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I think you actually believe that most people are rampant lefties. I've got news for you. They're not.
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He's like me and he says it how it is. Badger you need to realise that me and Leo are the voice of the people.
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Surprised Dune hasn't posted a thread on this yet....
dune replied to badgerx16's topic in The Lounge
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He is the only politician out there that say's it how it is. [video=youtube;6NuPp-3fjd0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NuPp-3fjd0
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"There's all ring roads and stuff around Portsmuff". I don't think he knew the difference between a motorway and a dual carriageway.
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Brilliant article in todays Express calling for tax cuts: William Gladstone, one of the architects of Britain’s phenomenal economic expansion in the Victorian age, held that low taxes were a principle of good governance. “Money should fructify in the pockets of the people.” Addicted to the ideology of the big state, the Left has long opposed the concept of lower income taxes, arguing that they undermine public services. Labour politicians and trade unionists like to claim that only the rich gain when the government confiscates less, while hard-pressed employees such as nurses and teachers suffer. But this is nonsense. The lesson from history is that everyone in work gains when taxes are lowered. In fact, even government revenues can increase because the wealthy no longer move overseas or resort to clever accountancy stratagems to avoid paying punitive bills. This relationship between bigger government revenues and falling tax rates is known as “the Laffer Curve”, named after the brilliant US economist Arthur Laffer who was an adviser to President Reagan in the Eighties, when America boomed thanks partly to an aggressive policy of tax cuts. Closer to home, there is a lesson for us in the recent experience of Sweden, traditionally a high-tax nation. But since 2006 the moderate conservative government led by Fredrik Reinfeldt has substantially cut taxes for those in lower and middle income brackets. The results have been higher employment, stronger enterprise and greater consumer confidence. Sweden, too, emerged largely unscathed from the last recession. As Deputy Prime Minister Jan Bjorklund puts it: “If you tax work higher, you will have fewer people in work. If you tax work lower, you will have more at work.” In Britain this is precisely the line we should follow. The concept of a high-tax economy was tested to destruction in Britain during 13 years of Labour rule and sadly the coalition is continuing along the same path. From January, VAT will increase to 20 per cent. Then next April, on top of a rise in national insurance contributions, the 40 per cent income tax threshold will be lowered from £43,875 to £42,475, which means that an additional 700,000 with middle incomes will have to hand over two fifths of their earnings to the state. The money for significant tax cuts could be found if the political will existed. The Government now spends around £700 billion, much of it wasted on bureaucracy and dogma. If we reduced overseas aid and left the EU, for instance, we would instantly save £15 billion-a-year. The state already grabs far too much from us. The result of this fiscal bullying has been nothing but misery, whereas freedom can only help to rebuild our economy. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/217665/Why-lower-taxes-are-the-answer-to-Britain-s-problem
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On the million pound drop quiz. Question: Which has the shortest total length in the uk - Motorways or Railways? The thick Skate said Railways and lost £100,000. They really are a gormless bunch of inbreds. His reasoning was that there's a lot of Motorways around Portsmuff.
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Been watching my In Sickness and in Health box set. That should be brought back. Deppo you'd love Marigold.
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That's sort of done it, but it doesn't look how it was before. Thanks.
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Just done a system restore and I dunno if i'm imagining it, but it all looks too small now. WTF.
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I've got windows vista and it doesn't seem to do that.
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That doesnt fix it. Just makes this page smaller.
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Computor. It went into idle mode so i clicked the mouse a few times and when the picture came back on everything's gone big.
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Big fluffy ones now. It's forecast not to last though.
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Ring up your local hunt and they'll feed it to the hounds. http://www.hursleyhambledonhunt.com/
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Wayne, what part of you doesn't understand that UK coal would cost more than Foreign imports?
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We're supposed to be having a serious discussion here.
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Er, I know that the UK mines couldn't compete with cheap foreign mines. You didn't know that. So I know this much more about the real world than you.
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I'm a **** because I speak the truth and people like you and Wade don't like it.
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It's a shame about IDS because he is a proper Tory in the mould of Thatcher.