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Listed below are comments made by glanafon between Monday, 23rd November 2009 (10 Hours Ago) and Monday, 23rd November 2009 (7 Hours Ago) .

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Tories tweaking their message 11:04pm on 23 Nov 2009 106 wee scamp

Why would they come here when their objective has to be to build the domestic situation in China. I know they are buying into Europe but it is cherry picking, strategic, not wholesale. It appears to be worldwide careful high tech purchases, raw materials in the ground or food production capability. It has got to the point that what is said is verbal wallpaper until proven otherwise. No, not wallpaper that lasts too long, another sort of paper. Yet still the faithful follow.
Tories tweaking their message 10:53pm on 23 Nov 2009 103 banker - the argh

JJ. No sorry I know you feel some of what he said was right. My positon is that he was politically motivated and constructed stuff to suit that. The fact there are problems does not mean he was describing either cause or effect soundly. Further he disproved his inherent theorum that high IQ was the solution because he had a high IQ and he clearly was not the solution. He was ultimately self defeating because you need support to implement his sort of policies and it is unlikely anybody will see that in a democracy. All that leaves is totalitarism and power corrupts until proven otherwise. Here I would suggest both Thatcher and Blair had too much power, were too dominant, got there own way too much.
Tories tweaking their message 10:42pm on 23 Nov 2009 102 arm n leg

Yes, Billy Bunter has been cloned and gorges everywhere. Is this what Darwin produces when evolution is stopped. Or perhaps it should it be clones of Mr Creosote from Monty Python. I'll stick with Billy Bunter, he had a repetative inventory of inane soundbites for all occassions, just like some politicans. I guess if you eat that much it all repeats on you.

The observation has to be that it is a waste of time saying what is going on simply because people have preset opinions and do not look at the facts. Nothing that cracks the illusion is welcome, the illusion is defended at all costs by both taker and giver.
Tories tweaking their message 10:12pm on 23 Nov 2009 99. At 9:50pm on 23 Nov 2009, Spar*****mart**AAAs

Nope, it is Herman Melville writing about Captn Ahab and Moby Dick on the Pequod, or was it the Pro eo Quod, that comes to mind for me. I guess that would be Captn AAAhab with you. I wont comment about Moby Dick.
Tories tweaking their message 10:03pm on 23 Nov 2009 97 ChrisArta

'Neither here nor there who owns Holden, but I think it is GM. No mater who owns them the State they are manufuctured in offers incentives to GM to keep the factory there. So, its not as simple as everyone buys Holden, the reason there is Holden to be bought in the first place is because the State government offered incentives to keep it there. That I think is more important than who owns them :) If we were to do the same thing here you'd have the "free market" fanatics screaming "state support bad! Take it away, we understand it will cause some pain now we are sorry, but ideology is more important than real jobs"'

Not quite as clear cut as that. In the EU there was substantial manufacturing capability in a some countries. EU money was then granted to enable other countries to build brand new factories where there had never been any, and the companies involved could then take lower paid workers off the land or out of cafes and train them to work in the brand new factory. Overcapacity in the EU resulted (which is still there) and surprise surprise - the older facilties with the more expensive workers then entered decline. The EU then also thought it would be a good idea if state support or intervention ended as it is not 'competitve'. This is not a level playing field. And I am fed up of hearing that it is supposed to be. UK car plants can work as effectively as anywhere else if they have the chance, as Nissan has shown. Despite overcapacity however has not stopped Hungary also getting help to set up a Suzuki facility I believe.

In many cases it is clear that you are best off following rather than leading at a critical stage and then getting a helping hand.
Tories tweaking their message 9:48pm on 23 Nov 2009 95 arm n leg

I heard saw a bit about the Pope and Archbishop meeting to discuss which shepherd would cover which flock etc and it all seems errily familiar with a few floating voters moving about. World without end to the End of Days. Or should that be end of daze.

Well my main effort goes into business as I have to have Plan B and Plan C in a world of jello. Yet some seem to go on regardless. And although you get pithy comments about where are the solutions, if you give them they dont want them.

I think the Golgafrincham Party will win the election with the slogan 'Follow us to the Ends of the Earth'.
Tories tweaking their message 9:20pm on 23 Nov 2009 68 foredeckdave

Are you back in Grate Britian or still in hurricane alley.
Tories tweaking their message 9:16pm on 23 Nov 2009 49 alanfrench

''You want someone to blame for all this, blame Thatcher and "her children" with their greed is good mantra.''

'Her children' are Gordon Blair. Didnt you see the welcome home for the Baroness at Number 10 today.
Tories tweaking their message 8:31pm on 23 Nov 2009 75 BankSlickerminustheR

Yes I saw him 'live' if that is what it is called on the telly today saying pretty much that line by line. Looked very rehearsed. I find it quite amazing at times. You would never believe these guys where around when the Black Pig hit the Northern Rock.
Tories tweaking their message 8:22pm on 23 Nov 2009 71 leanomist

'What garbage politicians come out with, and what a vacuum in ideas they have. The do not not how to cut, and they do not know how to grow ... what a 'state' we're in!'

I am afraid it is a State of Mind. There probably will be a Thought Police soon.

All rational arguement seems to have no effect, you cannot reason with the unreasonable, and distinguishing between - what is said for effect - and what is intended - or what is planned to be put in place as a flagship programme then abandoned in a matter of months - is virtually impossible.

I had a brief wobble of sympathy yesterday for our leader then you corrected me, today all sympathy evaporated. I then was begining to have nostalgia for the period when a cowboy actor whose co star was a monkey could become a president.

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