quite grateful to see you.
quite grateful to see you.
Well they are getting paid a nice big fat amount to basically be bored all day... so any company would be welcomeQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Are they? I've no idea, to be honest. I'd always assumed they were volunteers if I'm honest.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pokster
Yes. Because it is pointless. I seem to have received something asking me to vote for some sort of glorified copper. Thin end of the wedge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Was that the follow up to Thin Blue Line?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
A slippery slope, LA. The road to hell. A Bennite solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
I will not elect a Director of Policing.
They get a decent amount considering they really just do nothing all day, that is why most are retired and do it for extra spending moneyQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Depends. Is he a tory? In which case I'll vote for him. Otherwise, no.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
I'm going postal for the GE. It gives me the horrors having to walk into a school hall; I start panicking that I'm late for double physics and haven't done my homework.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Is a local election not the same as a General Election where one is voting for one’s local MP, or TD in my case?Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
As you will see from the above I am not big on the whole politics thing.
I have only ever voted twice in my life, the first time I simply ticked all the catholic boxes and the last most recent time I got very confused as the people I was being asked to vote for I did not recognise from any of the posters on the lamp posts so just ticked 3-4 at random.
I don't really see why policing needs to be politicised. Get out on the beat and enforce the law, nick people as appropriate and leave the rest of us alone.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I assume police forces have sufficient management structures. Why would I want to pay some berk to interfere in it?
In instances like these I start to believe in small government.
Local elections elect Local Councils. Speed humps, street lighting and binmen. Not exactly the work of great statesmen.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Councillors?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Do good know nothing *****s to a man.
You're thinking of 'counsellors', I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by SWv2
Yeah, they never do anybody any good, apart from the weak and feeble minded who are simply in need of a stiff upper lip.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Am I getting warm?
:shrug: It's like food banks, isn't it? Human beings are, by nature, weak and lazy. Put an easy option on the table and they'll flock to it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
"Boo hoo I'm all miserable and I want lots of sympathy and attention, I'll go to a counsellor!"
What a waste of fúcking time, energy and money.
:nod: Virtually every teenager these days will tell you they have mental health problems. Why? Because they've been brainwashed into believing that that is not only an option, but a desirable thing by idiotic teachers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I blame the Big Society an all that. In my day people just got on with it....Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Sorry, no. The infantilisation of society was a phenomenon of which your chum Anthony Charles Lynton was the harbinger. Dressed up as a caring antidote to hard-hearted Thatcherism, his governments in fact encouraged people to abdicate responsibility for themselves and let the state take over. This state-knows-best attitude was then used open the door to increased state interference in private and public behaviour and discourse, culminating in the draconian state policing of language and behaviour we have today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Woolly, unsubstantiated *******s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
You're surely not denying that Blair's governments oversaw some of the most sinister restrictions of free speech, individual rights and expansion of state powers witnessed in peacetime since Lord Liverpool?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
In my view, the pill was the real game-changer. Anyway, its wide availability.
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Originally Posted by Burney
Of course I am, its utter *******s. Since Thatcher, perhapsQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
And these expansions of state powers have all been rolled back, presumably, over the last seven years.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Oh.
Now I dislike Toniblair a lot more than the next man, and agree that the the trends you describe have developed over recent years and decades, but I don't think you can pin it exclusively on him or his party.
I have nightmares about this sort of thing all the time. Last night I retook all of my O-Levels attempting to get better grades. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Yet getting the rubbish taken away is one of the most important things in our day-to-day lives, and something we are all happier paying our local taxes for than for, say, buildings full of diversity officers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
It's a result of creeping cultural Marxism which started at universities in the 60s with socilaist professors proselytising the propaganda fed to them by the KGB in order to undermine and weaken our society, accelerated courtesy of the brainwashing of the 'alternative' 80s and then reached a fever pitch under Blair and his acolytes. The problem of course, is that the holy scriptures of this leftist manifesto have become so prevalent and mainstream that it would take a government with some serious balls to challenge them and begin rowing back the greatest absurdities, so even when we got a Conservative government under Cameron and Osborne, not only did they ignore the nonsense, they even added such gems as 'marriage' for Adam and Steve.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
We need a strong, stable dictatorship, compulsory military service, and probably a big, big war to get back to some form of reality.
I have a recurring one in which I am due to sit an exam for a course when I didn't attend any lectures/tutorials all year. The weird thing is I am often more worried about my nominal tutor invigilating the exam and not allowing me to take it than not being able to answer any questions. I prefer that one to the other when I am due in to bat and I can't put my pads on - that's terrifyingQuote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Theresa - is that you?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Oh, no. I wasn't suggesting they had been rolled back. Once you give governments these kind of powers, they don't tend to give them back without a fight. However, my point is that Blair's governments were singularly fond of this sort of thing and he used his big majorities to get them through.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
I challenge you to find one single phrase or contention in that post which is arguable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
You can't really blame him for that though, as it's what people actually wanted. And those that didn't want it didn't know or care why and what to do about it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
It's not his fault nobody had thought it through.
Perhaps the bit where you present Tony Blair as the very zenith of creeping Marxism ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Laughable more than contentious...
The man whoi imported 3 million immigrants to 'rub the Right's noses in diversity'? No leftist ideology at work there?Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
Both of those have happened to me in real life ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
What on earth are you talking about?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Wasn't that more about importing 3 million Labour voters?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Tony Blair being a leftist ideologue, like all the other communists who have sapped our once-great nation's precious bodily fluids and left us weak and feeble-minded, like monty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Peter
It doesn't change the fact that we're left without the freedom to use our own language, does it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Monty92
Ah, my first - and to some surprise - only year at third level education. That went well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda