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Max Clifford says…
“Most people want to read nasty things about people, not nice things.”
Maybe if they really wanted to “decontaminate the Labour brand” with business people, they shouldn’t have totally buggered up the economy?
Just a thought.
The end of centre ground politics is nigh. Obama’s arrived on the scene just too late . Bear markets bring political polarisation. Will Cameron ride the trend? LINK.
It’s the Economy stupid.
You win the Election you own the Economy and everything else.
Although that is true Al, it should not be underestimated how big a seismic shift this is in American politics. Americans view this defeat as the equivalent of (their view of) the British voting against the Queen. As in pearly kings and queens saying “ello guvnor, oi thinks oill be votin’ agenst ‘er majesty”
Unthinkable.
2010 will go down as a pivotol year in the early 21st century. So long Obama, so long Labour – the left is out of power for a generation.
For ever hopefully.
the US election isn’t till 2012 moron
I think he’s refering to the mid terms.
‘so long Obama’ ???
not in the midterms
Mr Idiot, what is it about the metaphor ‘pivotal’ that your substandard education has left you unable to grasp?
pity – I rather liked ‘ole Barrack.
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-Senator Brown’s daughters rather easy on the eye!
“It’s time for change.” Oh wait, Obama is elected now, that slogan should not be used again. LOL.
Hung by his own stupid vacuous slogan.
Like Jaguar used “In pursuit of perfection”.
Tripled their warranty claims and dropped their CSi ratings. Even Lexus found that too hard to live up to.
is it politics as usual or people as usual? what the fuck america. lets just have palin and be fucking done with it. fuck people with preexisting medical conditions. fuck those who don’t want their neighbour to have a semi-automatic assualt weapon. fuck 4 billion years of existence (except for the last 6000). fuck research on autism. fuck the gays (metaphorically). fuck pregnant rape victims (again metaphorically). fuck the penguins. fuck russia (literally, wherever it may be). in fact, lets just fuck everything, except each other with condoms – especially in africa.
Thanks for that, it’s really cheered me up knowing how upset you are.
THE_FORCE has been reading too much Plato. The utopia he describes could never happen.
It might read better if he used a Spelling & Grammar checker but then this is Socialist Britain.
socialist britain? the reason they are fucking up is because they got in to bed with big business.
‘Edukashun’ – Thanks for the free speling and gramer check. I’ve also got a rather dirty toilet that could do with a clean. when r u free?
WTF
After puberty you will learn to see the world in shades of grey between the black and the white. You might get a bout of acne too but it’s worth it in the end lad.
you might also learn that 1% of the Massachusetts vote is pathetic and laughable
… not to mention FU, teenage Labour troll.
@ The Force
Massachusetts provides free health care for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level (FPL), and partially subsidized health care for those earning up to 300% of the FPL. If you add that, to those in work with health insurance from thier employer, Massachusetts has almost universal health care coverage. Why then, should those resident there contribute to Obama’s Federal Health Care program?
The irony is that Ted Kennedy did a great job on healthcare, but Barry screwed up with his centralist plans. That’s why Scott Brown got elected.
Massachusetts has almost universal health care coverage.
Whose cost is rapidly getting out of control.
Kennedy was not in state government either.
What’s with the penguins you fowl f*ck*r.
i thought i throw something fluffy in there
March 1st 2009
Brown reaps reward of Cape Cod love-ins
“A NEW special relationship based on economics was forged between Gordon Brown and Barack Obama among the sand dunes and beach houses of Cape Cod, New England.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article5822007.ece
20th January 2010
Democrats seek back footing after epic Mass. loss
Brown’s victory was so sweeping, he even won in the Cape Cod community where Sen. Edward Kennedy, the longtime liberal icon, died of brain cancer last August.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_massachusetts_senate
Is there another Bush they could stuff in? Both gulf wars were started by father and son – third time lucky?
Actually, there is.
Jeb Bush.
Think he is Governor of Florida.
I’d like to stuff in Dubya’s daughters.
So that’s one Brown in and soon another Brown out.
Well,one’s clearly celebrating – the other one will be at his own funeral.
Gordon Brown’s gravestone;
“It started in America and finished here”
A taste of things to come for me, alas.
Which reminds me, must ask Ed round for an evening a deux with the rocking horse.
And ceramic precious things need moving around.
Mooooooooo
You must mean Gordon’s minature collection of ceramic farm animals.
His ‘funny farm’ as he calls it.
Bit late today troll, you must remind mummy to wake you up a bit earlier.
Nice try, but wrong.
Love the discredit those who are against you.
Very Labour.
A taste of things to come for me in Government, alas!
Which reminds me, must ask Gideon and Hague round for an menage a trois with the Bullingdon harness and costumes.
Bit late today troll, you must remind mummy to wake you up a bit earlier.
Think you will find that a Menage is a more permanent Gig. Just go and get those spots attended to. It is spoiling your chances with the better looking Gingas at the Young Labour wankfests
Rats, my gingery plans for Labour smearing have been foiled again readers!
A wank I think.
time to stalk some more Belgian goober tramps to fellate for cider money
Labour’s rebuttal trolls are attacking posts again,
Where do they find the time?
And where does Lsbour find the money?
Maybe they are posting from the safety of Brussels because they are tax tourist twats who don’t even live here ?
everyone is bored of your repetitive garbage nike.
do one.
oh and who will pay the price of this republican’s victory?
millions of americans who will die because they cannot afford healthcare.
some victory, eh?
Who cares that millions of Americans weill die? America is busy collonising another state, subsidised by the rest of the world! Some you lose, some you win!
I didn’t see it coming I’m such an economic genius
Obama is the most spectacular example of Jonahism.Gordon has killed the man he loved.
Naaah. Obama was killed by the economic clusterfuck he inherited from Bush just as Cameron will be buried by the economic clusterfuck he will be left by Brown.
The only difference is that Obama was glibly promising that he could fix it and it would all be better by February of 2009 whereas Cameron is desperately trying not to make any promises because he knows its fucked and the swing voters won’t like the cure if he spells it out.
Gordon Brown on the other hand continues to be unburdened by the constraints of reality and will say absolutely anything.
“Cameron is desperately trying not to make any promises because he knows its fucked and the swing voters won’t like the cure if he spells it out.”
really? he must have changed his Election slogan in the past few hours then
from “It can’t go on like this” to “Things can only get worse”
I’m the only troll on this site and I’m partial to anal beads ducky.
Nah! you’re just a tourist tax twat from Belgium
‘It can’t go on like this’ isn’t promising anything. It isn’t even promising it will get better. He’s right – it can’t go on like this. It will get a fuck of a site worse before it gets better. And every day we squander another half billion quid we don’t have is another week our kids will be slaving to pay off the imbecile Brown’s debts.
But Brown doesn’t give a shit. In fact the bigger clusterfuck he can bequeath Dave the better. Because Polly and The Mirror and the BBC and the remaining Labour MPs will be wandering around harking back to the ‘golden days’ of the naughties before you know it.
