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  1. Well that's another argument, but being that this is a UK election, we have to include what the jocks and taffs vote for. Also, I don't have figures for percentage share of the vote for England only, that'd be interesting if anyone has a link to those. Thanks.
  2. But the tories and the lib dems are diametrically opposed; you might aswell say that labour and the tories make up 65% of the vote, therefore that should be the coalition government. The opposition of ideologies is what will probably scupper any alliance between the tories and the lib dems. It does make more sense for the left to align with the left and the right to align with the right. Most tory voters didn't vote for lib dem policy and most lib dem voters didn't vote for tory policy either. Again, it makes more sense for the left wing and right winge parties to co-operate together, in any kind of power share. And again I say, the parties that voters perceive to be left wing (labour, lib dems, greens) has a larger share of the vote than the parties who voters perceive to be right-wing (tories, ukip, BNP).
  3. Ok, very clever, get into the semantics of this all you want. (and i do kind of agree, there isn't a truly left wing representative, but thats another conspiracy. I'm sure the free marketeers among us think there is no truly right wing representative either, we can argue semantics all day). But the for purposes of this thread/discussion, the tories, ukip and bnp are to the right of the political spectrum, the labour party, lib dems and greens to the left. On that basis, the majority share of the vote falls onto what most of the population at large believe to be a left-wing vote.
  4. So he approaches the tories, and if they don't make the required concessions, then what? The left wing has a larger share of the vote in this country, that is a fact. I voted lib dem and don't care for tory or labour, just to disclose my position.
  5. The tories, ukip and BNP got 41% of the national vote between them The lib dems, labour and the greens got 53% of the vote between them. More of the population wants left wing government.
  6. Spend the money and get some sleep. You could have no job and no savings; you're doing alright.
  7. Maybe us retards like having a state. I like living in a state, it makes life easier. Roads, emergency services etc, defence from external threats. There could be some mythical libertarian solution to it, but that's all rather complicated, why bother? Just vote in some imperfect party to run things and all that stuff carries on, meanwhile I can get on with my small retard life and mind my own business. I'm drinking guinness instead of mineral water, sue me. I'll prob still live a long life. And it's easier.
  8. See Lemmy from Motorhead. We may limp on regardless...
  9. No, just drink coke, or guinness. Not the healthiest, but you're ok with it and you may live to be 100 anyway. Or maybe you get hit by a bus...
  10. Not necessarily. Plenty of people will have an unhealthy diet, or smoke 20 a day and live for a very long time. Of course, it's not the best choice and you don't do yourself any favours, but it happens. On we limp. The same as the state may or may not do. Bad choices don't equal an early death for sure, they only increase the chances. But there are no guarantees.
  11. Why such an extreme position? Voting for one of the 3 main parties to be democratic is more like drinking coke; not the healthiest choice, but it wont kill you. You've drank it before and you're ok with it. Drinking bleach is more like voting for Saddam (or maybe not voting for him, depending on how you look at it).
  12. Didn't someone say that the dow was down by 600 points by the time the P+G fat fingered trade took place? (I don't have a link, i just remember reading that earlier).
  13. Not all of us. Some of us were little kids in the last recession and remember our parents losing their homes, and remember growing up in a council house as a result (it was a decent house to be honest and wasn't on a rough estate). My mum laughs now, about a time when I was asked what I wanted for Christmas and I said a "new bag for school", as I knew they were skint! (I don't remember saying that, but I do remember knowing there was no money, even as a little kid). Then again, I never felt poor as a kid, but my mum and dad would go without themselves to give stuff to me and my brother. On the whole though, I agree with you. Most people of my age have done plenty of travelling, lads holidays, plasma tellys, ipods, iphones, blackberrys and all that sh*te. And that's people from all walks of life, from working class lads to more middle-class students. Most people I know never went to uni though, they just work and spend all their money on the aforementioned. Right now, I'm in the dole queue and it sucks.
  14. BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!! BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLLLLLE!!
  15. There are jobs about and always will be. However, there are now a lot more unemployed people looking for a smaller amount of jobs, so it means a lot of people are going to be out of work. Stating the obvious, but I just felt like doing it.
