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:):) Good luck to everybody else.

Fingers crossed for everybody else in this situation - I find out if I have survived this afternoon.

Babs married Jesus of Nazareth ( well Robert Powell )

maglia

snap

But do they have the same level of hysteria over the debt level that we are experiencing ?

Just take a peek at Japan.

Do you feel better now dearie ? And just to help, they are not MY union members, as I'm not in a union, and haven't been since about 1988.

So, there are no unions in the private sector, are there ? Try getting rid of that massive chip on your shoulder, being able to stand up straight will give you a whole new perspective on life.

Oscar

Real World to Alpine Saint : I was engaged in a game of tit-for-tat statistics chucking, and I am perfectly well aware of the iniquities of our 'democratic' system and it's propensity to create majority Governments from a minority share of the vote -which you would be aware of if you ever bothered to actually read a thread through, ( something that dunce, for all his faults, actually manages). And for the record I am not, nor have I ever been, a member of ANY political party. So if you've got nothing of interest or value to add, go and troll somewhere else. Oh forgot ----- FFS !

That only applies to England, what proportion of votes do the Tories get in the provinces ? Labour are always bouyed by the numbers of MPs returned by the Scots and the Welsh, and no amount of gerrymandering will alter that. It also presupposes that voter apathy doesn't rear it's head.

An open and honest admission on SWF, whatever next !

Explain the councils with 28%+ cuts in 2011/2012 as compared to 2010/2011, ( due to the 'front loading' of the 7% compounded year on year for due for the next 4 years ), and 19% average cuts across central government from April 1st. Hardly small beer.

A spell checker ?

Sometimes I wonder why we vote for any of them. They are all self serving dissemblers, whatever colour rosette they might wear.

They would have looked stupid had they won ! And remember, the CONservatives didn't win either.

At least I'm in a job

"Mr Osborne told MPs last month the deal was done on the basis of the EU’s qualified majority voting, which meant Britain could not have vetoed it without the support of other countries." So without the French and the Germans, AD could do nothing. And from the comments under the article : "There are many good and able lawyers in the FO and the Exchequer. They will know that In English law "he who adopts consents" (see Sedleigh-Denfield v O'Callaghan and Leakey v National Trust)) Therefore, unless the LibDemCon Conspiracy reverses the agreement entered into by Darling, which they are legally entitled to do, they will be adopting and consenting to it. Criticism of Darling will therefore be no more than a smoke screen to hide the LibDemCon's part in the great EU conspiracy. I agree with Douglas Carswells - it would be very surprising indeed if Darling agreed to the EU bailout in the interregnum knowing that in reality he had no political mandate and was merely continuing in office as a trustee custodian. The constitutional convention is that in such circumstances outgoing ministers either do nothing or follow the position of the incoming government if they have one. I strongly suspect that Osborne's position at the time was rather more equivocal than he is now claiming."

Why are you such a pr!ck ? ( And why do I bite ? )

62% of those on the electoral role did not vote for this Government, tbf.

Das Boot.

I suppose that the OP, and especially Dunce, won't actually have listened to the speech, and instead prefer to get all their 'facts' from the Torygraph. What he said was "We come in the tradition of those who marched before us,......", "Our cause may be different, but we come together today to realise our voice, and we stand on their shoulders, we stand on the shoulders of those who have marched in the past". You may interpret that as you wish, but he most certainly did not make a direct comparison between the Hyde Park event and other much more historic episodes. It would have been vain and naive in the extreme to have gone that far. Other selected lines, probably completely ignored by our totally unbiased media: "David Cameron, you wanted to create a 'Big Society', this IS the Big Society"; "We speak today for the mainstream of Britain, because we ARE the mainstream of Britain"; "I beleive there is a need for difficult choices and some cuts, but this Government is going too far and too fast"; "I say to David Cameron, the hundreds of thousands of people here reject your attempt to divide our country".

No, no, no ! Bridge you are so wrong ! It was all the fault of Blair & Brown, haven't you been keeping up ? The bankers were all innocent victims of their gross incompetence.