Days when house prices went perpetually upwards, public sector jobs increased by 100,000 every year. Public sector pay increased by 15% a year without even having to go on strike. And noibody ever gave a thought as to where the money was coming from and how it would ever be paid back.
Oh happy day.
It’s implying that the very large face next to the slogan will put an end to ‘it’ ‘going on like this’
of course it’s also subtly implying the big face could also be the thing that can’t go on, but that’s down to CCO and Coulson for their unfortunate choice of campaign poster
Brown’s been running scorched earth for months trying to put every hard decision and cut beyod the election date but none of the Parties are denying cuts will take place now
They aren’t going to spell them out, and the public aren’t going to be any more understanding because they mentioned them, but they are going to happen
The public also remember that the Billions went to the Bankers though whether this still applies in 6 months or whether that blame has transferred to the incumbent depends on what Dave does
His and Osbornes acceptance of Bank curbs and taxes seems to be saying he will be equaly happy to throw all the blame on them if he has to
Whatever happened to my catchphrase,
‘ Tory cuts versus Labour investment’ ?
it was a cast iron guarantee, and thus dropped
Do you know, I don’t give a shit right now who Brown blames. The banks, the yanks… I don’t give a fuck… He can blame me personally for all I care.
What I want Brown to do is to make some adult decisions to fucking well address the problem. But he can’t. He cannot admit that his reckless policy of borrowing money right the way through a boom has left us with a massive structural deficit and so cuts will need to be made.
Either headcount or payroll needs to come down by 20%. Anybody with an IQ greater than a piece of driftwood can see that. But he’s still busy pretending to his sub-driftwood voters that we can just borrow, squander and print our way through the idiocy – either because the same fucked-up grasp of economics that got us to this point genuinely believes he’s discovered a new economic universe or, more likely, because he’s cynically going to dump the biggest economic clusterfuck ever in somebody elses lap.
And not just anybodies lap. Fuck no. The bloke who went to a better school than he did. That’ll show him.
Meanwhile the remaining 60,000,000 of us have to patiently wait while the Maximum Imbecile beggars an entire nation to settle a ‘score’ that only exists in his own fucked-up head.
Oh and then we get to pick up the bill too.
Fucking marvellous.
that’s the game
you don’t want the job then leave front line politics as there are always others who will be delighted be Leader and do it (usually in your own Party) because in almost every election change of Governing Party the incumbent fucks up and the opposition picks up the pieces
Governments lose elections
That is Correct jgm2, a 20% reduction is the minimum required and the announcements by labour and tory of their proposed cuts so far amount to about 2%.
The trouble is, neither party wants to piss off the client state on this side of an election, so NEITHER side will announce what will really be cut until after the election.
Well it is certainly a ‘game’ to that useless, incompetent, economic beserker Brown. All his energies seem devoted to just keeping his feet under the table at number 10.
The trivial shit like running the country in a competent manner seems to be just a minor inconvenience.
Even his entire party seems to be trying to get shot of him if only because his manifest incompetence reflects badly on the rest of ‘em. Stories are that he’s had to cut deals with Darling to allow Darling to go some way towards telling voters the truth of the Brownian economy (it’s fucked).
But all that matters to Brown is that he’s still got PM written next to his name in the newspapers. And al that seems to matter to Labour MPs is that they’re still the government.
And ten they profss to be all upset about how despised politicians are.
You are despised because you are useless, self-serving cnuts.
At least the bankers don’t pretend to be anything other than self-serving cnuts. But these fucking Labour politicians spend their entire career wandering around, doe-eyed, professionally concerned and yet when the choice presents itself between getting the UKs finances on a solid footing or landing the opposition with the biggest economic clusterfuck in history for purely political reasons – well it’s a no-brainer for the bastards.
Cnuts. Wicked, evil cnuts.
No wonder they did away with the death penalty for treason. Naked self-interest again.
What’s worse is that Cast-iron is alienating his own side. Anyone who speaks the truth now is being side lined and called “eccentric”. The thing is, they are trying to save his ass by spelling out now what he will do after the election. If he is not honest (and the slimey creep is never honest) there will be a huge backlash when he makes the cuts. Remember the 1984 miners strike? That will be nothing compared to the unrest the unions will create when the axe falls. Cast-iron needs to get a *real* mandate, he needs to spell out now what the recovery plan will be so that after the election the unions will not be able to stir up unrest because voters will have voted precisely for the cuts.
Thank you jgm2. I completely agree. Unfortunately I can’t articulate my utter loathing of the current incumbents and everything that they have done to ruin this country. I actually find myself unable to objectively review Tory and LibDem policies because I am so full of hatred that I only care about destroying Labour for ever.
Everyone like to blame the bankers for the recession and like to forget the 10 years of plenty that they provided before. It is true that the bankers lit the fuse, however the recession was actually caused by the barels of gunpowder stacked under the economy for 10 years by the incompetent fcukwit currently in office. Without that, the fuse would just have fizzled.
But even as the dust is settling, all he can do is moan about bankers playing with matches while stacking up more barels and laying another fuse.
‘Real Alternative’ is back.
The stuck record’s stuck record.
We get your point, now piss off.
why don’t YOU piss off you Cameron rimmer
this isn’t an official Tory website so you are just another wanker arselicking Dave
What’s that y’say, Fawlty? Sarkozy Dead?
Usual Colonel?
jgm2
20% cuts – nonsense! No cuts are needed because the deficit will be paid off by “sharing the proceeds of growth” – or whatever Batman and Robin used to blather on about – with the other share being invested in public services. Here at the Beeb we think this is a brilliant strategy by present HM Government and should clear the deficit in -ooh – as little as a thousand years.
Shame we don’t have mid terms.
We do in the Euro Elections and some council Elections but this was basically an American by-Election
Indeed, the American mid-terms are this coming November. I think Obama will get a bit of a shock in those.
The Dead Kennedys will have just been given an extra cess pit to dig out by the Devil….
Kennedy Clan, probably the worst case of Political Elitism ever constructed from Criminal activity in any country. Thanks to them, we had the lucrative funding of the IRA and their cowardly terrorism on these Islands. Terrorism, and kiddy fiddling. What the iRA are all about.
I hear the even handed the Presidency down from father to son so elitist were they
what a bunch of cun’ts
Eh ?
Doh!
bloody great idea!
We know where you live
The local constabulary would love to know where your brother lives.
OT
Mervyn King warns incompetent Labour jackasses to stop being such incompetent jackasses.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8469373.stm
The Gadarene Swine will not change their ways.
The markets need to know WHERE are the 25% savings we need to stop the downgrading?
What the BBC didn’t report;
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/7030904/Families-face-years-of-pain-says-Bank.html
Mervyn King says “Families will suffer years of pain”.
I bet Brown is really pleased he made the BoE independent.
No news there then. We knew it already.
Your grandkids will be paying Jonah’s debt off.
Cut the public sector spending NOW !!!!!
LOL eds on R4 seems to be getting upset !
So, Uncle Sam has quickly realised he has a bad bout of BO! Quick, break out the antiseptic soap.
