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  • Im confident!

    Confident that Gordon brown and his socialist hippy mates are a bunch of tits who have virtually if not certainly ruined this country.

    Apparently though Maggie thatcher would have ruined us all even more and made us all fat and ginger..........said every brainless labour voter.

    No, Neil Kinnock was going to make us all ginger......it was going to become law in 1993.

    I follow politics, but I'm apolitical, I don't trust any of them. They're all self-seeking idiots who just pretend they know best. A surprising number know very little. Becoming an MP is perhaps the biggest case of 'It's who you know, not what you know'.
    Fokking Fokk!
  • No, Neil Kinnock was going to make us all ginger......it was going to become law in 1993.

    I follow politics, but I'm apolitical, I don't trust any of them. They're all self-seeking idiots who just pretend they know best. A surprising number know very little. Becoming an MP is perhaps the biggest case of 'It's who you know, not what you know'.

    Im reasonably certain non of them have any mates and were also bullied at school, and thats why they become polititcians. Added to the sense of self importance and hollier/knowleger than though thing they have going on (as you quite rightly say)

    Theres no other explanation.
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  • nickj_2
    nickj_2 Posts: 7,052 Forumite
    most people now realise we are up to our necks , to pretend otherwise is just denying the truth , we have been on a spending binge buying things that we can't afford , being lent money by the banks in ever increasing amounts that they must have known were unsustainable and now what we are seeing is the result of inaction by those who could have done something to prevent it ,
  • SGE1
    SGE1 Posts: 784 Forumite
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    mbga9pgf wrote: »
    You dont happen to have a large BTL portfolio do you?

    getAsset.aspx?ItemID=4678

    No, I rent a 1 bedroom flat.
  • SGE1
    SGE1 Posts: 784 Forumite
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    Im confident!

    Confident that Gordon brown and his socialist hippy mates are a bunch of tits who have virtually if not certainly ruined this country.

    Apparently though Maggie thatcher would have ruined us all even more and made us all fat and ginger..........said every brainless labour voter.

    Look up the word 'socialist'. Then look up the word 'hippy'. You won't find anything, so try 'hippie' instead.

    And yes, you're just asking to be patronised.
  • Sapphire
    Sapphire Posts: 4,269 Forumite
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    SGE1 wrote: »
    I sympathise with your feelings. If I were to meet a banker (in my imagination, he would be cocky), I would have a short internal debate as to whether I could get away with running up behind him and kicking him in the crotch, or if I should just give him by best indignant dirty look.

    The problem is, we're so reliant on the financial services that as soon as we make life too difficult for those that work in the sector, they will ship off elsewhere, and take with them their cash. This will make the UK a far less attractive location for businesses, as well as limit income from taxes. So while giving them a hard time now might provide us all with a bit of immediate satisfaction, I think that in the long run, the damage may be greater.

    But do we actually want such dishonest, immoral people to remain here and do more damage? In Britain there must surely be other, probably far more talented people that could do the job far better than these parasites who have crippled our country. And don't they also practise tax avoidance?
  • SGE1 wrote: »
    Look up the word 'socialist'. Then look up the word 'hippy'. You won't find anything, so try 'hippie' instead.

    And yes, you're just asking to be patronised.

    Feeling embarrased at the government you voted in are you?

    And so you should

    trying to defer arguments over spelling etc only weakens your position

    Labour have failed and failed more spectaculaly than any goverment EVER!
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