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06-04-2012, 22:50
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Oh G he won't want to look at that...especially if it shows the Labour government in their true colours( a nice flattering heliotrope).
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Did you look at it?
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07-04-2012, 05:27
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by Mancie
Were you on the sewing machine when you posted this or reading it upside down? the pretty graph shows the lowest rate of unemployment was '07 to '08.. the biggest increase is 2011 to the present..
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Apologies, should read 2008-2009, was when we saw the largest increase in unemployment figures. When unemployment rose from 1.61 million in May 2008, to 2.47 million in August 2009.
Whilst we had a Labour government.
Not very pretty for all those who lost their jubs.
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07-04-2012, 05:32
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Re: The Tories
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Nice the figures make someone smile though.
I bet the millions of hardworking folk who lost their jobs then, weren't smiling.
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07-04-2012, 09:31
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Re: The Tories
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Son of a stockbroker Prime Minister David Cameron pulled off one of his most spectacular sleights-of-hand on Wednesday when he used his vague Big Society idea to get his City mates involved.
Under the guise of giving a helping hand to charities and social enterprises he launched a £600 million fund claiming the City was going to help tackle our deepest social problems.
But two-thirds of the money - £400m - comes from unclaimed cash from bank accounts dormant for more than 15 years and the rest comes from Barclays, HSBC and state-backed banks Lloyds and RBS - forcing the taxpayers to fork out.
The amount of money that will apparently be available as investments must also be put in the context of billions which the government has stopped giving to charities.
The new fund, called Big Society Capital, will "invest in organisations that provide affordable finance to social projects, which will then repay the money from the income they generate."
Mr Cameron said: "Just as finance from the City has been essential to help businesses grow and take on the world, so finance from the City is going to be essential to helping tackle our deepest social problems."
The money made from these investments will be reinvested in new projects in turn, apparently generating new cash.
But it was confirmed that the banks also have a right to any "surplus."
Chairman of the new institution is venture capital pioneer Sir Ronald Cohen,
Many observers have called the Big Society idea just a smokescreen for the massive cuts which the government has swung into action.
The latest move follows a blow when a county council's decision that 10 libraries should be run by volunteers was ruled procedurally flawed and unlawful.
Surrey County Council had "failed to have due regard to equality issues," a High Court judge said.
Mr Cohen admitted last year the fund would not be able to replace government funding.
No-one was available to answer the question: "Why is this fund needed rather than the government directly giving money?"
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Cut and Paste job must be, too many capital letters and punctuation and not one spelling mistake
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07-04-2012, 09:35
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by garinda
Nice the figures make someone smile though.
I bet the millions of hardworking folk who lost their jobs then, weren't smiling.
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Don't be silly Rindi this countries problems only started on the 6th May 2010 well thats in some people eyes
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07-04-2012, 09:38
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Re: The Tories
Is it not against the rules to cut and past from an online publication, say a newspaper without reference to where its come from?
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07-04-2012, 19:02
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Re: The Tories
`now theyve started on the employment rights.what is there next target leisure centres
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07-04-2012, 19:06
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Re: The Tories
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`now theyve started on the employment rights.what is there next target leisure centres
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???? No C&P, no sensationalist headlined link, come on lad, start sparking !
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07-04-2012, 19:09
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Re: The Tories
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07-04-2012, 19:10
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by Mancie
Did you look at it?
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No I didn't.
Real life got in the way just a bit.
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07-04-2012, 19:56
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Re: The Tories
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Promises betrayed, and this stealthy slide into Big Brother Britain
Labour governments had a truly chilling disregard for this country’s ancient, hard-won freedoms.
The DNA of more than a million innocent people was stored on a vast official database. Town Halls were given James Bond-style powers to spy on people suspected of putting their rubbish bins out on the wrong day. Plans were drawn up to hold terror suspects without charge for 90 days.
Indeed, it was the desire to reduce the intrusive, liberty sapping powers amassed by the State which helped drive voters into the arms of the Lib Dems and the Conservatives
GCHQ monitoring plans: Stealthy slide into Big Brother Britain | Mail Online
Cut 'n' paste.
Cut 'n' paste.
Easy-peasy fun, this lark.
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07-04-2012, 20:14
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by garinda
Promises betrayed, and this stealthy slide into Big Brother Britain
Labour governments had a truly chilling disregard for this country’s ancient, hard-won freedoms.
The DNA of more than a million innocent people was stored on a vast official database. Town Halls were given James Bond-style powers to spy on people suspected of putting their rubbish bins out on the wrong day. Plans were drawn up to hold terror suspects without charge for 90 days.
Indeed, it was the desire to reduce the intrusive, liberty sapping powers amassed by the State which helped drive voters into the arms of the Lib Dems and the Conservatives
GCHQ monitoring plans: Stealthy slide into Big Brother Britain | Mail Online
Cut 'n' paste.
Cut 'n' paste.
Easy-peasy fun, this lark.
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Quite right, I hate this big brother nation that we have become. But I also detest our current government who nobody in the country has voted for. I don't know what the answer could be.
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07-04-2012, 20:46
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Re: The Tories
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Quite right, I hate this big brother nation that we have become. But I also detest our current government who nobody in the country has voted for. I don't know what the answer could be.
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Sadly people did vote for the parties who make up the coalition.
Who collectively got more seats than Labour.
I'm, no, I was, a life-long Labour supporter.
Now I'm totally, totally disillusioned with the Labour party, and thoroughly sickened with all the mainstream parties, if truth be told.
From now on I'll be voting for UKIP. As I believe our membership of the European Union is disastrous for the independence of this island nation. Now, and more so in the future.
In elections where I can't vote for a UKIP candidate, I shall attempt to split the vote of political parties, who continue to turn a blind-eye to the British people desperately wanting a say in their own destiny.
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08-04-2012, 10:12
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by garinda
Sadly people did vote for the parties who make up the coalition.
Who collectively got more seats than Labour.
I'm, no, I was, a life-long Labour supporter.
Now I'm totally, totally disillusioned with the Labour party, and thoroughly sickened with all the mainstream parties, if truth be told.
From now on I'll be voting for UKIP. As I believe our membership of the European Union is disastrous for the independence of this island nation. Now, and more so in the future.
In elections where I can't vote for a UKIP candidate, I shall attempt to split the vote of political parties, who continue to turn a blind-eye to the British people desperately wanting a say in their own destiny.
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I have been know to make statements on Accyweb before and have always stuck by them, If I'm still here at the time of the next General Election I will be voting UKIP too Rindi, sadly the party I have always supported have given me no choice in the matter
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08-04-2012, 10:20
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Re: The Tories
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Originally Posted by jaysay
I have been know to make statements on Accyweb before and have always stuck by them, If I'm still here at the time of the next General Election I will be voting UKIP too Rindi, sadly the party I have always supported have given me no choice in the matter
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Good man!
The newbies on here either don't know, or have forgotten, that I was just as much on your case in the past, as I am now with Dick Van Dyke, and Wee Jimmy Krankie, before you saw the light, and threw your blinkers away.
You'll be here by the way.
That vote's needed.
I'll a hire a nurse for you myself, if need be. To keep you going until the election.
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