How many people have never voted Tory is probably a more pertinent question.
Actually I do find people who have voted Tory, even in that moment of weakness, particularly distasteful. My mum, sister, her husband, two of their their three children, my eldest brother, his wife, both their children, my other elder brother, possibly his wife- they all come under this banner of at least one (or more) time Tory voters.
At the end of the day, I cannot get over the mindset of someone who votes Tory. I certainly couldn't have a meaningful relationship with them in any kind of capacity which excludes most of my family.
Tyson - I must be misreading this post. Are you seriously telling us that you have disowned your entire family because all of them put an X in the wrong box?
Or are you saying that excluding members of your family, you could not have a meaningful relationship with such people?
Seriously, refusing to talk to family members on the basis of whom they voted for? The man's a crackpot.
I see he's still whining about the UK not letting in more than it's fair share of immigrants. All those 'undesirables' clogging up his favourite little Italian piazzas and upsetting the genteel and cosseted lives of his In-Laws. Diddums.
We'd hear the shouts from here, if Matteo Renzi announced that anyone making it to Italy could have a passport, no questions asked.
You know, looking at the last thread I'd like to ask what is a 'nonsense' degree re universities. Personally, I think @JEO hit the nail on the head. The Top 50 unis as a whole, are fine: but unis like London Met....no.
Well, Miss, I would class a nonsense degree as one which will be regarded as such by any potential employer. You can do your own research to find good examples but they are commonly found under the heading of Joint Honours issued by low grade universities; Medieval Pottery and Flower Arranging, Dance and Computer Studies, that sort of thing.
Please don't tell me about the academic rigour that is an essential part of all degrees, I have sat on the boards verifying some of rubbish that an ex-poly flogs to innocent, unsuspecting dupes, I mean students.
@AndyJS - we're not off the hook. Once a sizeable chunk of those 800k have claimed asylum in Germany and, eventually, obtained citizenship a good number will head straight here. Legitimately.
Remaining in the EU means no real border control.
I'd like to hear the Prime Minister's response to this issue. Perhaps a commitment from other other states that asylum seekers would not get EU passports for 20 years would help?
Perhaps we can build some gas chambers for these asylum seekers?
Honestly, sometimes you have to pinch yourself with the comments you find on pbCOM. Beyond parody.
OK, I have to ask - how can you ridicule another's comments as beyond parody at the same time as making a gas chamber analogy?
It's like decrying another's rudeness while flinging the most vile of insults at them at the same time.
Harriet Harman is about 5 feet 11 inches tall. I don't know whether any women MPs have hit the six feet mark. IIRC Joan Hall, Tory MP for Keighley in 1970, was fairly tall although I can't remember the figure.
That is a seriously great name. I hope she and Thangam Debbonaire form an unlikely duo of some sort. A shame Annunziata Rees-Mogg wasn't elected in 2010.
You know, looking at the last thread I'd like to ask what is a 'nonsense' degree re universities. Personally, I think @JEO hit the nail on the head. The Top 50 unis as a whole, are fine: but unis like London Met....no.
50? Phew, mine is still just creeping into the top 20, yay.
I gave a couple of guest lectures at London Met for a friend of mine who ran their Marketing BA courses - the students weren't the brightest bulbs. One asked me what a blog was.
You know, looking at the last thread I'd like to ask what is a 'nonsense' degree re universities. Personally, I think @JEO hit the nail on the head. The Top 50 unis as a whole, are fine: but unis like London Met....no.
I can't believe someone at uni doesn't know what a blog is. Especially given how much my generation knows about technology and the internet in general.
What are you up to at Uni? Seem quite interested in current affairs.
Is education wasted if you take a job that doesn't need it? Only if you consider that all investments need to be repaid in cold cash rather than personal development.
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I think for many, going to uni is better than being unemployed for 3 years. Also, it feels like having a degree is mandatory to even compete in the job market.
I gave a couple of guest lectures at London Met for a friend of mine who ran their Marketing BA courses - the students weren't the brightest bulbs. One asked me what a blog was.
You know, looking at the last thread I'd like to ask what is a 'nonsense' degree re universities. Personally, I think @JEO hit the nail on the head. The Top 50 unis as a whole, are fine: but unis like London Met....no.
I can't believe someone at uni doesn't know what a blog is. Especially given how much my generation knows about technology and the internet in general.
