Reply to: David Cameron suggests cutting housing benefit for under-25s

[BrilloPad]

Slaughter of first-borns could save £50bn in Child Benefit, pledges Cameron

[Robinho]

Childishness aside (unless you seriously still don't understand the utter basics of economics) I am actually very much against corporations.

[gingerjedi]

12 pages, have you lot still not decided who's right?

No but it turns out Robinho is in favour of mega corps exploiting cheap foreign labour in the 3rd world as it empowers the poor beggars.

I must admit, I never saw that one coming.

Confused? You will be.

[Spacecadet]

12 pages, have you lot still not decided who's right?

[Robinho]

Not sure where i've said that. Just think that people should be able to decide what their own minimum wage is and not the government.

[TimberWolf]

Only because half the population had died in the plague 40 years before.

The unpalatable truth is that a lot of the financial problems we are seeing today are due, directly or otherwise, to overpopulation, combined with ever increasing fluidity of the world economy.

I agree to an extent, although Robinho appears to think bringing cheaper workers in to the UK is a capitalist thing. Where capitalist is a synonym for good.

[TimberWolf]

Maggie believed in individual freedoms and liberties.

Would you call her a socialist?

I'm not sure I know what a socialist is. Surely all UK political parties have socialist tendencies, and have done since 1400 or so.

[OwlHoot]

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Nevertheless Britain seemed to do well after the circa 1400 peasant uprising.

Only because half the population had died in the plague 40 years before.

The unpalatable truth is that a lot of the financial problems we are seeing today are due, directly or otherwise, to overpopulation, combined with ever increasing fluidity of the world economy.

[Robinho]

Maggie believed in individual freedoms and liberties.

Would you call her a socialist?

[TimberWolf]

The were not socailist policies. They were policies to minimise the power of the state and protect the rights of individuals. See US constitution for a more refined example.

That is the key to good forture and what has gone wrong in many of the hot countries.

Being made more equal is not socialist?

Nevertheless Britain seemed to do well after the circa 1400 peasant uprising.

[Doggy Styles]

This thread is quite long. Has anyone mentioned Adolf Hitler yet?

Yes, Robinho. He's got a yellow card.

[Robinho]

The were not socailist policies. They were policies to minimise the power of the state and protect the rights of individuals. See US constitution for a more refined example.

That is the key to good forture and what has gone wrong in many of the hot countries.

[TimberWolf]

Who knows why the "west" ended up richer than, shall we say, "hot places".

As an aside it seems to me we in the UK got motoring after the peasant revolt circa 1400, Magna Carta, and the adoption of more socialist tenancies. And again after the Cromwell fellow. Perhaps people become more effective and industrious workers when they have achievable goals that benefit themselves rather than the rich and a little justness and equality exists.

[DodgyAgent]

This thread is quite long. Has anyone mentioned Adolf Hitler yet?

I have Stalin and Pol Pot up my sleeve

[TimberWolf]

This thread is quite long. Has anyone mentioned Adolf Hitler yet?