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I've been trying to read more and asked a friend if they'd recommend anything. He suggested I try Balzac so I went home and had a go. Saw him again a few days later and he asked if I'd taken his suggestion. I told him I had but was finding it difficult as I was getting a pain in my neck leaning...

A Pfizerbomb

Fair e nough. I do actually know a couple of people who are very much using the guilt trip of lockdown to their advantage.

I'm not arguing that a lot of current Labour bigwigs aren't from highly educated backgrounds. But again how many of the Tories have done that. Johnson was a member of the supposed MSM elite. So if that was such an issue to them they wouldn't vote for them. Johnson doesn't 'speak the language of...

Momentum are very offputting to many moderates. If the issue was about the middle class London centric knowing what's best for Northern working class people why are they voting for a party with a heavy influence from upper class south east centric people that think they know whats best for...

Studies have actually shown height to be as big a barrier as race and gender. Massively disproportionate number of the tallest 1% are in very powerful jobs at executive level.

This works fine until you realise that they really like the Etonian and Oxford Classics graduate who randomly whacks the odd bit of Latin into his speeches. So it ain't that that bothers them.

To be honest wouldn't you just love Boyle's style in PMQ's against Johnson! Would be constantly suspended for unparliamentary language. Corruption? Fine. Lying? Fair enough. Wasting public money? Naturally. Calling someone a c***. Too much.

I agree totally about the second point. First one I think applies to both the two main political parties. Just maybe the Tories either hide it better or the poshness somehow means some people are more willing to put up with them being condescending than others.

Yep. Lie and just tell them whatever they want to hear. Judge the way the wind is blowing and follow that. It's what Johnson does every time.

I think he now has to change tack and with coming out of restrictions he needs to become more of an attack dog. I don't want him gone yet as I think he's a very capable person but it's showing personality is everything these days, competence is nothing.

Which is the basis of most right wing economic policy - greed is good. Yet it's clearly the reason for societal failure. What's needed is a system that takes on board the human nature for greed and limits its abilities to run the entire show. As it stands it's designed to increase its control.

That's really put me off that one. I'm like that anyway.

Doesn't mean they love it. Almost certainly means they've found the less hectic pace of life and not being completely nose to the grindstone or having to go to engagements etc that they don't really want to. Bu at the same time do you think they love the idea of being separated from family and...

It would depend on what we could get for him. If selling him would give us the scope to bring in 3 players, esp someone like osti, it becomes a tantalising deal. But if it only going to be enough to replace like with like I think we may as well stick with what we've got. Hopefully a rest over...

No, but it has it's own built in cushions in case he wants a rest.

A few reasons they don't limit their time . One is if they start picking and choosing the offers of work will go to others and they'll risk becoming sidelined. Work offers will end up becoming fewer and fewer and eventually dry up altogether. It's competitive and there's always someone willing...

Whereas I've always thought communism was totally and utterly unworkable. Even socialism I thought had massive flaws in the theory. Actually took me the longest to work out the flaws with capitalism, but once you see them you can't unsee them.

But they're legally allowed to reproduce at a younger age than they're allowed to vote. Far more personal responsibility in looking after a kid than voting.

So what. If this is the greatest country on earth why would you choose to leave it and go someone much worse just for the weather?