Brendan

I have not read it but as I took a deliberate interest in Vince Cable?s economic ideas during the election I would be very surprised if this was some sort of Marxist attack on business. The man is very definitely all for business and will be the best ally to enterprise in this government. He has severe and justified issues with monopoly and exploitation though so I would assume it has more to do with that. But no doubt there will be countless petulant pin-striped bullies shrieking that the Bolsheviks are knocking at their door and all sorts of similar bullshit peddled by the right wing press. One thing I like about Vince Cable is that, unlike every other bugger it seams, he realises that economies can be based on enterprise but regulated to make sure they work fairly and without exploitation and without post industrial ideas of communism vs capitalism which seem to be the narrow minded ideas on which everybody tries to base any discussion on the topic. He?s in my good books for now. For now mind you. He better not fuck it up by saying something stupid in this speech.

I blame them. They are always doing things like this to us. The bastards.

How do I get an invite?

I?m always keen to explore forms of biological pest control. It seems bears are one of their natural predators.

I?m not vegetarian and I don?t come from a vegetarian home but vegetarianism has never been something incomprehensible or strange. If someone says they?re vegetarian they don?t eat animals, end of, whether it is an oyster, fish or a yeti.

That reminds me, the chickens I planted in the spring are looking ripe and ready for harvesting.

I went parmesan shooting on the weekend. There?s a brace of them hanging in the pantry.

Mamora Man, as a student I was rather sympathetic to right of centre ideas. I was still na?ve enough back then to think that everyone thought that a fair and equal society was the ultimate goal but we just had different ideas on how this could best be achieved. Then I grew up and befriended people who came from properly deprived communities who, although they may not want to, depend heavily on the remnants of the welfare state. I also found the realities of my life meant that I was dependent on the state for many things. This amongst other things made me realise that even thought my natural instinct is to scale back the sate to give control to the people, in places where there is large scale deprivation due to massive inequality (of which Britain and especially London is one) until the playing fields are even and people empowered to take control you have 2 choices; either provide them with services through the state on some sort of socialist model or do it through charity and return to Victorian levels of deprivation. Now I?m all for scaling back the state and I think it can be done in certain areas at the moment but the conservative idea that you can do it without addressing inequality first is at best putting the cart before the horse and at worst an attempt to deepen the divides in society. I have also worked amongst politicians for the last 7 years and the sentiments of conservatives on equality are abysmal. Any suggestion of policy to even the playing fields is met with contempt and often aggression. If all tories are not intent on doing down the ?poor? (who now appear to be 2 pairs of inverted commas richer) why don?t they disassociate themselves from those who quite clearly are? My ideas are neither unconsidered nor unfounded. They have been formed from a great deal of thought and discussion and a real attempt to understand where other people are coming from. Like all ideas they will always change as I continue to learn and experience the world. I will never limit myself subscribing too any form of ideology. It is just that recently I decided that, considering the human cost of deprivation which I cannot ignore, if someone?s political motivations are not to work towards a fair and equal society I?m just going to dismiss them as antisocial. So it?s not cheap anti-conservative rhetoric. It?s carefully contemplated anti-conservative rhetoric.

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Marmora Man Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > However, my suggestion of a part tax payer > funded NHS > > supplemented by local fund raising efforts > would > > mean that the quality of the local hospital > would > > depend upon the quality of local support. > > The reality of this model would be poor hospitals > in poor areas. It's a conservative standpoint so that is actually the whole idea really.

Black Ice - AC/DC

Go to hell - Gwar

I got the clap and me knob fell off - Lawnmower Deth

Tony's Theme - the Pixies

Chess and trivial pursuit.

I?ve been thinking about getting one of those too. Not that I have a problem with cats or anything. I just want one.

Yeah because you can afford money and time to be high and mighty everyone else can? Are you really that blind to the realities of people's lives? But you know, what are people complaining about, they have schools and water and it is so inconvenient and annoying for people to suggest that I should try to empathise. Let them eat cake 'ey.

Indeed and Free Kylie promises to the Free Mandela movement for the Free Willy generation.

The bastards. The utter, utter bastards. First they set the Cutty Sark on fire and now this.

Why-ever so when it inspires such prose?

More importantly, is this thread really going to fill the much needed niche for Simpsons/Sound of Music inspired, intonation based jokes?

So super Olympic, ninja froth then.

Doh!

I see, so cappuccino without the froth then.

High in vitamin C they are. EDIT: Spilling

The International Olympic Committee have pretty strict stipulations as to how far from the host city you can hold events. These were part and parcel of what London bid for in the first place. We can?t just rewrite the rule book for our own purposes. Not that I disagree that using other venues would be more economical but I don?t think we could get away with hosting events in the midlands.