His daughters look cute. Even his wife is shaggable.
Which are the daughters and which one is the wife?
My eyesight just can’t see the difference these days.
Like you are remotely bothered about females. Homo.
I like mother thumb and her four fine daughter, I’ll have you know.
I agree with everything I just said
I want the blues in here and the blues in other there. The conservatives over there scare the hell out of me.
I don’t want either party in power over there. Dems and Repubs are BOTH corrupt, elitist, puppets of the new world order.
America should be battling between the libertarian and the constitutional parties. Their country and the world would be a lot better off, and the world would be safer too if that happened.
It was a referendum on Obama’s first year handling the Economy and two unpopular Wars he inherited and has failed to do much about, if it was a referendum on anything apart from the Dems shit candidate, as Massachusetts already HAS it’s own Obama style Healthcare system.
The Massachusetts health care reform law was enacted in 2006. It requires nearly every resident of Massachusetts to obtain health insurance coverage. Through the law, Massachusetts provides free health care for residents earning less than 150% of the federal poverty level, and partially subsidized health care for those earning up to 300% of the FPL, depending on an income-based sliding scale. The law is credited with covering an additional 439,000 Massachusetts residents as of April 1, 2008.
Nice to hear Fox News talking points regurgitated this side of the pond though.
Those more adept at reading the signs realise this means that even Obama who started with huge popularity polling is now being blamed for the clusterfuck Economy and Wars he inherited from Bush.
Exactly how long do you think it will be till Dave is blamed for the clusterfuck Economy and Wars he inherits from Brown ?
Because even the most grovelling Cameroonian mouthpiece wouldn’t try to pretend Dave has anything like the personal ratings or electioneering skill Obama had.
6-9 months if he’s lucky and Cameron will start feeling the wrath of the British voter if things don’t improve sharpish. That’s the real lesson here.
Unfrtunately you are right. The slight difference though is that Americans tok leave of their senses and believed that Obama could fix all this with a click of his mixed-race fingers. And he did nothing to manage their expectations. Dave on the other hand (and Osborne) are pointedly spelling out that it’s going to involve cuts and ‘we’re all in this together’.
Whether or not the electorate remembers that come winter 2010 is another issue. And all the while you’ll have the remaining Labour MPs shrieking about how it’s all Cameron’s fault.
The thing for Dave to do right now is to start publicly empathising with Obama about the terrible economic catastrophe he inherited from an incompetent predecessor.
If it wasn’t for the fact that Brown would simply continue to print money and precipitate total colapse as opposed to attempting to sort out his own clusterfuck then it would be worth voting Labour just to see ‘em fail. But since they clearly will not even attempt to correct their monumental diocy it is not a path worth taking.
It is a total reprise of the 1970s.
“Those more adept at reading the signs realise this means that even Obama who started with huge popularity polling is now being blamed for the clusterfuck Economy and Wars he inherited from Bush.”
Well, that is because HE VOTED FOR THE BUSH BAILOUT! He endorsed Bush’s handling of the economic crises and even wanted Bush to go further. He did NOTHING to prevent the Fed and the Goldman Sachs and the Morgans blatant corrupt extortion racket.
He supported the elite blatantly shoving their grubby fists into the pockets of every tax payer in America for the next 50 – 100 years and grabbing handfulls of cash and blatantly stealing it in order to lend it back to Americans again at exorbitant interest rates.
now Obama is belatedly taxing the entire banking system to make the appearance of being tough. BUT that tax will be hitting many banks that did NOT receive any federal bail out at all.
Yes, Obama inherited an economic clusterfuck from Bush, but he has done nothing to rectify it. In fact he is making things worse over there.
Good analysis…
The root of the problem is that major investment banks like Goldman Sachs had “bought” Obama like they has bought Clinton and Bush before him…Just look at all the Goldman Sachs appointments wat the top level of the US Federal government…
PS Goldman Sachs and other investment banks were strong on fraud before the Great Crash of 1929 as well, for those interested in history…
Its business. The elite insider banks fund a speculative bubble, grow it real big and then burst it in a co-ordinated way. Then they wait for other banks and institutions to fail and buy them up cents on the dollar, asset strip what is left and then sell any recovered parts for a massive profit.
I’m afraid this just re-inforces the fact that you’re average Joe American can’t change his ways he’s still myopic, selfish, rabid right wing Chrisitian fundamentalist with the “go fuck the world” attitude that has brought us to this mess. And they wonder why the world hates them…!?
Huh? Are you saying the Labour Party has a ‘myopic, selfish, rabid right wing Chrisitian fundamentalist with the “go fuck the world” attitude that has brought us to this mess.’
Because they’re the fucking incompetent jackasses who visited the selfsame idiocy upon the UK.
No. I’m referring purely to the economic and political damage the U.S. has done to the wider world in the last 40+ years. Obama presented an opportunity for change in the eyes of the world but even his modest economic, health, environmental and foreign policy programmes have got the “rednecks” running scared and engaged in constant guerilla warfare with his Administration through Murdoch’s Fox News (sic) and other neo-con media outlets. As they famously like to trumpet “Either my way , or the highway buddy!”
Awwwww, the poor old ‘rest of the world’. Forced, via its idiot socialist government of Blair/Brown, to join in an idiot war in Iraq and pursue a low interest rate policy to create an artificial consumer boom and insane house prices.
Awwwww. Shame.
Why do we bother electing these jackasses at all if they can’t think for themselves or in the national interest? Why doesn’t Brown just fuck off if it turns out that the entirre reason the economy is fucked is because of the yanks and the banks and there was nothing he could do to stop ‘em.
Just fuck off Brown you useless fuck.
Yup, because the stiff jawed Massachusetts democrats really do resemble the myopic stereotypical caricature of bible bashin’ creationist believin’ abortion hatin’ gun totin’ ‘rednecks’ don’t they?
This election result was NOT a red-neck backlash. There were many democrats voting republican for the first time in protest that Obama has not gone anywhere near far enough for them. They have not seen “change they can believe in”, but merely “a tiny bit of change that they can hardly believe.” “Yes we can” has changed into “We was robbed”
Oh and do not underestimate how out of touch the democrat candidate looked in not knowing a thing about Boston Baseball and spending too much time mixing with elitists in Washington, instead of pressing the flesh on the ground.
And there was a notable and significant shift towards the republicans on the security issue. The underpants “bomber” played to Americans fear of terrorism.
Red-neck backlash? I don’t think so.
Jesus, what a stupid, cliched post. ‘The U.S.’ is a big bag, you know, I don’t think you can blame every American for the Economic Hitman strategy that has been applied to the rest of the world by both Republican and Democrat administrations. Obama is a fucking sock puppet, there was no fucking change coming. His sponsors in Goldman Sachs saw to that.
Nah, a mate in Boston told me that the gay marriage and abortion policies were big factors in the election. Massachusetts is Democrat, but there are also a lot of Catholics. Teddy Kennedy knew this, but Coakley ignored it.
