Originally posted by shavixmirWhy is there nothing wrong with a three-day week? On what criteria do you judge a three-day week?
Three day week? Nothin' wrong with it.
Frequent power cuts? I remember seeing trains falling off the rails due to privitisation in the 90's and last year...
As for the rubbish piling up on the streets...it's the first time the second most important job in Britain ever stood up for the pay they actually deserve to receive. Not like the second clas ...[text shortened]... m at all!
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As for infantile: It's better to be a child at heart than an adult in boredom.
What have two examples of train crashes got to do with massively disruptive power cuts?
What about the unburied dead - is gravedigging the third most improtant job in Britain?
Unemployment soared in the eighties as the Conservatives sought to bring the madness of the Labour years under control (I write this as someone who has never voted; I have no particular political axe to grind).
The miners suffered, yes. So did *millions* of others due to antiquated labour practices.
Print workers' working practices were uncompetitive and hence unsustainable.
I really don't understand your 'minority/majority' point. If you take into account people who choose not to vote, Britain is *always* ruled by a government that has been elected by a minority.
Why do you have to urinate over *anyone*? Why must you direct mouth-foaming hatred at someone who took hard choices to fix a broken country, when there are leaders out there who have instigated genocidal wars and killed thousands of their own citizens?
Originally posted by ivangriceLet's see:
Why is there nothing wrong with a three-day week? On what criteria do you judge a three-day week?
What have two examples of train crashes got to do with massively disruptive power cuts?
What about the unburied dead - is gravedigging the third most improtant job in Britain?
Unemployment soared in the eighties as the Conservatives sought to bring t ...[text shortened]... leaders out there who have instigated genocidal wars and killed thousands of their own citizens?
The criteria for a 3 day week would seem, to me, to be working 3 days a week instead of 5. And why not?
Where is the unwritten rule that we all have to work ourselves to death to make someone else richer?
Power cuts happen all the time. As time has progressed, the network has become better (with back-up power generators, etc.). Don't forget that electricity to the masses is actually a very recent matter, it takes time to make things so massive perfect.
My point about trains is that privitisation (started by Maggie and her foul cronies) has led to more deaths on the rail than ever before (and worse services).
As for unemployment rising because of the Tories righting previous wrongs...that's the madness of your argument. The tory policies (close down the mines without offering other jobs) led to unemployment. End of story.
What on earth makes a lack of competivness lead to unsustainability? And will that argument mean that the government cannot have a monopoly on the use of violence?
The minority/majority rule argument is basically the socialist argument. Read 'the ragged trousered philanthropists' by Robert Tressel to get the jist, I'm too hungover to be arsed.
I'll urinate on whoever I like, whenever I like. That's just the way I am.
However, if you want me to urinate over Pinochet (who was supported by Maggie), over Saddam (who was supported by Maggie) or over Raygun's (old Ronnie was also supported by Maggie...Panama anyone?) bones...I have no problem pissing over these mass murderers either.
I aim to please!
Anyone who can curb the power of the unions must be doing something good.
It is a joke how, even today, tube drivers walk out for days, holding the whole of london for ransom, because one of their colleagues got sacked for drinking while driving an underground train.
These people make their own rules. I can only imagine it was even worse before Maggie cracked down on them.
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I have hated Maggie for most of my life, my parents have hated her for so many reasons.
I hated the Major government too, although he himself was relatively inoffensive, if a bit dull and idiotic.
But most of all I hate the "New" Labour clowns who couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel and are such useless, moronic, middle-management waffle, buzz-word, air-head idiots that they actually make me remember Thatcher, Major et al in a slightly positive light - at least they were real politicials, orators (except Major) and thinkers.
Obviously Tony Benn was the best but he seems to be losing it recently.
Originally posted by VargThank you for sharing your hatred.
But most of all I hate the "New" Labour clowns who couldn't organise an orgy in a brothel and are such useless, moronic, middle-management waffle, buzz-word, air-head idiots that they actually make me remember Thatcher, Major et al in a slightly positive light - they were real politicials, orators (except Major) and thinkers.
Put Magwitch & Tony side by side--who performs best on the grin-o-meter?
Originally posted by shavixmirI like her, sexually.
Far be it for me to wish to spout hatred upon these fair forums, but "she who's name shall not be mentioned" has turned 80 and I feel it as an obligation...nay...a duty to say a few words to commemorate this special occasion.
I hate her. I seriously, seriously, seriously hate the bitch and I hope she suffers a slow and VERY painful death.
I ...[text shortened]... breath.
She may well have turned 80, I can but hope this is the last birthday she ever has.