Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

It is because we are too honest in our stats. Italy and France in particular, lie about their economies. We are regarded as the gold standard regarding our statistics.

whoops - sorry!
just been corrected, it's you she likes flogging but apparently it's mutual pleasure
she says that the reason you weren't on here for a couple of weeks is that she got over-excited and you then couldn't sit on a chair to type

OBR are now like Bank of England, separate and give an unbiased opinion. ..........My arse.

Thing is tho they are based at nos 11 Downing street and we all know who lives,there.

Would be same under labour. ...........certainly.

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Without doubt, immigration. Iraq will stop one day, the effects of immigration will be with us forever. We should never forget which Government was responsible, that, and many other crimes.

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5 out of 5absolutely right Veritas, bad as Iraq is it will someday be history. mass immigration will not only be our history it will be our future
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Rodriguez answered 7 years ago


Getting into power - actually no, that was the mistake of other people for thinking they would improve the country, not make it 10 times worse. Everyone sing along now...

There's a circus in the town, in the town
Gordon Brown is a clown, is a clown
And Alistair Darling's a tight-fisted ****
And Labour, are going f**king down!

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Simon600 answered 7 years ago


Veritas is right, mass immigration has spoilt our old community and I hope the electorate never forgive them

Gordon Brown, please go and take your experimental internationalisation of the UK with you. If your party ever gets into power in say 50 years I hope you ASK the people before making such a change to the UK.( By then you may need to ask in Arabic)

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lucii answered 7 years ago


Nothing goes as it is promised. This lot may go, but the other party's have to clear up, make their own mistakes, and were back to black But in my opinion immigration is the worst.

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Nicholas answered 7 years ago


In terms of immigration is not all labours fault, some of this is stipulated by the EU about freedom of movement within the EU. Am not saying labour are blameless but there are other factors involved.
To be fair i would like more British people getting access to British jobs and think its a disgrace that British doctors who graduate from Britian are not picked first by the NHS but go for the option of foreign graduates/doctors.

Before anyone comments i am not racist i would just like to see our country support our people. I am talking about graduate opportunities not the job market in general as foreign workers do help contribue where they are a shortage of skills

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Zed answered 7 years ago


Harriet Harmon in a Stab Vest has got to be one of their biggest mistakes. lol...

A fine example of what 10 years of Labour Government does to a country. They've f*cked it up so bad, they themselves feel unsafe in their own constituencies. What an appalling message to the nation.

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CLIVE H answered 7 years ago



Withdrawing the 10pence income tax band for the lower paid. This is the group most likely to vote Labour at any election.

This group probably took thei pencils down to the voting booth and placed a firm X against the Tory candidate's name.

I know what I'm talking about - I'm working in the lower paid sector as a cleaner. I don't want benefits, I just want my money from my work with as low a tax level as possible.

I'm now £500 a year worse off thanks to Gawdin Brahn.

If food prices continue on up, I may be forced to ask for benefits for the first time ever in my life.

Just how crap is that?

Not only am I made poorer by Labour, but I'm not voting for them ever again.

"Gordon Brown - a black curse on you and all your family and your party. Go down into Hell and vomit black worms for ten billion years - you bastard".

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Zzap! answered 7 years ago


The BIGGEST mistake made was "in" 1997 was by those who voted Labour in, in the first place. They have been a total disaster and now a total humiliation

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Anna1223 answered 7 years ago


Iraq, but the Conservatives would have been more for it than labour as I remember when Thatcher made us a state of the USA and let the USA use our country as an airport to bomb Libya, while the USA was planning a protective shield and we would have nothing.

As for everything else people complain about, I think it's better now than it used to be. I went to France on a coach when the Conservatives were in power and nobody checked my passport when I came back to Britain. I was surprised as it was when the IRA were planting a lot of bombs. I went on the same trip recently and it was really strict with immigration checking my details. Immigration came onto the coach to check our passports, then we had to get out while they checked our bags and the coach and our passports were checked again before we got back onto the coach.

