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12 hours ago, YoungWillz said:Ha!
I despise most politicians, you haven't been paying attention to my posting history.
I'm all for democracy and equal rights. But how is the field levelled by giving a candidate an inbuilt advantage with the electorate simply by luck of birth?
I'm hardly authoritarian for wanting a just system, not one dictated by genes. It's unfair You are free to disagree with me without resorting to slurring my character, rather than addressing that point.
In the today's world of grubby and corrupt politics, it’s who controls the party selection system, including the constituency associations, that really counts. Prospective candidates have to go through a selection process.
Tories have to pass a parliamentary Assessment Board to get on the Approved Candidates List being they can even apply for seats. A lot of current Conservative MPs owe their seats to the patronage of David Cameron and his cronies through was called The Priority List. After getting on the Approved List, you had to get on the Priority List to apply for safe or target seats. Thankfully, most of them will lose their seats at the next election.
In Labour, the Trades Unions control the selection of candidates in a lot of seats. Local “community leaders” also have a big influence in seats, e.g. Bradford, which have a large number of ethnic minority voters. Due to those differing allegiances, Starmer will have hundreds of new MPs who will be very tough to control.
It’s the patronage of the powerful, and what you promise to deliver in return, that counts now.
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1 minute ago, YoungWillz said:And I don't want a Commons filled with the offspring of politicians. There you go.
My point about patronage, nepotism and corruption in the Lords clearly espoused, thank you.
You have only exposed your authoritarian desire to deprive the offspring of politicians from having the same political rights as everyone else.
I don’t want the Commons to be filled with authoritarians like you who have contempt for democracy and equal rights.
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9 minutes ago, The Old Crem said:Such a rule would have disqualified Tony Benn.
Tony Benn, as Viscount Stansgate, had to fight to renounce his Peerage so that he could stand for election to the Commons.
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8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:Way round it obviously is to permit their appointment to the Lords. They would still have a "political" career, and they would be where the true hereditaries are - thus continuing the exposure of the whole stinking corrupt system.
So you want MPs’ children to enter Parliament through unelected appointment to the Lords rather than democratic election to the Commons? It would only encourage more corruption rather than expose it. I want the Lords to be replaced by an elected senate, not filled with the offspring of MPs.
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On 12/03/2024 at 06:27, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:Love the Raspberries, less keen on his solo stuff, but a talented guy indeed.
And no, I've never seen Love Actually, obviously. It seems odd to me that he's being reported as 'guy who did those songs that sound like St Elmo's Fire from those romcoms"' when to me he's mainly 'singer/songwriter of the Raspberries', but then again I was surprised when Coltrane/Rickman/Gambon were billed as 'Harry Potter actor'.
Edit: the other three from the classic line-up - Wally Bryson, Jim Bonfanti and Dave Smalley - all appear to be still on the vine (er, bush?) in their mid-70s (appropriately enough).
I missed Eric’s tragic passing on holiday and I’m absolutely gutted. His solo albums include many songs in the Raspberries’ style as well as ballads.
Thankfully, the classic line-up reunited for some great gigs around 2005-7. I’d have paid a lot of money on flights and hotel to seen them live.
RIP Eric
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5 hours ago, YoungWillz said:Personally, I have never been in favour of nepotism in any form.
I like Hoyle, I think he's generally above reproach (except for that huge mistake recently). But I am all in favour of the children of MPs or former MPs being barred from standing for the Commons. And yes, that includes Stephen Kinnock from Labour and former Tory MP Nick Hurd.
Otherwise the place just becomes another hereditary-like aristo system. Skipping a generation, maybe. A couple of generations, better.
Ban the kids though. Ban them all.
You forgot Hilary Benn, son Tony. Victoria Atkins, the Health Secretary. She is the daughter of ex MP Sir Robert Atkins. The “kids”, as you patronisingly describe them, did not choose their parents or inherit their politics genetically. The voters can reject them at the ballot box.
The European Court of Human Rights (the UK is still a signatory to the Convention) would rule that such a ban breached their human rights. Your example Stephen Kinnock (Neil was an EU Commissioner and Glenys was an MEP) would go straight to the ECHR if banned from standing. IIRC his wife was the PM of Denmark.
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On 23/10/2022 at 14:22, Gooseberry Crumble said:Reveals her home is collapsing and full of mice.
Needs more Cats!
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On 14/03/2024 at 20:47, Sean said:When she spoke to ITV News and Keir Starmer she stated "Im not at my best" and she no longer wishes to be filmed on camera. Needed subtitles but that`s clearly just the line.
So Starmer and Rantzen are monetising their private videos on Only Fans?
