Do you want to discuss boring politics? (25 Viewers)

[Terry_dactyl]

It’s a quote attributed to Winston Churchill, not something your ‘old professor’ said, unless he was referencing him. A lot of us are neither, but social democrats wanting a mix of the government running some things and the free market others.

I thought it was Dennis Healey but I ain’t bothered to check.

 

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[Grendel]

Glad this thread exists so we can see folks hyping a bloke that digs Nazism on a forum for a club who's city was destroyed by Nazis. Not weird at all.

Drivel

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

I thought it was Dennis Healey but I ain’t bothered to check.

I say attributed to Churchill, there’s no record of him saying it. It certainly didn’t originate with this ‘old professor’ anyway.

 

[Terry_dactyl]

I say attributed to Churchill, there’s no record of him saying it. It certainly didn’t originate with this ‘old professor’ anyway.

Reminds me of a professor I knew once, he said to me, “Terry”, he said, “Terry, I have a dream today. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal'”.
I can’t remember his name now. Think he taught woodwork.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Are you like this in real life

I was asking if you could read? You tried being a smart arse first

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

I was asking if you could read? You tried being a smart arse first

Not really I know I’m not that smart

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

I’m not suggesting anything my friend
Societal collapse comes when wealth inequality reaches the levels we are now seeing
Look in the history books

Blame all the billionaires and rich people who have created all the big companies that employ everyone, same rhetoric every single time it’s hilarious. It’s almost as if you don’t want people to enjoy hard earned money

 

[Sky Blue Pete]

Blame all the billionaires and rich people who have created all the big companies that employ everyone, same rhetoric every single time it’s hilarious. It’s almost as if you don’t want people to enjoy hard earned money

I love how people extrapolate a wildly extreme position from a comment people make

billionaires shouldn’t be a thing it’s a monstrous amount of money a million millions

If we don’t work out a way of managing it the world won’t work

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

I love how people extrapolate a wildly extreme position from a comment people make

billionaires shouldn’t be a thing it’s a monstrous amount of money a million millions

If we don’t work out a way of managing it the world won’t work

Almost starting to sound like that fucking clown shmmeee, it’s always the attitude of wanting stuff given and taking away from the rich. Why shouldn’t people be billionaires that have come from nothing and worked hard, typical socialism bollocks

 

[wingy]

Didn’t the generation before you share their resources to help you succeed? Why should it stop with you?

That was like the poll tax debate, you'd get my boss at the time arguing for, even though he'd come through the ranks from Irish decent,no kids bungalow up round the back of The crem not aware that his family of 8kids had all been educated,knew every loophole going in the tax.system,we were able to discuss this as simple people, explain our differences and get on with things, exciting work,hard work, best boss I ever had in reality, don't know if that's possible now?

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

That was like the poll tax debate, you'd get my boss at the time arguing for, even though he'd come through the ranks from Irish decent,no kids bungalow up round the back of The crem not aware that his family of 8kids had all been educated,knew every loophole going in the tax.system,we were able to discuss this as simple people, explain our differences and get on with things, exciting work,hard work, best boss I ever had in reality, don't know if that's possible now?

Unless we intend to have anarchy, people need to contribute some of their resources to the pot of money from which we can pay for a functioning society to live in. That's all tax really is when it comes down to it.

 

[SBT]

Matt Tebbutt to replace Gregg Wallace on MasterChef: The Professionals

The Saturday Kitchen host replaces Wallace, who was sacked after a report upheld complaints over his behaviour.

www.bbc.co.uk

Great news for Starmer, this will mean that billions of pounds continues to flow into the British economy

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Matt Tebbutt to replace Gregg Wallace on MasterChef: The Professionals

The Saturday Kitchen host replaces Wallace, who was sacked after a report upheld complaints over his behaviour.

www.bbc.co.uk

Great news for Starmer, this will mean that billions of pounds continues to flow into the British economy

Are you drunk or something?

 

[wingy]

Matt Tebbutt to replace Gregg Wallace on MasterChef: The Professionals

The Saturday Kitchen host replaces Wallace, who was sacked after a report upheld complaints over his behaviour.

www.bbc.co.uk

Great news for Starmer, this will mean that billions of pounds continues to flow into the British economy

Till some rumours get him?

 

[SBT]

Are you drunk or something?

I would delete this

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Hopefully the police arrest them all and throw them in jail, supporting a terrorist organisation is a disgrace

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

I would delete this

Or what mr ‘sbt’

 

[wingy]

Hopefully the police arrest them all and throw them in jail, supporting a terrorist organisation is a disgrace

He had a way with words though didn't he?

