UK General Discussion II

[joevsimp]

If the Labour Party falls short next year, they would have the SNP to thank for five more years of Conservative rule.

Labour already hate the SNP, there are councils in Scotland where Labour and the Conservatives are allied to keep them out, although westminster would obviously be a different ballgame

for two reasons: withdrawing support for Jim Callaghan's ailing government in 1979 and for daring to challenge Labour's hegemony of the centre-right (see also Sadiq Khan's mission to destroy the Greens by May next year)

[joevsimp]

According to the Daily Mail Grace Mugabe's campaign to become President is bankrolled by cartoonishly evil British criminal Nicholas van Hoogstraten:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2870376/Nicholas-van-Hoogstraten-bankrolls-Grace-Mugabe-s-bid-power-Zimbabwe.html

i thought he was in jail in Zimbabwe?

[joevsimp]

According to the Daily Mail Grace Mugabe's campaign to become President is bankrolled by cartoonishly evil British criminal Nicholas van Hoogstraten:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2870376/Nicholas-van-Hoogstraten-bankrolls-Grace-Mugabe-s-bid-power-Zimbabwe.html

i thought he was in jail in Zimbabwe?

Not exactly. He lives in a mansion using a detachment of Mugabe's Secret Service as guards.

ah, I just looked it up, was arrested a few years ago for dodgy foreign currency dealings and possessing pornography, then it all magically went away....

[joevsimp]

Popular lefty backbencher John Cryer has been elected (unopposed) as PLP Chair. He replaces David Watts (who is retiring at the General Election) who beat Cryer to the post in 2012. Cryer has held Leyton & Wanstead since 2010 and previously represented Hornchurch between 1997 and 2005. He's the son of the late Bob Cryer (MP for Keighley 1974-83, Bradford South 1987-94) and Ann Cryer (MP for Keighley 1997-2010) and like both of them is a member of the Socialist Campaign Group. Anyway, in the event of a hung parliament (and inter party negotiations) this is a not unimportant post.

very interesting, he's also fairly Eurosceptic iirc, he was my local MP, nice guy,


anyway, regarding the anthems (and certain current sporting events) we should pinch Fratelli d'Italia

[joevsimp]

A graduate tax sounds like it could be a slippery slope to extra charging for all sorts of stuff

[joevsimp]

A graduate tax sounds like it could be a slippery slope to extra charging for all sorts of stuff

Like that doesn't happen anyway. Learning materials, text books, rent, etc.

no I meant on a tax level, like more contribution based things based on your National Insurance payments

mind you, I did chemistry, and some countries charge you extra for courses like that, and some unis here charge bench fees