goldfinger
- 09 Jun 2005 12:25
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.
goldfinger
- 25 Nov 2014 12:45
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#CameronMustGo – A Letter A Day To Number 10 25/11/2014
A letter a day to number 10. No 926 – also available on Social Action.
Tuesday 25 November 2014. #CameronMustGo.
Shares are encouraged and welcomed. If this letter speaks for you and you wish to send your own copy please feel free to copy and paste, and alter for your own needs, the text for your own letter.
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http://www.keithordinaryguy.org.uk/
Dear Mr Cameron,
Language is a wonderful thing, Mr Cameron, but its deliberate use and abuse to manipulate, oppress, use and abuse others is not just vile, it is an assault on their humanity and dignity and as such it is a violation. The language of psychology is a young discipline, less than 100 years old, and yet in that time it has made great advances to help and enable people to live more fulfilling and better lives, especially those who have suffered some kind of life trauma. However, there is a dark and ominous side to psychology, exemplified by the work of Edward Bernays, in which psychology is used to manipulate and control others. It is not too strong a description to say that such manipulation is psychological rape, after all if you control the mind you control the person. One needs to look no further than Nazi Germany to see how successful mind manipulation (propaganda) can be.
It’s interesting reading a report on your one foray into the world of work, 7 years as a PR man for Carlton TV. I’d guess that working for and with Michael Green must have groomed your skills at manipulation well, especially in someone described by Sky News business presenter Jeff Randall thus – “I wouldn’t trust him with my daughter’s pocket money”. The point being that you are clearly no stranger to the dark arts of PR and manipulation.
Since you inveigled your way into number 10 you and your government have relentlessly and fairly successfully sought to manipulate and change the social perception of the poor as malingerers and by constant inference, as people who do not want to get on, thus laying the ground work for your war on the poor and the role of Iain Duncan Smith as the orchestrator of his all out onslaught against the poorest and most vulnerable people in society.
It comes as no surprise to discover that a letter demanding the presence of a woman who is over 90 to a ‘Service Compliance Office Interview’, was couched in language designed to intimidate and overwhelm, especially in an aged person. Language, indeed, worthy of the Third Reich. Less ‘Nudge Unit’, more like assault. I understand that you have been raised and trained to have an incredibly thick skin but that doesn’t make you fit for office, quite the reverse. Currently trending on Twitter is the hash tag #CameronMustGo, indeed, along with the rest of your bully boy thugs.
goldfinger
- 25 Nov 2014 12:48
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goldfinger
- 25 Nov 2014 12:53
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cynic
- 25 Nov 2014 12:59
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i want to tax the verbiage specifically from fred, stick and hays!
just 1p per word should pay within a month for a luxury holiday for family for 4
:-)
Fred1new
- 25 Nov 2014 13:20
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Jealousy will get you everywhere!
cynic
- 25 Nov 2014 13:30
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i just want my holiday paid for :-)
Shortie
- 25 Nov 2014 13:39
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Cynic just go on holiday then and when you return complain like mad, you'd be amazed at the compensations that get paid out! Most ABTA bonded tour-operators just don't have the capacity to fully deal with complaints plus the cost of tribunal puts them off defending themselves anyway..
Fred1new
- 25 Nov 2014 13:43
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When i grows up to I, you can have a holiday.
But if it wasn't so serious the political scene would be funny.
With the clowns at the centre of government, and a clown like Farage looking in from the outside!
I used to like clowns!
Sang at party Central Office:
Isn't it rich, isn't it queer?
Losing my timing this late in my career
And where are the clowns? Quick send in the clowns
Don't bother they're here
Shortie
- 25 Nov 2014 13:51
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MaxK
- 25 Nov 2014 13:52
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New crackdown on welfare to lift the economy by £7bn
A CRACKDOWN on welfare handouts is to be massively expanded next year, Iain Duncan Smith will announce today.
By: Macer Hall
Published: Tue, November 25, 2014
The Tory Work and Pensions Secretary is to promise that his universal credit benefit system will be delivered by a third of job centres by next spring.
And he insisted the new payment, which replaces six other benefits for jobseekers, will boost the economy by about £7billion a year by encouraging welfare claimants back into work.
Mr Duncan Smith last night launched a blistering attack on Labour for leaving millions of claimants addicted to handouts.
Labour left us with a welfare state that simply wasn’t fit for purpose
Iain Duncan Smith
He said: “Labour left us with a welfare state that simply wasn’t fit for purpose, spending billions of taxpayers’ money on a system that frequently trapped the very people it was supposed to help in cycles of worklessness and welfare dependency.
“It was so complicated you needed a maths degree to see if it was worth taking a job.
more:
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/539628/Iain-Duncan-Smith-Expands-Welfare-Crackdown
Shortie
- 25 Nov 2014 13:54
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Fred1new
- 25 Nov 2014 14:03
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Haze and Manuel,
Are the Confidence Trickster's party trying to lose the next election?
Perhaps, if so, the wisest thing they are doing in the last 5 years!
Haystack
- 25 Nov 2014 14:19
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Look forward to the crackdown.
Shortie
- 25 Nov 2014 14:24
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There's been alot of talk about supermarkets being the culprit for small farmers going bust recently, but another culprit thats not been discussed is the EU Common Agricultural Policy.
The idea that the CAP protects small farmers and the rural way of life is a myth. Eighty percent of CAP aid goes to just 25 percent of farms. The biggest slice of the subsidy pie is handed to the landed gentry, environment- destroying mega-farm and vast agro-industrial conglomerates. Figures from the UK show Queen Elizabeth II gets around half-a-million euro a year. Food industry giants like Campina or Nestle have been handed hundreds of millions. Small-scale European farmers get little and poor farmers in developing nations are shut out of European markets.
Just another reason why we should say good bye to Euro and a policy designed to keep the rich, rich...
cynic
- 25 Nov 2014 14:27
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i'ld bet the biggest slice of any EU farm subsidy goes to the inefficient french farmers and other big slabs to the likes of italy who have told mega porkies about what has been planted (olive trees), dug up (old vines) or just left to lie fallow
Shortie
- 25 Nov 2014 14:39
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Of course Cynic, potentially anyone with land can benefit from CAP its so open to abuse and miss-managent. CAP is a double whammy for your wallet. Taxpayers fork out billions in subsidies then pay again when CAP artificially inflates food prices. CAP supporters say this is a price to pay for food security – that’s nonsense. With free trade we could import bountiful cheap food from the United States, Canada, China and elsewhere in the globalized world. Food security just isn’t a problem. CAP artificially shields farmers from healthy competition hindering the evolution of more modern, more efficient agriculture. Personally I think there is too much food regulation, what's wrong with a wonkey carrot, why is so much un-uniform food put to waste when food banks could readily be stocked..! Just where is the sense in all this, there is none, except for if you own a large estate and can claim EU farming subsidies for it...
Shortie
- 25 Nov 2014 14:43
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Now lets think about it, you own a large estate, the government tax you for owning it on one hand, pays the EU CAP on the other and you simply claim the money plus a bit more back, erm TAX Free... sounds like a nice loop hole doesn't it... Unfortunately you only produced wonkey carrots on your land that year that were not uniform enough to enter into the EU's food chain and thus had to be disposed of, meaning you also now have a claim for compensation... Its better than benefit fraud this one!!
Haystack
- 25 Nov 2014 14:59
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The wonky carrot business is not the EU. It is the supermarket's choice to do with appearance. My local greengrocer sells wonky carrots.
aldwickk
- 25 Nov 2014 15:01
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Those 60 wet wipes , it was for 60 boxes