Reply to: Tory carte blanche

[Batcher]

You still seem to be masturbating to Sturgeon's pic, aren't you?

If dreaming of me masturbating is what turns you on there's not much I can do about it

[FatLazyContractor]

THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE | A TRUE INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND

You still seem to be masturbating to Sturgeon's pic, aren't you?

[Batcher]

The below is a response from a lady called “Annette”, to an article by former Scottish Labour MSP Richard Baker entitled “Separation is not the answer” (to Labours woes).

https://stevetopple.wordpress.com/20...e-and-for-all/

Instead of fighting the Tories, you fought your potential allies. This wasn’t so disastrous in the case of the Greens and Plaid Cymru, given their small numbers, but I will say that having a big campaign to unseat Caroline was not only mean-spirited but stupid; those resources should have gone into targeting a Tory seat. However, it was your treatment of the SNP that might well have cost you the election. Again, you let the Tories determine the narrative. They crowed about a constitutional crisis, about a second referendum which neither the SNP nor the wider YES movement are seeking within the next few years anyway, about “breaking up our (sic!) country,” about chaos and nationalism and England being held to ransom. They and their compliant media outlets abused the SNP and the people of Scotland on a daily basis in the most despicable terms. And all you did was parrot them. Nicola Sturgeon could not have held out her hand any more sincerely, and yet you sneered at it.

[Batcher]

Simple. Feck the Barnett formula up in the arse and cut £12bn from Jockland's budget. Not spending money is one form of deficit reduction.

THE END OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE | A TRUE INDEPENDENT SCOTLAND

Jim is right in what he says, the empire is in terminal decline, and history does indeed show that the signs of a collapsing empire are an overstretched military and the corruption of the money system, both of which, we witness today with the building of huge aircraft carriers that has no planes, £100 Billion nuclear missile system we cant (and shouldn’t) use or afford, and the printing of billions of pounds out of thin air and giving it to corrupt banksters. This on top of amassing an incredulous £1.4 Trillion worth of debt, the biggest in British History.

[MicrosoftBob]

But when we do we are accused of being racist

Want to fly the union jack - that's racist that is

Want to preach hate in a mosque - that's fine that is as if we stop you we are oppressing you and being racist

So yeah I have no problems if obeying the law is not enough - as long as we start targeting those who obey the law while preaching hate against the very core of what it is to be English.

And not forgetting that a Labour MP got away with saying "White people play divide and rule" on TV without a visit from plod

[original PM]

Hang on a sec this is bullshoot.

We are supposed to have values and standards

But when we do we are accused of being racist

Want to fly the union jack - that's racist that is

Want to preach hate in a mosque - that's fine that is as if we stop you we are oppressing you and being racist

So yeah I have no problems if obeying the law is not enough - as long as we start targeting those who obey the law while preaching hate against the very core of what it is to be English.

[FatLazyContractor]

And oh yes, abolish the bloody child benefit. Why the fork should I pay for someone to bring up their kids?

If you can't take care of your kids, don't breed. If you have already claimed child benefit and you are a contractor, hang your head in shame / screw yourself.

[FatLazyContractor]

Biggest question for me is how they will go about reducing the deficit.

Simple. Feck the Barnett formula up in the arse and cut £12bn from Jockland's budget. Not spending money is one form of deficit reduction.

[OwlHoot]

Oh great. We've elected New Labour.

Sorry to have to say it, as it may sound slightly sexist, but we've elected a load of bossy busibody women

[EternalOptimist]

The deficit and reform of the BBC

[expat]

Oh great. We've elected New Labour.

Strangely enough, although in my heart I would think that Labour of any stripe just couldn't resist interfering in people's lives, and the Tories would rather just get out of the way; actually it often seems to be the other way round.

[VectraMan]

Just obeying the law is not enough

Oh great. We've elected New Labour.

[VectraMan]

Will it be an EU sanctioned EU referendum like Ireland, where they will redo the referendum until they get the right UKIP approved answer

FTFY.

It'll be like the Scotland referendum. It'll cost a lot of money; create a lot of uncertainty; there'll be endless debates, and nothing will change. And it'll do nothing to stop the Kippers from moaning.

[expat]

Just obeying the law is not enough

Britain is too “passively tolerant” and should not leave people to live their lives as they please as long as they obey the law, David Cameron has said.

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“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone',” he said.

[jamesbrown]

Now that the Tories have absolute power, aside from the obvious:

• EU referendum
• Reduce some benefits a bit
• 70% discounts to tenants who wish to buy their privately owned houses (let's see how that plays out)
• Promise to build garden cities that will never be built
• Privatise the NHS a bit

... What will be their surprise policies? Maybe they will:

• Carve off some green belt edges for housing
• Abolish IR35
• Sponsor dimprawn's Australian visa application
• Reform electoral boundaries
• Reform council tax
• Abolish the House of Lords

IR35 isn't going anywhere, but it may become redundant for many (agency work through an FLC structure). They aren't going to abolish the HoL, but they will want a few more Tory peers. Reforming electoral boundaries isn't a "surprise" policy, that is definitely going to happen. Scotland will be interesting in terms of how far they go beyond the Smith Commission.