Hold on the problem is Obama has been in campaign mode all year, since arriving at the WH. He has made many mistakes and has shown his incompetence.
The first sign he was extremely racist, was the nutty professorgate problem, where he hung the white police chief out to dry, without knowing the facts.
On treating and giving Terrorists legal (Miranda )rights same as a citizen of the US
and for total politics having a show trial in NY opposite the WTC site
On pushing the Afghan war as the good war. It is now his war >the idiot should have never chosen one over the otherRhode island and Queen of England set< restrict your term to that of a one term president.
Remember America on the surface is a republic, but behind the scenes the old country still wields great powers. The CIA was taught by their close friends MI5/6 and I suspect they are planning some more shocks for Barry and his band of Chicagoan property crooks-hint hint
There was a bloke on beeb news this morning who looked like Donny Osmond, and spoke a lot of sense.
He said Massachusetts was the most left wing state in the USA, and to have a republican take the seat was almost unbeleivable.
Obama’s administration is fucked.
NO we can’t!
O;Bummer promised change, and did not deliver. He is a Kenyan Charlatan, and a one term President. At least he doesn’t have to go back to his organised crime connections in Chicago.
His race card now counts for little, because the Economy is as bad there as it is here.
Generational Debt. It si the socialist way.
Bush that fucking socialist!
How dare Obama travel back in time and make Bush bail out the Banks
Clinton started the rot. Mortgages for the poor and feckless. Bush was another case of Family nepotism. Like the Kennedys. All Politicians are dodgy, but none more dodgy as when their family built their fortunes on power and control.
Bush dr* ve for home ownership fueled housing bubble
“We can put light where there’s darkness, and hope where there’s despondency in this country. And part of it is working together as a nation to encourage folks to own their own home.”
- President George W. Bush, Oct. 15, 2002
The global financial system was teetering on the edge of collapse when Bush and his economics team huddled in the Roosevelt Room of the White House for a briefing that, in the words of one participant, “scared the hell out of everybody.”
It was Sept. 18. Lehman Brothers had just gone belly-up, overwhelmed by toxic mortgages. Bank of America had swallowed Merrill Lynch in a hastily arranged sale. Two days earlier, Bush had agreed to pump $85 billion into the failing insurance giant American International Group.
The president listened as Ben Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets, gripped by panic, had frozen overnight, and banks were refusing to lend money.
Then his Treasury secretary, Henry P**lson Jr., told him that to stave off disaster, he would have to sign off on the biggest government bailout in history. Bush, according to several people in the room, paused for a single, stunned moment to take it all in.
“How,” he wondered aloud, “did we get here?”
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/business/worldbusiness/21iht-admin.4.18853088.html
Plus the nonsenses caled Fanny Mae and Freddy Mac that masqueraded as private institutions but were considered to have implicit federal guarantees and went on issuing financing for dodgy mortgages.
And this is what Cameron has to look forward too.
He’ll end up being blamed for attempting to sort out the Brownian idiocy.
I hope he wins and I hope he makes a speech on day one spelling out exactly who is responsible for the UK’s economic clusterfuck. I hope he uses words like ‘reckess’, ‘incompetent’, ‘criminal’ and ‘juvenile’ when referring to the Labour idiocy.
He needs to make it quite clear that the time for the adolescent ideology and juvenile economics of the Labour Idiocy has passed and it is time for the grown-ups to make adult decisions.
There’s no time like the present.
Today in PM’s Questions, perchance?
Do Nothing Dave couldn’t zap Barn Door Brown with a blunderbuss and shed-loads of ammunition from within nosing range.
Pop-guns, foam pies and phoney theatrics as usual.
Dave is playing a waiting game and will continue to pretend to be shit right up until the day of election then…,,
POW!
He will strike when we least expect it
Not Yet, oh how I wish that were true, seems less likely by the week
“makes a speech on day one spelling out exactly who is responsible for the UK’s economic clusterfuck.”
No, he needs to do it now, and spell out what MUST be done. Cast-iron must get a proper mandate for the deep cuts he will make after the election. If he keeps on this policy of “wink, wink know what I mean?” and gets elected he will not have a mandate to cut deep and there will be civil unrest.
The unions have a £25 million warchest that they will use to mobilise their socialists. There will be a general strike and there will be riots around the country. Cast-iron will have to bring the troops back from Afghanistan to police the streets of England (he’ll let Scotland burn – good job). he can avoid all of this by getting a real mandate, but he’s either too spineless to say what should be done, or he’s clueless as to the right actions. My guess is that he is both.
Most left-wing state? And yet they voted for Romney as Governor? I think someones talking bollocks!
Ed Balls is making a prize partisan tit of himself on the Today prog. Robust stuff from Humphries.
Balls looks horrible, sounds horrible and actually is horrible.
that’s because he’s a cock
He’s everybody’s cock. We’re all in this together.
Empty ball bag balls.
Blinky stuttering fool. No wonder he spends so much time alone.
Concerted effort required for a ‘Portillo’
60% won’y vote for the Tories. Not much of a difference
Balls set up the financial regulation system that f*cked the country. He pulled the stools apart to make the cracks. If any two men are to blame it’s Balls and his pimp.
Surely it’s ”pull the crack apart to make the stools”?
Steady on there !! There’s no need for accuracy, is there ?
UNITED WE STAND…DIVIDED WE FALL
AND YOU CAN’T GET MORE DIVIDED THAN THE CONSERVATIVE PARTY LED BY DAVID CAMERON.
WAIT UNTIL TODAYS PMQ’S I WILL DESTROY “THE TOFF”
What by not answering questions ? way to go your poll ratings show all the success the feindishly clever stratergy .
WHO GIVES A SHIT WHAT YOU DO YOU PILL CRUNCHING LOON BROWN
You’ll just tell lies, bellow and refuse to answer any questions. Yawn.
Wait until he hears this month’s tractor stats.
If Obama is now seen as a loser, I wonder if Gordon Brown will drop him like shit off a hot shovel.
Not if he’s stuck to him like shit to a blanket.
Are you the voice of experience?
The one eyed snott gobler in this country is going to be pissed. He has tried to smother himself in Obama’s glory – and it is all going down the shitter.
…….. did Jonah curse Obama?
They just praised each other.
It is of great concern that the BBC report “Almost 50% of black people aged between 16 and 24 are unemployed, compared with 20% of white people of the same age, a think tank has claimed.”
It is interesting that they do not break this 50% statistic down into gender, I would suggest that 60-70% young black men in this age group are unemployed.
The questions that have to be addressed are they employed or umeployable and it is a result of multiculteralism, where persuing a “black” life does not lend itself to being employed in mainstream business.
I suggest that Labours class war and active promotion of ethnic minorities and their cutures only seeks to divide society further.
The problem is with being black is the anti-racist laws stop you from doing any scientific research to understand why black create less wealth than white or chinese people. Maybe it’s culture or race, but we’re never going to find out.
If I was black I’d be f*cking mad that the left wing had hijacked any rescue party that could help me.
