Peter Marton
11/12/06
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09-Feb-2010 11:42
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Some individuals and some groups want special privileges for religious or ethinic or political reasons - or simply because they consider themselves high and mighty, like our expense fiddling MP's. We have laws in this country that MUST apply to one and all, it is NOT dicrimination to apply the law equally and fairly, and if that makes some individuals unhappy they have a choice - comply or leave - which is one of our fundamental human rights - the right to choose.
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06-Feb-2010 23:55
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Working in the Middle East, I saw many Chinese ladies working in shops, talking with them I learned they had the choice of a Chinese sweat shop factory job for 10 hours a day at US $8 a day making high end consumer goods, or a Middle East shop job at US US $300-$400 tax free a month. Therein lies the basis of Chinas phenominal industrial rise, cheap labour and plenty of it - something the west can never hope to match. When did you last see a "Made in the UK" high end consumer product?
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05-Feb-2010 22:55
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The claim to fame for a food or drink or product type has reached Kafkaesque proportions - should cheddar cheese only be sold as such if it came from Cheddar, wenslydale cheese from Wensleydale,sprouts from Brussels, turkeys from Turkey, colas from America, vodka from Russia, tyres only made by Dunlop, light bulbs only by Edison? Does it matter if something comes from another source? What matters is quality and safety and taste, the three deciding factors in a products sales potential.
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05-Feb-2010 13:59
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Improved relations between the USA and China? That will happen when the Americans and the Chinese have real democracies, when a man in the street - who is not either a dyed in the wool hard line republican or loony left liberal democrat, and not a fanatical Stalinst/Maoist or corrupt communist official - can be elected to the highest office in each land. Till then we have the inept, corrupt and politically extreme leading the sheep. Will it ever happen? Not in my grandchilds lifetime.
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05-Feb-2010 13:51
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There are complaints the cost of the investigation is the same as the money to be recovered - but that is not the point, the salient point is rooting out dishonesty wherever it is found. I dont care if it a politician, a member of the privileged royals, a policeman or the guy at the next desk in my office - there is no reason some should be able to simply walk away laughing. Any repeat of this corruption, for that is what I see fiddling expenses is, should be grounds for disbarment.
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03-Feb-2010 16:02
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Instead of paying jobsworths in the MOD bonuses for getting out of bed to coming to work and paying bonuses for simply doing their job, move the whole kit and caboodle to Catterick, sell off the MOD building, stop paying London weightings, buy bullet proof vests for all our soldiers, and buy American armoured vehicles toughened against IED's. NuLabour cut one billion from the defence budget - it takes no great amount of military intelligence to figure out where real savings could be made.
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01-Feb-2010 11:54
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I have no desire to be a living vegetable or confined to a wheel chair with a debilitating wasting disease, all people have a right to decide their own life course, the church & politicians have a vested interest in denying people rights - the church because religion is a mystical belief not a fact, politicians because politics is about personal choice, not the right to interfere in free choice. The government are hypocritical in denying the right to die while cutting back on care provision.
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01-Feb-2010 11:49
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The government can afford to spend 192 billion to bail out Gordon Brown's city friends, but cannot find one billion more for education. Notwithstanding the need to have skilled and well educated workforce, I really believe we have to prioritise education to the sciences, less media studies and golf course management and arty degrees - I don't recall hearing of Titian and Constable and Da Vinci going to art college or of Jack Nicklaus sitting in a classroom learning how to design golf courses.
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31-Jan-2010 20:10
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Ask millions of Chinese citizens who have used homeopathy for years...... Alan Glenister, Bushey, United Kingdom That sort of ill informed comment is what drives the trade of butchered large cats like tigers, leopard and lions, and the white rhino - such crazy ideas like people buying tiger penises because they think it will make them a virile man. If it really were true that such remedies work, then the Chinese are going to be in big trouble when the last tiger has been poached.
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30-Jan-2010 22:34
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Signs of insanity: 1. Hairs on the palm of your hands 2. Looking for hairs on the palms of your hands 3. Finding hairs on the palms of your hands 4. Believing that homeopathic remedies will cure your insanity. For all the good that homeopathic remedies do you, one might as well talk to plants, hang on a minute, doesn't someone we all know called Charles talk to plants and believe in homeopathic remedies? Homeopathic remedies - the snake oil salesmens dream product, no good no harm.
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28-Jan-2010 09:36
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Really? Wonder which NuLabor quango supplied the figures, can we rely on them being accurate? Are they a political fudge to put the man who was instrumental in getting the UK into the financial meltdown - Chancellor Gordon Brown, now our on-his-way-out PM, look like his quantative easing has solved all our problems at a single bound, ready to lead us all into the glorious socialist Nirvana, with full employment, a Merc in every garage & a balance of payments second to none. Yeah right.
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28-Jan-2010 09:23
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Equality in the UK? A good start would be to abolish ALL heriditary titles, the biggest systemic discriminatory class conscious symbol of oppression and repression going back to William the Conqueror. It was for those very reasons the Americans had the good sense to ditch the symbols of the British aristocracy at the revolution, and the reason the man who was the richest in the world at one time is still Bill Gates, not Lord Bill Gates. If you want to honour achievement, keep the "Sir".
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28-Jan-2010 02:45
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Voting on this Island has always been voluntary, voters have shown their disinterest or disbelief by staying away in droves - only by making it compulsory would the real views of the population be known - but no party dare do that for fear of finding out how truly badly they are viewed. What can the public do about a system where candidates of the mainstream parties are selected in secret? Not a lot it seems. To me this secrecy has overtones of corruption and nepotism and favouritism.
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27-Jan-2010 15:39
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The British voting system encourages & perpertrates disenfranchisment in that those voting for losing candidates have no real representation. Far better to do completely away with inherited privilege of the Lords and fill the second chamber with the candidates who came second, that would achieve a balanced representation - but that is as likely as turkeys voting for Thanksgiving and Christmas, the haves will never voluntarily allow the have nots anything, as UK history shows all too clearly.
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