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.

51080 - that was not remotely the question i raised so try again!

Student Movement Sparks Back To Life In Fight For #FreeEducation
Posted on November 20, 2014 by johnny void

A copper gets a paint job in response to the violent police attack
In a further sign that resistance to austerity is sparking back to life, students from across the UK marched in central London yesterday demanding the right to free education. This was the biggest student protest since the spiky demonstrations in 2010 when students smashed their way into the Tory Party headquarters.

As on previous protests, many students were not content to obediently march from A to B and then listen to politicians making boring and insincere speeches. Instead, when the march arrived at Parliament Square many protesters tore down the fences surrounding the square. These were erected after the recent Occupy protests and are intended to prevent any unofficial dissent against government policies outside the Houses of Parliament. So far they havent worked very well.

As hundreds of people occupied the Square, a large group broke away heading towards the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills where they were viciously attacked by police. This didn’t stop the Department, a local Starbucks and several coppers from being given an impromptu paint job as some demonstrators hurled makeshift paintbombs in resistance to the assault. Further sit down protests, and minor scuffles continued outside Scotland Yard and the Tory HQ as small groups headed off in different directions occupying roads and bringing traffic chaos to the capital.

11 people were arrested, although all were released without charge*. Many of those detained suffered injuries. According to event organisers, the National Coalition Against Fees and Cuts (NCFAC) one person who had been refused medical treatment in custody had to be taken to hospital immediately after being released. This is how the state now responds to even the most trivial civil disobedience.

There is no doubt that yesterday set the scene for the resurgence of a combative student movement in the run up to the next general election. And it’s not just students who should be pissed off. Young people now face a terrifying future of shit wages or workfare, inadequate and insecure housing and the healthcare and pensions they will need as they grow older being stripped away. Not one of the main political parties gives a fuck as an entire generation’s futures are demolished. So when you hear media commentators complaining about violence at these protests because a copper got his hat kncked off or someone threw a bit of paint at a government building then remember who the real criminals are.

The NUS were also targetted on the morning of the demonstrations, with graffiti accusing them of being scabs for not supporting the march. The unions pathetic excuse for this decision was concerns about health and safety as if some risk assessment is going to make a difference to a copper who’s decided to kick someone’s head in for not respecting their authority.

The last national student protest was organised by the NUS and featured a dispiriting march through the back streets of South London to a nondescript park in the pouring rain. It was probably the most depressing political non-event in history. The students who took action yesterday are better off without them.

More resistance is planned with a day of walk outs, occupations, protests and direct action called for on Wednesday December 3rd. On the following Saturday 6th December local marches will take place throughout the UK. Please help spread the word.

*Those arrested have been bailed to re-appear at police stations meaning they are not out of the woods yet. Activist support group Green and Black Cross have called on anyone who witnessed an arrest, or police violence, to contact them at: gbclegal@riseup.net.

GF,

Post 51151

“hilary, your boys have taken one hell of a beating, one hell of a beating.”

She knows how to use the whip lash.

I saw this image and thought of the Hairy one and Dave and George.

Hils

Many thanks - but wot a Bummer!

Wifey has put a parental ban on me Googling for beaver. :-(

Just for you

http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/beaver/

Anyone see this Tory Tosser being interviewed on C4 tonight, protecting the culprits in RBS who helped and incentivised it's staff to get small businesses closed down. http://www.parliament.uk/biographies/commons/mr-andrew-tyrie/112

no, but it's assuredly true about RBS doing the dirty on small businesses ..... they nearly screwed us over, yet we make £500/750k profit every year

fortunately we had good contacts in NL so moved everything over there

The RBS tactics go back to at least 2008.

It don't matter when the RBS tactics started or finished...when is someone going to go to jail?


pour encourager les autres

It does make a difference as you need to know when it was happening to know who to lock up.

Surely they have it chapter and verse Haystack, it's all written down.

Whats really lacking, is political will!

Yes Max, by this so called Government.

Last one too Fred!

All good and necessary things.

What were Gordon Brown's main successes and failings?


