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@TRB "When scotish independence and irish reunification" occur? Can i borrow uour crystal ball
@BOO HOO Back in your day? Don't question the age of others for surely you know not how old another might be Truth be told upon this landslide of a day, Madam Morris didn't do such an amazing job and it's with regret I don't think Monsieur Wrigley will do much better if any better at all. But time is a wonderful thing and let's see how time is told.
@The Observer, oh dear! people are a sad shadow of what they were back in my day. As to you thinking clowns made people smile and laugh. I assume the answer to that is yes and no, take it whatever way you like.
Well, Martin Wrigley might not be a clown, but one thing for certain is that since the Liberal take over of Teignbridge Disctrict Council, it has fallen apart. So a blessing be that Mr Wrigley is now MP, atleast he's away from Teignbridge while he hopefully takes some pride and care in representing it. However Burnside is not far from the truth, I don't think NA will be overally ecstatic. ...
@burnside - I find your comment offensive relating a person you feel is dangerous to that of clowns. I and my fellow clowns will be seeking an apology for this gross injustice to the clown community. We will be watching YOU burnside!
I don't think the traders in Newton Abbot will be celebrating the election of Wrigley, he's a clown, and a dangerous one at that.
Out of the General election a little ray of sunshine, well done to Martin Wrigley and his team on taking over as M.P. for Newton Abbot. May be the constituency may start to get some life pumped back into it and the councils given a boot up their backsides to start doing a bit of work for a change.
Most countries today operate some form of socialism. The NHS, welfare state and state education are socialist programs. Some, like Argentina, have taken it to extremes and are now trying to dig themselves out and undo the damage. Socialism doesn't create an equal society. It create a society where most people are poor except for a political elite. I'm not saying privatisation has been a ...
The two are related. I assumed you were using the two interchangeably as anything on the left, others have referred to Stalin and Lenin on this thread. It's hardly socialism in the UK; Individuals own personal property unlike communism where nobody owns property or personal assets. But we don't live in a socialist nation where all industrial and production capacity is communally owned and ...
What you are describing is communism rather than socialism, and we haven't reached that stage yet. Socialism is, for example, where the government takes more of your income from you than it needs to for the necessary functioning of government. The claimed purpose is usually to fund social programs or to redistribute wealth, but we all know that it never does this and usually causes more ...