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#1 Jul 25 2008 at 5:27 AM Rating: Decent
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Labour lost their 25th safest seat (out of 600 odd) to the Scottish National Party today. The SNP plan a referendum on Scottish independance in the next few years and are already in power in Scotland.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article4397000.ece wrote:
Labour MP calls for Brown to quit after by-election humiliation

The Cabinet must tell Gordon Brown it’s time to quit, a Labour MP said today, beginning what is expected to become a clamour for his resignation.

Graham Stringer said that it was time for a “new start” in the wake of the loss of Labour’s 25th safest seat, Glasgow East, in yesterday’s by-election.

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Labour had hoped that their appalling run of electoral losses would end in one of Scotland’s greatest Labour strongholds. The SNP’s John Mason, however, ended the party's 84-year grip on the constituency, declaring the victory as "not just a political earthquake, it is off the Richter scale”.

Labour Cabinet Minister’s were forced to accept the severity of the defeat.

Des Browne, Secretary of State for Defence and Scotland, claimed that Margaret Curran, the popular Labour candidate, had run a good campaign but could not fight off the national hostility to the Government.


Most of the newspapers are saying it's not so much a vote for independance as a protest against Brown (from the article, it's common for small parties to win by-elections and then lose them again come the general election, which has more effect on who runs the country). It's still very bad news for labour. I wonder how Brown will react?

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#2 Jul 25 2008 at 5:31 AM Rating: Decent
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It's good to see you stupid bastards getting ready to vote Labour out of power again over meaningless *********
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#3 Jul 25 2008 at 5:32 AM Rating: Good
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Youshutup wrote:
I wonder how Brown will react?


By finding a way to avoid a leadership election within the Labour party. As sad it is, our next government will be Tory.

Having said that, I'm pro-Scottish independence if the Scots want it. No reason not to. They already got their own football team, what more do you need these days?
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#4 Jul 25 2008 at 5:34 AM Rating: Excellent
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I'm pro-Scottish independence if the Scots want it.
I blame Kosovo.
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#5 Jul 25 2008 at 5:42 AM Rating: Good
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Jophiel wrote:
I blame Kosovo.


Welcome to the Balkans!
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#6 Jul 25 2008 at 5:53 AM Rating: Decent
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I'm all for an Independant Scotland, that way i won't have to pay more of my taxes to them.
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#7 Jul 25 2008 at 5:54 AM Rating: Good
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I'm all for an Independant Scotland, that way i won't have to pay more of my taxes to them.


That's exactly why I'm pro-independent for London.

And that's only up to zone 2!
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#8 Jul 25 2008 at 5:58 AM Rating: Decent
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It's not so much meaningless ******** as a lack of.. ANYTHING. The public (more accurately, the newspapers and press) want showmanship and instant gratification. Brown hasn't given them anything. He's introduced a couple of really bad policies (scrapping the 10p starting rate of tax for low earners) and done nothing memorable. If people have examples of positive change he's affected I'm all ears.

Right now it seems like he thinks he can rest on his laurels. This is just the people's way of saying that he can't.
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#9 Jul 25 2008 at 6:02 AM Rating: Decent
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Right now it seems like he thinks he can rest on his laurels. This is just the people's way of saying that he can't.

No, the people's way of saying that he can't will be to put a government in power that actively works to make their lives worse while enriching a tiny minority of Britons.

We've seen this movie before, it's no mystery what will happen. The Torries will hold power a while, squeezing the middle class until Labour finds a leader who stare purposefully at a camera.

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With regards policy there is almost no difference in the three major parties, that would be why less than half the population bothers to vote.

I feel totally unrepresented, none of the political party's have any interest in me other than a cash cow.

The British politician has mastered the art of "more words, less substance."
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#11 Jul 25 2008 at 6:09 AM Rating: Decent
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With regards policy there is almost no difference in the three major parties, that would be why less than half the population bothers to vote.


This isn't even close to true, although it's in the interest of the ruling class to cultivate apathy.

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#12 Jul 25 2008 at 8:08 AM Rating: Decent
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No, the people's way of saying that he can't will be to put a government in power that actively works to make their lives worse while enriching a tiny minority of Britons.


What, like by scrapping the 10p starting rate on tax for low earners or something?

Oh, wait..

Allowing billionaires and city boys to live in London and pay little to no tax through foreign nationality or tax avoidance? Claiming "gifts" instead of "pay hikes"?

Oh, wait..

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7193904.stm wrote:
The rapidly rising incomes of the richest 10% of the population are the major factor contributing to growing inequality in Britain.

Incomes for those individuals in the middle of the income distribution have risen at broadly the same rate compared to one another, with those at the lower end gaining slightly.

But overall, the gap between the bottom 10% and the top 10% has widened.

The top 10% of individuals in the UK now receive 40% of all personal income, while the bottom 90% receive 60%.

The top 0.1% get 4.3% of all income - the highest figure in the UK since the 1930s, and three times as much as they received as a share of income in 1979.

Overall, inequality rose sharply between 1979 and 1990, and then levelled off before increasing more slowly to reach a record high by 2001, and return to that level in 2006.

The report says that "income inequality is at its highest level since the late 1940s".

However it adds: "Even if we are more unequal now than we were in the 1940s, we are almost certainly better off in absolute terms."


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#13 Jul 25 2008 at 12:38 PM Rating: Decent
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The British politician has mastered the art of "more words, less substance."


I thought Gbaji was from San diego.
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The rapidly rising incomes of the richest 10% of the population are the major factor contributing to growing inequality in Britain.

Incomes for those individuals in the middle of the income distribution have risen at broadly the same rate compared to one another, with those at the lower end gaining slightly.

But overall, the gap between the bottom 10% and the top 10% has widened.

The top 10% of individuals in the UK now receive 40% of all personal income, while the bottom 90% receive 60%.

The top 0.1% get 4.3% of all income - the highest figure in the UK since the 1930s, and three times as much as they received as a share of income in 1979.

Overall, inequality rose sharply between 1979 and 1990, and then levelled off before increasing more slowly to reach a record high by 2001, and return to that level in 2006.


One, that's a workers paradise when compared to the US.

Two, how is it that voting the Torries into power, who OPENLY ADVOCATE for further stratification of wealth is going help?

I get it. You want change, grr! Voting Labour out of power is like cutting your hand off because your nail clippers broke.

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how is it that voting the Tories into power, who OPENLY ADVOCATE for further stratification of wealth
So do new labour, hence my previous post about lack of choice.
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#16 Jul 25 2008 at 1:04 PM Rating: Decent
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So do new labour, hence my previous post about lack of choice.

See my previous post about apathy benefiting the status quo.


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#17 Jul 25 2008 at 2:46 PM Rating: Decent
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The British politician has mastered the art of "more words, less substance."

Wow, maybe gbaji can move there and be elected King!
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#18 Jul 25 2008 at 3:05 PM Rating: Decent
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Wow, maybe gbaji can move there and be elected King!

They don't elect those, you have to fall out of the lucky ****** at just the right time.

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#19 Jul 26 2008 at 8:44 AM Rating: Excellent
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True...I don't think gbaji fell from a ****** in any case, he was rolled out of a typewriter.
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we all know liberals are well adjusted american citizens who only want what's best for society. While conservatives are evil money grubbing scum who only want to sh*t on the little man and rob the world of its resources.
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#20 Jul 26 2008 at 9:03 AM Rating: Good
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Damn Wallace,Who fired up the braveheart movie again
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