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  1. On 12/4/2021 at 11:52 AM, Tigger said:

    What they are doing it Greece to over 60's (which is the tip of the ice berg) is outrageous, to make the vaccine mandatory is imo totalitarian!

    We must have had an authoritarian government in 1853. Mind you George Hamilton-Gordon was a Tory.

  2. On 11/27/2021 at 8:24 AM, Ken L said:

    More fear, and coincidentally, just in time to push Christmas sales away from high streets and towards Bezos and his club of billionaires.

    Oh, and completely by coincidence, it arrives, just as suspicion about the nature and safety of the "vaccine" breaks through from "conspiracy theory" into the mainstream, and difficult questions like "Why are so many athletes dropping dead?" and "Why are the elders of Aboriginal tribes having videos where they say they are being hunted down and force vaccinated, removed from YouTube?" are being asked.

    Only nut jobs ask questions like that. I hope we get an outbreak or a proper virus like Marburg or Lassa Fever. That would whittle away some of the science deniers.

  3. 11 hours ago, Ken L said:

    I've not followed the story, and with no TV, it hasn't been rammed down my throat.

    I gather that first one, and now two South Asian players, are claiming they were called racist names over the course of a decade, and that the "offence archaeologists" are now going through the social media histories of everyone at the club looking for evidence of nasty racist terms in their historical tweets and posts - although I doubt that said South Asian players will be included in the exercise.

    Sorry to be dismissive, but while targetting people based on their ethnic origin is clearly wrong if it's done with malice, if one guy is doing it, it does not bring shame on an entire club, organisation or county, it just means that he is a prize bellend.

    Call me a cynic, but I suspect that this is more about the ideologically motivated left tearing down cultural institutions than it is about hurty words.

    Says the guy who gets all upset at hurty words.

  4. 22 hours ago, Huge_Vitae said:

    Yes but equally we all should remember that MP’s are subject to violence, threats of violence, stalking and harassment almost on a daily basis.

    They are, after all representatives of the population and as such should be made up of a representative, proportionate cross section of the population.

    A percentage of the population steal, murder, thieve, defraud and generally treat others as a commodity. It should be accepted that a percentage of representatives will do the same.

    Cash for questions (although in this case there is slightly more to it than being reported, hence Owen Paterson’s recent actions) cash for honours and possibly cash for indecent images is nothing new.

    There is certainly nothing new in the fact that the (employer’s) voters have limited powers to remove the offender, it should not be up to other MP’s to determine the fate of a member who breaches the trust of the electorate.

    If you get away from the media and political crap you might see that there is a case to say that Paterson although in breach of the rules, MIGHT have been justified in doing so and in any case a right to appeal should exist, certainly in a bipartisan system.

    Read this link, not in the news much…

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-58913968

    and tell me that the Paterson case is worse.

     

    Cue the usual apologists supporting these trouser stains

  5. 1 hour ago, Ken L said:

    "A Parliament composed entirely of full-time professional politicians would not serve the best interests of democracy. The House needs if possible to contain Members with a wide range of current experience which can contribute to its expertise."

     - Lord Nolan: Chairman of the Committee on Standards in Public Life.

     

    The party affiliation of those who faced criminal charges following the United Kingdom parliamentary expenses scandal is of course worth considering before making any grand assumptions about who is and isn't sleazy.

    I don't believe Lord Nolan, who elected him to speak for us?

    Deflect, deflect, deflect.

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