And it mentions Battle of the Planets

[Luis Anaconda]

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/co rbyn-accused-of-creating-scrappy-doo-20150724100437 (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/politics/politics-headlines/corbyn-accused-of-creating-scrappy-doo-20150724100437)

[Ben.]

I liked this as well

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/manchest er-police-hunt-northern-irish-con-artist-20150713100079 (http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/manchester-police-hunt-northern-irish-con-artist-20150713100079)

[Classic Jorge]

It's almost as if they've got interests to protect

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

then I suppose they have.

[Ashberto]

who dares to deviate from the script. See also the chap from the purple party who has commended Jezza for actually being a socialist.

[Classic Jorge]

You expect that sort of shabby, grasping behaviour from the tories but you used to expect better of labour.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Right.

[Snin]

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/when-i-worked-m arxism-today-my-desire-earn-living-proved-be-somewhat-d-clas s (http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/when-i-worked-marxism-today-my-desire-earn-living-proved-be-somewhat-d-class)

[Berni]

All politics is about patronage at the end of the day, j.

[Snin]

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/when-i-worked-m arxism-today-my-desire-earn-living-proved-be-somewhat-d-clas s (http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2015/07/when-i-worked-marxism-today-my-desire-earn-living-proved-be-somewhat-d-class)

[Classic Jorge]

You know the score, defence secretaries magically getting a job with BAE after leaving office, health ministers landing plum directorships with private healthcare companies they legislated for.

[Berni]

fairly churlish to deny them the opportunity to make a few quid when they leave, surely? :shrug:

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I, for one, would never have entered the automotive industry if it weren't for the promise of Luncheon Vouchers.

We do want to attract the finest minds to run our Great Nation, do we not?

[Classic Jorge]

I mean, at least one party was vaguely interested in representing the people.

[Classic Jorge]

And, let's be honest here, they're paid well enough.

[Berni]

Only these people were actually being paid for by an enemy of this country in order to undermine it. By a country that tortured, murdered and enslaved its citizens and those of the countries it invaded. I simply can't understand how anyone could look back on any money they had taken from such an organisation without profound shame.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

of the KGB. Mind you, they did pay him handsomely so to do.

[Berni]

And no. When you consider that they constitute a tiny, elected elite tasked with running the vast concern that is UK plc, they are pitifully rewarded.

[Snin]

and families should give back all the tainted money to Africa and carib ?very kind of you B.. anyway they weren't that bad and it wasn't really hat much of an enemy war thing..more just propaganda and bit of fun..one needs a big bad enemy or society does not work properly..they knew that as well as us

[Berni]

...oh. :-(

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11189 430/Tony-Benns-inheritance-tax-dodge-how-it-works-and-how-yo u-can-use-it-too.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/tax/11189430/Tony-Benns-inheritance-tax-dodge-how-it-works-and-how-you-can-use-it-too.html)

[Snin]

people need to be slaughtered sometimes to keep them in line...its avery big country to control without ait of fear and better than the Nazis so all good clean fun

[Classic Jorge]

What a man the boy Wedgewood was

[Berni]

perceived historical iniquity. This man, on the other hand, cheerfully admits he took blood money from a brutal regime with the express purpose of betraying his country. If he isn't ashamed, he damned well ought to be.

[redgunamo]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

he certainly was one.

[Snin]

he sounds like right queen

[Berni]

[Snin]

:-)

[Classic Jorge]

Also, half of the senior civil servants do it too. Where's Dave Hartnett, he of the friendly writing off of billions for vodaphone, now?

Why, he's at notorious avoisioners HSBC.

[Berni]

they might make otherwise deciding to transfer their knowledge and skills to the private sector. I'd say it's a fair reward. However, to suggest that that's the only reason they get into it in the first place is absurd. Nobody goes into politics to get rich.

[Classic Jorge]

It's all a bit gamekeeper turned poacher for me, public servants are essentially being bribed by business with a promise of cushy jobs after they leave their post in exchange for favourable treatment in office?

Who loses out in all of this? Us.

[redgunamo]

It is all just "us". Just ordinary people earning a living, or trying to get rich.

Naturally, some are going to do better at this than others.

[Classic Jorge]

They are healthily remunerated for it in terms of a decent salary, great benefits and a phenomenal f**king pension.

[redgunamo]

[Classic Jorge]

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

It's just Big Business by another name. Trebles and revolving-door sinecures all round!

[Ashberto]

[redgunamo]

For some peoples it works; for others, not so much.

[Ashberto]

He was also one of the few MPs not in it for himself. Furthermore, such a man of private means hardly needs to be on the take for anyone's shill-ing.

Did you see what I did there?

[Classic Jorge]

Maybe some other stuff was said at the lunch, I dont know

[redgunamo]

Are you suggesting that if McDonald's went bust tomorrow, people would stop eating hamburgers?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

He was definitely a lefty.

[Ashberto]

If he went around having his teeth artificially whitened he'd basically be the same as some crass, vulgar, showy American. Bennseptic.

[redgunamo]

Obviously, mostly not that amount.

But a person is also merely both a business and a government too and I seem to have written off several billion pounds worth of Ipads for my daughter over the last few years.

Both business and government run exactly the same way people run their lives.

[redgunamo]

[Ashberto]

[Ashberto]

after redundancy. Unless one is on the state capitalist gravy train, of course.

[redgunamo]

Naturally, I wouldn't really know, having been on the corporate/government gravy train all my adult* life.



*Almost wrote "working" there :hehe:

[Ashberto]

[redgunamo]

The difference lies in the fact that he insists principles is important. Especially other people's.