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Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 27 Jan 17 9.36pm

Originally posted by nickgusset

They do in the end if it keeps happening to the same group of people.

If you say so. Most rioting I have seen recently in the name of justice mostly consists of looting shops and wanton destruction but I'm sure that was all justifiable too.

 

hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 27 Jan 17 10.29pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

If you say so. Most rioting I have seen recently in the name of justice mostly consists of looting shops and wanton destruction but I'm sure that was all justifiable too.

Nick's a great champion of smashing windows and damaging cars [source: his postings] or are we taking him out of context?

 


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nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 27 Jan 17 11.37pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Nick's a great champion of smashing windows and damaging cars [source: his postings] or are we taking him out of context?

Had there not been the poll tax riots, would we still have the poll tax?

 

.TUX. Flag 28 Jan 17 5.38am

Meanwhile, in other European news, having discontinued its production of EUR500 banknotes, it appears Europe is charging towards the utopian dream of a cashless society. Just days after Davos' elites discussed why the world needs to "get rid of currency," the European Commission has introduced a proposal enforcing "restrictions on payments in cash."
With many all calling for the end of cash - because only terrorists and drug-dealers need cash (nothing at all to do with totalitarian control over a nation's wealth) - it's no surprise that this proposal from the European Commission (sanctuary of statism) would appear...

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steeleye20 Flag Croydon 28 Jan 17 10.14am

In some European countries this is already in force if you make a cash payment of 15,000 euros or more you need to have identification and the transaction is recorded.

The EUR500 was called the 'bin laden' note countries are using any weapon they have in the fight against terrorism.

 

Hoof Hearted 28 Jan 17 10.42am

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Nick's a great champion of smashing windows and damaging cars [source: his postings] or are we taking him out of context?

LOL

 

steeleye20 Flag Croydon 28 Jan 17 11.02am

Originally posted by Hoof Hearted

LOL

As a double glazing salesman I endorse his views whole heartedly

 

nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 28 Jan 17 11.08am

Originally posted by steeleye20

As a double glazing salesman I endorse his views whole heartedly

You are Ted Moult and I claim my £5

 

.TUX. Flag 28 Jan 17 11.22am

Originally posted by steeleye20

In some European countries this is already in force if you make a cash payment of 15,000 euros or more you need to have identification and the transaction is recorded.

The EUR500 was called the 'bin laden' note countries are using any weapon they have in the fight against terrorism.

Yeah? How will it help when terrorists can just as easily 'trade' in something else?
This has far more to do with taking more from the normal person than it ever has to do with the 'fight(pfft) on terrorism'.

 


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hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 28 Jan 17 11.25am

Originally posted by nickgusset

Had there not been the poll tax riots, would we still have the poll tax?

No we would not - the Labour Party was committed to abolishing it, so Blair would have got rid of it. By the way, 'rates' or whatever they call it nowadays is unfair too.

 


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nickgusset Flag Shizzlehurst 28 Jan 17 12.28pm

Originally posted by hedgehog50

No we would not - the Labour Party was committed to abolishing it, so Blair would have got rid of it. By the way, 'rates' or whatever they call it nowadays is unfair too.

The protesters did not know that there would be a Blair government. Are you saying that they should have been clairvoyant?

Edited by nickgusset (28 Jan 2017 1.27pm)

 

Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 28 Jan 17 1.34pm

Originally posted by nickgusset

Had there not been the poll tax riots, would we still have the poll tax?

What was wrong with poll tax?

It just meant that everyone, including the unemployed yobbos who rioted, would pay something(if they ever bothered to get a job)instead of just house owners.

It was fair and was hijacked by lefty activists and layabouts(often the same thing)

 

hedgehog50 Flag Croydon 28 Jan 17 1.54pm

Originally posted by nickgusset

The protesters did not know that there would be a Blair government. Are you saying that they should have been clairvoyant?

Edited by nickgusset (28 Jan 2017 1.27pm)

You didn't ask that did you. You asked if we would still have the Poll Tax without riots - no we would not. But in principal you support rioting if it is against some law that you do not agree with? Is it ok for anyone to riot over a law they do not agree with? Would you say it is ok to riot in protest against gay marriage say? Or perhaps higher rates of taxation for the more well off?

