UK politics - Hamsterwheel
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Apparently, as I said in my earlier post, I am, it seems, the only one on here to have watched the debate last night...the one with a notable absentee.

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Well he admitted to torturing people on behalf of HMG so who knows what he did and doubt he is going to tell if he did.

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As his meetings with members of Sinn Fein took place under a Tory Govt in the years from 1983-1997 then why was Tory Govt allowing known terrorists to move around London freely ?

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As somewhere in the region of 50% of those who go to Uni never earn the 21k per annum required to pay back any of their tuition fees this barking plan just means more a more kids are going to take the 3 years on the piss option to "study" Underwater Basketweaving.
A 3 year party to get a useless degree that enables you to earn burger flipper wages and us tax payers foot the bill, utter madness.
A 3 year party to get a useless degree that enables you to earn burger flipper wages and us tax payers foot the bill, utter madness.
Telling a 17 year old that going to University and getting a degree will get them no decent job, no decent income and they have no hope of every doing anything with it would say more about you than them.

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Reality is that it is easy to do with an OCR scanner and end up with 85% accuracy with circa 15% requiring some kind of manual interpretation of hand writing of the poll clerk.

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I'm not at all convinced that a large proportion of young people should go to university, either. I spent a lot of time interviewing for graduate recruits when I was working, and it was often a pretty soul-destroying experience. We would sift candidates for interview based largely on their paper qualifications, only to find that a large proportion of them were barely literate, let alone able to think coherently.

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The history of Ireland is tragic enough without attempting to smear Corbyn with supporting the misery of it. Terrorism stinks, whoever perpetrates it, and in Ireland the good and the bad were not confined to one side or the other.

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I don't know where Seldom's 50% figure comes from, but I'd like to know what %-age of the 50% are flipping burgers with STEM degrees...
So who is going to do the selection
CG


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You are not the only one on here to watch that freak show last night.
But you might be the only one on here who thinks that tripe was worthy of the label 'political debate.'
Which surprises me given that your are a Guardianista and quick to tell we illiterates that you take politics seriously.
Exactly how old is Tim Farron?
You are not the only one on here to watch that freak show last night.
But you might be the only one on here who thinks that tripe was worthy of the label 'political debate.'
Which surprises me given that your are a Guardianista and quick to tell we illiterates that you take politics seriously.
Exactly how old is Tim Farron?

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As his meetings with members of Sinn Fein took place under a Tory Govt in the years from 1983-1997 then why was Tory Govt allowing known terrorists to move around London freely ?

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Apparently, as I said in my earlier post, I am, it seems, the only one on here to have watched the debate last night...the one with a notable absentee.

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She needed the general election because the opposition parties decided to turn Brexit into a political football. Once Labour reserved their position to leave the decision to the end of the negotiation, an election became necessary.
No?
CG

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X factor politics shouldn't be taken seriously.
I think that like the referendum vote, this election result is going to shock quite a few people.

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Unfortunately, those who do not vote for Corbyn will get the same.


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Cameron's manifesto was defunct after the referendum
Labour will disintegrate regardless of the election
If she has no plan, wait until Corbyn unveils his. Abbott to negotiate the financial settlement
No?

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Precisely like the referendum last June
If the decisions the government for those majority voters are bum ones then all suffer alike, if the decisions made are good ones we all join together in joyous rapture.
