portslade seagull
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[Politics] Tory party annual conference Birmingham
- Thread starter Thunder Bolt
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You'd have more fun in the library
Just watched it. Tories trying to shut down debate.
I have now. I'll declare early on, I believe Owen Jones to be an utter ****. For political balance, I largely think the same about Toby Young.
The bit you mention was sort of fair enough, initially at least. Those out-of-shot recognised Jones was merely doing a poor-man's Louis Theroux, looking to feed people questions with the hope they stitch themselves up, with him looking smugly on.
Owen Jones and young people though? Sounds a bit strange, yes.
Why does it sound strange?
Front page of the BBC website, as you predicted. Or were you being facetious? Who knows.
And the story, on the front page of the BBC website, reveals that group concerned have been suspended from the Conservative Party with widespread calls to ban anyone involved from the Party for life.
A Party taking anti-semitism seriously. That must have you all kinds of confused, eh?
Really unsuccessfully because the silly woman ends up in a debate with him herself . Giving him exactly what he was after.
Owen Jones looks like one half of Dick and Dom.
He always looks like one giant half of Dick and Dom, yes.
You've no clue what you're on about, as evidenced by your subsequent posts.
- Aug 8, 2005
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His closing summary is ridiculous.
“A party in decline, in stagnation and bereft of ideas”
It really isn’t. How he can possibly believe this I just don’t know. Deluded.
And as for some taking offence at him being there asking questions. It’s not really surprising is it. It’s a bit like a Palace fan turning up on the North Stand singing “you’re shit and you know you are”. What an idiot.
Oh , they have plenty of ideas. All of them self serving and insidious. Dismantling of the NHS, cuts to social services, education funding being decimated, irrational housing development, selling London off to the Russians, closing of women’s refuges and services , setting the minimum income rate for migrant workers at 50k when 2/3rds of NHS workers earn less than 28k....
Yep, nobody can say they don’t have ideas.
Raleigh Chopper
New member
It doesn't matter if we believe her or not she said it loud and clear and a budget is not far away.
In the last budget Eeyore said there will be no loosening of the purse strings, I think he did not know May was going to say it.
So what happens if there is not at least a reasonable turn around on spending, my guess is that it will be something like, austerity is over but we cannot do anything about it for some time or they will find another excuse like lack of tax income.
If May only said it today because she is so on the ropes at the moment but then reverses or does not come good and quick, then that will be the final straw, the final lie and she will have take a bullet between the eyes.
I hold out no hope that she will repay those she hurt most, in fact it would not surprise me if she reduced the higher tax threshold even further.
Horton's halftime iceberg
Blooming Marvellous
Well big political partys in these times with the polls neck and neck will need to chase the young new voters and get them engaged. They could be the tipping point in many a marginal.
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https://www.theguardian.com/books/v...h-performs-his-election-poem-net-worked-video
Good morning, Midnight.
I am well aware of predictive text and can't stand the damn' thing. No, I am not perfect by any means. For a start, I should have realised that it is pretty pointless getting into political 'discussions' on NSC as they always end in a slanging match, however hard the participants try, or not as the case may be, to be civil, logical and and not too entrenched in their views.
Big mistake.
Have a good day at school
Points noted, Gwylan.
A bit like Corbyn depending on support from union dinosaur Len McCluskey, Communist Andrew Murray, Marxist' 'overthrow capitalism 'McDonnell, devious Seamus Milne,schoolboy journo Owen Jones a load of £3 members, naive youngsters and the bunch of odds and sods in Momentum who want to de-select decent moderate Labour MP's.Chuck in a few anti Semites and terrorist sympathisers and as Diane Abbott might say; it just doesn't add up .
nicko31
Well-known member
Is there anyone on here that didn't vote Tory in the last election, that would vote for them now?
Wrong-Direction
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- Mar 10, 2013
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Are people finally starting to realise that voting doesn't work?
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schmunk
Why oh why oh why?
Anti-semantics, surely.
Very few I would imagine. But, you could ask the same question about Labour - has anyone switched to Labour who voted for anyone else at the last election? Very, very few there either, I would guess
Look. I know you now feel stupid for becoming a recent Conservative Party member, but you don’t need to continually try and kid us; we’ve all made a few mistakes in life. Put it down to experience and move on...tomorrow is a bright new day!