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15 hours ago, Warwick Hunt said:

I see that Sarwar has promised to bring equality.

That was Pol Pot's aim as well wasn't it?

Um it's really amazing that guys like you seem to be unaware of mad, murderous right wing dictators.  :bag

Laissez-faire capitalism has been discredited too, so basically it all comes down to how much legislation of the market you support. The degree of socialist policies on offer from Labour, the Lib Dems & the SNP are disappointing (to me) and despite the Daily Mail rhetoric nothing to worry the middle classes or the rich while Theresa May after making some early noises about wanting to curb "the unacceptable face of capitalism" has clearly ditched this in an attempt to gather any support she can for her disintegrating Brexit policy. 

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I see that Sarwar has promised to bring equality.

That was Pol Pot's aim as well wasn't it?

Is he promising equality for the workers at his family business (the one he's a millionaire share holder in)
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On 12/09/2017 at 3:14 PM, Bellside Bud said:

 

Today I fed my family of 3 

6 eggs Free range £1.70

Toast                            £1.00 for a loaf still some left but we used about 3/4rds 

                                       £1.00 for buttter and marmalade.  maybe a bit generous, but I do like to put it on thick 

Orange juice            £1.00

Hot Chocolate     £1.00 for the milk 

                                      £0.50 lets say for coco and sugar 

Potatoes                 £1.50 for Jersey royals 

Corn on the cob  £2.00

Salmon                   £9,00 but not connor salmon 

                                    £2.00 for lemon, butter, oilve oil, herbs etc.

Ice cream             £5.00  

Choc sauce        £2.00 

Fresh fruit       £3.00

Biscuits             £1,00 (cream crackers)

Cheese             £2,00 (still some left)

still got supper to make later,  I guess that will be another £ 3-8 depending on how greedy we are. 

Total estimate £39 

Do I win a prize?

 

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1 hour ago, insaintee said:

Today I fed my family of 3 

6 eggs Free range £1.70

Toast                            £1.00 for a loaf still some left but we used about 3/4rds 

                                       £1.00 for buttter and marmalade.  maybe a bit generous, but I do like to put it on thick 

Orange juice            £1.00

Hot Chocolate     £1.00 for the milk 

                                      £0.50 lets say for coco and sugar 

Potatoes                 £1.50 for Jersey royals 

Corn on the cob  £2.00

Salmon                   £9,00 but not connor salmon 

                                    £2.00 for lemon, butter, oilve oil, herbs etc.

Ice cream             £5.00  

Choc sauce        £2.00 

Fresh fruit       £3.00

Biscuits             £1,00 (cream crackers)

Cheese             £2,00 (still some left)

still got supper to make later,  I guess that will be another £ 3-8 depending on how greedy we are. 

Total estimate £39 

Do I win a prize?

 

Aye, you're on a "eat feck all" diet for the rest of the week. 

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Um it's really amazing that guys like you seem to be unaware of mad, murderous right wing dictators.  :bag



Did any of them promise equality?

The UK has been around a 50/50 split between the private and public sectors for decades. Hardly laissez faire economics.

I actually think that folk like you really would prefer a return to year zero just cos you can't stand some folk being better off than you!
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Today I fed my family of 3 
6 eggs Free range £1.70
Toast                            £1.00 for a loaf still some left but we used about 3/4rds 
                                       £1.00 for buttter and marmalade.  maybe a bit generous, but I do like to put it on thick 
Orange juice            £1.00
Hot Chocolate     £1.00 for the milk 
                                      £0.50 lets say for coco and sugar 
Potatoes                 £1.50 for Jersey royals 
Corn on the cob  £2.00
Salmon                   £9,00 but not connor salmon 
                                    £2.00 for lemon, butter, oilve oil, herbs etc.
Ice cream             £5.00  
Choc sauce        £2.00 
Fresh fruit       £3.00
Biscuits             £1,00 (cream crackers)
Cheese             £2,00 (still some left)
still got supper to make later,  I guess that will be another £ 3-8 depending on how greedy we are. 
Total estimate £39 
Do I win a prize?
 


For £39 you could have faraway's wife for a week.

In saying that, his wife usually pays me.
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22 minutes ago, Warwick Hunt said:

 

Did any of them promise equality

 

You asked the question so that invalidates Godwin's Law - Hitler did. Perón did in Argentina too.

It's a fairly common right wing ploy, pick your scapegoat and promise everything will be rosy once they've been sorted out. It's still the "go to" policy of the right with Tory rhetoric on this topic eventually leading us to the present Brexit fiasco and just look at Trump in the US.

22 minutes ago, Warwick Hunt said:


The UK has been around a 50/50 split between the private and public sectors for decades. Hardly laissez faire economics.
 

Did I say otherwise?