Wonder how many persons of Chinese background are unemployed in comparison to whites? Where I live we have big problems with local Chinese gun crime and involvement in the drug trade, in town there are always groups of Chinese kids hanging around with pitbulls intimidating passers by, local news runs many reports from the local Chinese area or ‘da ghetto’ they for some reason refer to it as, with local Chinese kids bemoaning their lot and blaming the racism innit as they plan their careers as rap stars, while local government constantly pisses money into schems teaching them to DJ or dance.
There are around half a million Black Carribean people in the UK, there are around half a million Chinese and other Oriental peoples in the UK, compare and contrast.
You all lacist
Chinese velly cool, all have huge penises an your woman want to sleep with us. you jus jearous.
Anymore of this an I come round an buts a clap up your ass.
I also do dlive by takeaways on my moped
I like Orientals, “Me soooo horny, love you long time, only ten dollah”
Sucky fucky?
And let’s continue the analogy whilst enjoying a great, low-priced and delicious meal in one of Central London’s many good Nigerian restaurants.
Now, what are we eating? I’ll have the boiled yams with goat’s feet.
Go for an interview wearing pants arounds your knees, reeking of skunk and wearing a daft hat and calling the interviewer “blood” is unlikely to get you da job.
Unless its crack dealing or football
Or its at the BBC presenting kids television
They are not unemployed !
as being a gang member is a full time occupation
Perhaps they could take up swimming and break new ground by being the first blacks to be seen in the pool at the Olympic Games.
What are you on about.
Could this be Camerons victory speech
When in government, I will work in parliament with Labour and Conservatives to reform the NHS in an open and honest way. No more closed-door meetings or back room deals by an out of touch party leadership. No more hiding costs, concealing taxes, collaborating with special interests, and leaving more trillions in debt for our children to pay.
In Britain, we need to start fresh, work together, and do the job right. Once again, we can do better.
Camerons speech …
I’m f*cked, you’re f*cked, we’re all f*cked for the next 20 years. The Treasury said we need 25% cuts but Gordon Brown supressed it for purely political reasons. Gordon is going to be tried for treason and we’ll poke his other eye out when he’s found guilty.
That would be nice, wouldn’t it.
However, back in reality, it won’t be, because back-room deals are what they do. It is how the labour and conservative parties manage the implementation of the new world order agenda.
They get the ‘big picture’ strategic vision given to them at Bliderberg (amongst others) and have the tactical implementation managed via the back-room deals.
How else could the last 40 years of labour and tory Governments have led us to this point in time? Both moving us consistently closer to a single world government, via a single European government.
Scott Brown not part of the big picture then
Scott Brown is just one senator who will turn native and represent the elite over the needs of the people of Mass. He will become part of the tactical implementation of policy.
He is a republican, therefore he will be implementing the same “big picture” that republican and democrats alike have been implementing for decades.
Did anyone else see Mandelslime going rapidly into reverse yesterday over Cadbury? Following weeks of frenetic headline-making that he was going to save the business from takeover, he has now decided that he doesn’t have the powers to do anything about it after all. Well I never! My dog could have told him that. Yet more gesture politics from idiotic and ignorant NuLiebour.
Does this pillock know anything at all about business? No, I thought not.
Now get back to your electioneering you useless waste of space.
He is used to getting his evil way with Europeans and Brazilians. Yanks don’t take prisoners in business.
Cadbury is safe – gordon formally told Kraft yesterday that they musn’t make any cadbury workers redundant.
And Geoffrey Robinson has said the government should “call in” the Kraft people (ooooh, get him!) and tell them what is expected of them. Why not save everyone’s time and not bother with such a waste of breath meeting? Brown and Mandy are panicking now (like they did over Rover) becuase of the electoral damge it might cause them – thye do not care about anyone else anyway – as soon as the election is over Cadbury’s will dissappear from the radar.
PS – I once went to a meeting when G Robsinson’s trousers fell down – what an operator!
Was Mandelslime standing close behind him at the time perchance?
Yes
Filling in his next mortgage application letter.
I hope you all had compensation.
Worthless platitudes from New Labour over the Cadbury workers jobs. Note to New Labour, this is a PRIVATE company not public sector, remember that the next time you give worthless job guarantees in press conferences.
But remember the BBC dutifully reported the one eyed gay mongs sound bite ALL day on News 24 without anyone saying that this was a LIE. Taking it up the rectum from Mong and Mandy, it’s how we work at the BBC.
Thanks for the clip. McBust and Mandelslime should be tied to their chairs and forced to watch this load of drivel, and then answers demanded of them. Instead, the media just let it go like all the other ridiculous statements from these morons, and – job done for NuLiebour once again.
No hope of expecting DC or his team to hold these two lunatics to account of course. Perhaps they don’t know any better?
The yanks have really taken the biscuit this time
I hate him. As a Brummie, I hate him, obviously, but also because he is a figure of hate in general.
Cadbury have presented Brown with a chocolate teapot as a token of their esteem.
One Brown in the world of politics was More than enough !
Company advert for Brown, Darling and Mandelson Ltd – Wreckers of the UK Economy and Business Industry.
BD&M was started in 1997 and has become substanially more incompetent as each year passes.
BD&M are specialists and will help you buy a British company on the cheap. Pay peanuts and get a British Global Company with well known brands for next to nothing.
Brown yesterday ! we will protect British jobs ! ha ha ha !
Cadburys already make a lot of stuff in Romania
He will protect the remaining British jobs By pulling out the “Magic Cheque Book” and paying Kraft 20,000,000 per year to keep on the surplus staff !
Just like all his other “Real Jobs”
Remember that deep fried chocolate is the national dish of the jock mongs, no wonder the one eyed poof wants to protect his national dish.
Not pretty reading for McFuckwit Brown.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/20/mervyn-king-internationaltrade?CMP=AFCYAH
Mind you when the shit really hits the fan he will be gone so as a commentator on the Sky paper review said this morning
‘Its annoying that the medicine that needs to be administered cannot because an election is in the offing but the people still know it has to be done sooner or later’
Brown protecting himself at the expense of the country.
Mervyn King has said (Speaking at the University of Exeter)
The extraordinary degree of monetary and fiscal stimulus administered by governments and central banks represented little more than a “massive sticking plaster on the wounds”
QE in a nutshell and very expensive at that!!
it is astonishing that the Governor of the Bank of England is still in his position…and still “giving advice”…
He presided over the greatest breakdown in regulatory authority in living memory without saying a word or giving a word of warning…like Greenspan…
And now tells us how to do things ?
