Labour Party politics

[Teddy Eagle]

Peters when standing do not have any principles.

They have to be in the club anyway. Only members can stand.

 

[HKOwen]

Peters when standing do not have any principles.

Is Peters the plural of Peter or a new noun?

I am somewhat curious as to the meaning of your post, it's way over my head

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Is Peters the plural of Peter or a new noun?

I am somewhat curious as to the meaning of your post, it's way over my head

I'm assuming it's using the American slang Peter for what is described in medical terms as a Hampton Wick.

 

[beak]

Is Peters the plural of Peter or a new noun?

I am somewhat curious as to the meaning of your post, it's way over my head

Don't worry most posts are.

 

[McAhuna]

Is Peters the plural of Peter or a new noun?

I am somewhat curious as to the meaning of your post, it's way over my head

No, it doesn't go over your head.
His incoherent jabbering goes way under your head, as it goes under the head of most of us who are sentient.

 

[McAhuna]

Blair always talked a good talk. Its how the fecker climbed to the top.

Reminds me of Harold Shipman. All the Old ladies loved him and requested his services at the GP surgery. The other ten doctors were less popular. Shipman was charismatic like a Cult leader.

Those with dark triad traits are often charmers; it's how they get away with it for so long.

Blair killed a million Iraqis on a lie and is somehow still involved in politics.

 

[PalazioVecchio]

Those with dark triad traits are often charmers; it's how they get away with it for so long.

Blait killed a million Iraqis on a lie and is somehow still involved in politics.

Blair promised sensible immigration policies. Once in Power, he did the very opposite.

He imported a few million extra Labour voters.

 

[silvertop]

Blair promised sensible immigration policies. Once in Power, he did the very opposite.

He imported a few million extra Labour voters.

Conspiratorial tosh.

He devoted resources elsewhere and gave immigration a low priority as the electorate were barely exercised by it at that time.

Also, he saw a growing elderly, a diminishing working population and a prosperous world we needed to plug into. Immigrants provided the additional cheap labour to enable that.

Result. 2% growth, 2% inflation and 2% unemployment. An economic golden age.

And just like the 1950s and 1960s, eventually the economic cycle turns to kak and we are stuck with a large immigrant population who can't get a job.

 

[McAhuna]

Conspiratorial tosh.

He devoted resources elsewhere and gave immigration a low priority as the electorate were barely exercised by it at that time.

Also, he saw a growing elderly, a diminishing working population and a prosperous world we needed to plug into. Immigrants provided the additional cheap labour to enable that.

Result. 2% growth, 2% inflation and 2% unemployment. An economic golden age.

And just like the 1950s and 1960s, eventually the economic cycle turns to kak and we are stuck with a large immigrant population who can't get a job.

What's a million dead Iraqis when we got 2% growth in return?
Bargain!

 

[McAhuna]

Conspiratorial tosh.

He devoted resources elsewhere and gave immigration a low priority as the electorate were barely exercised by it at that time.

Also, he saw a growing elderly, a diminishing working population and a prosperous world we needed to plug into. Immigrants provided the additional cheap labour to enable that.

Result. 2% growth, 2% inflation and 2% unemployment. An economic golden age.

And just like the 1950s and 1960s, eventually the economic cycle turns to kak and we are stuck with a large immigrant population who can't get a job.

In 2009, Andrew Neather—a former speechwriter for Tony Blair—wrote an article suggesting that Labour's relaxation of immigration controls was motivated in part by a desire to "rub the Right's nose in diversity" and to fundamentally alter the UK's cultural makeup.

You can call it conspiracy, but it looks like one hell of a smoking gun. Blair's speechwriter would have been in a position to know, much more than any of us.

 

[silvertop]

What's a million dead Iraqis when we got 2% growth in return?
Bargain!

He wasn't responsible for that.

This was the Americans pinching under exploited Iraqi oil reserves.

We were useful idiots with Dubya calling in the Kosovo favour

 

[silvertop]

In 2009, Andrew Neather—a former speechwriter for Tony Blair—wrote an article suggesting that Labour's relaxation of immigration controls was motivated in part by a desire to "rub the Right's nose in diversity" and to fundamentally alter the UK's cultural makeup.

You can call it conspiracy, but it looks like one hell of a smoking gun. Blair's speechwriter would have been in a position to know, much more than any of us.

Plausible they were engineering an "enrichment" ( as they may have seen it) of the ethnic gene pool, but ethnic gerrymandering might be pushing it.

 

[Bassak]

the Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was the final, and most essential command.

George Orwell

1984

 

[McAhuna]

He wasn't responsible for that.

This was the Americans pinching under exploited Iraqi oil reserves.

We were useful idiots with Dubya calling in the Kosovo favour

He wasn't solely responsible, just has an awful lot of (shared) blood on his hands.
Extraordinary how it is casually overlooked by the same people who have a virtual coronary over Farage saying hurty words to a classmate half a century ago.

 

[silvertop]

He wasn't solely responsible, just has an awful lot of (shared) blood on his hands.
Extraordinary how it is casually overlooked by the same people who have a virtual coronary over Farage saying hurty words to a classmate half a century ago.

He does and, for the record, I was not one of those who attacked Farage for that.

 

[McAhuna]

He does and, for the record, I was not one of those who attacked Farage for that.

Fair enough.

 

[georgenorman]

Healey resigns - another wheel off the Labour clown-car.

 

[chris123]

Healey resigns - another wheel off the Labour clown-car.

I thought he was one of the few on his brief. We need a plan and funding mechanism.

 

[silvertop]

Healey resigns - another wheel off the Labour clown-car.

I can guess where your political allegiance lies and, like me, it is not with Labour.

However, my broad allegiance lies with what is good for this country, whoever is in power. I have made comments on here that I was heartened by last year's Strategic Defence Review which set out the defence plan for the next 10 years. Even the military - who always moan to secure more money - purred.

And now this. I do not like enough about Labour to vote for them, but I find it impossible to celebrate this resignation. It signals very bad things for the defence of this country that, far from meeting the 3% pledge, it is going to be business as usual with defence continuing to be cut to the bone in real terms.

This is very depressing.

 

[Matov]

I can guess where your political allegiance lies and, like me, it is not with Labour.

However, my broad allegiance lies with what is good for this country, whoever is in power. I have made comments on here that I was heartened by last year's Strategic Defence Review which set out the defence plan for the next 10 years. Even the military - who always moan to secure more money - purred.

And now this. I do not like enough about Labour to vote for them, but I find it impossible to celebrate this resignation. It signals very bad things for the defence of this country that, far from meeting the 3% pledge, it is going to be business as usual with defence continuing to be cut to the bone in real terms.

This is very depressing.

It's certainly one of the more interesting resignations.