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On 12/03/2024 at 22:50, TQR said:
The (Prince) Willy Wanka experience
Michael Jackson has come back from the dead to adopt the kids of James Hewitt and Greta Thumberg!
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12 minutes ago, Toast said:Eh? It was Youth in Asia you were addressing.
I was merely commenting that you must have been taking his name literally.
I was joking about you being at uni with Julia Hartley-Brewer but you obviously did not get it.
Was your frontal lobotomy painful? Your sense of humour seems to have been removed at the same time!
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When Dave Myers went through the Pearly Gates, he asked St Peter for a Harley.
Unfortunately for Steve, St Peter had not watched the Hairy Bikers.
RIP.
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On 10/03/2024 at 21:50, Toast said:
Very touchy about your age!
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5 hours ago, Youth in Asia said:Agreed awful woman (JHB not HRH). Had the misfortune to be at uni with her. Hasn't changed a bit.
You were at university with Hartley-Brewer and still consider yourself a youth?
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On 11/02/2024 at 12:15, YoungWillz said:Local authority figure Barrie Taylor, hubby of Karen Buck MP, has died:
I understand Karen Buck will not be standing at the next election for Westminster North.
Passing the Buck!
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1 hour ago, time said:Stan Bowles reportedly dead aged 75.
RIP
The 60s and 70s were blessed with stylish characters like Stan, Georgie Best, Rodney Marsh Tony Currie, and Frank Worthington.
They were magicians who, despite being hacked down by the likes of Ron Harris and Tommy Smith, could play brilliantly on pitches that resembked mud heaps
After the game, it was off to the nightclub for champagne with the ladies.
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6 hours ago, The Old Crem said:He was an ex miner who spent a couple of decades down the mines. Ex miners don’t tend to live past life expectancy. Dennis Skinner is an exception.
Unless you spend decades in Parliament as an MP.
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On 22/02/2024 at 14:28, diego said:Nicolae Vulpeanu died at the age of 83, the former Romanian footballer played for Arges between 1966 and 1968. With Vulpeanu on the field, FC Argeș faced Ferencvaros in the Târguri Cities Cup, in a "double" played in the 1967-1968 season. Pitesti won in Trivale, 3-1, but clearly lost in Hungary, 0-4.
https://www.gsp.ro/fotbal/liga-1/a-murit-nicolae-vulpeanu-fotbalist-legendar-fc-arges-731497.html
Looks like Jim Bowen.
Super, smashing, great!
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2 hours ago, harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy said:
That’s too bad, he’d have been a shoo-in for the role in the 2027 movie ‘Steve Wright: Sad Last Days’. Or even in ‘Stephen Bunting: How I Came to Rule the PDC’.
Peter Kay would have been perfect before he lost a few stones.
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On 19/02/2024 at 19:50, Funeralopolis said:https://www.tmz.com/2024/02/19/porn-star-kagney-linn-karter-dead-dies-suicide/
Kagney Lynn Karter dead at 36 after suicide.
A deadly load!
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35 minutes ago, TQR said:It's a well known fact that to be a DL member, you must be Scottish, LGBT+ and/or neurodivergent. Anyone else is very likely an impostor.
Which two or all three will you admit to?
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3 hours ago, YoungWillz said:Plymouth MP Johnny Mercer has got a real slapping down at the public inquiry into special forces murders in Afghanistan: https://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/johnny-mercer-warned-serious-legal-9116102
Isn't the complexion of his constituency against him anyway? About to be an ex-MP?
The Tories are losing by-elections with huge majorities so the obvious answer is yes,
Even so, Mercer is a useless, attention-seeking wanker so he would lose his seat even in a close GE.
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On 17/02/2024 at 11:42, Toast said:Massive cocks seem to be a theme here lately.
Only for those who don’t have them!
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7 hours ago, time said:Ralph LaCock, you say? No wonder he changed it.
Thankfully, his parents did not call him Richard!
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Cagney Linn Carter, porn “star”, - https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13109423/kagney-linn-karter-instagram-post-suicide-death.html
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Political Frailty
in DeathList Forum
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Wishful thinking. The unions (especially in the NHS and the railways) will want payback, especially for years of strike action against the Tory government. Starmer’s massive problem is that Tories (as a result of lockdowns and the associated furlough payments) have spent all the money.
Britain’s credit card is maxed out and Starmer will have to slash public services just to pay off the interest. Sunak couldn’t give a f**k because his deep state cronies (e.g. Blair and Obama) will reward him. He will get lucrative jobs and huge speech fees for his loyalty to the globalist hegemony.