looney
Banned
- Jul 7, 2003
- 15,652
Yep. They are essentially Cowards and moral weaklings, their only objective as career politicians is self enrichment so will not rock the boat.
Boat needs capsizing.
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[TV] For those that watch Question Time
- Thread starter Dorset Seagull
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Yep. They are essentially Cowards and moral weaklings, their only objective as career politicians is self enrichment so will not rock the boat.
Boat needs capsizing.
whosthedaddy
striker256
Politician Jacob Rees-Mogg
Born 1969, but portrays someone from 1869 with the same views on life. His kids have the same nanny that he had all those years ago, probably still looks after him and tucks him into bed
Born 1969, but portrays someone from 1869 with the same views on life. His kids have the same nanny that he had all those years ago, probably still looks after him and tucks him into bed
MattBackHome
Well-known member
- Jul 7, 2003
- 11,878
I'm with you.
Plus I wasnt as keen on that at lovers series she's just done with Alistair Sooke. JR comes to life when she's either describing a boy king executing his uncle or looking moodily from atop a Norman turret.
portlock seagull
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- Jul 28, 2003
- 17,793
Agree with much of this, and got to ask yourself why aren’t more of us prepared to go into politics? Let alone the most talented. If we stop for a moment and think why? Because you’d have to be mad, it’s sort of like playing for England without the cash. An absolute poisoned chalice and for what £65k a year? No wonder politicians of yesteryear were mostly aristocrats. It’s simply not worth it, if you have enough talent to persuade an electorate to make you their MP chances are you can persuade a PLC to give you a job paying a lot more than that so why would you choose politics? Far easier ways to make a living that’s for sure
McTavish
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- Nov 5, 2014
- 1,589
Are you all deliberately winding me up?
FFS, it's even been pointed out once before...
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
- Thread starter
- #26
Mine is accurate as I was using tow in a tug boat sense ie all pulling together (I do accept there is another version of this)
Pavilionaire
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- Jul 7, 2003
- 31,278
You raise an interesting point, because the panellists are there to answer questions from the public, rather than given a platform to air their own views or go off on a tangent.
Given that the questions are usually topical, they relate to the news of that week and the same subjects keep coming up in the news you then get a rather repetitive format. Indeed, the questions are predictable and so easy to prepare for and bat off. Politicians on the show feel they have to toe the party line, they have a career to pursue. This is why people like Nigel Farage - a one-man political party - can look wonderful by comparison.
kjgood
Well-known member
I just wish they would answer a direct question with a direct answer, usually the answer doesnt even match the question.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
- Thread starter
- #29
That’s where their shoe horning of their parties agenda comes in. Dave tries to pull them up but it happens so often I think he gets fed up with trying to stop them. Perhaps it should be renamed “Make up your own Question Time”
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 28,274
The Tories live in such gilded cages they never see how the majority of us have to live. They don't see the potholes in the road, the austerity, the crowded understaffed, underfunded NHS, they don't do the minimum wage jobs with minimum holidays and little or no sick pay. They don't see that the majority of people have little or no cash to spend our way out of our miserly economy.
They trumpet that " there have never been so many people in work " and think that's a fantastic achievement yet fail to notice that Income Tax returns have dried up because for so many their only pay rise is either a government enforced increase in the Minimum Wage or increase in Personal Allowance.
When I was a kid I never saw what I see today, roads were resurfaced, even residential ones, Tramps were people you read about in books, pavements were laid with pride and repaired when cracked, we had clean public toilets and street sweepers, there was never piles of rubbish in the street. there was always talk of building things to improve the lot of the ordinary people, we built new schools, libraries and sports centres. There were busses everywhere, the police would patrol regularly and so people stepping out of line would be picked up pretty quickly.
Somehow we are the 5th biggest economy in the world but look around and all you see is either slow decay and reduction of facilities and opportunities everywhere. Will that get better ? of course not. The people at the top know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
They trumpet that " there have never been so many people in work " and think that's a fantastic achievement yet fail to notice that Income Tax returns have dried up because for so many their only pay rise is either a government enforced increase in the Minimum Wage or increase in Personal Allowance.
When I was a kid I never saw what I see today, roads were resurfaced, even residential ones, Tramps were people you read about in books, pavements were laid with pride and repaired when cracked, we had clean public toilets and street sweepers, there was never piles of rubbish in the street. there was always talk of building things to improve the lot of the ordinary people, we built new schools, libraries and sports centres. There were busses everywhere, the police would patrol regularly and so people stepping out of line would be picked up pretty quickly.
Somehow we are the 5th biggest economy in the world but look around and all you see is either slow decay and reduction of facilities and opportunities everywhere. Will that get better ? of course not. The people at the top know the price of everything but the value of nothing.
BHAFC_Pandapops
Citation Needed
- Feb 16, 2011
- 2,844
To be a good politician these days, you have to balance the opinions of your constituents versus your own and that of the party and, given how unreasonable the mob is these days, that's got to be an insanely difficult task. I have to hand it to them, I certainly couldn't do it. They're damned if they do and damned if they don't.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
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- #32
Don’t disagree but not helped by too many taking from a system they haven’t paid into
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 28,274
Looks like you have fallen for it.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
- Thread starter
- #34
Looks like I have just read a very interesting book that maps out the future of Europe
vegster
Sanity Clause
- May 5, 2008
- 28,274
I'd be more worried about our future, such as it is.
Dorset Seagull
Once Dolphin, Now Seagull
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- #36
I’m less worried about it now than I was