 


We have now sunk to a depth at which the restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men. [Orwell]

steeleye20 Flag Croydon 28 Jan 17 2.04pm

Originally posted by .TUX.

Yeah? How will it help when terrorists can just as easily 'trade' in something else?
This has far more to do with taking more from the normal person than it ever has to do with the 'fight(pfft) on terrorism'.

I don't think so the local economy depends on cash wherever you are.

It's debatable if this measure works though - one thing it means the terrorists drug cartels etc. will move to the countries that have don't have it.

 

elgrande Flag bedford 28 Jan 17 3.32pm

Originally posted by steeleye20

In some European countries this is already in force if you make a cash payment of 15,000 euros or more you need to have identification and the transaction is recorded.

The EUR500 was called the 'bin laden' note countries are using any weapon they have in the fight against terrorism.


Then it's gone up,when I lived in Spain back in 2002 I took 6k euros out of the bank to buy a car,didn't like it so went to put it back in the bank,was told I could only deposit 5k in cash at any one time....only took it out in the morning.


 


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Kermit8 Flag Hevon 28 Jan 17 5.38pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger



What was wrong with poll tax?

It just meant that everyone, including the unemployed yobbos who rioted, would pay something(if they ever bothered to get a job)instead of just house owners.

It was fair and was hijacked by lefty activists and layabouts(often the same thing)

An example: The single occupiers in their one-bed flats were paying the same amount as the well to do families in their three or four bed detached because they happened to live in the same street even though the latter were, obviously, producing far more rubbish to be collected amongst other things. Plus, middle England hated it too because the unsalaried housewives were getting bills and being threatened with jail if they didn't pay.

It was blatantly unfair and the best thing about it? Maggie's final nail.

 


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matt_himself Flag Matataland 28 Jan 17 5.58pm

Originally posted by Kermit8

An example: The single occupiers in their one-bed flats were paying the same amount as the well to do families in their three or four bed detached because they happened to live in the same street even though the latter were, obviously, producing far more rubbish to be collected amongst other things. Plus, middle England hated it too because the unsalaried housewives were getting bills and being threatened with jail if they didn't pay.

It was blatantly unfair and the best thing about it? Maggie's final nail.

Plus it was a bitch for your property development business.

 


"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

Yellow Card - User has been warned of conduct on the messageboards Hrolf The Ganger Flag 28 Jan 17 6.08pm

Originally posted by Kermit8

An example: The single occupiers in their one-bed flats were paying the same amount as the well to do families in their three or four bed detached because they happened to live in the same street even though the latter were, obviously, producing far more rubbish to be collected amongst other things. Plus, middle England hated it too because the unsalaried housewives were getting bills and being threatened with jail if they didn't pay.

It was blatantly unfair and the best thing about it? Maggie's final nail.

So is the system we have now fairer when lots of people pay nothing even though they use the same services?

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Jan 2017 6.10pm)

 

matt_himself Flag Matataland 28 Jan 17 6.11pm

Originally posted by Hrolf The Ganger

So is the system we have now fairer when lots of people pay nothing even though they use the same services?

Edited by Hrolf The Ganger (28 Jan 2017 6.10pm)

Careful. You are chucking socialism back in their faces!

 


"That was fun and to round off the day, I am off to steal a charity collection box and then desecrate a place of worship.” - Smokey, The Selhurst Arms, 26/02/02

OknotOK Flag Cockfosters, London 30 Jan 17 11.37am

Originally posted by hedgehog50

Why didn't he condemn the violence?

Probably because he didn't believe it was entirely wrong. He clearly felt the police acted in a way that partially justified it - the actions around Cynthia Jarrett were partly responsible for her death and were appallingly handled. And as a community leader and local council leader, he had a duty to give a voice to that.

That doesn't mean he reveled in it. It just means he felt that black youths had a reason to feel so aggrieved they would consider rioting. And given the (now openly acknowledged) institutional racism in the Met at the time, he would have had a point.

 


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