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I'm optimistic. Or not so much optimistic, as realistic. I don't think this will cause the world to come crashing down, or indeed for things to change all that much in most people's lives. I do expect it'll be bad for some people, good for others. I do know that the idea they floated about a six-month VAT holiday for small business followed by immediately having to pay back all of it PLUS INTEREST is possibly one of the most ridiculous ideas I have ever heard a mainstream party come out with, but shit like that would never get passed thankfully. I'm more worried about George Osborne than David Cameron. Also, William Hague as foreign secretary really sticks out as a bad move in my mind considering his take on Europe. That said, European politics is an embarrassing shambles anyway, so maybe he has a point. |
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Yeah, realistically, it's not going to be that awful. And on the plus-side there isn't going to be a Tory Scottish Secretary. Hopefully my old MP Danny Alexander is less stubbornly arrogant in his dealing with the Holyrood government than his predecessor Jim Murphy... |
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Willaim Hauge and David Davis are the two tories i actaully respect and like. despite the roles they have been given.
G/O worries me as well, the stuck up twat.
in other news i am leaving the country (this is actually true) as i can't bring myself to live in a conservative country at the minute. |
I hate it when people see me at the supermarket and they are like:
Hey, what are you doing here?
and im just like:
Oh you know, hunting elephants |
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Rincewind wrote:Willaim Hauge and David Davis are the two tories i actaully respect and like. despite the roles they have been given.
G/O worries me as well, the stuck up twat.
in other news i am leaving the country (this is actually true) as i can't bring myself to live in a conservative country at the minute. Yeah, but if that's true and you move to a country with a right-wing government then I'm calling you Hypocrates the Great. |
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fair point.... why would i move somewhere with an even more oppresive regime
hence my move to France.... Despite sarkozy being compared to Thatcher, he actually has very little power and the working man and socialist ideals are still more than alive in le France.
Lets face it the Right wing of France is still more Left wing than modern labour. |
I hate it when people see me at the supermarket and they are like:
Hey, what are you doing here?
and im just like:
Oh you know, hunting elephants |
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It's not really, the French right wing politicians are very Thatcherite, it's just that the French don't want "modernisation" (such a cute euphemism for jobs being lost), and they are less placid than the British.
Plus their unions haven't had their knees chopped off. Yet. |
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ahhh the ideal, where the working man still has a say |
I hate it when people see me at the supermarket and they are like:
Hey, what are you doing here?
and im just like:
Oh you know, hunting elephants |
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