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Rommel answered 7 years ago


every one (including labour MPs) put it down to the 10p tax thing, but i don't think that did it. i think the rot had set in when immigration went through the roof and labour refused to listen to the people and close the borders. + we all kind of woke up to the fact that most of the EU were off loading their!! immigration problem on to us. (France in particular) so with that! a lot of people realised that being part of the EU meant being **** on and used as a dumping ground......labours desperation to please the EU and so book their safe little seats on the EU gravy train caused them to put immigrants rights before the rights of the indigenous people's....that was a big mistake. and i don't think the people will ever forgive them for it.

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Rob l answered 7 years ago


They hurt the traditional voters by imposing a smoking ban.
The Middle class voters were not enough to swing the votes in their favour.
Although they try to gag people who disagree with the ban: this will not be forgotten.
Unless they amend the ban to allow smoking, and non smoking pubs and clubs, the licence trade will disappear with along with New Labour.

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welsh girl answered 7 years ago


Tony Blair deceived us and took us to war in IRAQ
The flood gates were opened to immigrants
fortunately Blair left and I was glad to see him go .

I for one believed in Mr Brown and trusted him I thought he was a decent caring man and unlike Blair did not try to be a celebrity.
but the latest 10 p tax disaster is going to be the final straw for the hard working poor and pensioners .
If Mr Brown does not revert to the old tax most of his supporters like me will desert the Labour Party and vote as we have in local elections and shock the core of Labour.They have been warned ignore the electorate at their peril.

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Ferrari Babe ¸.•*´`*♥ ♥*´`*•.¸ answered 7 years ago


B-liar sold us out to the EU for the chance of a job as EU President. Fortunately Belgium have objected (I knew Belgium must have a purpose) to his eligibility. Labour were ill prepared, their policies 'fluid', and they have consistently put everyone else before the indigenous population. Uncontrolled immigration has been disastrous for England, our society, our infrastructure, our welfare and NHS. Tax payers money floods out of this country in foreign aid, whilst our elderly have to choose between heating and eating, and admission to an NHS hospital can be a death sentence due to poor hygiene. I can't think of one single way in which Labour have improved my country, or my quality of life. Traitorous bastards.

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angela answered 7 years ago


Gordon Brown, by the looks of things.

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Neil T answered 7 years ago


Getting elected?

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ootmaheid answered 7 years ago


Breathing! The invasion of Iraq.....there are so many mistakes to choose from....very difficult question :)

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Steve M answered 7 years ago


Uncontrolled immigration.

ha ha he he Cynic, you silly sod just blurted out my orange drink, all over the f-ing Key board.

I owe you won buster.

Labour's worst crime wasn't Iraq – it was welfare




By Ed West Politics Last updated: November 9th, 2009

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The comedian Mark Steel once said that the Iraq War was so fundamentally wrong and evil that grumbling about Labour's other mistakes was like complaining that Ian Huntley was a rubbish caretaker – in other words, that crime was so terrible that everything else pales into insignificance.

I'd disagree. Labour's worst crime wasn't Iraq, it was welfare. In his excellent The Rotten State of Britain, Eamonn Butler records that the turning point for Labour came on 27 July 1998, "when Frank Field, the Minister of State for welfare reform, was reshuffled into oblivion. Blair had asked the veteran anti-poverty campaigner to 'think the unthinkable' on welfare reform. He did: he wanted an attack on benefit fraud, tighter controls on incapacity benefit, and the end of the perverse incentives that he thought created a dependent, work-shy underclass. But his proposals were by then far too radical for an administration that had already settled comfortably into power and did not want to frighten its own left wing."

And as this league table of benefits show, it was for nakedly cynical political reasons – an incredible 189 of the top 200 constituencies for benefit-claiming are represented by Labour MPs (and it'll be back to 190 if they hang on to Glasgow North East).

It is not the people in these parts of the country are lazy or natural scroungers – it is that the system encourages them to live off the state.

Butler points out: "People find that if they can actually worsen their circumstances – or pretend to – they will qualify for additional benefits.

"For example, because the government's tax credit system gives particular help to one-parent families, it ends up creating one-parent families. A single mother who works 16 hours a week on the minimum wage and is paid tax credits could achieve an income of £487 a week. But a two-parent family on minimum wages would have to work a hundred hours longer to achieve the same income."

