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[BiggusLaddus]

  On 12/09/2016 at 18:59, Baz said:

Also see Cameron has decided to resign.

His legacy:

Drove 1m to foodbanks through austerity measures.

Ran up more debt than all previous governments.

Cut the rest for ease of editing on the phone.

I regularly see the tories criticised for austerity and for increasing the overall debt. Which of the two would have been worse with you in charge Baz? Would you have cut spending even harder to stop debt increasing or would you have made no attempt to control the deficit and let overall debt get even higher?

Bear in mind that the labour party of the day also committed to reducing the deficit but at a slower pace than the tories.

[Baz]

  On 13/09/2016 at 11:43, BiggusLaddus said:

Cut the rest for ease of editing on the phone.

I regularly see the tories criticised for austerity and for increasing the overall debt. Which of the two would have been worse with you in charge Baz? Would you have cut spending even harder to stop debt increasing or would you have made no attempt to control the deficit and let overall debt get even higher?

Bear in mind that the labour party of the day also committed to reducing the deficit but at a slower pace than the tories.

The two aren't exclusive drivers of the economy though.

Not given tax cuts to the richest 5% (those who have subsequently doubled their wealth)

Been harsher on tax evasion- including not cutting thousands of jobs at HMRC. Benefits fraud is obviously bad, but nowhere near the figures of tax evasion, or tax sweetheart deals.

Looked at investing into large scale infrastructure projects- to try to help stimulate the economy.

[Baz]

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/sep/15/stephen-hawking-robert-winston-inquiry-jeremy-hunt-nhs-weekend-patient-deaths?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Top scientists again questioning the real need for a non-emergency 7 day NHS service, claiming the evidence needs re-assessment.

Surely both with this and the news earlier in the week that the vast majority of NHS Trusts believe they don't have sufficient funding to deliver it, Jeremy Hunt has no option to re-assess to see if the extra money needed is worthwhile to the taxpayer?

[ABBEY]

With it looking like little Ben Needham may have been killed by a digger driver ,it begs the question why would you let your 21 month old baby play on a building site unattended with diggers on it or anywhere unattended for that matter. All this time everyone feels sorry for the parents but now it looks like another maddy (if it is true).

[Amo]

  On 17/09/2016 at 06:54, ABBEY said:

With it looking like little Ben Needham may have been killed by a digger driver ,it begs the question why would you let your 21 month old baby play on a building site unattended with diggers on it or anywhere unattended for that matter. All this time everyone feels sorry for the parents but now it looks like another maddy (if it is true).

Have to agree, Abbey. There's no way you should be letting a child that age unattended when there's construction going on. I'm sure it's something that haunts the grandparents to this day.

I wouldn't quite compare it to the McCann's negligence, though. Leaving kids alone, in the middle of the night, possibly doped, while they were boozing it up is despicable.

[ABBEY]

True but letting a toddler play on a building site is still as bad

[Baz]

With the repairs to the Houses of Parliament costing a minimum of £7bn, does anyone else feel it's a great opportunity to move them out of central London?

They could be re-located to a somewhere more geographically central, at a much lower cost, and somewhere where the housing costs for the public paying their mortgages would be significantly lower.

I'm sure the buildings themselves would be very attractive for property developers.

The Scottish Parliament building cost £414m to give a comparison.

[jim mk2]

Moving govt ministries out of London to create a "Whitehall of the North" has been mooted for years but it hasn't happened so moving parliament I would say is a complete non-starter despite it making eminent sense.

May's already kicked Osborne's Northern Powerhouse into the long grass and there's talk now of cutting back on devolution powers in England. We have the most centralised govt of any leading G20 country and it's likely to stay that way.

[Amo]

Thousands of protesters march through London with the message "Refugees are Welcome." Unsurprisingly, the majority of them look like a combination of Muslims and liberal idiots. Yes, let's open the floodgates to people who are incompatible with our culture. It's worked so well for Germany and Sweden.

