What pisses you off?

[think positive]

[Morrigu]

[pietillidie]

Balloonhead and Buffoonhead leading two bereft parties in the House of Commons, as I watch the UK equivalent of Question Time live.

Has a better education been more thoroughly wasted on a human than on Balloonhead? Okay, Tony Blair. In fact, the useless, detached twit is every bit the shallow airhead as Blair was. Peas in a pod. He has *zero* new, *zero* new to bring to the table. Beating down the Bereft Beige Cardigans (the Cold War BBCs of Corbyn and co.) and uttering 1960s Cold War economics cliches is not leadership and will not lift wages a single cent, or confront a single damned world challenge.

I hate creeps like Blairhead and Balloonhead above all because they've got the education to deceive and pretend to be saying something intelligent, when they're simply smarter than really shite opposition. This baffles the dills opposite, and sounds compelling; yet, the decline and revenue/real wage stress continues unabated, following the financial crises and refugee crises their shallow, pretentious crap fosters and breeds worldwide.

Vulgar, slimy class-educated charlatans.

On the other side are the shallow, Cold War cardigans, repeating their own empty nonsense, and blurting forth their own empty, backward Cold War hymns, as if marching to War with a hope in freaking hell of achieving anything but drowning in their own pitiful, musty, mothball-infused, violet-rinsed, cliche-ridden, beige-cardiganed, inward-focused crap.

Excuse me while I duck outside and puke at these barren, whitened, nature strip dog turds posing as leaders

[David]

Not a Jeremy Corbyn fan I take it?

[Wokko]

I don't follow UK politics all that closely, but I thought the Old Commie would be right up your alley PtiD

[pietillidie]

^They repulse me even more, which is why I can't even be bothered talking about them; so bereft are they make those deceptive pretentious twats opposite look competent.

[pietillidie]

[ronrat]

[think positive]

[Mugwump]

Warning : the following is about British politics in reply to PTID's post above : Since there is no real reason for an Australian to give a toss, feel free to skip.

Cameron was left an appalling hand by the Blair/Brown administration ; a massive deficit underpinned by a public sector that had grown 20% in ten years ; a large pool of long-term unemployed ; broken and nationalised banks with vast liabilities ; several uncompleted foreign wars ; and school attainment that had steadily slipped down the international league table for 15 years.

All of those things (except the schools bit, perhaps) have shown steady improvement, and he was duly awarded a clean majority after five years. In some respects he has been as transformative as Thatcher, without the rancour, division or sheer unpleasantness. He has good instincts and is, by all accounts, one of the sanest and most psychologically normal people to be a British Prime Minister since Harold MacMillan.

Real wages here have fallen because they were uncompetitive, and propped up by a mad credit boom through the Blair years. They were also helped by the fact that the government tops up low pay through the tax system (worth 40% of the budget deficit alone, that), enabling employers to attract workers with low pay.

Real wages will almost certainly fall across the Western world as a result of globalisation, but they have held up surprisingly well in Britain, given the extent to which they were inflated in the boom. The Chinese and others are prepared to work harder than us for less money, and they are about as smart as we are. That puts pressure on our employment and/or wages. PTID loves to blame this on Conservatives, but no Labour administration has a clue how to stop it, either. Indeed, there is a widely accepted view that Germany�s competitiveness now was largely created by the lag effected between real wages and productivity growth during the 1990s under the Schroeder-Hartz reforms.

Corbyn indeed has the air of something that was left at the back of the fridge for too long. Or one of those Japanese soldiers wandering out of the Philippines jungles in 1975 to find that not only is the war over, but he�s been elected as Emperor of Japan. The Labour Party thought it might win after 5 years of �austerity� � when it did not, it had a nervous breakdown, reverted to its most primitive instincts, and appointed a superannuated student politician as its leader.

[pietillidie]

^I can't disagree with much of that regarding the Left. As you know, I despised Blair and see Cameron as a light version of the same slime bag (ideologically).

Oi, and don't forget I really hate the Left too, so be fair! Remember, I'm not blaming "the" conservatives, I'm blaming "conservatism" as a nutty cult and collection of pre-scientific doctrines.

Hawke-Keating showed you can, overall, implement a saner balance if you have independent thought and courage of your conviction; they implemented sound conservative ideas properly, but unlike primitive conservative cult members like Thatcher, Blair, Brown and Cameron, they weeded out the fanatical, society-destroying lunatic ideas from conservative dogma.

Not only am I truly repulsed by Cameron having failed to learn anything novel or insightful about the planet despite having had the best education the world offers, but he has been gifted Cardigan Corbyn and still lacks the courage to take that massive poll advantage to the edge *to get serious things done for the good of the people he represents*, in complete contrast to, say, Paul Keating.

Even today in the House of Commons, reminisce of Tony Abbott (minus the brain fades and vacuous stare) he had *no thesis at all* but old cult doctrine when it came to revenue/wages, and offered not a single ounce of leadership and insight; instead, the chicken-hearted invertebrate (a mixed bio-metaphor for you!) deflected every single difficult and central question with glib smartarsery.

What a f^&$ing world-class, lily-livered wanker. People's wages, quality of life and ability to even afford to rent a home are faltering, you smug creep.

But, I still despise Blair far more because he was a pathological liar and a narcissistic mass murderer/war criminal who continues to enrich himself off the back of the carnage and death he caused.

[pietillidie]

If we get any UK politics talk in the future we could get that moved, maybe. But, for now it's an aside which arose when I was having a Guinness watching the House of Commons Question Time, getting seriously pissed off. It didn't warrant a thread because it was mostly cursing, hence it's in here!

Sorry, folks; carry on.

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[stui magpie]

$190 fine for going 5km over the limit. 55 in a 50 zone that should be a 60 zone anyway.

[think positive]

I see the bloody Scotsman lost again

[Morrigu]

A British helicopter pilot has been shot dead by elephant poachers in Tanzania, the conservation charity for which he was working has said.

The Friedkin Conservation Fund said Roger Gower had been tracking poachers on Friday in the Maswa Game Reserve when they fired on his helicopter.

One of his colleagues said he had been shot as he flew near the carcass of one of three elephants killed by poachers.

Charity founder Dan Friedkin said the organisation had lost "a dear friend".

The Foreign Office has confirmed the death of a UK national in Tanzania and said it was providing assistance to the family.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-35450490

Vale Roger you died doing a great and wonderful thing!

Die a horrible painful death scumbag poachers and filthy scumbag buyers of Ivory - aka the Chinese