Quite surreal…
Be gone with you Governor, let us have a Governor with some credibility like the Chairman of HSBC who avoided all the shit that Governor King should have stopped years ago…
Whooa there partner , there are quite a few who joined save mervin king campaign on here , when ruin held him to ransom , as well as enjoying cricket hes very clever !! might even have saved the country ! from the worst of ruins mismanagement
I know he resisted the Mental One on occasions…
But starting with Northern Rock, all of these disasters could have been easily avoided if the Bank of England had done its basic job…i.e. not allowing any bank to borrow what amounts to 75% of its balance sheet on the wholesale financial markets…or only with sufficient backup or fall back lines of credit…which was evidently not the case when the markets “dried up”
I was involved (inside a major UK bank) in this question of how to cover banks relying heavily on wholesale financial markets 35 years ago…I will not go into the details..but there are techniques to cover these types of crisis situations…
BUT the B of E was backward then in their analysis and prevention and have remained so, I am afraid…
So he and his staff have ot been and are not “very clever”, frankly,
Brown changed the rules on day one of the labour maladministration in 1997. The changes meant that the oversight capability of the Bank of England was different from when you were in banking 35 years ago. MI5.
In fact Brown removed the Bank of England’s oversight and gave that job to their pet quango.
He’s obviously positioning himself for a job with the next government but as you say he is also part of the problem.
King may have been aware of the situation but did precious little to point it out and with years of articially low interest rates based on manipulated statistics his credibility is as shot as Brown’s.
“He presided over the greatest breakdown in regulatory authority in living memory without saying a word or giving a word of warning”
Please don’t talk rubbish. The Bank had their duties regarding banking regulation removed from them by Brown and given to the FSA, so that he could have political control.
Rush Limbaugh show today should be very entertaining. You can listen to it here http://www.wabcradio.com at 17.00hrs UK time…
will he be popping pills live on air like Brown does ?
Of course…
Well done ! nicely put together , disagree on nuclear but hard to fault rest
con home list of new mps priorities no16 I opened the champagne !! whoop whoop just hope we can load one onto ed get a richochette straight into the ruins bridge !!
Boston doesn’t have a senator. Only states have senators…
Thank you Brian Hanrahan and now back to George Alagiah in the studio…
Klootzak.
The shelf life of politicians everywhere nowadays is short….
It will remain so until someone tells the electorate thr truth and stops being “bought” by special interest groups starting with the Chosen bankers…
That requires a sea change in how politics is conducted…
Clean TV and internet based campaigning…
Clear policy…
Telling the People how it is..
That means Call me Dave has one chance and only one…starting now…
Either he makes a complete analysis of what has happened to Britain, expecially financially, (in particular the massive fraud by the bankers in sellling toxic assets (and then shorting them) and complete breakdown of regulation (including massive off the balance sheet operations designed to avoid any regulation)…
He must state the medicine he proposes, the level of across the board cuts, tax rates envisaged etc
If he loses the election then he at least can hold hi head high and wait for the total implosion under Zanu Labour and the IMF implementing the obviously necessary policies..
If he wins the Election having told the British People the truth, then he will have legitmacy in implementing the very painful policies necessary to correct the disaster left by Nu Labour…
If he remains as wishy washy as he is, he will have the worst of both worlds…He will be blamed for having to implement the cuts and will probably be kicked out after a year or two…
And aren’t the BBC just furious with those stupid american voters? Can’t they see that “healthcare reform” is “the right thing to do”?
The visceral, organic bias of the BBC is writ large today – they’re appalled by this vote. They really can’t contain their disgust that there are people in the world who don’t share their world-view.
cocksuckers
According to the drug using rent boy fondlers website it’s now 50 million Americans without healthcare insurance. I though it was 30 million? Do the BBC dream these figures up over a line of Charlie?
And look at their headline now “Obama’s party loses Kennedy seat”
Fucking wankers. Christ, talk about cult of personality. BBC wankers. Fucking stupid biased bitter moronic wankers. Up against the wall with the lot of them.
The fascist Beeb is institutionally critical and intolerant of anyone who does not endorse their version of “progressive” ( A. Hitler called himself a progressive too ) fascism.
The U.K.’s economic policy puzzle just got harder. Inflation was expected to rise in December, but not by a full percentage point to 2.9%. That is well above market expectations of 2.6% and the Bank of England’s forecast of about 2.7%. It certainly puts the kibosh on any extension of quantitative easing beyond February, no matter what the growth figures show. But whether it forces the central bank to raise interest rates further and faster than expected will depend partly on the credibility of the government’s …
They’ll keep printing – they have absolutely no other answer.
Well, speaking purely personally as someone who has a few shekels in the building society, I’d be rather glad if interest rates went up (as I have no mortgage). Whoever’s fault this financial crisis is, it certainly isn’t mine.
So, rates back to 5.5%, please, and be quick about it.
This chap would get my vote whatever his party. I like the look of his daughters
is this what it’s all about?
what lessons need to be learnt??
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2010/jan/19/cadbury-kraft-takeover-todd-stitzer
They can still pass helath care, using either reconciliation or for the house to pass teh senate bill.
Interesting – and prominent – use of the word ‘robbed’ on both the BBC website and teletext. No pretence at any kind of impartiality.
Sorry but you’re wrong. The BBC assure me that in fact the Democrats couldn’t lose this seat and that if they did it’s all the fault of those red necks in Montana and the Fox News tea party rabble.
Look St Barry is the Jesus of the modern world, the BBC love him, please don’t blame St Barry, blame that evil George W Bush.
There are no Champagne bottles strewn around the BBC today.
oh dear-Obama said ‘change’ about a million times.yet almost every move he has made has been a continuation of the nwo/bush agenda……….
poor gordon.chasing obama around the world trying to get a kiss or a bj…….
and obama was going to be such a shining light and gordie was going to bask in his aura……………..and poor kerry……….all that time spent in the u.s.a campaigning when she should have been looking after her flock. (of somalis).
“The election of Scott Brown now makes it possible for the Republicans to block Obama’s legislation..”
That’s if the Democratic officials in Massachussets seat him anytime soon. They could string this out for at least a month
a month?
how long was Al Franken waiting?
could be even more
I think that was the result of having to wait for a Supreme Court ruling on the result of a very tight election (which is something that they have to do every once in a while).
I have not stopped laughing.
BBC Pravda Radio 4 is aghast & horrified at the sheer wrongheadedness of the American voting public.
How could America allow those beastly Republicans take away the jewel in the Crown of Democratic political elitism?
I bet the hero of Chappaquiddick is spinning like a top in that layer of hell especially reserved for the Kennedys.
Now this is truly “change I can believe in”
I hate Political elitism and dynasties, what do you say Jeb and Dubya ?
Me too, have I ever mentioned my son and grandaughter, Hilary and Emily?
Oh or my father William or my Grandfather Sir John?
We go back a long way you know.
Captial Idea!
Anyone dependent on Pravda for their news will be in a state of confusion this morning. How could this happen to the Saviour Of The World? In Massachusetts of all places – that leafy Boston suburb where the people are so much more sophisticated than they are in Alaska. There will be high-level meetings at Broadcasting House this week to re-nuance the narrative.
Just popped over to the BBC News Have Your Say – as usual the mods are doing their bit for international marxism.
The usual suspects are allowed to post long diatribes against the stupid American voters & insult them ad infinitum.
Great. One thing we Americans hate is being lectured & nagged by whiny Euro-Liberals. For every post on the BBC attacking us another 100 voters fall behind the patriotic choice – the Republicans.
