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Listed below are comments made by kingloneranger between Wednesday, 18th November 2009 and Friday, 27th November 2009.

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Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 3:31pm on 27 Nov 2009 #477

Saga, that is a good idea a genuinely celar and progressive suggestion. Well done. I agree with this general approach, as those who want to learn will do so in the best possible learning environment.

Although £100k is a bit steep, my old man is dean of engineering at a red-brick university, is still not on that wage and in my opinion is grossly overpaid. Sorry Dad :)
Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 3:56pm on 26 Nov 2009 Grand,

"Its difficult to enforce a law that bans a activity that is is actively supported by the judiciary and or their associates, it is almost impossible to break though the powers of the establishment, had it have been a working class activity it would have been stopped within days and certainly would never in any circumstances have been allowed to blatantly defy the law, please don't anybody tell me about the minority of working class supporters that take part, they are only allowed in to try to give the impression that they come from all walks of life."

What about dog-fighting, then? That has been banned, is an exclusively working-class activity, yet is exponentially increasing in it's popularity and execution. I don't think you can blame the judiciary for the woeful implementation of the law banning dog-fighting, so whose fault is that?

I'm not really sure if I'm making any kind of point here, maybe just something along the lines of 'this is ALL complete rubbish, I'd like to think a change of government might help but it almost certainly will not'

God bless.
Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 3:12pm on 26 Nov 2009 252

I do love you, you're just so angry! :)

I wasn't actually referring to farmers calling Foxes vermin, the ones that live in city centres are just as much vermin as the ones that the farmers want to kill.

I just think people who want Fox Hunting banned think it's because a nice furry creature is being torn apart and frankly that's not good enough as no one is banning lions, or banning amazonian tribes for example when they do it even more regularly than fox hunters do. It just seems a pointless law, not worth repealing, but not worth pushing through in the first place either
Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 3:00pm on 26 Nov 2009 "Why do you think Slough ius a dump? I like it and so do my friends who are mostly from many different races and nations"

I can help you there; go and visit the Lake District, North Wales, Scotland, the Peaks - basically the rest of the country - and you will soon come to form the same opinion that Slough is indeed a dump.

Don't thank me, you're welcome :-)
Prime Minister's Questions: Schools 2:00pm on 26 Nov 2009 Is fox-hunting off-topic? Because if not it is very important to point out that foxes are vermin - no one has yet suggested a ban on rat-poison, perhaps they should as it is very cruel.
Reasons to be careful 2:22pm on 23 Nov 2009 Grand,

Thanks, and I'm sure my views will indeed change many times, I'm not stuck in my ways at 'only' 29 :) but for me the issue is still there - why would anyone who works in the private sector vote labour? Surely there must have been some positives for us to take from the last 12 years; we're not that rare a breed are we?

My real worry is that if indeed we are that rare, and if labour do get in again and continue to demoralise the working population in the private sector, leading to further emigration or a large drop in productivity - how on earth do they expect to get out of recession and ultimately produce a strong economy?

I don't necessarily mind feeling like I'm working to support others (In fact, I'm counting on having to do it for a considerable period of my life once I have kids...) but I'd like to feel like in some way it is worthwhile, and right now I don't feel like I'm being given much encouragement. Does that make sense?
Reasons to be careful 12:58pm on 23 Nov 2009 Grandantidote,

Sorry if that seemed OTT, but as someone who actually works for a living, for a real company, this government have done absolutely nothing to help me. Not ever. They have been in power for my entire working life and I would be glad to see the back of them - even before that they were introducing tuition fees just in time for me to go to university. I cannot understand why anyone who works in the private sector would vote Labour and completely sympathise with the rather large number of people I know who have given up on this country and emigrated. It's an attractive prospect given that it will be the ten million or so people like them, and like me, who will ultimately be expected to 'produce' our way out of this recession, then pay for the bank bailouts, then cover the cost of the disproportionally large public sector, and then pay for their pensions.

You are clearly a fan of Labour, if you can explain to me why I should be then I am genuinely interested in hearing it.
Reasons to be careful 12:22pm on 23 Nov 2009 all,

Lots of hand-wringing over the polls today, so here is a summary;

The polls suggest that a large part of this country are either;

1. gluttons for punishment.
2. 'working' in the public sector and dependant on Labour for a job.
3. habitually unemployed and dependant on Labour for handouts.

That is all.
Not the Queen's Speech 4:05pm on 18 Nov 2009 This blog is degenerating into a farce.

Labour and in particular Gordon Brown have made a real mess of this country in the name of 'equality'; assuming a person's worth to be entirely about the money they have in their pockets, and their qualifications, introducing stealth taxes and 'redistributing' wealth, while simultaneously devaluing educational achievement amongst other things, which has not helped the middle classes or the working classes one little bit. In fact, only the very rich appear to have done well from this government - one Peter Mandelson in particular.

That said, people still support them, introduction of a minimum wage has undoubtedly helped a lot of workers, and a lot of money has been spent on the NHS and other public services that might otherwise have simply gone towards reducing the national debt. It is up to people as individuals to decide whether that money was well spent so good luck to everyone, labour and conservative supporters and floating voters - only 6 months or so until we find out who the nation slightly prefer to govern the country and give them free reign to pass some laws to help them govern the country in the best way they see fit.

We should all go to the pub and 'chill out'
Not the Queen's Speech 3:44pm on 18 Nov 2009 Mike, I'm not on any other site and I think Gordon Brown is a moron. So that's 3 posters, now - it's almost a movement... and that's before we include the 60,000 or so people who signed up to his own website asking him to resign.

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