All about dem reddit's and tumblr's now, innit?
LOL.
Reddit's website layout is terrible. God I hate that site.
As for tumblr, the whole point of it is setting up your own blog, and then posting things (whether it be written posts, gifs, pictures etc) or reblogging the stuff your followers post (or reblog) which you can see on your dash. So anyone on tumblr who doesn't know what a blog is....well I'm worried for them.
You know, looking at the last thread I'd like to ask what is a 'nonsense' degree re universities. Personally, I think @JEO hit the nail on the head. The Top 50 unis as a whole, are fine: but unis like London Met....no.
Well, Miss, I would class a nonsense degree as one which will be regarded as such by any potential employer. You can do your own research to find good examples but they are commonly found under the heading of Joint Honours issued by low grade universities; Medieval Pottery and Flower Arranging, Dance and Computer Studies, that sort of thing.
Please don't tell me about the academic rigour that is an essential part of all degrees, I have sat on the boards verifying some of rubbish that an ex-poly flogs to innocent, unsuspecting dupes, I mean students.
There are some ex-ploys that are decent e.g. Keele and Brunel. All the others tend be 'meh' though.
And I've never met anyone who has done those degrees.
How many people have never voted Tory is probably a more pertinent question.
Not me, though I could well have done had I had the vote in 1987, before I went off to university and saw for myself what prevailing attitudes public school Tories had whilst having fun arguing the toss with a number of completely out-there working class radical Thatcherite state-reducing libertarians.
Still regard the brew of radical right ideas lurking hidden in the Tory party (and UKIP) as far more dangerous than anything the left can offer, simply because the 'loony' left are overt and more of a known quantity to the electorate in general and thus will never be let within 1000 miles of power. I honestly feel the next major nation to collapse in the Western world is most likely to stem from a libertarian and/or radical state-reducing party with a charismatic leader, which probably puts most anglophone nations well in the frame.
Just because the UK aped Chilean economic policy and that gamble became orthodoxy, there are some who think we can succeed equally with some wider neocon/ libertarian experiment, which are either untried or, if you credit some takes on these things, have been tried out in a limited fashion in Iraq's post-war constitution.
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I see he's still whining about the UK not letting in more than it's fair share of immigrants. All those 'undesirables' clogging up his favourite little Italian piazzas and upsetting the genteel and cosseted lives of his In-Laws. Diddums.
We'd hear the shouts from here, if Matteo Renzi announced that anyone making it to Italy could have a passport, no questions asked.
Please don't tell me about the academic rigour that is an essential part of all degrees, I have sat on the boards verifying some of rubbish that an ex-poly flogs to innocent, unsuspecting dupes, I mean students.
It's like decrying another's rudeness while flinging the most vile of insults at them at the same time.
I think for many, going to uni is better than being unemployed for 3 years. Also, it feels like having a degree is mandatory to even compete in the job market.
Reddit's website layout is terrible. God I hate that site.
As for tumblr, the whole point of it is setting up your own blog, and then posting things (whether it be written posts, gifs, pictures etc) or reblogging the stuff your followers post (or reblog) which you can see on your dash. So anyone on tumblr who doesn't know what a blog is....well I'm worried for them.
And I've never met anyone who has done those degrees.
Still regard the brew of radical right ideas lurking hidden in the Tory party (and UKIP) as far more dangerous than anything the left can offer, simply because the 'loony' left are overt and more of a known quantity to the electorate in general and thus will never be let within 1000 miles of power. I honestly feel the next major nation to collapse in the Western world is most likely to stem from a libertarian and/or radical state-reducing party with a charismatic leader, which probably puts most anglophone nations well in the frame.
Just because the UK aped Chilean economic policy and that gamble became orthodoxy, there are some who think we can succeed equally with some wider neocon/ libertarian experiment, which are either untried or, if you credit some takes on these things, have been tried out in a limited fashion in Iraq's post-war constitution.
David Miliband ? You will just need to mention the word "rendition".
Hunt will carry the Blairite torch. Guaranteed defeat. He will be the Torygraph's favourite candidate.
Starmer will be criticised for some botched prosecution or other. However, successful prosecutions will be used to counteract that.
But, he will be portrayed as someone who held "real" jobs in his working career. Something of a novelty these days.