 

[chiefdave]

That and you get more bigoted as your brain plasticity and world shrinks.

I read a couple of studies a few years back that were researching if there was a link between early signs of brain deterioration and the likelihood of voting for parties to the right of centre.

From what I can recall they very much did find a link but were at pains to state that the studies weren't comprehensive enough to asset it as fact.

But the theory was essentially that loss of empathy is one of the early signs of brain deterioration, we see that with the stereotypic increasingly casually racist old person, and with the loss of empathy came an increased likelihood of right wing parties appealing.

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

He had a way with words though didn't he?

What supporting Palestine action, yeah embarrassing

 

[chiefdave]

8am on a Saturday. Wanking over yougov and calling everybody racist and thick. Life goals.

Weird as fuck to get life views from small polls.

I think I've missed this. Has it been decided that polls are 'fake news' now? Is it just some polls or polling in general?

 

[chiefdave]

Crack on with sharing your resources then. I've grafted and sacrificed and now reaping the rewards, I should now have to share them to people who couldn't be bothered?

Unless you're extremely wealthy, and we're not even talking top 10% here more top 1%, I don't think you really need to worry.

When people talk about the sharing of resources, with reference to wealth, they are mainly talking about the super rich. The fact that we're seem a huge transfer of wealth in the last 15 years to those at the very top which many people feel is unfair and needs to be reversed.

The idea that the very richest in society are getting a lot richer, by doing very little different, while we have record numbers of people in work on benefits due to poverty wages doesn't sit well with some people.

 

[SBT]

I read a couple of studies a few years back that were researching if there was a link between early signs of brain deterioration and the likelihood of voting for parties to the right of centre.

 

[Ccfcisparks]

You can have the billionaire companies boosting the economy, but tax them efficiently. Nobody needs a billion pounds either. Not even 100 million. Its greed

 

[Captain Dart]

I read a couple of studies a few years back that were researching if there was a link between early signs of brain deterioration and the likelihood of voting for parties to the right of centre.

From what I can recall they very much did find a link but were at pains to state that the studies weren't comprehensive enough to asset it as fact.

But the theory was essentially that loss of empathy is one of the early signs of brain deterioration, we see that with the stereotypic increasingly casually racist old person, and with the loss of empathy came an increased likelihood of right wing parties appealing.

Tell that to Harold Wilson (dementia is said caused his premature retirement from politics) and Nigel Lawson (razor sharp till the end).

 

[wingy]

You can have the billionaire companies boosting the economy, but tax them efficiently. Nobody needs a billion pounds either. Not even 100 million. Its greed

See Tesla are going to pay Elon a trillion dollars if he achieves target's in the next 10years.Hmm.

 

[wingy]

Tell that to Harold Wilson (dementia is said caused his premature retirement from politics) and Nigel Lawson (razor sharp till the end).

P we probably diet related,pipi smoker v cigar smoker?

 

[Captain Dart]

P we probably diet related,pipi smoker v cigar smoker?

Lawson was a right fattie while he was an MP he lost the weight quite late in life and lived to be 91, Wilson died aged 79 and was never substantially overweight.

Anyway my point is that citing a 'report' is insufficient reason to assume any correlation never mind causation.

 

[fatso]

What were they a professor of?

Aeronautical engineering.

 

[fatso]

Almost starting to sound like that fucking clown shmmeee, it’s always the attitude of wanting stuff given and taking away from the rich. Why shouldn’t people be billionaires that have come from nothing and worked hard, typical socialism bollocks

You are forgetting that socialism wants a redistribution of the wealth, so wealth creators stop creating wealth, (because what's the point) and those who create fuck all and do fuck all, are rewarded for doing fuck all.
Then eventually all men are equally wealthy, which means we are all in the same queue at the food bank.

Fantastic idea.

 

[Brighton Sky Blue]

You are forgetting that socialism wants a redistribution of the wealth, so wealth creators stop creating wealth, (because what's the point) and those who create fuck all and do fuck all, are rewarded for doing fuck all.
Then eventually all men are equally wealthy, which means we are all in the same queue at the food bank.

Fantastic idea.

I don't think there's a single pure socialist on this forum

 

[fatso]

I don't think there's a single pure socialist on this forum

Never said there was.

And what's so funny about aeronautical engineering?

 

[SkyBlueDom26]

Never said there was.

And what's so funny about aeronautical engineering?

It’s good to see someone on here that lives in the real world, there are only a handful of us but the minority on here are the majority in the real world. Will be an all timer on here when reform get in