paulv

So immigrants are all non white now?

Calm down dear - that pic is nothing to do with any political party, someone just stuck it online.

No no one is comparing anything - he's a UKIP supporter... "Moors murderer Ian Brady has revealed he is a Ukip supporter and thinks David Dimbleby is an 'establishment dumpling'.The 77-year-old wrote the letters from his bed at Ashworth psychiatric hospital in Merseyside. Brady was jailed for life in 1966 after torturing and killing five children with his then-girlfriend Myra Hindley. " http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3055928/Moors-murderer-Ian-Brady-reveals-Ukip-supporter-brands-David-Dimbleby-establishment-dumpling-series-ranting-letters-Ashworth-hospital.html

Lord Ashcroft poll out an hour ago showing Farage still unlikely to win a seat. Cheerio Nigel. :biglaugh:

Where are the personal attacks? In stating that you are in Oz? That you have a rabid interest in putting down those who don't share your politics? These are statements of fact. Todays attacks from the right wing press; http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/politics/6433144/Mockney-Mili-cosies-up-with-loony-leftie-Russell-Brand.html Bear in mind that The Sun once paid Brand to write a regular column for them...

The woman who posted a picture? Oh how desperately you grasp!

I've never expressed anger nor jealousy but thanks for your input. The UK papers and political blogs are full of examples of which I refer to.

Relentless negativity. So many on the right attack those who have had the privileges that the right expects, but do not use that privilege to protect their own. So if you go to a good school and join the Tory party its ok. If you go to a good school and join a non Tory party you are a traitor and a hypocrite and everything is done to try and denegrate you. Class traitors hey! "Some people say I'm a hypocrite because I've got money now. When I was poor and I complained about inequality people said I was bitter, now I'm rich and I complain about inequality they say I'm a hypocrite. I'm beginning to think they just don't want inequality on the agenda because it is a real problem that needs to be addressed."

Oh Thom, you can be tiresome with your conspiracy and hatred. Privilege is expecting power, not just attending a decent school/uni. It's clear that you too cannot bear the thought of a change of UK government, even from the other side of the world. Never mind Thom, you'll get over it.

http://www.theguardian.com/media/2015/apr/27/telegraph-tories-letter-election-david-cameron-mail "If anyone still needed evidence that the Telegraph has positioned itself as the lone official voice of the Conservative party, Monday’s front page confirmed it. Not only did the story about the support for the Tories from 5,000 small business owners fill the entire front page but the list had been provided by Conservative Central Office. The Conservative “authors” were first outed by Andy Hicks, who describes himself on Twitter as a “Sarcastic. Republican. Pessimist. Atheist. Socialist. Feminist”. The Telegraph devoted the whole of its broadsheet front page to this headline about an exclusive letter of support: “Businesses like ours have helped to create 1,000 jobs a day since 2010. We would like to see David Cameron and George Osborne given the chance to finish what they have started. A change now would be far too risky.” A line which could have been written by Tory central command, as indeed it was. The Telegraph’s similar story about support for the Tories from big business led that day’s TV news bulletins in early April. It seems less likely that the latest letter will do the same, especially on a day when more news emerges of the terrible earthquake in Nepal."

You obviously don't know what is happening on the ground here Thom. The Telegraph is now the Tories voice (along with Guido Fawkes) as they slavishly publish anything pro Tory without the Murdoch connection sullying this view. See how all the CCHQ letters from business leaders were all in the Telegraph as opposed to The Times (as was previously the case). Similarly all the anti democratic outriders are in the Telegraph (see Janet Daley's weekend column, or Boris Johnson's today) where they are trying to scare people into voting Tory with talk of Milliband causing more damage than terrorists to our cities (!!!). Despite this the 'Poll of polls' all seem to be showing a minority Tory majority but Labour and SNP likely to hold sway and form a government. Either way its all very interesting and seeing the usual privileged lot crap themselves is great fun.

Well if the other institutions get the heebie jeebies like HSBC have due to the Tories and their sop to the anti EU wing, you may be right. Did you notice that the bank that the Telegraph have repeatedly used to provide 'evidence' of how bad a non Tory govt would be for business in the UK, Deutsche Bank, got fined $2.5 billion dollars this week for manipulating exchange rates. And affecting the strength of the pound. What a wonderfully circular little story that is hey!?

I think this is a great article on the sea change that seems to be occurring in politics and why the established powers don't like it or want to accept it... http://www.vice.com/en_uk/read/queen-palace-coup-miliband-snp-cameron-huitson-345 "The British establishment is in a state of panic. Each passing day, each new opinion poll and each unsuccessful policy briefing has brought the unthinkable closer: a government of the unelectable propped up by the unspeakable. Short of some major shifts between now and the 7th of May, Miliband will be Prime Minister with the support of the SNP and Nicola Sturgeon. What's shaping up is not just a Tory defeat, but something much bigger: the end of the Tories as the dominant party of government, an unprecedented phase of constitutional crises in the UK. Things are about to get very messy"

What seems to be the problem? Are you opposed to children being exposed to creativity? The great outdoors? Sports? Do you not believe that adults need relationships to flourish and thrive?