The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[Bruce Wayne]

Could you explain more? Not sure I get your meaning. Did the podcast surprise you at all? Powerful stuff, I thought.

I only listened to the first half (well, read the transcript really), so I don't know what was covered in the 2nd bit. It was a shame that the girl (Melanie was it?) didn't get to fully realise her talents.

It seemed to raise more questions than answers (for me at least). Why did she have the reaction she did upon going to the private school? What happened around the scholarship thing? Did her current school do enough to support her ambitions? Her family aren't mentioned at all (unless I missed that bit), so it's unsure what role they played in her life.

Seemingly a bright girl, but I didn't get a sense that there were any easy solutions to whatever problems were presented, unless they appeared in the second half.

 

[Clint Planet]

As Eleanor Roosevelt said, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

This is just an empty platitude, by the way, which doesn't stand up to any scrutiny. Eleanor Roosevelt had clearly never been waterboarded in Guantanamo or been subjected to psychological torture or brainwashing. It's patently obvious that people can be made to feel inferior and worse against their consent.

 

[Clint Planet]

I only listened to the first half (well, read the transcript really), so I don't know what was covered in the 2nd bit. It was a shame that the girl (Melanie was it?) didn't get to fully realise her talents.

It seemed to raise more questions than answers (for me at least). Why did she have the reaction she did upon going to the private school? What happened around the scholarship thing? Did her current school do enough to support her ambitions? Her family aren't mentioned at all (unless I missed that bit), so it's unsure what role they played in her life.

Seemingly a bright girl, but I didn't get a sense that there were any easy solutions to whatever problems were presented, unless they appeared in the second half.

You should listen to it all. The second part is incredibly powerful and illuminating.

 

[roydo]

Some half decent news on the economy.

 

[Clint Planet]

Some half decent news on the economy.

Or the slowest recovery since the 1920s, depending on who you're listening to!

 

[roydo]

Or the slowest recovery since the 1920s, depending on who you're listening to!

Haha! True that!

 

[Mrtallywacker]

Even Jesus despairs of you

Not true my son.

 

[Clint Planet]

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...g-poor?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook

 

[Jxg]

Behave you you naughty fascist.

Am I not allowed to be middle-ground?

 

[Bruce Wayne]

This is just an empty platitude, by the way, which doesn't stand up to any scrutiny. Eleanor Roosevelt had clearly never been waterboarded in Guantanamo or been subjected to psychological torture or brainwashing. It's patently obvious that people can be made to feel inferior and worse against their consent.

I've used it quite successfully in my own life so I don't personally regard it as a platitude, although I'll confess to you (with no torture required), that I haven't been waterboarded either.

 

[Joey66]

Or the slowest recovery since the 1920s, depending on who you're listening to!

Yes the ones who have faired the best are 52 pence per week better off after five years of Austerity wow !

 

[Eggs]

.....slightly aside from the election but certainly a political issue is MPs expenses. I have wondered for a while why folk don't think outside the box and look at technology for a solution to the problem. In this day and age why do debates have to take place in the Houses of Parliament, MPs can be based in their constituencies and video from that locality. They can vote from a distance.

It would detract from the pomp and tradition of the Commons but I'm sure it could be managed and technically feasible. It would make politics much less London centric, ensure MPs visibility to the folk who elected them and save an absolute fortune.

 

[roydo]

.....slightly aside from the election but certainly a political issue is MPs expenses. I have wondered for a while why folk don't think outside the box and look at technology for a solution to the problem. In this day and age why do debates have to take place in the Houses of Parliament, MPs can be based in their constituencies and video from that locality. They can vote from a distance.

It would detract from the pomp and tradition of the Commons but I'm sure it could be managed and technically feasible. It would make politics much less London centric, ensure MPs visibility to the folk who elected them and save an absolute fortune.

I think they were going to mate, then looked on here to see if it might work!

 

[Eggs]

I think they were going to mate, then looked on here to see if it might work!

....very good.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I think they were going to mate, then looked on here to see if it might work!

Ed Balls would have to conclude his 2016 budget with an animated gif. Perhaps