meregreen

Oh really you cant just go over to another country and invade them. Do you remember that illegal war we had with Iraq which 1 million people died in...? Oh dear. 1 million is yet another fact you appear to have picked for effect rather than accuracy. The body count for Iraq currently standc at between 105,890 and 115,694. Appalling of course, but not as you say,1,000,000. Check your facts please.

In what sense? He wasn’t an MP until 1987... Now that is worth a ! Yep, that's a tremendous example of total pwnage! George Galloway supported the invasion of the Falkands are you saying he didnt. Who cares what Galloway thinks? But if he wasn't even an MP, he didn't as you say, vote on it. You appear to have been found out big time in a blatant assumption.

Exacly the point if its a small issue what the f--k was the point in going to war over it...?! For a start the Islands are thousands of miles aways from the UK. It’s a bit like saying Argentina are well within their rights to claim the Isle of the man. There is something thats been around for a long time its called common sense. The Argentines claim the islands, most latin countries back this and the majority of other countries also back this FOR THESE MAIN REASONS. You cannot translate 2000 of you own settlers at the time of the Falkland war and put them on vacant territory and them claim that you have sovereignty over those islands forever. If the local residents want to remain brittish. Why not give them money to relocate to Brittian a nation which they want to be part of. You do the Maths there are 2000 people in the Falkands. Its has cost us Billions in the Falkands. Or let the UN decide. Cheers. Your comparison doesn't even make sense. The Isle of Man isn't an Argentinian territory and the people who live on the Isle of Man aren't demanding to be part of Argentina. As meregreen said, the principle of self determination is key here. The islanders (you know, the people that actually live there) want to remain on the island as Brits. Nobody other than the islanders should get to decide who the Falklands belongs to. Not Britain, not Argentina and certainly not other Latin American countries. I find it utterly appalling that you think they should be kicked off their home just because you want to pander to Latin America. I really don't understand your reasons behind wanting to give the Falklands to Argentina. Is it the cost? Is it the cost - lol...! Do you actually no how much those Islands have cost us. As you correctly ponted out - this is a small issue there was no need to go to war over these islands. The UK is nowhere near the Falklands - it makes no sense. Where did those 2000 people come from and how long have they lived there for...? By your philosophy Australians should all come back as should all non native Americans. Incidentally most Argentinians came from Spain and Italy, should they all leave as well. The current islanders have been there since 1830. Prior to this the islands were uninhabited.If you trade the human rights of one man, we are all the poorer for it. Not all human principles should be judged by the fiscal cost.

What are you talking about? The islanders want to remain British. It's a British island. End of. What other Latin American countries think is irrelevant. They're going to side with Argentina anyway for obvious reasons. Thats where your wrong. Thats like saying we agree with everything that France and Germany say for obvious reasons. That argument makes no sense. Its not just Latin Countries that think that, the vast majorities of countries outside the SA have expressed concerns. Its only our arrogance that demands we should keep them. In fact its really only the UK that think we should keep them - that speaks volumes..! If the Islanders want to remain Brittish then thats absolutely fine - relocate them to the UK. Your ignorance astounds me. When the British settled the islands, they were uninhabited. No Argentinians have ever lived there. The islands are four hundred miles from Argentina, not exactly within their territorial waters. It is for the people of those islands to decide if they wish to be part of Argentina, no one else has the right to impose this upon them. The priciple of self determination is an important one. To ignore it, would mean that threats and coercion would hold sway. That is a road we would all tread at our peril.

Its called corruption. They should have no more right to influence policy than anybody else. Merit should be the only guide for legislation, not how much money you throw at a party.

What you say is very true and such insticts undoubtedly played an important role in human development. However, what I would appreciate one or two people taking on board, is that I dealt with the 'people's paradises' close up and from the inside. Without exception they were rotten to the core, and the poverty they inevitably created led to at least some of the "post apocolyptic" conditions referred to above... Communism allows no room for altruism. The general dislike of Thatcherite economics ignores the emergence of the selfish gene in socialist heroes such as Blair, Prescott and Mandelson, to name but a few recent leaders. I would argue these lads are wholly representative of their particular political class. However moronic their socialist spoutings before obtaining power, once they got their snouts in the trough, the selfish gene took over and guzzle guzzle guzzle was all they could think of. Be it Ceaucescu, Mengistu, Mugabe, Ghaddafi or Blair, these boys all end up at the opposite end of the line to socialist good intentions... and they will continue to do until they can spin a web out of their arsehole and catch flies for breakfast. I apologise for repeating myself again, but that's just the way it is... Depends whether you believe any of the afformentioned were Socialists in the first place. I would prefer to equate Socialism with the likes of Nye Bevan, Mo Mowlam, Clement Attlee, Tony Benn, Dennis Skinner, Robin Cooke, John Smith etc. As for sticking their snouts in the trough. Well yes , human frailty may well cause some of them to succumb to the more base avaricious tendencies of the human psyche. But I find it overly cynical to attribute such tendencies as the norm. Indeed I believe such avaricious characteristics are to be found far more in evidence in the modern Tory party.