At least Tony Blair invaded Iraq with good intentions; Labour's decision to keep millions on benefits was cynical, and to anyone with real "values", not the pantomime Presbyterianism the Prime Minister parades, morally wrong. Idleness saps the spirit and eventually the mind and body too – which is reflected in the fact that even at the height of the insurgency Iraqi male life expectancy never fell below 67, while in Calton in Glasgow, where 44 per cent are on incapacity benefit, it's 54. So Blair the war criminal has done less harm than Brown the welfare criminal.

Wish Mr Carson would come back into the community rather than being an outcast protecting another board member.

Things would start at - ie nil and best forgotten.

Biggest mistake Labour made was giving away our EU veto. Things in the EU would be very different now with the veto.

Haze,

It is only those jolly foreigners who tell lies.

We (exclude me) always tell the truth.

That is why Cameron day by day resembles a beetroot more and more.

Well funny enough on SKY news last night all this open ess was caused by Thatcher agreeing to a 1986 to open boarders in return for some bunkum excuse.,

Wish Chris C would come back aboard.......... it got out of hand both ways....repeat....

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Wish Mr Carson would come back into the community rather than being an outcast protecting another board member.

Things would start at - ie nil and best forgotten.

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Ed Miliband will today admit that the previous Labour government made serious mistakes on immigration, as he unveils tough new policies to ensure that migrants do not squeeze British workers out of jobs.

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The Labour leader will end his party's reluctance to address the issue head-on by admitting that voters are anxious about immigration. He will insist that such fears "do not make them bigots" and that his hard-edged new approach is not a lurch to the right.

In a major speech to the Institute for Public Policy Research, Mr Miliband will propose:

l A ban on employment agencies recruiting only or mainly migrants.

l An early-warning system when employers, sectors and regions have at least 25 per cent low-wage, foreign workers so local people can be trained to get more jobs.

l Tough transitional controls when new members such as Croatia and Turkey join the European Union.

l Stricter enforcement of minimum-wage laws, after evidence that many migrants are paid less than the minimum wage, with maximum fines for breaches by employers doubled to £10,000.

Immigration is a sensitive issue for Labour, whose worst moment of the 2010 election campaign came when Gordon Brown was confronted by a party supporter, Gillian Duffy, in Rochdale about the number of people from eastern Europe now living in the UK – and referred to her as a "bigoted woman" in private remarks captured by a television microphone.

In what will be seen as a mea culpa, Mr Miliband will admit today: "We became disconnected from the concerns of working people. And, to them, Labour was too quick to say 'like it or lump it.'"

Crucially, Mr Miliband will argue that immigration must be seen as an economic issue. "We were dazzled by globalisation and too sanguine about its price. By focusing exclusively on immigration's impact on growth, we lost sight of who was benefiting from that growth – and the people being squeezed in the middle who were losing out," he will say. He will add: "It was a mistake not to impose transitional controls on accession from eastern European countries. We severely underestimated the number of people who would come here."

In another departure from Mr Brown's stance, Mr Miliband will say: "I'm not going to promise 'British jobs for British workers' or pretend that a cap on a tiny fraction of migrants will solve everything.

"But we do need to offer working people a fair crack of the whip and set out a new approach to this issue which can offer real ways of addressing their legitimate concerns."

Mr Miliband will insist he is not proposing a quota of jobs for British workers. But every medium and large employer with more than 25 per cent foreign workers – double the average share of migrants in the population – should have to notify Jobcentre Plus. If necessary, local and central government would then ensure better training to help local workers fill the skills gap.

Chris

You need to edit some of those copy&paste post's

wasn't trying to win points let alone pints you silly old shagged nag
not bad for an old fart though :-)

Come on Chris, dont be daft.

GF.

My memory started at birth and is indexed!




















Now where is that b, index?




Come to that where is my b. stick?

LOL! just jogging your memory gf, amnesia is an illness as well you know.

Don't worry, Chris isn't daft, in fact he's got all his marbles which you obviously don't.

Amnesia is an illness and so is telling lies.