[adopted scouser]

  On 17/09/2016 at 16:10, Amarillo said:

Thousands of protesters march through London with the message "Refugees are Welcome." Unsurprisingly, the majority of them look like a combination of Muslims and liberal idiots. Yes, let's open the floodgates to people who are incompatible with our culture. It's worked so well for Germany and Sweden.

Yoghurt knitting idiots, look at the open weeping sore that is Germany you morons.

[Husky]

We wouldn't have this problem if moron's weren't allowed to breed.

[Amo]

Bomb gone off in New York. 29 injured, none dead fortunately. Second bomb also found.

And eight injured in a knife attack in a Minnesota mall. Suspect referred to 'Allah' before he was shot dead.

Religion of Peace strikes again?

[ABBEY]

Bomb in Barcelona ?

[cmb211087]

  On 18/09/2016 at 12:14, ABBEY said:

Bomb in Barcelona ?

What's this? In Salou at the mo and meant to be going Barca tomorrow. Can't see anything mentioned and reps not said anything?

[K-Hod]

From early reports, it seems like it might have been a gas explosion in a block of flats. That was the last I saw.

[K-Hod]

For some lighter relief in the news- http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/tim-farron-accidentally-played-nwas-8859217

[Amo]

New York bombing suspect has been captured. He's an Afghan-born American.

Quelle surprise!

[yoda]

  On 19/09/2016 at 17:25, Amarillo said:

New York bombing suspect has been captured. He's an Afghan-born American.

Quelle surprise!

Stick him in a chair with a power lead attached

[adopted scouser]

Poor Becky Godden, why give Halliwell room and board for the rest of his natural ?

Inject the b@5tard

[Steve Moss]

I think naturalized citizens who commit acts of terror (or support those carrying out such an act) should have their citizenship revoked. After a very long jail term (if hanging isn't an option), he should be sent back to Afghanistan.

[Tom]

Another unarmed black man murdered in cold blood by the police in America for crime of being black.

Bloke broke down in the road and was met by 4 police, had his hands in the air and one ran over and shot him dead and they all let him bleed to death whilst their colleague in the helicopter above remarked that he 'looked like a bad guy'

Absolute sub human scum

http://ktul.com/news/local/police-chief-terence-crutcher-was-unarmed-when-shot-by-officer

[Mike E]

  On 19/09/2016 at 22:58, Tom said:

Another unarmed black man murdered in cold blood by the police in America for crime of being black.

Bloke broke down in the road and was met by 4 police, had his hands in the air and one ran over and shot him dead and they all let him bleed to death whilst their colleague in the helicopter above remarked that he 'looked like a bad guy'

Absolute sub human scum

http://ktul.com/news/local/police-chief-terence-crutcher-was-unarmed-when-shot-by-officer

Can cops be tried, convicted, and sentenced to death? Because that is all the cops who shot him deserves.

He needed a hand after breaking down; got a bullet to the chest instead. Sickening

[Husky]

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/3-illegal-immigrants-arrested-19-195937953.html

This is now normal behaviour in the former Europe.

[Paul]

  On 19/09/2016 at 23:57, Mike E said:

Can cops be tried, convicted, and sentenced to death? Because that is all the cops who shot him deserves.

He needed a hand after breaking down; got a bullet to the chest instead. Sickening

Yet another situation which demonstrates the American police in many areas are out of control and exercise an informal shoot first ask questions later policy - or at least have formed this mentality. That the vast majority of shootings of this type involve black men suggests the police are heavily biased against black individuals.

One really would not want to be a black person in the USA these days.

[Pedro]

  On 20/09/2016 at 05:44, Paul said:

Yet another situation which demonstrates the American police in many areas are out of control and exercise an informal shoot first ask questions later policy - or at least have formed this mentality. That the vast majority of shootings of this type involve black men suggests the police are heavily biased against black individuals.

One really would not want to be a black person in the USA these days.

That's not exactly true. Figures show that just as many unarmed white men were killed by American police as there were unarmed black men. Percentage wise, they kill more unarmed black men though as they make up less of the population. Obviously, none of this is any comfort to anyone involved but it is odd how the mainstream media like to promote violence and unrest by fanning certain flames.