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Previously on "Old Labour at work"

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  • OwlHoot
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    a bit like that guy who shot both his parents dead, and at his trial appealed to the court for clemency on the grounds that he was an orphan ...

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  • Cyberman
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    All sounds familiar somehow. Very soon the middle class and intellectuals will be forced to dig ditches.

    Yeh, hunting sorts I knew weren't posh either. Still total barstewards tho.


    The Labour masterplan is to bankrupt the country making everybody poor and then sell themselves as the party to help the poor. What a masterstroke !!!

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by Ardesco View Post
    Do you honestly believe that the hunting ban only affected the upper classes? The people that got hit really hard by that are the low paid country workers that lost their jobs and ended up with nothing to do because there aren't that many options out in the country.

    The hunting ban was a bunch of city twats who don't know how the country works, or understand the people that live there flexing their muscles and trying to take the moral high ground. Hunts provide lots of jobs to poor people in the country, and keep the levels of foxes down to a managable level which helps out farmers.
    WHS

    (I was joking!)

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  • chris79
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    Didn't Labour introduce a rule that said children of graduates go to the back of the queue for university places or something? Or am I dreaming again?

    I definitely remember something like this. Labour said children of graduates unfairly benefit from having clever parents.
    Or in their case will be disadvantaged now?

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  • xoggoth
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    All sounds familiar somehow. Very soon the middle class and intellectuals will be forced to dig ditches.

    Yeh, hunting sorts I knew weren't posh either. Still total barstewards tho.

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  • d000hg
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    I don't know, you complain when Labour are right wing, you complain when they're left-wing. No pleasing some people.


    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    One Cabinet minister has dubbed the plan 'socialism in one clause'.
    Finding one minister to give a good soundbite on ANY policy-related proposal is hardly news.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by Ardesco View Post
    Do you honestly believe that the hunting ban only affected the upper classes? The people that got hit really hard by that are the low paid country workers that lost their jobs and ended up with nothing to do because there aren't that many options out in the country.

    ... Hunts provide lots of jobs to poor people in the country
    This is true. I know hunting people, and the riders aren't all posh or well-off either.

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  • Doggy Styles
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    Originally posted by TheFaQQer View Post
    "The questions regarding care and parental education are not compulsory."

    Linky.
    And nor will ID cards be.

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  • Ardesco
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    Originally posted by OwlHoot View Post
    Great. So that must mean the hunting ban can be challenged once more, and inheritance tax, because those discriminate against the upper classes.
    Do you honestly believe that the hunting ban only affected the upper classes? The people that got hit really hard by that are the low paid country workers that lost their jobs and ended up with nothing to do because there aren't that many options out in the country.

    The hunting ban was a bunch of city twats who don't know how the country works, or understand the people that live there flexing their muscles and trying to take the moral high ground. Hunts provide lots of jobs to poor people in the country, and keep the levels of foxes down to a managable level which helps out farmers.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    I thought somebody might remember. Anyway, no it isn't a fairy story, here it is:

    University squeeze on children of graduates
    "The questions regarding care and parental education are not compulsory."

    Linky.

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  • TheFaQQer
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    It's all irrelevant, since John Major delivered a classless society.

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  • threaded
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    "Old Labour at work": isn't that one of them oxymoron things.

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  • OwlHoot
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    Originally posted by DimPrawn View Post
    .. Under the radical drive, every authority from Whitehall to local councils will be legally bound to bridge the gap between rich and poor.

    Already they need to assess the affect of policies to ensure they do not unfairly discriminate on grounds of race, gender, disability or sexuality.

    Now ministers are considering making them take class background into account when making decisions. ..
    Great. So that must mean the hunting ban can be challenged once more, and inheritance tax, because those discriminate against the upper classes.

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  • PM-Junkie
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    Originally posted by AlanR View Post
    Define 'Rich'
    OK, I'll have a stab at it...

    Howsabout not laying in a hospital bed about to have a cancerous tumour removed in an op that you have a 50/50 chance of living through and giving you another 2 years of life, if you're lucky?

    A little perspective is a wonderful thing

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by Doggy Styles View Post
    I thought somebody might remember. Anyway, no it isn't a fairy story, here it is:

    University squeeze on children of graduates
    ...and it's not even in the Daily Wail.

    Bleeding hell.

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