twit of the Week

Remember back when little boys used to pick on little girls in the playground? We know the reason for that.

I'm beginning to think you must fancy Abbott - you've spent so much more time talking about her than the woman who should be your strong and stable poster girl.

Oddly enough Maringer, think I saw a victim of child poverty earlier today.  She was being propelled in a pushchair by a young female.  The female was wearing designer clothes, had a cigarette in her mouth and was holding a £700 iPhone to her ear.  I lost sight of her outside a pub.

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Remember back when little boys used to pick on little girls in the playground? We know the reason for that.

I'm beginning to think you must fancy Abbott - you've spent so much more time talking about her than the woman who should be your strong and stable poster girl.

Well I do believe that Therasa May is in her position because she earned it and was elected as leader. By tomorrow she will also have been elected as PM. She didn't get there by playing the  race and sex card. Or by shagging her boss. !!
Corbyn has undoubtedly raised his game (although that's not too difficult), but he lives in an ideal dreamworld where everyone is friends and we have unlimited funds.  Therasa, however lives on the same planet as the rest of us.
She has had the common sense to keep her potential embarrassment (sorry Borris) in the background. JC showed extremely poor decision making by letting Abacus have free reign. Not the sort of judgement I would want in a PM.

May wasn't exactly elected as leader. She was in a five person shortlist and two of the other four pulled out for various reasons and she was the last woman standing.

Edit: she made it through a first and second ballot first.

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May wasn't exactly elected as leader. She was in a five person shortlist and the other three pulled out for various reasons and she was the last woman standing.

Edit: she made it through a first and second ballot first.

Hmm

Five on a list
Three pulled out leaving just one ???

Is that you Diane 😂😂😂😂😂

Civvy, I still don't get your comments on Corbyn.

If Corbyn thinks everyone is friends why did he promise to strengthen our conventional armed forces and increase police numbers (including armed officers) if Labour got into power?

As sterling is a fiat currency which we solely control, we could, theoretically have unlimited funds if we wanted to. In practice, you don't want to create too much money, but the idea that we couldn't pay for the Labour manifesto just doesn't hold water. Not that the Tories appear to understand this.

Anyway, back to work.

Whoops! Changed it from four to five when I checked it and forgot to change the other bit. The point still stands that she wasn't elected leader as such.

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Civvy, I still don't get your comments on Corbyn.

If Corbyn thinks everyone is friends why did he promise to strengthen our conventional armed forces and increase police numbers (including armed officers) if Labour got into power?

As sterling is a fiat currency which we solely control, we could, theoretically have unlimited funds if we wanted to. In practice, you don't want to create too much money, but the idea that we couldn't pay for the Labour manifesto just doesn't hold water. Not that the Tories appear to understand this.

Anyway, back to work.

Wow. I have tried not to read a lot of the stuff on here but some of what I had read has made sense on both sides of the arguement but you're suggesting that labour can pay for their manifesto by in effect printing more money? This then creates inflation and in a lot of cases hyperinflation (see Zimbabwe) and who would suffer most, especially in the short term, if the prices shot up? Oh yeah, that's right, the poor. The people who jezza is so concerned about.

The amount of money needed for what Corbyn is promising will at worst spiral the country into hyperinflation (assuming they print more money to pay for it) or at best a long term spiral back into deeper deeper debt eventually resulting in decades of worse austerity than we are currently facing after the last labour government.

Wow, wow, wow.

Point stands that we are the 5th richest nation on earth, so there is no denying that the money is there. Other countries with less GDP than us seem to manage without poverty and austerity measures, so one has to ask where is all the money going? We don't need a magic money tree, we just need to divvy up what's there in a more fair fashion and there isn't an argument in the world that can change that fact. If you don't want to see that, then fair enough, vote Tory and keep what's yours.

I am not to bothered if Corbin wins, basically all politicians are ####, but if labour wins it's Len Mcklusky and the Momentum group that will actually be making all the decisions, we would regress back to Russia in the 70's.