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The chart above is from the Intergenerational Fairness Foundation (IF) a think tank researches fairness between generations. It believes “that, while increasing longevity is welcome, government policy must be fair to all generations – old, young or those to come.”
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Mmmmm.... I wonder what the outcome will be.
Mr. Moses, the UN's a crock of shit. I recall them bleating about the human rights of squatters at a farm (Dale Farm?) who had occupied it illegally for a decade.
Is Saudi Arabia still chairing the human rights committee, or similar?
I couldn't give a monkeys either way then.
"It is conventional to refer to the United Nations in hushed tones of respect and awe, as if it were the repository of justice and equity, speaking almost with the voice of God if not yet acting with the power of God. It is no such thing. Despite the fair-seeming terminology of its charter and its declarations, the reality both of the Assembly and of the Security Council is a concourse of self-seeking nations, obeying their own prejudices and pursuing their own interests. They have not changed their individual natures by being aggregated with others in a system of bogus democracy."
It's all the implications and repercussions of such a decision though and "compo" etc etc. There's always compo to be got.
@mrmorris... Indeed a modern day League of Nations for what is has prevented
‘individual voter registration are exacerbating the age balance movement’
Not sure what that even means, are there any examples for this.
There's some great background on the Security Council nonsense too. It's all political bollocks. But it matters because of the power that flows from historic fixes.
FPT
this is only true if voters actually read the question
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-3430870/DAILY-MAIL-COMMENT-speak-England.html
Although After last night's documentary of her there surely has to be a police investigation..she admitted on camera to actions if a normally company director had been found doing would be in serious trouble.
http://labourlist.org/2016/02/the-labour-party-has-a-problem-we-need-a-solution-to-the-english-question/
The new system is absolutely no barrier. Anybody who says otherwise is just lying & trying to push a myth.
Mr. 1983, the story I read was, from memory, that they'd been withdrawn. Could be wrong, I'm not a policeman myself.
Q: With which age segment does Corbyn do worst with ?
A: The older voters
Iff Corbyn leads Labour at the next election, Labour will feel like the Bulgars after the Battle of Kleidion
The question isn't purely one of age but of life and life experiences. If it is those experiences which inform one's political outlook rather than simply the passing of years, it would be reasonable to suppose that as the average age of women having children rises and the age when people marry rises as well (as examples), the politics of youth and youthful experience would be extended as well.
If voting Conservative is a sign of maturity and experience (and that's debatable), then if that maturity and experience is postponed presumably the voting is also postponed. I note for example the continuing anti-Conservative bulge in the 55-64 age group (those whose youth and formative years were under Margaret Thatcher) and I wonder if there will be a corresponding pro-Conservative bulge in the 35-44 age group (those who were young under Blair) and whether that will be perpetuated.
If so, the premise of the article is invalid as the argument will be that the life experiences of your youth formulate your political outlook as you get older which is itself a shift away from "my parents voted Labour so I vote Labour" or whatever. As those whose politics was formed on a familial or cultural basis die off and those whose politics were formed differently come through I suspect we may see more dynamic voting patterns across the generations.
On a complete tangent, I attended a Conference yesterday where the key note speaker was Matt Hancock. one of Osborne's acolytes and, one might conjecture, a possible for a senior Cabinet post in an Osborne-led Government. I've heard him speak before and found him engaging, thoughtful and intelligent. Yesterday he was almost incoherent, waffling and uncertain. Not sure if that was external factors but a deeply unimpressive performance.
So was I feeling healthier, wealthier and happier on February 1st after the month's abstinence? Was I heck.
Instead I was rushed into hospital with meningitis.
Be warned people: Dry January is dangerous!
(I might have got correlation and causation confused in this post)
I remember playing a MUD (old-fashioned text-based game) and chatted with a blind French guy who really liked it, because his software spoke what was said on-screen, so the text-based nature made it almost like an interactive audiobook.
What's that mean? It sounds like unrestricted development. That could create potential for good value.
Edited extra bit: hope you've recovered entirely, Mr. Jessop.
Are you posting from the hospital bed not surrounded by Junior doctors
I'm still very lightphobic, so I'm having to sit in a darkened room and can only look at a screen for a few minutes at a time before my head explodes. So you'll all be glad to hear I'll be reducing the number of posts I make.
edit: I see Stodge making a useful attempt
Abstinence never pays.
The only information required is a postcode, name, date of birth and NI number so its not exactly difficult to fill in or get someone to fill in on your behalf.....
If only because, with the doctors on strike, these more room for the nurses around his bed
Oddly this was the generation that voted Labour in 1974
AFP
#BREAKING Suspects in IS plot 'lived in refugee shelters': German police
How dark can you get your screen and still read it?
Powell's comments apply equally to the EU.
Callaghan was leading in the polls, he might have held and won a 1978 general election or a 1979 general election.
Thatcher would have been deposed and replaced by a Heathite. No Thatcherism in this country, there's a thought.
Meningitis sucks. It left me on life support in my second year of uni.
You may/may not be aware the meningitis trust (or whatever they've rebranded as) have a 24hr nurse-led helpline which I found particularly useful.
Hope things get better for you soon.
My sister has had the same illness twice and it aint fun.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-35470723
What a load of tosh.
UK: Should the United Kingdom remain a member of the European Union or leave the European Union?, ICM poll
Yes: 52% (+2)
No: 48% (-2)
You can choose your friends, you can't choose your family or work colleagues. I have work colleagues who I respect and like professionally and can work with but with whom I could and would never discuss politics because I know their views are strongly divergent to mine.
My circle of friends is more attuned to my politics (though as an LD I don't have much of a pool to choose from at the moment) in a non-party sense - broadly internationalist, pro-EU (with a couple of exceptions) mildly anti-Government.
I suspect (though cannot confirm) for most PBers it's the same. We don't generally and frequently expose ourselves to views we don't support and prefer to like what we hear rather than have to argue every other sentence (tiring if nothing else). As one gets older, I suspect the appetite and desire for argument and debate wanes to some extent - with people we know we want to feel comfortable and relaxed so we move to people who make us feel that way.
The only time I felt well was the one night out on the pop.
Police are handing out these flyers 'in case of sex. aussault: break away, scream, repel' #carnival #cologne https://t.co/adWqJTLB7N
Yes like all the PM's package it is just a restatement of the current position. Essentially a parallel system to the one that already exists - there is zero gain for the UK (or any other dissenting nation) here.
Still 'on the fence' are you?
The article is intended to shock or goad his ego into taking a stand.
Not convinced it will work - but I think that's the intent. The Mail are furious with the Tories, and desperate.
1) what I want to happen (both options at the moment look like shit sandwiches); and
2) what I expect to happen (a clear Remain victory, in part because few politicians of any note are going to touch the Leave camps with a bargepole)
You might try the approach sometime, rather than post your colour-by-numbers insults about anyone who has the temerity to consider alternative viewpoints from your own.