Red Mosquito

McParadigm wrote:I for one shy away from passing judgment, because I think it is the hallmark of the very stupid.

'Passing judgment' is sometimes called just having an opinion.

dimejinky99 wrote:She also privatised most government held industries, creating huge unemployment. Those jobs have never returned to those areas. But Poll tax and Northern Ireland are the two black marks on her memory.
http://news.uk.msn.com/uk/margaret-that ... ain-627184

Yep. She created huge employment and then put everyone on sick benefit to cover it up, paving the way for our current Conservative government to demonise benefit claimants as scroungers.

harmless wrote:In as much as I'm 'anti-capitalist' (I'm not, in all its forms), nothing would change my mind on that.

So what do you do, when you run out of other peoples money?

harmless wrote:

McParadigm wrote:I for one shy away from passing judgment, because I think it is the hallmark of the very stupid.

'Passing judgment' is sometimes called just having an opinion.

I know there's no way you didn't catch the fact that I was making a joke.

McParadigm wrote:

harmless wrote:

McParadigm wrote:I for one shy away from passing judgment, because I think it is the hallmark of the very stupid.

'Passing judgment' is sometimes called just having an opinion.

I know there's no way you didn't catch the fact that I was making a joke.

I didn't at the time, it was late and I was kind of stressed, but I do now. Peace.

Electromatic wrote:

harmless wrote:In as much as I'm 'anti-capitalist' (I'm not, in all its forms), nothing would change my mind on that.

So what do you do, when you run out of other peoples money?

I don't do anything, I just have a steadfast opinion.

harmless wrote:

McParadigm wrote:

harmless wrote:

McParadigm wrote:I for one shy away from passing judgment, because I think it is the hallmark of the very stupid.

'Passing judgment' is sometimes called just having an opinion.

I know there's no way you didn't catch the fact that I was making a joke.

I didn't at the time, it was late and I was kind of stressed, but I do now. Peace.

*passes judgment on you*

harmless wrote:

Electromatic wrote:

harmless wrote:In as much as I'm 'anti-capitalist' (I'm not, in all its forms), nothing would change my mind on that.

So what do you do, when you run out of other peoples money?

I don't do anything, I just have a steadfast opinion.

This 'poll tax' business threw me for a loop. It seems that the term in American English has significantly diverged from its intial useage. In the US the poll tax was part of Jim Crow in which a tax was supposedly universally levied but in practice was only enforced as a prerequisite to vote for blacks and other disliked groups. I suppose thats why we invented the term 'flat tax' to denote a tax paid per adult as 'poll tax' has racial connotations.

i went to an all you can eat in Nottingham on Saturday. Had Jelly and Ice Cream for pudding and was quite vocal about it

Do we have any reason to expect that a leader of a different political party would've treated Northern Ireland differently? Was the Labour party more concillatory to the IRA?

Gotta say I think the same. No wonder some of them in Northern Ireland feel screwed over by the British State, rather than any one political party.