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Rochdale_Pioneers wrote: »Not sure that Cameron will like the way the Big Society is manifesting itself. Communities and volunteers are organising to protest against library and youth club closures. They're mobilising to put extreme pressure on councils like Oxford who've been forced to think again about their cuts programme. They created a mass movement against selling forests to Tory donors, a policy now dropped.
Yes, there is a big society. Nothing like wanton acts of destruction by government to mobile people.
Selling forests to Tory donors. That is just your VI spin on it. That there was a mass movement against selling off the Forests is not in doubt."There's no such thing as Macra. Macra do not exist."
"I could play all day in my Green Cathedral".
"The Centuries that divide me shall be undone."
"A dream? Really, Doctor. You'll be consulting the entrails of a sheep next. "0 -
Spartacus_Mills wrote: »Selling forests to Tory donors. That is just your VI spin on it. That there was a mass movement against selling off the Forests is not in doubt.
yes i sent them a healthy donation for their campaign (movt against not tories obviously). glad to see it's paid off.Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
Thrugelmir wrote: »How did you determine this? Manual labour is badly paid the world over. There's no minimum wage there either.
Maybe your "middle class" than you realise.....
yes there is. it was $10 an hour when i was there a decade ago. think it's gone up a bit - unless they've scrapped it?Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. - Lord Byron0 -
NZ$11.25 an hour.0
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