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Listed below are comments made by jer1956 between Wednesday, 1st July 2009 and Tuesday, 7th July 2009.

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Will anyone ever cull the quangos? 11:04am on 07 Jul 2009 Perhaps the whole quango thing is a "cunning plan". Quango's focus on one thing and through publicty etc make sure those who can benefit from them get to know about their service. Now take the same function and bury it in the Civil Service. They will not publisise their services and end up with huge amounts of unused Grant Aid etc. The Tories will then be saving millions without making a single cut.
The joke's on us 4:41pm on 06 Jul 2009 #235
Good point. I should have said the Scots should have the right to bear arms and bare legs!
Will anyone ever cull the quangos? 4:34pm on 06 Jul 2009 I'm sick of London House Prices being used to justify a higher wage for MP's, which was implied by Anne Diamond. Some MP's live in London anyway. Are they to get this new higher salery as well? All this when whe are still complaining about what Bankers get etc, and talking of a wage freeze for Public Workers. I also dislike the idea of elitism, that the country should be run by people vetted by the likes of Cameron Mechenzie. That sounds like Iran, where you can only vote for candiates selected from the Great and Good by the Great and Good. We might as well get rid of the Commons and lets the Lords run the country, perhaps with Lord Mechenzie as Prime Minister!
The joke's on us 4:05pm on 06 Jul 2009 Well I can't see how you can be recognised as Nation State without the right to bare arms. Perhaps Scotland could get itself twinned with Isreal's so called Palestinian State if they ever get the chance to create it?
Will anyone ever cull the quangos? 3:55pm on 06 Jul 2009 #22
"There is absolutely no point in being in Afghanistan, there really isn't it. The lives of coalition forces are being wasted, this is not about hearts and minds, it is about killing people."
No one dare mention it but I believe that a new form of "Domino Theory" is at work. That was used to justify Vietnam, the argument being if Vietnam fell to Communism then so would the rest of indochina. The worry has to be if we don't keep the Taliban focussed on killing a few troops in afghanistan, then they will take control of Afghanistan again. But this time it would be followed by Pakistan, and then Chetnia to the North. The spread of influence could even get to China where Muslim demonstrators where bloodily put down this weekend. The spread of the Taliban would then allow Al Qadea to be revitalised and increase the risk of a major attack in the West.

Any deaths are regretable. If it where the police at work at home we wouldn't put some time scale on their work against drugs, terrorism etc, or throw in the towel becuase some where getting killed. In the same period that the USA has been in afghanistan I bet a lot of US Police,DEA etc have died fighting a continuing war on drugs that also seems unwinable. One can only imagine what the consequnces of them stopping that would be.
Will anyone ever cull the quangos? 3:41pm on 06 Jul 2009 As usual Cameron's sounds "Holier than Thou" only to be shown to be a hypocrit. Some decison's have to be seen to free of politcal interfearence. Of course that's a bit difficult to achieve when the biggest politcal decison of all is how much they have to spend! What decisions should be made by quango's are itself a political one. The Tories are behaving like the Republican's in the USA, any decesion they don't agree is wrong in principle, not a question of political choice. So the Tories will chose to have a different set of quango's and try to give the impression that the government is plain wrong to have a different group from theirs.
I'm sure that's just a coincidence 10:39am on 02 Jul 2009 #69
"I have to marvel at the sheer hypocrisy that Britain fought a war for these people (who now cannot wait to get rid of us) that they will become rich as a Country on the blood of our young people and our money."

We went in to Iraq for our own reasons. Gratitude shouldn't have been one of them. That could only be hoped for, not expected at the point of a gun. Gratitude dosn't mean giving your assets away on the cheap either. I didn't notice the USA being grateful enough for our help in WW2 to right off all the lend/lease debts! Even more pertinent to your view, the French didn't pay our USA debt either!
I'm sure that's just a coincidence 10:31am on 02 Jul 2009 #58
"But I suspect it is much too late. Time's up!"
That may be true. But a test for Cameron's honesty will be resisting the temptation that, when elected on the same number of voters that failed to get previous Tory Leaders elected, to say there has been a clear shift back towards Tories Values.
The 'phoney' war of words 4:17pm on 01 Jul 2009 #149
I think it's code for "Your doing a crap job but I won't say it in public".
Was the answer "I will arrange a Face to Face meeting". I thinks that's code for "keep quiet or I'll re-arrange your face".
I'm sure that's just a coincidence 4:13pm on 01 Jul 2009 I just saw the Conservative Shadow Transport spokes person going on about the difficulties of the East Coast Mainline. Are the Tories going to blame every bad decision a company makes on New Labour? SKY's news indicated that National Express are geared up to the gills with bad debt. Consequently they can't afford to borrow more to make payments the franchise requires. The Railways are not immune from the downturn in people wanting to travel. Even British Airways are in diffucties. How long before New Labour get blamed for that!

Be Warned, the Tories believe in Never-Never land where companies don't make bad decisons and never go bust in global recessions.

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