Thats the thing about the Tory plans for the NHS you see. It will be a slow death rather than a quick one.

Most overated player at VP. Little or no guile. Simply pacy, a one trick pony. Sell him .

Hard work doesn't seem to come into it. Bankers seem to qualify for huge bonuses regardless of their performance. Does anyone know what a bankers performance has to be for them not to qualify for an obscene bonus ?

Camerons Tory Party. A truly evil bunch of Ba****ds.

Hope he leaves in the summer. As a team we need to move on and bring in a more creative player.

If you had confidence in the factual and intellectual basis of your pro-EU stance then you'd be able to 'debate' your POV perfectly well. Easier to make it personal though, eh. I believe you were the one who used the word "Twunts". If you cant take it, then don't give it.

Sweet cigarettes and Spanish Gold a very sweet fake tobacco in a cloth bag. Gone for rather obvious reasons.

Same thing that happens to any other party. They have to rely on the donations of individual benefactors and members subs. Both the major parties ie Tory and Labour rely on Corporate or Union funds. The only difference is the Unions have to ask the permission of their members to do so. Will shareholders ever get the same right ?

What payout? What statement finds fault with the club? Settled "amicably" could mean anything. For all we know it could simply mean all parties decided to let the whole thing drop and say nothing to inflame the situation. We simply don't know. Quite frankly I think as fans we have far more serious concerns about our club than this. He quit, end of story.

no its not Yes it is. Closest ground to Villa Park - St Andrew's Closest ground to St Andrew's - Villa Park Closest ground to the Hawthorns - Villa Park Actually your wrong. It's 3.5 miles from VP to the Sty, and only 3.1 miles to the Hawthorns.

Did it mean everything to you? No but I was pleased for them. I wasn't. A bunch of inbred knuckle dragging chav c***ts . They bring nothing but shame and embarrassment to this great city. They live in a deluded world where they think they are our equals.The world would be a better place if their squalid little club was wiped from the earth and all trace of them was flushed down the toilet from which most of them crawled. I hate every single one of the sister screwing scum bags.Hope they gave Wembley a good fumigation after they crawled away from the place. It would mean everything to me if they went to the wall with that Chinese spiv. I think I need to go and lie down now, thinking too much about those retards makesw me feel quite ill

Every now and again the real Cameron pokes out from under the PR inspired image he fosters. Its not a very pretty picture. Totally unfit for high office.

Tory b###stards will try to use this bankers recession to implement a long term dismantling of the welfare state. They really are dreadful people. God help our country and our children if they succeed.

Most likely either short term contracts or agency hire em and fire em posts. Halewood have already started dumping agency people. 50 on Christmas eve, how about that for a caring company.

Back to his anonymous worst today. Like a few others. Needs to be replaced as soon as possible.

What a dreadful thing to say. I don't believe for one minute that Drat thinks that. Rather he probably thinks of " Little Englanders" as those people whose narrow views of the world tends to preclude taking a broader more internationalist stance on many of the problems facing us. Using such insulting and derogatory alalogies as the one you throw at Drat simply makes me think that perhaps in your case the cap is rather a good fit.

Haven't Bruge already beaten them in Braga. Why would they not beat them at home ?

This, bang on the button, cartels flourish. The more i read about our system the more it seems to be wrong. "The coporation of the city of London", 9000 residents and an MP.....how does that work? Their own police force, 3 private schools....... London weighting, another artificial method to support a system thats not working, ie if you cant afford to work in London then either raise your prices or don't work there. The power companies have a monopoly. We have to pay for our water that drops from the skys ffs. Big business has the biggest lobby of any of our sectors of society. The unions represent most of the countries working population and any lobbying power they have is frowned upon by the press........big business. The public sector are now being criticised for fighting to keep what they have had for years, they are not changing the playing field, the government are, yet the unions get the stick, why? Agree with everything but the final part. Pensions have to change as people are living longer than when the current retirement age was set. Its painful but with an ageing population we need to work longer. We already work longer than most of the rest of Europe. We most certainly do not need to work longer. This is a red Herring propogated by the wealthy to avoid having to share their immense wealth in order to p;rovide for the many. Company Directors incomes increased by an obscene 47% last year. Lets target those with the deepest pockets, not the final pensions of those who have worked all their lives for what in most cases are quite small pensions.