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The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )
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£35k+?? Down here buddy you'd want to be doubling that and then some. Serious money to be made, £35k is graduate entry money at some banks in 2015. Previous experience in projects and going contracting in central London? Start asking for £300 a day and see where you can go from there.
Billy Dean
Player Valuation: £70m
Think there was a study done that up to the threshold of about 50k earning extra money doesn't bring any extra happiness to people
Milk
Udderly delicious
That is the art of politics. Smoke & mirrors.
They are all as bad as each other but it is really the non-elected senior civil servants who really drive the agenda. "Yes, Minister/Prime Minister" is a wealth of truths.
Vote Looney. It's a vote for insanity.
Pienaar's gloves
Player Valuation: £35m
I've been positively surprised by this government.
Still a man of the centre-left though, voting Green.
Still a man of the centre-left though, voting Green.
Indeed. Everyone has a pop at whoever is the current health minister, yet I wonder how many people could tell you who Bruce Keogh or Simon Stevens is or what their approach is? And I mean actually know rather than saying something emotive like he's a lackey for whatever government.
I mean Simon Stevens alone has been both a Labour councillor and a CEO of a private health group in the US. Not always easy to pidgeon hole, is it?
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
I think he can - had he continued Livingstones' policy of having all new builds authorised only if it contained a sizeable percentage of social housing, then things would be calmer than they are now because there would be less money going into the private rented sector, and there would be far less money going into the absurd buildings described in that link.
Needs a degree of fairness though doesn't it? The new development near me has the cheapest place at £400k for a 1 bed. Me and mine aren't wealthy by any means, but we've never had any kind of welfare in our lives. Is it fair that people like us are priced out of somewhere that someone who isn't working gets for free?
tsubaki
Player Valuation: £90m
"Fairness" is always something that politicians misuse, though. Under the old Livingston policy, that £400k one bed would probably be a £250k one (or at least thats what mine was), and it would be available under the part rent/part buy scheme via a Housing Agency so that it was affordable to more people.
Certainly that seems fairer to me than pricing almost everyone who works in London out of ever buying anything remotely central, and instead filling that space with flats that are individually too big and which can only be afforded by City types and foriegners with large incomes (both of which will probably contribute less to the local economy, and will certainly pay less tax).
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...-and-few-are-fighting-against-it-9850050.html
Last week on the No 9 bus, a middle-aged white woman shouted “bloody [Poor language removed]” and spat at me. The sputum landed on the back of my seat, grey and revolting as she was.
No one said a thing, not even the black and Asian people around me. They all lowered or averted their eyes. I was spat at in 1972, too, after exiled Ugandan Asians with British passports arrived here. That time I was sitting quietly in a park in Oxford, readingMiddlemarch. So you think it’s much better than the really bad old days? The truth is that, since 2001, in-your-face racism has returned. But those who suffer it just have to swallow the insults and degradation.
The difference is that, back then, we had politicians of all parties, including Tories, who felt keenly that racial prejudice and discrimination were unjust and reprehensible. They passed laws, used government purchasing power to get companies to operate fairly and, bit by bit, made racism unacceptable in the public space. Now those at the top – with the exception of Diane Abbott – say nothing and do even less about this stain on our society. Ethnic-minority politicians are the biggest cowards of the lot.
Even Margaret Thatcher, a little Englander, funded major projects to test the levels of race discrimination in Britain. I know because my husband, Colin Brown, was commissioned to carry out an expensive social survey paid for by her ministers. He devised empirical tests and proved that people were being denied jobs and housing because of their race or ethnicity.
NatCen, which produces the annual social attitudes surveys. There is now more tolerance of gay people and liberal lifestyles, but hostility to multiracialism is growing.
This is truly disturbing. Always remember Germany in the 1930s. When life gets tough, people instinctively turn on those they define as the other, the outsider. Jews, black and mixed-race people, Travellers and the disabled, were murdered en masse because they were felt to be a threat to national greatness.
Extreme right-wing parties are getting popular here and no one takes them on. The Olympics now seem like a great British hypocrisy. Good party, shiny medals won by athletes of colour, including the refugee Mo Farah, but racial hatreds keep rising. Why? The first reason is the frenzied public discourse on immigration. Oh, don’t you tell me the debates have nothing to do with race. That is the spin. Malign migrants, and asylum-seekers and the rest of us become fair game, too.
Then there is the phoney complaint that no one is allowed to debate immigration. As Matthew d’Ancona, erstwhile editor of The Spectator points out:“We have been reminded relentlessly and remorselessly that not all who question immigration are racist (it’s in Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech if you care to look). Indeed the cliché is so familiar that one has to avoid the syllogistic trap and remind oneself that plenty of people who hate immigration are indeed bigots and xenophobes.”
In truth, it is racism that is the forbidden subject. If you object to that evil, you are “politically correct”, an oppressor and a threat to free speech. Missiles are fired at those of us who speak up. Some internet abuse is worse than being spat at. I am told by some leading lights that preference for one’s own sort is “natural” and that minorities have been spoilt by having protective laws and “special privileges”.
I blame the minorities, too, for the vulnerable state we are in. Islamicist separatism and now Isis terrorism have turned good people off diversity. The anti-white prejudices within some Asian families are mortifying. Grooming gangs have destroyed young girls and also cohesion and mutual trust between the brown and white Britons.
