The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[chicoazul]

Just vote Labour and shut up.

 

[Seanjd]

You're laughing at discrimination? You liberals can be very vicious when the shoe is on the other foot.

If denying that Farage is being discriminated against makes me a vicious liberal, then I am one vicious ass liberal.

 

[bring the ghost on]

Frank Field... One of THE most principled MPs amongst that shower, (all MPS btw), imo.

Not a fan at all, he's collaborated with Charles Murray and his writing is full of eugenics / 'the poor need to stop breeding' etc.

Don't wish him any bad health, but not very honourable in my book.

 

[roydo]

Not a fan at all, he's collaborated with Charles Murray and his writing is full of eugenics / 'the poor need to stop breeding' etc.

Don't wish him any bad health, but not very honourable in my book.

Fair enough. Dont know his history that much, but when I have heard him, he seemed an ok bloke. For an MP.

 

[Jxg]

R U Troleing me?

I find the idea that Nigel Farage is discriminated against in a comparable way to racism or homophobia etc. laughable.

Any discrimination which Farage may suffer, which I very much doubt he does, is due to his own words, and therefore not really discrimination so much as people just disagreeing with what he says.

To make the comparison is pretty shameful of you, really.

What you said in reply to me previously made no sense at all. I figured that it was a grammatical error.

You've just single-handedly redefined discrimination in your post. Congratulations. According to you, it's now acceptable to make fun of Asians for eating rice or African-Americans for eating KFC because that's "their own actions, not who they are". Disgusting.

Wow...

If ever there was a perfect example of someone getting a taste of their own medicine, this is it.

See:

You're laughing at discrimination? You liberals can be very vicious when the shoe is on the other foot.

If denying that Farage is being discriminated against makes me a vicious liberal, then I am one vicious ass liberal.

No, you liberal views make you a liberal. Your views on discrimination against Farage make you a vicious one.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm guessing you fellas aren't celebrating this fine day as @Groucho and @Morag are?

 

[roydo]

lollol

 

[Blue 1]

What you said in reply to me previously made no sense at all. I figured that it was a grammatical error.

You've just single-handedly redefined discrimination in your post. Congratulations. According to you, it's now acceptable to make fun of Asians for eating rice or African-Americans for eating KFC because that's "their own actions, not who they are". Disgusting.




See:





No, you liberal views make you a liberal. Your views on discrimination against Farage make you a vicious one.

OK mate x lollollol

Bizarre post.

 

[Clint Planet]

I saw a similar line of thinking taken over the devolution of NHS spending in Manchester and I'm not sure I really understand it. On one hand people generally want to have greater power over local affairs, yet when they're given it, politicians are said to be absolving themselves of responsibility for those things.

Isn't devolution by its very nature shifting responsibility locally rather than centrally?

You really can't see how people might want to be listened to but want their schools and hospitals run by experts?

 

[Toffeelover]

Just vote Labour and shut up.

I don't think there will be any one of that name on the ballot paper.

 

[chicoazul]

I don't think there will be any one of that name on the ballot paper.

I'd vote for them if there was mate.

 

[Clint Planet]

Just vote Labour and shut up.

Dead right. It's not as if it's difficult.

 

[bring the ghost on]

According to you, it's now acceptable to make fun of Asians for eating rice or African-Americans for eating KFC because that's "their own actions, not who they are".

Mate, you're talking some crazy nonsense tonight...

I don't know where you're going with this 'farage is discriminated against' rubbish.

Discrimination means treating someone less favourably due to an inherent factor as opposed to individual merit.

People giving farage a hard time are not 'discriminating' against him, they have just listened to what he has said and concluded that he is actually just a bigot disguised as a politician, leading a party full of other equally small minded bigots with horrible values

Farage and his followers are the people who actually do discriminate, because they are the ones judging based on race, sex, etc.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

You really can't see how people might want to be listened to but want their schools and hospitals run by experts?

Wouldn't have it any other way. I'd just want those experts to be the ones running the service rather than miles away in somewhere with no local knowledge whatsoever. I'd be happier with you running your school for instance than Tristan Hunt.

I mean Noreena Hertz wrote a book about the topic the other year, and there are a whole heap of examples where experts perform really badly at stuff. Indeed, there's this recent one from the University of Michigan about experts in education.

There's a nice piece by Tim O'Reilly in his latest book on this. As is his nature it's open source - http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1234000000774/ch02.html

Power to the people innit comrade

 

[Clint Planet]

Wouldn't have it any other way. I'd just want those experts to be the ones running the service rather than miles away in somewhere with no local knowledge whatsoever. I'd be happier with you running your school for instance than Tristan Hunt.

Well, first of all, I'd be absolutely hopeless at running my school. I have a different skill set to that required, shall we say. neither do I want direct interference from politicians on anything other than the broadest of matters. I do, though, value my Local Authority. It is brimming with expertise and practical advice. I think what will happen with all of these "free schools" is that some will be very good, some a mixed bag and some catastrophically bad.