I thought the Blockade was disgraceful and so did many other motorists...it was also mainly the Hauliers too not that many car drivers holding the country to ransom. Personally I think motoring's too cheap and would like to see petrol prices increased to price many motorists off the road and cars over a certain age highly road taxed but that's regressive and elitist. I don't have any problems with speeding restrictions either. As you know, my only consistent car driving moan is the use of Parking Restrictions in a non-logical, profiteering, revenue driven way by local authorities.
SeanMacGabhann Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > SteveT and quids - how has the obviously bonkers > story at the start of the thread become some kind > of "lefties agree with this sort of thing" They don't agree with it, many just do some uncomfortable shuffling and skirting around the issues in public
The dilemma for lefties not daring to criticise anything multicultural but then having to put up with blatant mysogony/homophobia etc is one that consistently tickles me
Absolutely - Tories are far more likely to be too busy making money and avoiding taxes; Labourites are far too busy scheming, backstabbing and trying to get their kids into high performing state schools miles from where they live; Liberal Democrats are a bunch of workshy, slackers and dreamers.
Statistically I suspect that the sample is now big enough that from now any sudden or dramatic change (of more than a few percentage points) would suggest either foul play or 'manipulation' (Eg load of new members logging on and voting for a party as part of some strategy), so unless there's a seismic shift out their in the real world (eg Clegg is found to be a murderer)then I'm willing to punt that the Liberal Democrats will be the EDFs choice by some way.
I also think that loads of black artists from the 1970s certainly didn't get enough credit as only their highly commercialised disco stuff got any air play and into the charts. Listen to some early Commodores or Kool and the Gang. I don't think George Clinton gets enough credit either.
It is funny how things change because in reality back in the 1970s ABBA for instance were treated as a bit of a joke, naff and not very talented by anyone who 'took their music seriously' - and gaaawwd people did then - whereas now they are (rightly) lauded as great songwriters and artists. Still not my cup of tea mind.
So to save me reading all this stereotypical cliched nonsense whose won the argument, the unbearably righteous spotty middleclass, class warrior freeloaders or the smug, suited, magnolia and organic olive oil drenched yuppie scum?