Where to start with this.
CasRus wrote:Well I think most people know that Brexit is no walk in the park and we will be poorer for it in the short term and thats the price to be paid to extract us from a Cartel in Brussels who have been laughing all the way to the bank on us and now trying to bully us into submission and scare the sh.t out of us !
That's the price of being in a union: security, safety and guaranteed trade. The £350million per week we spend/spent on EU membership has now been spent on the NHS hasn't it? Right oh.
CasRus wrote:You can only judge on who is heading up each party and the team behind them. I for one see the Blue Camp having more cohesion even though they squabble between themselves to carry Britain to better times while the red camp in comparison look like a bunch of amateurs ! - just look at them trying to remove their leader who has no backing from his team !
This is true because that war mongering former leader lurched Labour so far to the right that even Corbyn's centre-left policies see him labelled as a 'loony lefty' by the plp and the media. Which simply isn't true
https://www.opendemocracy.net/can-europ ... qus_thread
From his style to his policies Mr Corbyn would, in Norway, be an unremarkably mainstream, run-of-the-mill social-democrat. His policy-platform places him squarely in the Norwegian Labour Party from which the last leader is such a widely respected establishment figure that upon resignation he became the current Secretary-General of NATO.
Yet, here in the United Kingdom a politician who makes similar policy-proposals, indeed those that form the very bedrock of the Nordic-model,
is brandished as an extremist of the hard-left and a danger to society.
So who is right? Is the Norwegian Labour movement some dangerous extremist group that unknowingly has occupied the furthest leftist fringe of the political spectrum? If so, a casual glance at the UN’s Human Development Index would suggest that Norway certainly has not suffered as a result of successive Labour-dominated governments. Or is it, perhaps, that
the British media’s portrayal of Corbyn, and by extent his policies are somewhat exaggerated and verging on the realm of character assassination rather than objective analysis and journalism?
It is probably not without reason that a
recent report by the European Broadcasting Union found that the United Kingdom among all of the EU member-states (+Albania, FYROM & Turkey) scores the lowest in levels of trust in written media.
CasRus wrote:We are not a country of his vision and while N.Korea is testing nuclear he is trying to remove ours - what a joke ! We cannot disarm unless and until every country disarms - FACT !
Writing fact in capital letters doesn't make it a fact. Someone has to be first. What is the point of Trident though - if it is a deterrent you can't use it offensively, because the deterrent aspect is being abused, and if it is in retaliation, then the deterrent hasn't worked. He (and probably every sane person on the planet) would rather save lives than kill, yet he's portrayed as a madman?!
CasRus wrote:The red camp want to throw billions at our services - where is the money coming from ? I'll tell you, huge borrowing which has us paying interest for the next 100 years and very possibly bankrupting the country !
So we've got cuts to education resulting in schools drastically cutting back on resources to the point where qualified teachers are being let go. The NHS is crippled through lack of funding, we have children in this country growing up in poverty and record numbers relying on food banks and this doesn't need investing in? The leaked labour manifesto says that it'll be raised through increasing corporation tax, companies paying more tax on their profits. Whereas the tories want to lower corporation tax (so the rich get richer) creating a 'trickle down' economy.
I'll leave you with this: with the current situation of people - if you have £1 and starving, you don't buy a pair of sunglasses.
£205 billion to renew Trident.
£56 billion for HS2 high speed rail.
£7 billion to refurbish Westminster.
£369 million to refurbish Buckingham Place.
All of this without costing up being part of the conflict of bombing Syria (circa £50m), - where the Government say they had no money, but magically found some and also approved all the above.
This should make every UK citizen 'balk' at the idea of spending such a vast amount of taxpayers money on goods when people are hungry and homeless.
And not forgetting with all these BILLIONS OF POUNDS being set up for these projects, as of 2015/16 the UK has a National Debt of £1.64 TRILLION pounds and the interest alone is £68 billion a year - this is WONGA LOANS.
The Deficit (public spending) which the Tories keep harping on about as of 2016/17 - £43 billion net estimated.
Compare this to when Gordon Brown / Labour blamed for the crash - the National Debt was fiscal 2010 at £1.0 Trillion pounds - it has grown more than half in 7 years under the Tories.
The Deficit - before the 2008 crash was around £40 billion net, which the Tories have brought the deficit down to current date but increased the national debt, all this during several years of hardship for the poor and needy.
As we keep increasing the national debt, even though the deficit is down, we keep spending more than our income - the reality is, might as well spend it on Housing / Infrastructure / Education / NHS and help eradicating poverty.
Your move