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21st century Foxy answered 4 years ago
I am no Brown fan, but the only thing good I can say is that he did bring in the national minimum wage for low paid workers and made a tremendous difference to lower paid workers. However, now for the bad, he ruined the pensions industry by taxing the profits on pensions investments to the tune of £50 billion year on year, and squandered money by creating an army of millions of non-jobs / civil servants. He never fixed the problems of Britain when the good times rolled, but instead left Britain with the biggest debt in living memory.


Butternut27 answered 4 years ago
Successes:

Claiming that the boom times were down to his work yet we all know that it was done to policies implemented yrs earlier as it always takes yrs to see the fruits of changed made in an economy.

Claiming/Lying that he (superman) had saved the world/global economy

Claiming/lying it was his idea to make the BoE independent something that had been in the pipeline b4 he had come along

Pretending to be normal with his strange freakish smile when he knew the cameras where on him...the psychiatrists in this country have a lot to answer for letting that man run around free...in the community

Failings - Believing his own claims and lies I mean there where so many failing with this strange man where do I start and how long have u got?


Successes?
He managed to sell off most of our gold reserves when their value was at the lowest ever.
He managed to run the country into the gutter which we are all paying for now.

Failings?
He lost the last election.....thank God.

Did I hear chapter and verse??

come on lefties the HAYS SONG.....ALTOGETHER NOW.......


On a South London ring road,

Diesel fumes in my hair,

Warm smell of samosas,

Rising up through the air.

Up ahead by the Poundshop,

I saw a flickering light,

Completely knackered and I needed a drink.

Thought I’d stop for the night.

AND THEN REPEAT FOR SECOND VERSE.

(written by Stan)

Its been a bad day for the Tories a bad day for the Tories, do da do da.

Its been a bad day for the Tories a bad day for the Tories doda do da.

Yeeeeee Haaaaaaaaaaaaa

Camoron still trending on twitter 4 nights on the trot now, that as to be a record.

The working man fights back against the TORY PRESS.

Tory Back Benches are not going to like this one jot as most of them have a twitter account.

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN, THE POWER OF SOCIAL NET WORKING.

(not all this dross from doodlebug on twitter)

Why is Gordon brown not that popular with 52% of voters for PM, after all the good he has done?
like
raiding the pension fund
increasing tax on the average working person to pay for labours failings.
increasing tax on air travel in the name of save the planet
and plenty more stealth tax rises.
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the dougal answered 8 years ago
phew, was relieved to see the extra bit to your question, thought you'd gone mad!
Scary thing is, what's the alternative? slimeball Blair or his clone Cameron? argh!
Where's the REAL labour party gone?
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5 out of 5
I am not that mad yet!

The reason for this is most likely because the Labour Party has now developed too many negative connotations. It is a similar situation to that seen in the 90s with the Conservative Party. The trouble is that each and every government is going to be constantly attempting to make up for what the previous government messed up regardless of the party. It is impossible for any government to please all of the people all of the time. Gordon Brown will be the next Prime Minister because there is no better Labour candidate out there at the moment. To be honest there are no real parties out there at the moment either - they seem to have converged and are each trying to tackle the middle ground, TRYING to please the most people.

Yes it has cost the public 100 billion pounds-his raid on pension funds. Once they were the envy of the world but now they have become the worst in the space of only nine years. And he has the gall to believe he should lead us. The man couldn't administrate a creche properly. I think he should be sentenced to do community butlering for either John Prescott or The Beast of Bolsover Dennis Skinner.

Not forgetting the billions he has given to Africa instead of using the money to fight the poverty he has caused in this country!! I hope a) is does NOT become the next leader and b) For the hardship he has caused many hard working Brits whilst throwing OUR money away and rewarding the unemployed and immigrants that he die a slow painful and VERY lonely death!!!!!!!!!!!!

I believe that he is very popular in Scotland - a country with a population of four million but only 160,000 net tax payers. Thanks to Gordon, Scotland is financed by London and the South East of England.


Guilt by association. And you left out the price increases of petrol due to taxation.

Gordon Brown as prime minister ? Gorden bennet! i think not. what, do we want another recession? got to love it when your own government takes money off you for their extravagant lifestyles and to give it to immigrants......will they get my vote at the next election hmmmmmmm let me think about it ..........ive thought about it NO!