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Feb 25 2017, 09:33 PM
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QUOTE (je suis Charlie @ Feb 24 2017, 01:07 PM) Jeremy, please don't even consider resigning. You're doing far too good a job, for the Conservative party. Well done. Well, he did pretty well holding on to Stoke in the face of a media prediction that UKIP had it in the bag. Whitehaven even Tony Blair would have lost - local issues with NHS and its biggest employer Sellafield. Plus the Brexit locals didn't really appreciate a Labour remainer as candidate! Again, should have been a kipper here. So, suspect you might be in wrong queue Je suis!
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Feb 25 2017, 10:58 PM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Feb 25 2017, 09:33 PM) Well, he did pretty well holding on to Stoke in the face of a media prediction that UKIP had it in the bag. Whitehaven even Tony Blair would have lost - local issues with NHS and its biggest employer Sellafield. Plus the Brexit locals didn't really appreciate a Labour remainer as candidate! Again, should have been a kipper here. So, suspect you might be in wrong queue Je suis! Yeah. go Jeremy. Go the Momentum party.... i mean the Labour party. Has he costed any policy with his dimwit Mcdonell yet? Oh hang on has he got any policies? Ooooo and people have been nasty to that wondeful mp Diane Abbot on twitter and she wants a parliamentary enquiry. Good grief. You dont have to use Twitter. Its not compulsory. I want a parliamentary enquiry. Newres was nasty to me on the newburytoday forum.
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Feb 26 2017, 06:22 AM
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QUOTE (On the edge @ Feb 25 2017, 09:33 PM) Well, he did pretty well holding on to Stoke in the face of a media prediction that UKIP had it in the bag. Whitehaven even Tony Blair would have lost - local issues with NHS and its biggest employer Sellafield. Plus the Brexit locals didn't really appreciate a Labour remainer as candidate! Again, should have been a kipper here. So, suspect you might be in wrong queue Je suis! I reckon Billy Liar lost that one. Isn't it strange how many nutters manage to get into UKIP. Even the top job. Clearly Corbyn is the wrong man for the job, but he's essentially honest.
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Feb 26 2017, 06:47 AM
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QUOTE (newres @ Feb 26 2017, 06:22 AM) I reckon Billy Liar lost that one. Isn't it strange how many nutters manage to get into UKIP. Even the top job. Clearly Corbyn is the wrong man for the job, but he's essentially honest. That's a pretty good summary.
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Feb 26 2017, 12:42 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Feb 25 2017, 10:58 PM) Yeah. go Jeremy. Go the Momentum party.... i mean the Labour party. Has he costed any policy with his dimwit Mcdonell yet? Oh hang on has he got any policies? Ooooo and people have been nasty to that wondeful mp Diane Abbot on twitter and she wants a parliamentary enquiry. Good grief. You dont have to use Twitter. Its not compulsory. I want a parliamentary enquiry. Newres was nasty to me on the newburytoday forum. Did you not see that piece Giles Brandreth did on the streets in Guildford - asking locals what they tought of Corbyn's policies? They thought they were marvellous, until they learnt they were Labour policies.
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Feb 26 2017, 02:15 PM
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QUOTE (blackdog @ Feb 26 2017, 12:42 PM) Did you not see that piece Giles Brandreth did on the streets in Guildford - asking locals what they tought of Corbyn's policies? They thought they were marvellous, until they learnt they were Labour policies. The Country will never elect a left wing government. So essentially they are just a protest party now.
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Feb 26 2017, 02:33 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Feb 26 2017, 02:15 PM) The Country will never elect a left wing government. So essentially they are just a protest party now. Never say never, the Country has done so in the past. I can well remember in my youth people thought we'd never have a rabid right wing government and the Tories were just as defunct.
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Feb 26 2017, 08:30 PM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Feb 26 2017, 02:15 PM) The Country will never elect a left wing government. So essentially they are just a protest party now. Like blackdog says, Labour's policies are pretty popular. Take the national living wage for example - I don't think it's moral for companies to pay their workers less then they need to live on, but successive governments have created a welfare state that subsidises workers' wages so that businesses don't need to pay the market rate, while at the same time demonizing the low-paid for receiving that state support which in reality is supporting those businesses. I tend to agree with Adam Smith and would sooner the free-market was left to itself, but the free-market's answer is to let the low-paid starve, and that's exactly what happened in the eighteenth century when Adam Smith was influencing Liberal economic thought. So given that state intervention is necessary to protect people from unbridled capitalism the most just solution is to oblige employers to pay a living wage.
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Feb 26 2017, 09:52 PM
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QUOTE (Simon Kirby @ Feb 26 2017, 08:30 PM) Like blackdog says, Labour's policies are pretty popular.
Take the national living wage for example - I don't think it's moral for companies to pay their workers less then they need to live on, but successive governments have created a welfare state that subsidises workers' wages so that businesses don't need to pay the market rate, while at the same time demonizing the low-paid for receiving that state support which in reality is supporting those businesses. I tend to agree with Adam Smith and would sooner the free-market was left to itself, but the free-market's answer is to let the low-paid starve, and that's exactly what happened in the eighteenth century when Adam Smith was influencing Liberal economic thought. So given that state intervention is necessary to protect people from unbridled capitalism the most just solution is to oblige employers to pay a living wage. Perhaps wages may have gone up without the mass influx of low paid low skilled people looking for a better life. Thomas Malthus. Supply and demand.
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Feb 27 2017, 03:12 AM
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QUOTE (TallDarkAndHandsome @ Feb 26 2017, 09:52 PM) Perhaps wages may have gone up without the mass influx of low paid low skilled people looking for a better life. Thomas Malthus. Supply and demand. I haven't seen any careful analysis of this one, but I'd guess that's true, though economic migrants are consumers too and I'd imagine that would have a net positive contribution to jobs, though not necessarily well paid jobs.
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