solidarity, I don't have any problems with those things. Jo Green can do one.
  19. I don't think it is imo. But then I always vote on policies not personalities. The Sad fact is politics in this country has been reduced to the level of the playground.
  20. I watch this walking disaster week after week, trust me, he is shit. If he is average then Allan Hutton is Messi in disguise. He will play any role....badly. Wouldn't even have him as a sub, why make a bad situation worse by bringing this mediocrity on. In every game he plays he is a disaster waiting to happen. Bacuna is a poor player and we need better.
  21. I think they know what they're doing more than we do.They really need us a lot less than we need them. The only thing up Mays sleeve is a well used hanky.Frankly the more I see of her and her robotic answers, the more out of her depth she looks. If she's not worried, she bloody well ought to be, only a fool wouldn't be worried for this country's future.
  22. I'm 62 and brought up in a Tory household , but made my own mind up through watching the Tories ruin lives and communities without a trace of compassion.
  23. Your either very young or have a short memory. I lived through an era of 3,000,000 unemployed with those bastards. They hid many of them by actively encouraging people to register as sick, so removing them from the statistics. These days they still show little to no sympathy for those out of work, seeking to hide them by means of forcing people into zero hours contracts and bogus self employed status. I'll sleep well when the British people find their sense of decency again and dump the self serving perfidious cretins.
  24. If you don't bother to vote, then politicians won't bother about you.
  25. Anyone who votes Tory condones bullying on an industrial scale.
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