The 2015 Popularity Contest (aka UK General Election )

[The Cowboy]

.....yep. Biggest challenge we have is bringing up our kids. It's not easy but knowing the difference between right and wrong, having respect and caring for others is not dependent on how much money you have.

This, all day long.

 

[Seanjd]

Just received a You Gov poll asking whether Labour will be held to ransom by the SNP in the event of a hung parliament.
Yes - good thing
Yes - bad thing
No
Should be out tomorrow

No.

 

[summerisle]

No.

My answer, but you can imagine Surrey retired golf club members and Dagenham little Englanders ticking yes- bad thing

 

[daylightrobber]

Blokes that don't do the decent thing and stick around don't help either.

Can't argue against that neither.

 

[Seanjd]

So you're happy for people to just breed and breed without ever wondering how they will support them?

It's probably the case amongst an incredibly minute amount if people. It's a non-issue.

 

[daylightrobber]

So you're happy for people to just breed and breed without ever wondering how they will support them? I would never advocate a limit on births, but surely everyone must agree that we need to be sensible and think about how we would support a larger family before we go ahead and procreate?

Thing is though, on the whole people don't just breed and breed.

 

[The Cowboy]

It's probably the case amongst an incredibly minute amount if people. It's a non-issue.

It's a mindset. I'm not talking about the silly stories you see in the papers about people having 12 kids for the benefit, I'm talking about potential excessive consumption, inability to support your own family etc. To blithely say it's a non-issue is frankly incredible.

 

[The Cowboy]

Thing is though, on the whole people don't just breed and breed.

Indeed, because they, by and large, use common sense. Mr Miliband seems to be promoting the opposite.

 

[daylightrobber]

Indeed, because they, by and large, use common sense. Mr Miliband seems to be promoting the opposite.

Absolute bull and you know it.

 

[The Cowboy]

Absolute bull and you know it.

Well I don't, otherwise I wouldn't have said it. That quote suggests it's absolutely fine for people to have as many kids as they want and to hell with figuring out how you'll support them. Thank heavens the vast majority of this country don't think like that.

 

[edge]

Oh for sure, I think any state set limit would be absurd, both from a moral and practical perspective. It just seems a daily occurrence that the other half comes home with stories of sadness. The latest was a 1 year old that had been so over-fed they were over 3 stone and was practically being fed to death.

No idea what the answer is really.

A diet would be a start.
when I used to help out in school and even kids footy , you would look and think what the hell chance have these kids chance with parents like these , they didnt have a clue and the lack of any get and go used to do my head in

 

[Seanjd]

It's a mindset. I'm not talking about the silly stories you see in the papers about people having 12 kids for the benefit, I'm talking about potential excessive consumption, inability to support your own family etc. To blithely say it's a non-issue is frankly incredible.

Having too many children without thinking about if you can financially support them or not is a mindset? What? This is a total non issue.

 

[daylightrobber]

Well I don't, otherwise I wouldn't have said it. That quote suggests it's absolutely fine for people to have as many kids as they want and to hell with figuring out how you'll support them. Thank heavens the vast majority of this country don't think like that.

Show me the quote.

 

[roydo]

No.

My answer, but you can imagine Surrey retired golf club members and Dagenham little Englanders ticking yes- bad thing

My word.

You honestly think the SNP give an absolute monkeys about anyone/thing in the rest of the UK?

And you think it is a democratic thing that about 2% of the electorate can dictate to the other 98% when the other 98% cannot even vote on what they want to do?

Now my maths might not be 100% spot on, but the premise of what we could be faced with the premise of the arguement is.

 

[chewee]

Big movement on Bet Fair in favour of tory most seats betting. Apparently tonights YouGov poll has been leaked....