New Tory Scalp

[sunnysan]

Howard Flight,

Tory peer claims welfare changes encourage poor to 'breed' - Telegraph

Being blunt and pragmatic is not a durable quality in politics apparently.

Just keep all the smarmy roundabout bulltulipers to feed the public a soundbite or two every now and then.

To be fair I rather fancy having a few indiscreet dinosaurs around who call a spade a spade

[TimberWolf]

Howard Flight,

Tory peer claims welfare changes encourage poor to 'breed' - Telegraph

Being blunt and pragmatic is not a durable quality in politics apparently.

Just keep all the smarmy roundabout bulltulipers to feed the public a soundbite or two every now and then.

To be fair I rather fancy having a few indiscreet dinosaurs around who call a spade a spade

[Clippy]

Howard Flight,

Tory peer claims welfare changes encourage poor to 'breed' - Telegraph

Being blunt and pragmatic is not a durable quality in politics apparently.

Just keep all the smarmy roundabout bulltulipers to feed the public a soundbite or two every now and then.

To be fair I rather fancy having a few indiscreet dinosaurs around who call a spade a spade

Trust the Tories to say it as it is.

Surely, its time for a return of Spitting Image too.

[xoggoth]

Never use the word "breed". Aside from that, the comments are entirely true and many of all classes would agree. The BBC news showed Milliband talking to some Tesco workers who did.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...baby-boom.html

An academic study claims that an extra 45,000 babies were born to mothers who left school at 16 in the year after the "unprecedented" increase in the value of child benefits introduced by Labour.
...
The report by the Institute for Fiscal Studies concludes: "We have shown that more generous Government support coincided with an increase in births among the group most affected by the [welfare] reforms.

[MrMark]

As a believer in free speech, I think it's been a bad week.

[AtW]

As a believer in free speech, I think it's been a bad week.

It was a bad century ever since it became criminal offence to refuse to hand over decryption passwords when requested...

[xoggoth]

Quite. Within the obvious limits. How can we debate anything rationally if so many things, even when entirely true, are deemed off limits?

[Clippy]

As a believer in free speech, I think it's been a bad week.

What's the weather like in Brussels?

[AtW]

How can we debate anything rationally if so many things, even when entirely true, are deemed off limits?

This subject is also off limit

[MrMark]

What's the weather like in Brussels?

???

Wouldn't have the foggiest. But it's perishing cold here in London.