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[tsubaki]

A watered down tory manifesto is popular election winner. Far better than a Tory manifesto

Really? I could be sworn that manifesto lead to one of the biggest kickings a Labour Party has ever had.

 

[The binman chronicles]

He actually has changed his views.....please dont make assumptions without knowing the man.....has it come down to voting for rs or EFC candidates? I do go along with your last paragraph though....and if I was in the same position then I would have to give whom I vote for more consideration than I do now...not easy is it this voting game with our current system? Perhaps it needs to change.

You're right that I don't know him but come on, if I was to run for public office that needed me to apologise for past sins and present myself as a new man I'm fairly sure I could. That doesn't mean that I have stopped believing certain things or have totally changed my character. You have a public personality and you have your true private self. If you can keep the bad bits locked away and hidden from everyone else then you have no problems. That is politico 101.

All you can ask is while he is MP that he treats everyone fairly and that can only be judged after doing the job for a good few years. He is going to be the MP so we can watch his progression and see if opinions change as time passes.

 

[twoblue]

Really? I could be sworn that manifesto lead to one of the biggest kickings a Labour Party has ever had.

It would win this election. This tory govt is a shambles and are still going to landslide

 

[peteblue]

....just reading historic ‘tweets’ of the new loony left Momentum Labour candidate for my West Derby constituency. Ian Byrne posted pathetic tweet about Everton wives running for cover after an Everton defeat.

Not only a loony leftie wanting to represent me in Parliament but a ignorant Liverpool supporter. What a direction this Labour Party is heading in. There was no doubt I was going to vote Labour, I’ve never done anything else at a GE, but I’m really not sure now.

it really is time to engage brain.....

 

[peteblue]

It would win this election. This tory govt is a shambles and are still going to landslide

says a lot about Labour....

 

[peteblue]

...I want my Member of Parliament to have a decent moral compass, bright mind and know the difference between right and wrong. Some of the tweets might be old, but Byrne isn’t a youngster. Being an MP is a high public office.

Mrs Eggs and both worked in the public sector for over 40 years. My daughter is a Consultant surgeon, her husband a pharmacist. My son is an ex-school teacher, my daughter-in-law is a teacher. All 6 of us live in West Derby, all 6 of us are Labour voters, we have first hand knowledge of how public services decline under a Tory Government, but we want better than Byrne representing us.

My mates are Blues and Reds, most are ex-dockers. Decent lads and proper socialists with moral judgement who know what lines you shouldn’t pass. I’ll gauge their views on Saturday, but I know they are disappointed.

Your education and that of your children has taught you nothing. Just because you all earned a living from the teat of the public sector does not mean that Labour is Good, Tory is bad.......

 

[orly]

@peteblue going in savage here

 

[tsubaki]

Your education and that of your children has taught you nothing. Just because you all earned a living from the teat of the public sector does not mean that Labour is Good, Tory is bad.......

This is a shameful post, especially given some of the employment history you have admitted to on here. I doubt Eggs has been involved in a contract that has had billions out of "the teat of the public sector", for instance.

 

[Black Belt Jones]

Yes I did make that error.

Not really - both academies and free schools are two cheeks of the same arse. Academies more known for stealth privatisation and free schools for social enginneering, but plenty of for-profit outfits run free schools. Things were looking rosy on the free schools perspective as they were basically dead and buried, every religious and free-market educational loon rushing to open one had yielded predictable results. But with the coming election nothing is certain if it's a Tory majority.

Johnson seems a small-minded man in a lot of ways, and appears to resent Cameron. As free schools are indelibly linked to the Gove / Cameron regime it's possible he'll want to bury them himself.

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

Your education and that of your children has taught you nothing. Just because you all earned a living from the teat of the public sector does not mean that Labour is Good, Tory is bad.......

The public sector is open to anyone work in, not sure why someone's choice of where they work should be an issue... If it were so good why does it have staff shortages!?

 

[Blues Harp]

Your education and that of your children has taught you nothing. Just because you all earned a living from the teat of the public sector does not mean that Labour is Good, Tory is bad.......

You come across as patronising in the extreme with that remark. Eggs was making his views known on his local candidate, and although I may disagree with him on the merits of said candidate, he has a right to express those views. I wonder sometimes if some of your remarks are just a deliberate wind up, which is a shame as you are an intelligent guy. Has it come down to the "public bad, private good" argument? You yourself in previous posts have recognised the merits of public service, but I feel you let yourself down with remarks like this. "4 legs good, 2 legs bad eh?" I would cast you as Napoleon in Animal Farm on that evidence. Your hero johnson would be Squealer.

 

[JammyP]

Of course it would. But follow this up by naming who they are and their relationship with Putin....

If only some reputable parliamentary body had investigated and prepared a report on this sort of thing.....

 

[ToffeeTim]

The standard of candidate being offered up by the two main parties is pretty sad tbh. We deserve much better.

 

[JammyP]

Can I just make the observation that the scroungers on the welfare state are by and large those with money

• Tenants have not benefited in the slightest from housing benefit - it is a direct subsidy to landlords
• Similar benefits like Working Tax Credits enable people to work only because employers are subsidised with top ups to the low wages they can get away with.

Just in the interests of balance....

 

[Jebus_lives]

You come across as patronising in the extreme with that remark. Eggs was making his views known on his local candidate, and although I may disagree with him on the merits of said candidate, he has a right to express those views. I wonder sometimes if some of your remarks are just a deliberate wind up, which is a shame as you are an intelligent guy. Has it come down to the "public bad, private good" argument? You yourself in previous posts have recognised the merits of public service, but I feel you let yourself down with remarks like this. "4 legs good, 2 legs bad eh?" I would cast you as Napoleon in Animal Farm on that evidence. Your hero johnson would be Squealer.

Confidently stating xenophobic & jingoistic opinions with condescending small business owner bravado does not denote intelligence.