• Visitors can check out the Forum FAQ by clicking this link. You have to register before you can post: click the REGISTER link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below. View our Forum Privacy Policy.
  • Want to receive the latest contracting news and advice straight to your inbox? Sign up to the ContractorUK newsletter here. Every sign up will also be entered into a draw to WIN £100 Amazon vouchers!

What kind of Tory are you?

Collapse
X
  •  
  • Filter
  • Time
  • Show
Clear All
new posts

    #11
    Originally posted by TheDude View Post



    What chance to kids born to parents with (say) substance abuse or other crippling problems have?

    They can become deputy leader of the Labour party.
    But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

    Comment


      #12
      Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post

      Hmm, that sounds quite interesting. Must look out for it.

      I assumed is was some fancy coffee, like those beans extracted from civet cat droppings!
      https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/glossary...-nero-glossary

      Comment


        #13
        Originally posted by Gibbon View Post

        They can become deputy leader of the Labour party.
        No they can't unless they were a single mother at 16.
        "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

        Comment


          #14
          Originally posted by SueEllen View Post

          No they can't unless they were a single mother at 16.
          That's hardly further restricting access in many parts of the country!
          But I discovered nothing else but depraved, excessive superstition. Pliny the younger

          Comment


            #15
            This post title is creaming out for a poll
            "Is someone you don't like allowed to say something you don't like? If that is the case then we have free speech."- Elon Musk

            Comment


              #16
              Originally posted by BR14 View Post
              i'm more a noncontribuTory
              You certainly add no value on here, that's for sure
              I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man

              Comment


                #17
                There was a quote that exemplified my understanding of traditional conservatives. Sorry I cant remember the source.

                "Those that subsidise ignorance and poverty get more of both"

                The Conservatives want to fix it by encouraging people out of poverty Labour want to subsidise it.

                Hard work and attitude goes a long way to getting people out of poverty. Plenty of hard working miners with no jobs, but their peers got on their bike and worked round the world. Pretty sure most of them didn't have a silver spoon, my Yorkshire manager 25 years ago never claimed to be a duke!

                Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

                Comment


                  #18
                  Originally posted by Gibbon View Post

                  That's hardly further restricting access in many parts of the country!
                  They are only allowed to have one child though so that cuts the numbers down.
                  "You’re just a bad memory who doesn’t know when to go away" JR

                  Comment


                    #19
                    Originally posted by vetran View Post
                    Hard work and attitude goes a long way to getting people out of poverty. Plenty of hard working miners with no jobs, but their peers got on their bike and worked round the world. Pretty sure most of them didn't have a silver spoon, my Yorkshire manager 25 years ago never claimed to be a duke!
                    I'm not sure exactly when it was, but some of the mine owners were responsible for encouraging positive reforms - the idea of a mine worker (voluntarily) spending 3 hours a night at school after a 12 hour shift is pretty amazing but it did happen. A lot of people got out of those jobs.

                    Originally posted by MaryPoppins
                    I'd still not breastfeed a nazi
                    Originally posted by vetran
                    Urine is quite nourishing

                    Comment


                      #20
                      Originally posted by vetran View Post
                      There was a quote that exemplified my understanding of traditional conservatives. Sorry I cant remember the source.

                      "Those that subsidise ignorance and poverty get more of both"

                      The Conservatives want to fix it by encouraging people out of poverty Labour want to subsidise it.

                      Hard work and attitude goes a long way to getting people out of poverty. Plenty of hard working miners with no jobs, but their peers got on their bike and worked round the world. Pretty sure most of them didn't have a silver spoon, my Yorkshire manager 25 years ago never claimed to be a duke!
                      I don't know why, but comments like this always make me see an ignorance for the fact that LUCK has a lot to do with life. Where you are born, who to and with what health conditions. hard work and attitude can go a long way - but not necessarily enough in a lot of situations.

                      I see it as a deep rooted belief that everyone's born with equal opportunity and if people fail or cannot succeed, its down to a lack of effort.

                      Nearly 18% of universal credit recipients, that some love so much to demonise, are disabled and totally unable to work. 14.1 million people living with a disability in this country, 4.4 are in work, 8 are totally unable to - and the juries out on the other.

                      Now you try "working hard" when under Universal credit on those terms - and see how far it gets you. That's just 1 example , children in abusive households are very common.

                      Comment

                      Working...
                      X