General Election 2019 thread (16 Viewers)

skybluetony176

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Tony? Care to comment?
What are you asking me for? You’re the one who lacks the maturity to understand that Dom had the same maturity to agree with you in 2017 as he does in 2019. This is a lesson you need to learn not me.
 

skybluetony176

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Alexander is too scared to be interviewed by Andrew Neil lol.
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Ahhh. What do you know you working class feckless drunk.
 

Brighton Sky Blue

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James O’Brien made a good point about the same people who rubbished the IFS Brexit predictions now hailing them as infallible when costing Labours manifesto.

FWIW I think there’s a balance and the IFS is very small c conservative when it comes to big changes. But at least Labour have tried to identify where new growth would come from, even if you disagree with it. The government can’t even be arsed to produce their own Brexit costings and just want us to ignore all the other ones.

I respect consistency and nowhere near enough people use it. Take G for instance-always moving the goalposts for his own team but not the opposition.
 

Grendel

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Bringing the total candidates disqualified from making anti-Semitic comments to:

Labour 1
Conservatives 2
Lib Dem’s 1

Also candidates disqualified for making Islamophobic comments:

Conservatives 1

At least this proves Tories take it seriously, be a Holocaust denier in the Labour Party and you just get a warning
 

Grendel

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Philosorapter

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Bringing the total candidates disqualified from making anti-Semitic comments to:

Labour 1
Conservatives 2
Lib Dem’s 1

Also candidates disqualified for making Islamophobic comments:

Conservatives 1

I am talking about all candidates, from all parties, and not any one party in general, or against one particular ethnic group.

You can lump the candidates all together in one rotten barrel.
 

Ian1779

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I am talking about all candidates, from all parties, and not any one party in general, or against one ethnic group.

You can lump them all together in a rotten barrel.

I agree... it just shows that this is a problem across all the political spectrum.
 

Ian1779

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I am talking about all candidates, from all parties, and not any one party in general, or against one particular ethnic group.

You can lump the candidates all together in one rotten barrel.
Another one in Scotland too for the SNP. 3 in 2 days.
 

shmmeee

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I am talking about all candidates, from all parties, and not any one party in general, or against one particular ethnic group.

You can lump the candidates all together in one rotten barrel.

This literally only happens because it’s the mentals that put all the time in to party work. We need more sensible people joining parties. Politicians don’t fall fully formed out of the sky. I’d do it but my post history on this thread alone would disqualify me :D
 

Philosorapter

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It's not hard guys... I know this applies to Public Policy, or should do, if you have any clue about political philosophy, which I doubt many of them do. I would add a lot of Coventry Labour into this bracket as well.

Utilitarianism - Wikipedia

Even then, there are safeguards against the dangers of Utilitarianism, and there are many dangers which political parties and individuals either choose to ignore or just don't know that they are there.

I think this is the problem, so many people talk a good game but a very few actually have any clue on what they are doing.
 

chiefdave

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WTF is going on. Johnson refusing to confirm he will be interviewed by Neil, refusing to turn up for the C4 leaders debate on climate change and sending his Dad along instead and then when C4 empty chair him start threatening them.



 

shmmeee

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WTF is going on. Johnson refusing to confirm he will be interviewed by Neil, refusing to turn up for the C4 leaders debate on climate change and sending his Dad along instead and then when C4 empty chair him start threatening them.





Trumpian. He’s losing it already.
 

shmmeee

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I wonder what the estimated area for this would be.

About 60k hectares per year, so 1.2m hectares over 20 years.

Theres 3.2m hectares cover at the moment so it’s not even doubling it which is what a lot of environmental charities have been suggesting.
 

Grendel

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I work with a tiny charity that manages to do it once every 30 seconds on average. It’s very ambitious but with climate change we have to be.

Strange then that the labour council in Coventry wants to destroy the Greenbelt and destroy thousands of trees isn’t it?
 

Philosorapter

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How many trees can you plant per hectare.

As many as you want though typical densities range from 1000 to 2500 trees per hectare.

Let's go for 2,500 and really go for it.

One hectare is 0.003861022 square mile.

Etc

I have a grand total of 3088817.27 square miles for this tree planting escapade.

The area of the UK is around 94000 square miles.

Good stuff!
 

Philosorapter

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Multi-story forrest!

Line from 'The Thick of it' or the book anyway.
 

ccfc92

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I know it’s a much bigger space but Canada plant 250 million a year. So it can be done if you have the land.

The land isn't the issue? Its the physical time to do it.

3 per second, for 20 years straight.

Don't forget, will have to be done by hand otherwise it won't be eco-friendly...
 

skybluetony176

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The land isn't the issue? Its the physical time to do it.

3 per second, for 20 years straight.

Don't forget, will have to be done by hand otherwise it won't be eco-friendly...
It’s certainly not a one man job. But then again I don’t think anyone is suggesting that it is.
 

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