Just a thought but, if/when Scotland achieves independence where does that leave Ukip? After all, the UK will no longer be the UK so what happens to a group declaring itself to be the UK Independence Party…?
rUKIP 😀
No. It’s the way to make sure Miliband gets in and we have no referendum.
How stupid can UKIP voters be?
Moggy
It doesn’t really matter which one of the 3 legacy parties are in power, they all want the EU.
Ah, got you – that opinion for that sort of centre ground. Stick with the herd and don’t bleat too loud.
Yes, that centre ground, that is being pushed ever further towards the right as the political establishment continue to push to the left.
And the Daily Mail continues to be the banner carrier for fascism that it was in the 1930s. Although these days it has as just much interest in celebrity…
Equal, and opposite ends of the same spectrum. 🙂
My opinion is based on the fact that the Guardian is full of left wing drivel. Like the BBC, it is little more than a propaganda machine for Labour. It is the most politically biased newspaper in the UK, and I include the Daily Heil in that statement. All in my humble opinion, of course. 🙂
If it is of any relevance at all, my political pendulum swings firmly towards the center ground. I’m just sick of the Westminster establishment and the public sector damaging this country with its left wing agenda.
I don’t know what people expect these days, all the papers are terrible. Although it’s easy to give the Mail and the Express a bashing, the Guardian is the worst of them all IMO.
Perhaps we’re due a posthumous ‘I told you so’ from Mr Powell?
Multicultural Britain at its best.
And yet none of you who decry the EU seem to be pushing for an elected Head of State for the UK.
As for Barrosso, the President of the European Commission is voted for by the EU Parliament, which is pretty similar to how the PM of the UK get his/her job as well. We don’t vote for the PM directly either, but again you don’t see any complaints about this. Makes me think that people who don’t like the EU use the ‘non-democratic’ criticism of it very selectively.
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The monarchy safe guards our democracy. They have the power to dissolve the government if necessary, and our armed forces are sworn to them. I would much prefer a head of state who is groomed for the position their whole life, than an ambitious, lying, opportunistic, short term politician.
We’re in an age where religion is increasingly taking a back seat, so of course people find it alarming when their children are being exposed to hardline religious practices.
I hope this is the start of a process that will result in all schools being secular by law. The indoctrination of children into any religion, whether at home or at school, is highly immoral IMO.
Tory MP asks watchdog to probe Oxfam food bank campaign
The Charity Commission is assessing whether an advertising campaign by Oxfam broke its rules by criticising the government’s austerity programme.
The charity put out a tweet speaking of a “perfect storm” caused by “zero hours contracts, high prices, benefit cuts, unemployment and childcare costs”.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27783331
Is it just me, or does this campaign have the foul stench of the Labour party all over it? :confused:
It is still a good and workable idea to segregate boys from girls during education.
That really wouldn’t work these days. Some of my ‘best times’ (:D) as a teenager were spent meeting up with girls from a local all girls private secondary school, they were far more promiscuous than the girls at my mixed school. And with social networking, it is next to impossible.
Eng-ger-lan, Eng-ger-lan, Eng-ger-laaaaannnnnnn. 😀
The only real interest I have in this competition is that I’m in Amsterdam this weekend on a Stag Do, in a group comprised of English and Italians. 😀 Should make for a good game, even if the footy is rubbish.
I’m probably going to be unpopular for this, but I actually agree with some of what Tony Blair has said recently.
I think he’s quite right in saying that this would have happened with or without our intervention in 2003. Saddam was oppressing the population, and even if it hadn’t happened so soon, I believe that eventually there would have been a violent and bloody revolution.
I also agree that we need to meet this challenge head on. Showing tolerance to these intolerant Islamic groups will not result in peace, only growing sway for them. The fact that Al Qadea has an embassy in the Middle East is an affront to international relations.
However.
He is a vile man, who has caused harm to millions of people. His war was illegal, and he should stand trial for war crimes. He managed to unite warring Islamic factions under a common hatred of the Western world, and has created a legacy of violence and Islamic subjugation. But it should be our justice that he faces, nor backwards justice systems from countries that still believe that stoning people is okay in a civilized society.
Nige is ‘out democrating’ the Democrats
Portugal vs USA was a great match last night.