  16. Who gets to decide what rational is? In a world with no laws, maybe someone will decide that it is rational to kill people who disagree with them. If they do this in a gang, maybe others will decide that it is rational to either A. go along with the gang or B. form their own, bigger gang. Isn't this the big circle-jerk? If you have faith in people's ability to be rational, then why can't a state form from rational decision making in the first place? It may get corrupted along the way and f**k itself to the point of collapse, but it was still born out of some sort of need, else it surely couldn't have existed in the first place? It's just the biggest gang, so people go along with it. Nothing lasts forever, the gang will fold at some point, but anarchy wont reign; another gang will come along and on it will go again.
  17. You'd see violent revolution if that was to become the norm again, especially while billions are being syphoned off for the benefit of a small group of f*ckups. Though I don't entirely disagree about the home-ownership, we may have a much reniter society from now on; not that I think that's a bad thing.
  18. I've got to say, that even though our politics might differ a fair bit, you seem like you would be a good bloke to work for (and I'm not blowing smoke up your ar5e). Many people just don't have the right things to put on their CV to get certain jobs, others don't want the responsibility of being management or w/e (I'm a bit of both there). From what you say, you seem to give your workers a fair crack and (as a worker) you can't ask for more than that. You don't have any jobs going in the Norwich area do you?
  19. Both you and Absolute Zero are partly correct. Most people who work on the lowest rung are, intellectually, capable of far more. I have a fair idea of this, because I am one of them. However, by the same token, most of these people are not capable of being rocket scientists, anymore than they are capable of being Roger Federer or Lionel Messi. God-given talent (for want of a better expression) is an important factor. World Record deadlifter Andy Bolton deadlifted 600lbs the first time he ever tried it. You get many people who lift weights who never get to lift that amount or, take their entire training lives to get to that level (if you can deadlift 600lbs you are much, much stronger than the average person, a 600lb deadlift is a very strong lift). Could 'Average Joe' deadlift more if he recieved better coaching and trained more dilligently? Sure he could. Could he deadlift like Andy Bolton. No way. You've either got it, or you haven't.
  20. If it was your own fault, why would you want to take the guy to court? Last time I was in a fight, I had a broken nose. This was thanks to a squaddie mate of mine who fancied fighting the world, I try to drag him away and someone smacks me in the face (I was pretty well p*ssed at the time). The only good thing my mate did was twist my nose back straight for me, so it doesn't look like it's been broken. I went to the docs a few days later, who then told me to go to hospital, x-rays etc, then I had to go back another day to speak to someone. Long story short, was all fine. Sh*t happens.
  21. Commuting is an option certainly, a lot of people do this from Norwich to London even. However, these are people with good, higher paying jobs. Good luck to them, but I can't get those sort of jobs. My work experience consists of bog standard jobs; lots of warehouse work, unskilled labouring and a little office job (where I can say I did work in html and used Adobe 'Go-live' and 'Photoshop', but in reality a monkey could've done the job haha). It's totally my own fault...I did quite well at school (mainly A's and B's at GCSE) but I had no clue what I wanted to do afterwards, did a BTEC in computing at college and barely passed it (I really wasn't interested in it) and drifted in and out of the aforementioned jobs. My heart isn't in academic study anymore, so I'm not moaning about working a low paying job, I just want some permanent work so I can rent a place. I don't care about buying, it's not going to happen. Selfishly speaking, I'd like a lot more council houses to be built for the likes of me; a place where a young couple (both on low wages) can go and start life together. Places for singles too (though I'd probably just house share in that instance). A young couple don't really want to house-share. Lower rents and secure tenancies would make life easier.
  22. I'm in Norwich as well, currently on min wage wortking in a warehouse (age 25...soon to be 26). I'm going to get laid off though, as I only got taken on as a Christmas temp. I don't mind warehouse work to be honest, I prefer it to office stuff I've done. I just want to get full time work (but on a permanent contract), even on the min wage, just so I can move out and have my own little life. Maybe move out with my g/f when we've been together a bit longer. It's a bit frustrating that even the lowest rung (just working a bog standard job and renting a small place) seems so difficult to get to at the moment, especially for someone of my age. I'll keep applying, but the job situation is fairly sh1t. I don't want to move away, my friends and family are around this area and I like the place.
  23. If we had hyperinflation, I'd imagine that rents (and everything else possible) would be paid for in another currency (like Euros or US Dollars...some might say gold, but looking at Zimbabwe, I'd guess that a stronger currency would get chosen, as many use US Dollars over there). Nominal house prices would go up to a kagillion pounds, but that would be rather irrelevent when a 20pound note is worth less than toilet paper. We wont get hyperinflation though. High inflation, maybe. Zimbabwe...no.
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