22 minutes ago, Warwick Hunt said:


I actually think that folk like you really would prefer a return to year zero just cos you can't stand some folk being better off than you!

 

 

The rhetoric of forelock tuggers throughout time and space......................

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Let me get this straight, so right wing mad men promised equality?

 

So, in other words, the National Socialists were in fact, umm, socialists?

 

The nazis were lefties with a scapegoat. It was the scapegoat which made them "right wing".

 

Proper lefties don't bother killing a scapegoat. They treat everyone equally. They just kill everyone.

 

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9 minutes ago, Warwick Hunt said:

Let me get this straight, so right wing mad men promised equality?

 

So, in other words, the National Socialists were in fact, umm, socialists?

 

The nazis were lefties with a scapegoat. It was the scapegoat which made them "right wing".

 

Proper lefties don't bother killing a scapegoat. They treat everyone equally. They just kill everyone.

 

The Nazis were never Socialists that's just a red herring.

George Orwell summed the Nazis economic policies up best by saying that the rich had nothing to fear from them unless they were Jewish.

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31 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:

The Nazis were never Socialists that's just a red herring.

George Orwell summed the Nazis economic policies up best by saying that the rich had nothing to fear from them unless they were Jewish.

Bizarrely he could have said more or less the same in Stalinist USSR. Just substitute the word "rich" for the phrase "communist party members". 

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52 minutes ago, Bellside Bud said:

Bizarrely he could have said more or less the same in Stalinist USSR. Just substitute the word "rich" for the phrase "communist party members". 

Another non sequitur Stuart,  in fact nothing much has changed in that head of yours - has it? 

Still it's good to see you're on your best behaviour - hope it continues. 

Should start a sweepstake on how long it takes before you flounce out again - a year tops is my offer.

PS - Didn't you always criticize posters hiding behind an alias?

 

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16 hours ago, insaintee said:

Today I fed my family of 3 

6 eggs Free range £1.70

Toast                            £1.00 for a loaf still some left but we used about 3/4rds 

                                       £1.00 for buttter and marmalade.  maybe a bit generous, but I do like to put it on thick 

Orange juice            £1.00

Hot Chocolate     £1.00 for the milk 

                                      £0.50 lets say for coco and sugar 

Potatoes                 £1.50 for Jersey royals 

Corn on the cob  £2.00

Salmon                   £9,00 but not connor salmon 

                                    £2.00 for lemon, butter, oilve oil, herbs etc.

Ice cream             £5.00  

Choc sauce        £2.00 

Fresh fruit       £3.00

Biscuits             £1,00 (cream crackers)

Cheese             £2,00 (still some left)

still got supper to make later,  I guess that will be another £ 3-8 depending on how greedy we are. 

Total estimate £39 

Do I win a prize?

 

I actually feel sick reading that list. :lol:

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The Scottish and Welsh governments are acting in unison in an attempt to combat the "power grab" being planned by the Tories as part of their grand Brexit strategy (oxymoron alert) yet SLab (& Slibdems) have been strangely silent over the issue while SCons appear to be doing their usual job of standing up for Scotland.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41312400

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4 minutes ago, Bud the Baker said:

The Scottish and Welsh governments are acting in unison in an attempt to combat the "power grab" being planned by the Tories as part of their grand Brexit strategy (oxymoron alert) yet SLab (& Slibdems) have been strangely silent over the issue while SCons appear to be doing their usual job of standing up for Scotland.

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-41312400

Everyone knew this was going to happen, and let be honest here----- The Scottish and Welsh Govs are powerless..................

I actually for once agree with Willie Rennie, SNPs are dead and will lose next Scottish elections 

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50 minutes ago, DougJamie said:

Everyone knew this was going to happen, and let be honest here----- The Scottish and Welsh Govs are powerless..................

I actually for once agree with Willie Rennie, SNPs are dead and will lose next Scottish elections 

A poor set of elections for the SNP this year with a misjudgement on how enthusiastic about the EEC the 62% who voted Remain were but the underlying situation remains unchanged - Scotland is an irrelevance to the Tories whom I can't see improving their share of the vote in Scotland by much and Labour are in even more turmoil now that Kezia's quit her RD tribute act (which is where this thread started).

The backtracking on issues like the military contracts "guaranteed" for Clydeside prior to the referendum shows the reality of the "Union".

As ever what will be, will be........... 

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With more than three and a half years to go until the next Scottish elections, anyone who thinks they can predict the outcome is as intelligent as, well, Willie Rennie.  Come back in two years and you MIGHT be able to offer an opinion that has something to back it up.


What he actually means is that in the next election the UK will be dead and ipso facto so will the SNP. We'll be voting along 'traditional' party lines instead for the first government of an independent Scotland.

Let's be honest, it's equally likely...

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