tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post1607992029814130171..comments2024-03-28T22:45:51.014+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: History to May's RescueCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-72377861112350474252017-06-28T19:21:11.667+01:002017-06-28T19:21:11.667+01:00The alt-right in America has a name for Conservati...The alt-right in America has a name for Conservatives who don't conserve anything and who refuse to stand up to those who espouse Socialism and socialist policies.<br /><br />They call them Cuckservatives.<br /><br />They deride them for being nothing more than Establishment placeholders, there to enrich themselves and their families whilst failing to stand up for the beliefs and policies that they nominally stand for.<br /><br />We have a similar situation here with the Conservative Party, promising all sorts of conservative policies (if we're lucky!) but with excuse after excuse as to why they can't implement them yet. <br /><br />Any Conservative who REALLY wanted to win and to implement conservative policies would have rammed through Boundary Changes as priority number one. The people who would whinge and complain don't vote Tory anyway.<br /><br />This is why the Brexit vote caused such consternation within the Tories. The majority are centrist Remainers and they're used to hiding behind the fig leaf that they can't implement right wing, free market policies ,because Europe.<br /><br />America at least has Trump,with a substantial and growing number of followers who are waking up to the fact that the Republicans are as much the enemy as the Left.<br /><br />Since Saint Nigel abdicated, nobody in Britain is stepping up to the plate.<br /><br />Except May, and she's crap.<br /><br />We're doomed I tell ya!<br /><br /><br />BlokeInBrumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-55452282280234635462017-06-28T06:33:18.028+01:002017-06-28T06:33:18.028+01:00was there anything to stop Cameron in 2015 telling...<i>was there anything to stop Cameron in 2015 telling the Boundary Commission to sort it out in 6 months and then voting the changes through? I suppose he thought he'd get on with it after he won the Brexit vote. I'm sure losing it never entered his head</i><br /><br />I think you've nailed it. With an absolute majoirity, he could have <br /><br />but it would have seemed an odd use of Parliamentary time when the next B-changes are set to take effect in 2018 anyway: and giving the hurry-up to a 'neutral' body like the BC, with its lengthy & painstaking 'due process', might be seen as pretty 'undemocratic', and a dreadful precedent<br /><br />What will be lethal is if the DUP can somehow be persuaded (by Lab / SNP etc) to vote for an Opposition Bill to scrap the 2018 changes ...Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-31001476032082144682017-06-27T23:28:33.674+01:002017-06-27T23:28:33.674+01:00High competition for jobs and housing has NOTHING ...High competition for jobs and housing has NOTHING to do with their immiseration, Anon. <br /><br />It's all down to lack of planning and archaic rules on green belt - old fogeys. *sarcasm*<br /><br />(I think the litter and waste at Glastonbury speaks volumes)Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-76274703422584808072017-06-27T23:17:21.073+01:002017-06-27T23:17:21.073+01:00ND - was there anything to stop Cameron in 2015 te...ND - was there anything to stop Cameron in 2015 telling the Boundary Commission to sort it out in 6 months and then voting the changes through?<br /><br />I suppose he thought he'd get on with it after he won the Brexit vote. I'm sure losing it never entered his head.<br /><br />(To be completely fair, it strikes me that the revolt of the young and the rush to Corbyn is a parallel to the revolt of the white working class over Brexit - we'd all like to be 21 again, but ideally not with 40-60k of student debt, declining wages amd insane house prices - you can see why they might go that way. The difference between the two votes was that the poor Brexiteers correctly identified the open-borders EU as the cause of their immiseration, the poor Corbyn youth, half of whom had been left-indoctrinated for three years of higher ed, had no clue and voted for the free-stuff guy.) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-85888006006546730552017-06-27T21:15:04.090+01:002017-06-27T21:15:04.090+01:00There's means testing of state pension to be d...There's means testing of state pension to be dealt with yet. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-37187375432210136172017-06-27T20:45:06.288+01:002017-06-27T20:45:06.288+01:00This is not some genius waiting for her time in hi...This is not some genius waiting for her time in history. <br /><br />Corbyn is where he is because of her mistake of which she has made so many and shows no sign of stopping. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-88715118121936508452017-06-27T20:00:23.811+01:002017-06-27T20:00:23.811+01:00anon @ 7:38 - we have fumed over the Boundary chan...anon @ 7:38 - we have fumed over the Boundary changes long and oft on C@W<br /><br />e.g. this http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2012/09/they-may-not-mean-to-but-they-do.html<br /><br />the story of how Labour have dragged this process out for over 20 years (<i>sic</i> - the current 'round' goes back to the early 90's) is a masterpiece of political determination and fixation on what's really important. <br /><br />talk about time-wasting as a strategy ... Nick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-35112973781866464492017-06-27T19:38:06.736+01:002017-06-27T19:38:06.736+01:00"People don't tend to kick off in the rai...<i>"People don't tend to kick off in the rain or extreme heat / cold"</i><br /><br />The Native Brits don't tend to kick off much at all (bar a few underclass copycats), but if they did the rain wouldn't stop them. I think you have in mind "the usual suspects" and nominal followers of a peaceful religion.<br /><br />May has a tough old job on. Pleased to see Cameron (publicly, at any rate) get behind her, but she'll have George Osborne, the oligarch's friend, sniping via the Standard. My only hope is that he oversteps the mark and makes a comeback in the Conservative Party impossible.<br /><br />She's a general facing great odds. Is she a lucky general? That fire would seem to say no, although other leaders have faced similar disasters and come through. Is there an iron core, like the sun's and the earth's, to Theresa May? Is there a "there" there?<br /><br />Alas the rules of modern politics are such that Corbyn's front bench will, while paying lip-service to the idea of Brexit, do all they can to undermine her negotiations - already telling her that her (IMHO) over-generous offer on EU workers should have been earlier, even more generous and unilateral.<br /><br />It's easy to be wise in hindsight, but the Tories have squandered one huge open goal ever since 2010 - boundary changes, still not addressed at a time when they give Labour a 50-odd seat advantage on a tied vote share.<br /><br /> Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-59174987512681347742017-06-27T18:16:52.040+01:002017-06-27T18:16:52.040+01:00Richard II and other English Kings who saw off var...Richard II and other English Kings who saw off various peasant revolts.<br />(Execute the ringleader, it works every time!)<br /><br />Must be some Old Testament examples.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-20763814154770848332017-06-27T15:06:02.397+01:002017-06-27T15:06:02.397+01:00Dispiriting that it may come down to wether
I mea...<br />Dispiriting that it may come down to wether<br /><br />I meant the weather<br /><br />People don't tend to kick off in the rain or extreme heat / cold<br /><br />andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-80429800684227653922017-06-27T14:48:47.066+01:002017-06-27T14:48:47.066+01:00I've but one suggestion - Jacob Rees-Mogg so w...I've but one suggestion - Jacob Rees-Mogg so we can get Brexit without giving away the shop.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-62361045736170402752017-06-27T13:16:31.701+01:002017-06-27T13:16:31.701+01:00Bruce.
Bruce.<br /><br />deariemenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-90784847026083053652017-06-27T12:29:25.508+01:002017-06-27T12:29:25.508+01:00The EU.
Banking crisis.
Euro crisis.
Greek/Spanis...The EU.<br />Banking crisis. <br />Euro crisis.<br />Greek/Spanish debt crisis.<br />Migrant crisis.<br />Brexit crisis.<br />Italian banking crisis.<br /><br />All unresolved.<br />All ignored forever in the hope 'something turns up.'<br /><br />The EU is still there.Douglasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-51790596335454104332017-06-27T12:25:46.555+01:002017-06-27T12:25:46.555+01:00Gordon Brown was effectively out of office by earl...Gordon Brown was effectively out of office by early 2008.<br />He clung on until 2010. And despite losing 'Bigly' he did far better than any had predicted.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-24202076552558349832017-06-27T11:23:09.959+01:002017-06-27T11:23:09.959+01:00Depending on whether you insist this is done for i...Depending on whether you insist this is done for individuals, or accept groups too, you might like to consider the UK after the disastrous WW2 battle defeat preceding the evacuation from Dunkirk in May/June 1940. Also Winston Churchill's return to government after the 'Wilderness Years', and his subsequent reputation.<br /><br />Best regards<br />Nigel Sedgwickhttp://www.camalg.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-91604633187276794672017-06-27T11:10:45.687+01:002017-06-27T11:10:45.687+01:00The Sino-Vietnamese war of 1979 is one that spring...The Sino-Vietnamese war of 1979 is one that springs to mind. The large Chinese standing army versus the battle hardened VietCong. <br /><br />So avowedly Soviet communists with inferior numbers win against the larger operation.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com