Thank you BBC & its whiny liberal contributors & posters for the great work you are doing for Republianism – & part of this victory for common sense is because of the smug self righteous attitude you all displayed on your BBC after the presidential election.
Enjoy the fruits of your labour – moree payback to follow.
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
It’s not OUR BBC – it belongs to the New World order
and Britain has even less time for American neocon retards telling us what to do
it’s why Bush was such a big hit over here
and why we are all looking forward to his warcriminal poodle Blair getting a pasting in the inquiry(bring your own spare throwable shoes please)
USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
The Americans had an advantage that we didn’t have.
They saw us elect Blair and New Labour in a frenzy of gushing hope and sentimentality and they have seen the result.
You would have to be an idiot of the first order not to draw parallels between Blair and Obama.
You would also have to be an idiot of the first order to think that trying to emulate the NHS is a good idea and a vote winner. The NHS treats its patients with contempt and causes incalculable cruelty with complete indifference. It is what happens when gargantuan bureaucracy collides with medical ethics.
Well put. The Americans are quicker to act when the mask drops and The Charlatan is exposed.
Perhaps a portent of things to come here when Zanulab are eliminated and Blair stands trial at The Hague.
“he election of Scott Brown now makes it possible for the Republicans to block Obama’s legislation..”
Because clearly, in a democracy, the rights of 41 should take precedence over the rights of the 59…
What a fucking stupid wanker you are Guido.
Up your arse, Lefty twats.
Because, in the USA that’s exactly how it works. You’re the anonymous wanker
To be fair, and as I understand it, Senate rules mean more than 40 can filibuster, so frustrate the majority. 40 or fewer can be beaten outright. Simples. Guido is right.
Watch Glenn Beck the dodgy commies in Obama’s admin and that bird Pelosi can and will still get it through as technically it has passed in the senate already, so they will push that one through Congress and send it to Barry for sign off.
These guys are on a mission and Brown will not stand in the way of their truck!
Hey buddy, dont insult Amerrican democracy.
Looking at your own unmandated Prime Minister (or mentalist I beleive some folks here call him) you are in no popsition to lecture any other country about democracy.
Shall we discuss which way you voted for your EU president & High Representative?
I understand that the European Minister ofr Foreign Affairs has never faced an electorate in her life & was once a member of an organisation that was funded from Moscow during the Cold War.
Democracy Euro liberal left style – Americans would never accept that tyranny.
USA! USA! USA!
Sir (or Madam – it’s a bit difficult to tell on here sometimes) – you are quite correct.
We hope to do something about the unelected Prime Mentalist soon, maybe in early May. The EU (or EUSSR as it is perhaps more accurately called) is a bigger problem, and you’re right – it’s seriously undemocratic. Britain’s current situation is an object lesson in what 13 years of lefty government can do to a nation. Americans would be wise to learn from our mistakes.
We could do something about the EU, but the tories steadfastly refuse.
So I’m voting UKIP.
Vote for President Cameron!
It is Marxism stupid not Euro liberalism. We expect a fucking civil war over this shit so get the terminology correct.
Sniper school anyone ?
It’s amazing how many people have such a naive view of democracy that they believe everything comes down to getting more than 50% of a vote.
Suggest you brush up on your knowledge of voting procedures in the US Senate. You will find that 60 is a magic number.
Then apologise to Guido for calling him “stupid” (the rest may be correct).
Someone remind me of labours share of the vote
Labours share of the vote at the last election held in the UK, saw them comfortably ahead of their nearest rivals, the Liberal Democrats, with over 200,000 more votes.
Meanwhile UKIP struggled and their share of the vote fell by over 150,000, the Conservatives also could only muster 26.7% of the vote, down nearly 200,000 on the 2004 result.
Later today, the Prime Minister, Gordon Brown will be visiting a childrens hospital and has repeated his pledge to end “catastrophic” climate change, third world poverty and to lead Africa out of darkness and into hope. Before flying to America to lend his support and heartfelt commiserations, to President Obama, after last nights tragic news from Ted Kennedys former seat.
A very clever way of spinning the result of the EU election for labour. The result was the tories won, UKIP came second, Labour just scraped third with only 5% of the people eligible to vote actually voting labour. 5%!!!
At the last General election, 22% of those eligible to vote voted labour and gave them a 66 seat majority.
Before this, the Democrats had a 60 seat, filbuster-proof “supemajority.” The major pieces of leftist social engineering have not been passed because of *Democrats* who have witheld their votes out of fear (quite justified) that they will be voted out of office.
In other news, Ted Kennedy has now been sober for five months.
His weight loss program is going well I have heard also.
And think of the money they saved on the Eternal Flame for his tomb – no need to pipe in natural gas, they just stuck a wick in him.
Is it true he answers all his own posts like a mong?
Whereas in the democratic UK the rights of 75% of the voters are overridden by a ‘majority’ formed from 25% of eligible voters? And that’s okay as long as it’s Labour who are bank**ting the economy with their idiot policies.
Hoo-fucking-rah.
It was only 22%
At the last national election (the EU Parliamentary election in June 08) labour got 5% of those eligible to vote. The support for ‘none of the above’ was 65.7%
Imagine for a moment what the result of the next general election could be IF that 60%+ who did not vote, went out and voted against labour and the against the tories and against the liberals.
Those who support the none of the above option, are by far, the biggest, most powerful, political block in this country. It is a travesty for democracy and our way of life that they do not get that message and that most of them will not vote.
These people are allowing labour and tory to fuck this country over by default.
So you want PR? Are you a Liberal Democrat?
Do you know who always gets the biggest vote at our elections? Someone called “Abstain”. The British public cannot be bothered to vote.
Why is that? Its because all the parties are the same. When you look at their relative policies, Cast-iron is the same as Brown. When they argue policy, it is over minor points. Cast-iron is too spineless, or too dim (or probably both) to come up with the policies that we really need.
If we had a real alternative, a real difference between the parties, then people would want to vote. Instead we have spineless Cast-iron and his sock puppet cabinet who will give us the same as Brown but with a blue rinse.
Smurf: Blue on the outside, red on the inside.
Poor show by the Libertarian candidate.
the what ?
how many votes did he get ?
About 1 per cent.
Joseph L Kennedy
(Not one of the Dead Kennedys)
Strange such a committed Libertarian as Mr Fawkes omitted that little fact.
“Kennedy was born Joseph Lewis Rodriguez in Boston, Massachusetts on October 17, 1971 to a unknown couple from Portugal and Puerto Rico. He was placed in the Massachusetts State foster care systems and was adopted just prior to the age of 4 by Paul and Carol Kennedy.”
I am begining to think the curse of Jonah has transferred to Barry Hussien Obama.
Facts as my Liverpool buddy would say.
Fact 1) BHO went to win the Olympics for Chicago
The Olympics went to Rio
Fact 2) BHO the saviour went to Copenhagen Climate Scam conference
And all he got was Egg Fried Rice in his face
Fact 3) BHO went to Massachusetts to campaign for Coakley
And all he got was another Stalker A Scot Brown.