We are also frighteningly vulnerable because anti-racists have given up on the struggle, unlike feminists or those fighting for gay rights. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission is, frankly, moribund and we could, but don’t, use the web to campaign against racial prejudices. Where is our Peter Tatchell? Where, indeed, is the next generation Anthony Lester, the human rights supremo who pushed through race relations legislation?
Britain could be an exemplary rainbow nation with a place for everyone. A few years back, we thought it was. It no longer is. In a globalised world, that is bad news, even for racists.
Inequality and prejudice. The two issues, I think, that should most be bothering the people of the UK in the next seven or eight months. Instead, we're sidetracked by an obsession - driven by the politicians' and journalists' unwilingness to confront the bigots - with immigration, "Europe" and Islamophobia....
Hell in a handcart.
Last week on the No 9 bus, a middle-aged white woman shouted “bloody [Poor language removed]” and spat at me. The sputum landed on the back of my seat, grey and revolting as she was.
No one said a thing, not even the black and Asian people around me. They all lowered or averted their eyes. I was spat at in 1972, too, after exiled Ugandan Asians with British passports arrived here. That time I was sitting quietly in a park in Oxford, readingMiddlemarch. So you think it’s much better than the really bad old days? The truth is that, since 2001, in-your-face racism has returned. But those who suffer it just have to swallow the insults and degradation.
The difference is that, back then, we had politicians of all parties, including Tories, who felt keenly that racial prejudice and discrimination were unjust and reprehensible. They passed laws, used government purchasing power to get companies to operate fairly and, bit by bit, made racism unacceptable in the public space. Now those at the top – with the exception of Diane Abbott – say nothing and do even less about this stain on our society. Ethnic-minority politicians are the biggest cowards of the lot.
Even Margaret Thatcher, a little Englander, funded major projects to test the levels of race discrimination in Britain. I know because my husband, Colin Brown, was commissioned to carry out an expensive social survey paid for by her ministers. He devised empirical tests and proved that people were being denied jobs and housing because of their race or ethnicity.
NatCen, which produces the annual social attitudes surveys. There is now more tolerance of gay people and liberal lifestyles, but hostility to multiracialism is growing.
This is truly disturbing. Always remember Germany in the 1930s. When life gets tough, people instinctively turn on those they define as the other, the outsider. Jews, black and mixed-race people, Travellers and the disabled, were murdered en masse because they were felt to be a threat to national greatness.
Extreme right-wing parties are getting popular here and no one takes them on. The Olympics now seem like a great British hypocrisy. Good party, shiny medals won by athletes of colour, including the refugee Mo Farah, but racial hatreds keep rising. Why? The first reason is the frenzied public discourse on immigration. Oh, don’t you tell me the debates have nothing to do with race. That is the spin. Malign migrants, and asylum-seekers and the rest of us become fair game, too.
Then there is the phoney complaint that no one is allowed to debate immigration. As Matthew d’Ancona, erstwhile editor of The Spectator points out:“We have been reminded relentlessly and remorselessly that not all who question immigration are racist (it’s in Enoch Powell’s ‘Rivers of Blood’ speech if you care to look). Indeed the cliché is so familiar that one has to avoid the syllogistic trap and remind oneself that plenty of people who hate immigration are indeed bigots and xenophobes.”
In truth, it is racism that is the forbidden subject. If you object to that evil, you are “politically correct”, an oppressor and a threat to free speech. Missiles are fired at those of us who speak up. Some internet abuse is worse than being spat at. I am told by some leading lights that preference for one’s own sort is “natural” and that minorities have been spoilt by having protective laws and “special privileges”.
I blame the minorities, too, for the vulnerable state we are in. Islamicist separatism and now Isis terrorism have turned good people off diversity. The anti-white prejudices within some Asian families are mortifying. Grooming gangs have destroyed young girls and also cohesion and mutual trust between the brown and white Britons.
We are also frighteningly vulnerable because anti-racists have given up on the struggle, unlike feminists or those fighting for gay rights. The Equalities and Human Rights Commission is, frankly, moribund and we could, but don’t, use the web to campaign against racial prejudices. Where is our Peter Tatchell? Where, indeed, is the next generation Anthony Lester, the human rights supremo who pushed through race relations legislation?
Britain could be an exemplary rainbow nation with a place for everyone. A few years back, we thought it was. It no longer is. In a globalised world, that is bad news, even for racists.
Inequality and prejudice. The two issues, I think, that should most be bothering the people of the UK in the next seven or eight months. Instead, we're sidetracked by an obsession - driven by the politicians' and journalists' unwilingness to confront the bigots - with immigration, "Europe" and Islamophobia....
Hell in a handcart.
rascal
Player Valuation: £60m
I can’t help but feel that immigration is the choice of discussion that is being pushed by the right-wing media and many politicians to mask what for me are the most important issues facing Britain right now - true levels of unemployment, the widening pay gap, tax avoidance, shortage of housing for first-time buyers, rental costs going through the roof, utility bills going through the roof and public transport prices going through the roof.
All of which could be solved by a strong Government which cared about the majority of people its meant to represent, instead of the very few.
All of which could be solved by a strong Government which cared about the majority of people its meant to represent, instead of the very few.
neil999
Player Valuation: £80m
yes, this has been happening for decades now..
Clint Planet
Utter Cad.
Not to mention massive corruption, as proven by the expenses "scandal" which, in years gone by, would have seen many heads roll and the country go to a swift election.
rascal
Player Valuation: £60m
It's no wonder happiness of the British people is low.
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