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9 years ago @ Conservative Home - Lord Ashcroft: My fina... · 0 replies · +1 points

Neither are remain, even if they win. The vote will be close and whoever loses will be complaining.

12 years ago @ Conservative Home - Co-Op Bank, the genero... · 2 replies · +2 points

The gov would be blamed for undervaluing it and letting people make it profit. The gov would also be blamed for overvaluing it and costing the taxpayers billions. A no win situation unless you realise how the market works. There is no fair price. What happens to the price depends on if the media whip up a frenzy and if people start buying/selling it.

12 years ago @ Conservative Home - Lloyds - the taxpayer-... · 3 replies · +28 points

I think you'll find that is the lefties who are overly sensitive regularly taking offence at the slightest things even on behalf of those who don't care.

12 years ago @ Left Watch - Labour Co-Op MPs slam ... · 0 replies · +5 points

And there is only a few hundred thousand on zero hour contracts, not a million. Look up the ONS figures, not the figures from some half hearted survey which is extrapolated using dodgy assumptions. As to the majority of the those on such contracts, they have a pretty decent income. Yes, there are a few who are being taken advantage of, but don't tar the whole scheme because of the tiny minority.

12 years ago @ http://www.oldholborn.... - Chris O\'Byrne of Walt... · 0 replies · +3 points

An alternative to the email addresses of Chris' relatives are their twitter accounts.

@rachael_obyrne and @ann_obyrne

12 years ago @ Heresy Corner - Invisible Girl · 0 replies · +3 points

As I followed the case, I wondered how much society's views made them elope and started the whole case off. They had got to a stage where they felt that the only solution was to escape society and go somewhere where they were anonymous because the results would be catastrophic.

A slightly more tolerant society would have not criminalised the two of them. It would still have separated them, the teacher made to teach elsewhere. They might also have both got a bit of counselling to cope with the situation. As it is the girl has probably been more psychology damaged by the way the case has been handled than if the affair was allowed to run its course.

13 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - In his third piece for... · 0 replies · +2 points

Well it's better for us to take advantage of their cheap labour and give them lots of money in return than to look on them with pity and give them money for which they don't need to do anything, just to salve our guilty feelings which I suspect is what many liberals think.

13 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - In his third piece for... · 1 reply · 0 points

Agreed. They are all at different stages in growth. But they are all going from 3rd world status to 1st world status. Well India and China are. And Africa will if they are allowed to do what India and China are doing - trade.

13 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - In his third piece for... · 1 reply · +1 points

Thanks for the correction. But the point is that China is doing what took us 200 years in a lot less time. Simply because we've already done the hard work.

13 years ago @ Platform [OLD] - In his third piece for... · 0 replies · 0 points

I don't think capitalism is a zero sum game. Look where it's got us and many other countries.

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