Barry must be pissed of with that Scot Brown he he
The Conservatives are coming?
Meanwhile, Hoon blames Brown for defence spending cuts, and army and navy fight themselves instead of attacking their mutual enemy, Gordon Brown
“The election of Scott Brown now makes it possible for the Republicans to block Obama’s legislation..”
Because clearly, in a democracy, the rights of 41 should take precedence over the rights of the 59…
What a fucking stupid wanker you are Guido.
Whereas in the democratic UK the rights of 75% of the voters are overridden by a ‘majority’ formed from 25% of eligible voters? And that’s okay as long as it’s Labour who are bank**ting the economy with their idiot policies.
Hooo-fucking-rah.
A democracy shouldn’t be a tyranny of the majority. Particularly when the ‘majority’ is anything but.
Obviously you missed the replies to your original entry at 120. Saying the same shit twice doesn’t make it right.
Maybe they could clone Al Franken ??
I’m not sure if people here realize what a moron Martha Coakley is, nor how incompetent was her campaign. She did very little campaigning, and committed one gaffe after another.
She and the party apparatus assumed that as a Democrat running for Ted Kennedy’s old seat, she could just walk into it without really trying. She is a hack who was considered a reliable vote for “progressive” legislation.
The arrogance and ineptitude displayed by the Democrats will have a ripple effect beyond Massachusetts.
One up the ass for the DemoTwats.
Lard arse Kennedy needs a stake driven through his fat corpse.
Sad , but not surprising that Americans are going against something they actually all know needs to happen. But thats the power of negative campaigning. When it does come to campaigns you just cant get a used fiver, between the Republicans and Labour. Would not be surprised if there is some mixing of trans atlantic fluids between the people that run either parties campaigns.Watch out for the same from Labour in the run up to the election
Something that we all know needs to happen, Cream Puff? What would that be? Create a National Health Service like yours? Make failure to obtain health insurance a federal offense? Enact a scheme to tax carbon emissions that does nothing to actually reduce carbon emissions? Government funding for “community organizing” organizations to stuff ballot boxes for Democrats? More government pressure to issue mortages to people who can’t afford them?
Save your condescending pity for yourself.
Agreed. Failure to purchase heath insurance is a crime in the UK and it really pisses me off. I am far healthier than most people and I would prefer to pay my own way. If I hadn’t been robbed by the NHS for the last 30 years I would have a pretty decent health fund to pay for my simple needs, and I could leave it to my family if it turned out to be unnecessary. Health Insurance usually means paying for someone else’s healthcare, unless you’re sick, in which case you’d be in favour of it, naturally.
Watch out for the pretty powerful corporate influences. Insurance companies punch well above their weight and really don’t like it up ‘em, as Obama has found to his cost.
“I am far healthier than most people and I would prefer to pay my own way.” Dead right DM, so would I. I would go further and say that the concept of the NHS is long past its sell-by date and needs to be put out of our misery before this monster consumes the entire GDP – at the rate it’s going that may not be far off. It’s the very epitomy of the ‘nanny knows best’ principle which, as we know, is not the best way of providing anything, including healthcare. It is quite beyond me why our American cousins voted for (albeit with only a tiny majority) for Barry Omaha’s crazy scheme. Suggest he takes a close look at ours before proceeding any further.
“eeds to be put out of our misery before this monster consumes the entire GDP”
it’s hard to know where to start with someone as reality challenged as yourself. As an absolute number or as a percentage of GDP, America’s diabolical, ineffective health care system that fails to cover 30-40 million people at least, and where those who are supposedly insured find they are disbarred from claiming as soon as they become ill, is 2-3, sometimes 5 times more expensive than its economic competitors. America is in the economic shit house. The ROW isn’t great, but the US is half way to the bottom of the abyss already. But if you love it so much, fuck off there and pay $20K plus per year per person for health insurance that turns out not to cover you for anything. You stupid twat.
You should read up a little on the county hospital system, goto.
Dear Tuscan
I lived in the plutocrats paradise for a few years. I had an hc plan to die for, which would now be subject to horrendous new taxes, bankrupting me (if I were still living there). An unintended but inevitable consequence of the political filth on both sides of the ‘corporate party’ that runs the US. Why can’t you libertarian types figure out that the US has not one iota to do with free markets any more? It is a corporate, fascist nightmare.
Now, hospitals. I had my tonsils removed in Germany, I got a week’s bed rest. It cost €3000 total. I discharged myself after 5 days. Care was excellent. Wish I’d stayed longer because the pain hit on day 6. What would the procedure cost in the good ‘ole US of A I wonder? And what would the post-op care be like? You get 1 day in hospital if you’re lucky.
There’s a few reasons we live longer on average in most of Western Europe. Health care is one of them.
Chicken feat?
Britain leeds the world in CHUTNEY production
Leeds is in Yorkshire innit?
Looks like the yanks have sussed out that their own ‘Tony Blair’ is not the Savior he portrayed himself to be.
How’s that closure of Guantanamo going btw?
They certainly cottoned on a lot quicker than we did.
That Republican totty certainly gets my vote.
Own a Chia Obama:
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Today, I am a Happy Boy:
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Semper Fi people.
You can’t buy French companies
You can’t buy German companies
You can’t buy Chinese companies
So much for free trade in a global economy
New Labour – defender of the right of foreign multi-nationals to buy British companies at knockdown prices
YOU KNOW IT DOESN’T MAKE FUCKING SENSE
Ah, but if you dare suggest that Britain protect its own companies and institutions, you are XENOPHOBIC!
how many labour mps invest in our competitors while buggering up our British companies …thats one thing they are good at
Come on, out with it BBCF, is it because Blue Peter just isn’t the same any more?
Yes, but, apart from being filthy child killing paedos the BBC are otherwise ok aren’t they?
Mary Jo.
Pissing on Ted Kennedy’s grave.
Feels good man.
Good Old Scott! I hope that with the Libertarian infiltration underway,the Republicans will kick the Fascists straight to hell!
Feck Democracy! America (should be) a Constitutional Republic.I want Britain to be one also.
Guido, America is a crock of shit plutocracy, where the uber-rich eat everybody else. You are not part of the uber-rich mate. You would be on the menu if they get power over you. So why do you think that the health care system they have that can bankrupt anyone (you too) would be good to have elsewhere? Why do you think that a system that businesses there admit makes them uncompetitive is good? Why are health care costs 3 – 5 times higher than those of your economic competitors an advantage. Why is a health care system set up by a tiny coterie of corrupt special interests to their own advantage and the disadvantage of 90-odd percent of Americans a good thing? Are you thick or something?
Go to bed, you’re obviously over-tired.
The perfect ticket for 2012 must be Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck! Christ I wish we had a real conservative at the head of the Tories.
Jeff Beck would be more interesting, musically.
07.15 Today prog
Beeboids Sarah Montague and Mark Mardell trying to find reasons why the Boston electorate were wrong.
Pathetic a**holes.