tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post3280064438756156274..comments2024-03-28T09:55:42.123+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Party Boat Captain JailedCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-3775818845819859582017-05-16T09:44:01.677+01:002017-05-16T09:44:01.677+01:00And this article perfectly explains why the left w...And this article perfectly explains why the left will never understand why everyone thinks they're a joke: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-39897188Charlienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-29769497291076685392017-05-15T23:44:28.758+01:002017-05-15T23:44:28.758+01:00Sebastian - I believe that women having children w...Sebastian - I believe that women having children while unmarried, far from being given a flat and benefits, are fined several years wages. As a result the number of bastards born in China is on a par with Britain in the 1950s (the golden age that never existed, if our sociologists are to be believed). <br /><br />http://www.economist.com/news/china/21693590-single-mothers-have-tough-time-china-so-do-their-children-pariahs<br /><br /><i>"The government imposes stringent penalties on the very few unmarried women brave enough to have children. Giving birth requires permission from family-planning authorities. They will not give it without proof of marriage. Violators usually have to pay the equivalent of several years’ working-class income. Then there is the problem of registering the child. Until last month it was impossible for many of those born in violation of family-planning rules to get identity papers. Now it is easier, as long as both parents can prove they are related to the child. But a mother who does not know who the baby’s father is, or who cannot convince the father to submit to a DNA test, is out of luck. The child cannot be registered. Hence it cannot obtain other vital documents such as an identity card (essential, not least, for travel on long-distance transport)."</i><br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-68078351412008760712017-05-15T12:42:24.244+01:002017-05-15T12:42:24.244+01:00There's probably a post election piece in that...There's probably a post election piece in that, final anon comment.<br />Theresa May is going for a super win. She doesn't need too. She would win even is she didn't campaign or promise anything at all. <br /><br />No political party could resist the huge cushion they could build in this particular election.<br /><br />on here we have in the passed elections. This 2017 is a 1983 rerun.no question.<br /><br />May has an awful lot on her plate after June. More than she can possibly deal with, even if no additional crisis appeared before 2022. <br />She insists on adding to her plate. Piling more and more on in the belief that this very moment time is the chance to fragment labour into at least two parties and so usher in conservative rule for twenty years.<br /><br />Time will tell is she was right. Over promising and under delivering could reduce the Labour succession wars time considerably.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-3118198385769989912017-05-15T10:51:20.302+01:002017-05-15T10:51:20.302+01:00A lot of the Labour manifesto plays well with the ...A lot of the Labour manifesto plays well with the public - people are fed up with crap public transport (Northern keep increasing prices, services keep being lamentably shit), higher energy bills and the constant stream of bad news from the public sector.<br /><br />Now all of these issues are as much government as they are the private sector, however it's not Labour getting hit with the problems. The Tories are lucky they've got May as leader, and even luckier that Labour have that dinosaurial buffoon as leader, otherwise things could get sticky.<br /><br />If Labour keep these policies and replace the charmless garden gnome with someone with a bit of moxie, the Tories (and the nations finances) are going to start finding themselves in trouble.<br /><br />I suggest the Tories take a good look after the election at fixing a few things, however the list I'd give would likely outstrip the length of the blog post itself!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-44023977622361832312017-05-15T10:01:05.629+01:002017-05-15T10:01:05.629+01:00He's certainly going to try and Klingon.He's certainly going to try and Klingon.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-22825447500940787622017-05-15T09:57:22.397+01:002017-05-15T09:57:22.397+01:00Corbyn's communism is modelled on Star Trek - ...Corbyn's communism is modelled on Star Trek - a happy clappy multi-culti society that effortlessly has everything.<br /><br />However, there is a reason it is called Science Fiction. CityUnslickerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-84738364503795337262017-05-14T20:50:45.608+01:002017-05-14T20:50:45.608+01:00JH
Betfair prices
370.5+ at 1.2:1
399.5+ at 2.0...JH<br /><br />Betfair prices <br />370.5+ at 1.2:1 <br />399.5+ at 2.06:1<br /><br />(I was in - belatedly - at 1.55 and 2.60)<br /><br />Probably closing out the 399+ position before the manifesto is publishedandrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-74055279025760332832017-05-14T11:47:58.450+01:002017-05-14T11:47:58.450+01:00To Sebastian Weetabix,
Unlike the UK the Chinese ...To Sebastian Weetabix,<br /><br />Unlike the UK the Chinese have not nationalised childrearing either. The extended family in China is responsible for a lot of things that we seem to depend on the state to provide, such as childcare and care for the elderly. And despite paying superficially low wages, Chinese factories typically provide free dormitory accommodation, canteen meals, staff outings and suchlike for their workers, leaving the workers' net disposable income at a higher level than many of their peers in the west. 'Pragmatic' communism as practised in China actually seems to work - unlike pie-in-the-sky Corbynism.Rodericknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-45321709791117470852017-05-14T08:18:38.002+01:002017-05-14T08:18:38.002+01:00Going for the record margin, do we have any takers...Going for the record margin, do we have any takers for 388?James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-80222401111387084802017-05-14T07:05:20.197+01:002017-05-14T07:05:20.197+01:00I've been in China the last couple of weeks. N...I've been in China the last couple of weeks. Notionally a Communist country, of course. What do they have there?<br />No free health care<br />Free elementary schooling up to 12 then you pay<br />No free state pension (there are occupational ones)<br />Income Tax is 15%<br /><br />They have some fairly robust popular attitudes too. e.g. If you don't work, you don't eat... if you commit murder you should be executed... drug dealers should be executed... rapists ditto. Very strong border checks too, with no thought of multiculturalism. All these are completely non-controversial and very widely supported. <br /><br />Given McDonnell's & Corbyn's raving enthusiasm for Red China I can't help why that stuff isn't in their manifesto. I might vote for that kind of Labour Party.Sebastian Weetabixnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-56185239799483521872017-05-13T16:43:17.287+01:002017-05-13T16:43:17.287+01:00This is a time when those a bit on the right need ...This is a time when those a bit on the right need to be a little more tactful. <br /><br />Ask yourself why education is free to only 18 and not forever. <br />What is it with degrees or other such post school qualifications that make them less socially valuable than a levels? <br /><br />For an average opposition the may government should have been a rabbit in the headlights of the cons incompetence and some popular policies. <br /><br />But it isn't and this is the time we sow the seeds of our downfall though stupidity. andrewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07311993288675111834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-50381068413594332432017-05-13T15:17:52.853+01:002017-05-13T15:17:52.853+01:00Below decks Diner A-butt had moved further leftwar...Below decks Diner A-butt had moved further leftwards causing the whole thing to list catastrophically. Electro-Kevinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18073103431166273080noreply@blogger.com