@redfanman outs himself as Reform-curious.
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Shortest deliberation ever. Evidence of two tier policing whine incoming.
Reality is that there is a massive difference between writing a post calling on people to burn people out of their homes, and being tagged into a series of photos, one of which featured an offensive t-shirt.
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two-tier Kier etc
Tell me youāre below the Forrest Gump line without telling me youāre below the Forrest Gump line.
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Exactly right.
Itās not as if he was caught on camera calling for peoples throats to be cut
I went there last year with my French wife and daughter. None of us are particulary science minded but this place is so much more than that. Its importance for me (and them) is equally in its historical , social and cultural significance as it is in the strictly scientific. It really is a great place to visit.
Imagine then our horror to hear the news (whilst on holiday again this summer in the UK) that it was facing the threat of closure. Burnham should be all over this and waving the flag. What the fuck does it say about us a country today that we would even countenance allowing this truly great piece of British ingenuity to slide into irrelevance and obscurity for the sake of a few quid.
For the first time in a long time I actually feel indignant enough to register it officially.
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Seconded. One of my fondest memories from growing up in Liverpool was going there with my uncle and cousins every so often on a Sunday.
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Also in The Times
Mate Iām right there with you. I donāt take part in the pursuit of wealth whatsoever. Id go so far as to say- with guarantees this will see me labelled a commy bastard- that I would absolutely vote for wealth to be given to the state on death if it was ringfenced for social endeavours like social housing etc. and if it was introduced across the board without carve outs for billionaires which would happen.
I realise thatās never going to be reality, because politicians in general are never born into poverty and never plan on a single political term which is what theyād get (max) if they introduced such a policy.
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I suppose it depends how you define poverty. Recent PMs such as Thatcher, Major and Starmer came from fairly humble backgrounds plus I would think a lot more MPs these days are not from wealthy families.
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Starmers dad was a toolmaker.
Iām sure he mentioned it as infrequently as Trump mentioned his Scottish mother
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ha!, perfect!
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I would not have gone round saying my dad was a tool maker. It invites the obvious retort.
Worked in a factory. Something like that?
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That one should have gone in the jokeās thread.
It was definitely ill thought out.
It reminds me of Company I worked for, where the directors had their parking spaces titled, by white lining - so your typical car park markings.
The format was name in initials, followed by surname in full. So it was very funny when Mr. Michael Thomas Head (not real name) was marked out as M. T. Head. The T was very quickly removed 
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Like you I donāt take part in the pursuit of wealth, but donāt get me wrong I do like to earn good money in order to provide, live comfortably and my weakness a bit of fine dining.
I have mentioned it on a number of occasions, mainly in reference to the NHS, about having a cross party policy in regards to its funding/future plans. I am more than happy that Burnham has touched upon the idea.
I am of the opinion - all be it with little to no knowledge of the implications - that there should be a number of Policies which are agreed on by a cross party discussion, instead of them being used as political leverage, and a cash drain as a result of a new incoming government having a different view and scrapping it.
My main concern is that even if we manage to implant a new tax system which doesnāt scare off the wealthy and increases their contribution, I have little to no confidence on this money being spent wisely/efficiently by the Civil service.
Think yourself lucky you dont live in Scotland
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Still nowhere near great news for Labour, but I hope the latest polls can put to bed the myth that Farage is certain to become PM.
It will be far more closely run than that.
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I reckon the Tories will recover and take back a lot of those cunts that have been flirting with Nigel, the only a little bit racist ones.
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Is this the Burnham honeymoon period? Iām wondering how much of his electoral reform agenda he can get through. He seems big on devolution, but will they allow him to reform Westminster?
I still wonder who the one-nation Conservatives vote for. Do they stick with their local MP who āseems like a good sortā. Are they tempted by the LibDems or even Labour? There doesnāt particularly seem to be a centre-right party in the UK anymore.
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