I quite like voting in local elections. It's nice and quiet and the officials look

[Sir C]

Theresa - is that you?

I challenge you to find one single phrase or contention in that post which is arguable.

[redgunamo]

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.

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.

It's not his fault nobody had thought it through.

[Peter]

I challenge you to find one single phrase or contention in that post which is arguable.

Perhaps the bit where you present Tony Blair as the very zenith of creeping Marxism

Laughable more than contentious...

[Sir C]

Perhaps the bit where you present Tony Blair as the very zenith of creeping Marxism

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?

[Peter]

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 terrifying

Both of those have happened to me in real life

[Peter]

The man whoi imported 3 million immigrants to 'rub the Right's noses in diversity'? No leftist ideology at work there?

What on earth are you talking about?

[Monty92]

The man whoi imported 3 million immigrants to 'rub the Right's noses in diversity'? No leftist ideology at work there?

Wasn't that more about importing 3 million Labour voters?

[Sir C]

What on earth are you talking about?

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.

[Sir C]

Wasn't that more about importing 3 million Labour voters?

It doesn't change the fact that we're left without the freedom to use our own language, does it?

[SWv2]

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 terrifying

Ah, my first - and to some surprise - only year at third level education. That went well.