Quote nickgusset at 12 May 2015 6.50pm
Quote OldFella at 12 May 2015 6.42pm
Quote nickgusset at 12 May 2015 6.33pm
'Anti gay' MP appointed minister for equality! Well done Dave.
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Anti union laws to be passed...
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The Tories didn't get 40% of the popular vote, so presumably means they do not consider themselves legitimate? After any ballot, it is usually the case that far more strike than vote. They are also intent on attacking other rights - inc Human Rights Act. However, what goes around comes around and they may slow things down, but then when that threshold is reached those involved will be angrier. So mad, they won't take it any more. Another thing they won't have considered is that one of the reasons for restraint is that national unions when striking have been able to steer the vote and strike as they've considered not the turnout but the size of support. That has meant that although the left has never been entirely satisfied, there have been protests. If they put workers in a situation that they have no choice, walkouts, unofficial strikes are more likely, not less likely
Pricless watching you lefties moaning and whingeing because the election and subsequent events not going your way. Think you're going to have to get used to it!
Better get used to more of this... Money IDS has received from the public purse recently for family properties...
Still you voted for this kind of thing to continue.
From the Guardian so must be true:
"Swanbourne Home Farms, run in partnership between the minister's in-laws, Baron and Baroness Cottesloe, brother-in-law Thomas, and cousin Richard Brooks, has been given €1,517,535 over a 10-year period in funding from the EU. It has also been the recipient of grants understood to be worth tens of thousands of pounds from Natural England.
Described by the EU as "income support" for farmers, these common agricultural policy payments were established by the 1957 treaty of Rome to ensure "fair standard of living for the agricultural community". None of it goes to the Duncan Smiths.
"Neither Iain Duncan Smith or his wife receive any income whatsoever from the Swanbourne Estate," his spokesman says. And few would quibble with the payments themselves. Still, it shows that the best of us need a hand from time to time."
I love it that this terrible scandal, as you perceive it, is courtesy of the EU Common Agricultural Policy - something you no doubt champion as 'progressive' (and anti-austerity?).
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