Agreed re Tony Blair, probably the best Prime Minister to date if you discount war, PFI , bedroom tax, WCA , Sanctions and the embryonic form of the welfare reforms we see today, and an artificial housing bubble propping up the economy

I cant find fault with em for the money, my finger was hovering over “buy” on a set of Hopes, but im glad i didn’t now

I’m now running them after that chat on here with Brant about hubs, all i can say so far is FREAKIN AWESUMZ! (For the dosh)

Pawl engagement is near instant, pedals turn about 10 degrees or so before pawls start engaging, which was my biggest gripe with my old freehub when doing low speed techy stuff.
I had a deeks inside before fitting and it looks a doddle to rebuild too, so a bonus there

TJ ‘s reet ya knaaaa

The “Hitler” aside was used to point out that his regime of pure evil is often trotted out as an example of ultra right wing authoratism, it was said to point out their place on the political spectrum. It was not meant to parallel Nazism to New Labour or One Nation Conservatism.

If one wants to draw parallel with how trades unions, unemployed and the disabled are currently treated, however…

No mate, the graph is an indication of how far to the right politics has shifted since 1979
The graph portrayed the traditional values

Here you go Mol, but like everything else on the internet…

http://www.politicalcompass.org/uk2015

This was the state of play in 2015
Interesting to note Millibands Labour stance was around about Hitler and the ground normally covered by true, one nation conservatism

Seriously? That’s an actual belief and not some flippant statement thrown off the cuff?

Labour are only *just* to the left of us Greens in the real world, and Greens ain’t a million miles from being centrist and I’d put SNP slightly to the right of Green

Odd results there, TJ, as I’d put SNP slightly right of Labour

And we were certainly more to the left than Millibands Labour in 2015

I know, and it’s also why I’m a paid up member..

You’re talking about Sparks, aintchya…

With PR i would vote green currently with FPTP whoever is most likely to beat a Tory

Snap, though normally I’d always vote green, but for this time.
The stakes are too high for the damage the Tories will wreak on society

Innit, as a left libertarian, it’s weird how them questionnaires tell me I’m closest aligned to The Greens…

If you’re envious of the Rochdale lads lifestyle living high on the hog of welfare, why not as someone above suggests and quit working, claim benefits and try to emulate them

But zippy, if they’re workshy, how are they doing a job of removals?

Obviously this is the 0.07% ruining it for the rest, but it certainly doesn’t help things.

Ftfy

Nasty vicious officious bastards at Jobcentre+, you say?

https://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-8ff7-Benefits-boss-lauds-Wild-West-sanctions-targets#.WR7PxtnTVnE

It could be a sinister dexta

An American perspective, but does any of this sound familiar considering how the Tory Party have cosied up to US corporate money since Thatcher

Police work was integrated with the system of poor relief, as constables worked on registration of the poor and their placement in workhouses. That’s even before the police were professionalized—the constables were sorting out the “deserving poor” from the “undeserving poor.” If people were unemployed and unable to work, constables would direct them toward charity from churches or the city itself. But if folks were able to work, they were judged to be “idlers” and sent off to the horrors of the workhouse.

The system for poor relief made a crucial contribution to the creation of the market for wage labor. The key function of the relief system was to make unemployment so unpleasant and humiliating that people were willing to take ordinary jobs at very low wages just to avoid unemployment. By punishing the poorest people, capitalism creates a low baseline for the wage scale and pulls the whole scale downward.

https://libcom.org/history/origins-police-david-whitehouse

Uncle of mine worked for years as a prison guard. Remember a few stories of suspected paedos who had hung themselves and help from inmates and staff wasn’t very quick to arrive.

Bull.
Even when they’re stiff with rigor the PO has to be seen to be practicing CPR

Can you actually hump a patio, though?

Yes, you are working class.

if you work for a living (you receive a wage) and you don’t own or control capital.
If your employer gets more “value” from the work you do than you receive in wages, you’re working-class.

It is important to distinguish economic class (people’s relationship to capital and the “means of production” — how goods, services and profit are produced) from the sociologist’s “social class” — a hierarchical division of people (at its crudest, “upper,” “middle” and “lower” class) according to their income, lifestyle or tastes.

Don’t be fooled either by the fact that you and your partner own the home you live in.
Yours isn’t an investment property (the fact that you rent out a room to pay the mortgage is irrelevant) and you don’t make a profit on it so it isn’t “capital.”

And you don’t have to be in employment to be working class.
You could be unemployed for various reasons, including disability, but the chances are you’d still be dependent on others in work — if not directly (your family or friends), then (if you receive benefits) through other workers’ taxes. But you’d not be making a profit from their labour and you’d still be working class.
Today the working class, understood on these terms, constitutes upwards of 85 per cent of the population. Yes, you are working class.

Jeremy Hunts tenure?
Mr Corbyn, ever so unpopular…

And the spin in the Paisley local elections, affluent area elects Tory councillors, shock

That Astonishing Tory Ferguslie Park Super Triumph

Ahh, the Soviet era saying, the Russian has the advantage over the westerner as he knows never to believe the press.

https://uk.isidewith.com/political-quiz

The NHS is safe in our hands!

jam bo – Member
ton » why would any country with a ounce of sense invade this shit hole.
with a statement like that, you clearly haven’t been to any of the real shit holes of the world

Wow.
An STW shit-hole dick war…

4 typhoons, some rapiers systems and 1200 infantry.
They would struggle to make a successful amphibious landing against them.

Take off and nuke them from orbit.

It’s the only way

I’d pay the extra oner and get the remote functionality if Timpsons can manage it, personally

Seems that Labour are still not managing to dispel the myth of them crashing the economy

Why bother when Mervyn King roundly dispelled that myth?

And the Labour Party touting, at long last, the Tobin Tax (Robin Hood tax)

We’ve been extolling the virtues for years in the Green Party.

Yeah, Labour & Tobin tax. Tick.

Actually it was 140 for the remote fob immobiliser key AND a dumb key Trailrat stylee for just opening the doors if your gonna get a soaking and don’t want to risk the electronics

My local locksmith has kit that interrogates the key chip and car ecu to create clones, he did me a Renault key and remote fob with more functionality than the original for £140

What’s wrong with having a green agenda?

Nothing whatsoever

And in the big van it’s wired into the stereo switched live

That’s what I did, stripped the supplied fag lighter adapter down to its transformer, soldered in a fused power lead, insulated the lot and let it in to an ignition controlled feed