Labour and Glasgow

Originally posted by shavixmir


Yeah. Like the Tories will ever get into power in Scotland again? pfffft.

They don't want to, just English independence from Scottish rule.

Originally posted by Siskin
They don't want to, just English independence from Scottish rule.

You think, when we're independent, that we'll be taking Brown back?

Don't think so - he's yours now.

Originally posted by Redmike
You think, when we're independent, that we'll be taking Brown back?

Don't think so - he's yours now.

Quite right. The moron stepped over to the dark side... and there's no comin' back.

Originally posted by AThousandYoung
How do you expect the rich to stay rich if you nationalize their property? You're like a vampire, sucking them dry until society collapses.

You can only live off others' wealth for so long until everyone's poor and has no motivation to work beyond a certain point because they can't keep their earnings.

How do you think the rich get rich? Could it be that it is they who are the vampires sucking the poor dry until society collapses?
In Britain, in the 80s, publicly owned companies were sold off by an English tory government to private corporations who then subsequently employed the associated ministers once they had retired. Jobs for the boys indeed.

Originally posted by The Snapper
How do you think the rich get rich? Could it be that it is they who are the vampires sucking the poor dry until society collapses?
In Britain, in the 80s, publicly owned companies were sold off by an English tory government to private corporations who then subsequently employed the associated ministers once they had retired. Jobs for the boys indeed.

Sorry, but in the main the rich get rich because they have more brain-power or are wiilling to take more risks than the average personage.

Originally posted by Redmike
I don't expect the rich to stay rich.

That's kinda the point.

They won't stay... at all, they'll do a Connery on you

Originally posted by josephus54
Sorry, but in the main the rich get rich because they have more brain-power or are wiilling to take more risks than the average personage.

Don't say sorry- no need to apologise for what you think, only for what you do!

That may well be true "in the main", but in the real world the rich are more likely to be rich by being better able to exploit the hard work and brain power of productive members of society, while producing only strife and inequality themselves.

They are normally able to do this by starting from a more privileged position in terms of better education, social conditions and family connections. Or possibly by being more ruthless and uncaring than the average person.

Much easier to take those risks when you have Daddy's inheritance to fall back on, or possibly a diagnosis of psychopathic tendencies to excuse any potential failures...

Originally posted by aging blitzer
They won't stay... at all, they'll do a Connery on you

That's ok, we'll cope fine.