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Are you disgusted with Labour's arrogance?

GORDON Brown and Alistair Darling were condemned by pensioner groups yesterday after measures supposed to help them were branded a “con”.

LABOUR'S ARROGANCE

02.04.08, 9:35pm

I can't wait for Labours new manafesto as
I am running short in the bathroom, and need to
replace it with labours new 4 ply lie .

• Posted by: mrnewsreader • Report Comment

ORWELL

25.03.08, 9:17pm

animal farm was a critique of socialism
1984 was a critique of totalitarianism (which occurs in both left and right politics at the extremes).

the fact that you, btob, unquestioningly believe political propoganda such as this, and i say propaganda because these 'stories' never back up their claims properly with facts, but rely on rhetoric, aspersions and willful misrepresentation of people's words, demonstrates that orwell's points are truly lost on you.

how can you believe in the 'truth' of a paper that had to aplogise last week for printing unfounded stories?

it is a stunning lack of independent thought on your part.

• Posted by: crayfishbanker • Report Comment

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YES

22.03.08, 8:41am

Yes

• Posted by: byteback • Report Comment

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LABOURS ARROGANCE

21.03.08, 5:09pm

I would rather be governed by genghis Khan than this lot. they have trampled the honest , decent, indigenous population of this country into the mire. If you are not an asylum seeker, eastern european migrant, or someone who is covered by human rights legislation then you are cannon fodder. Brown and co should be ashamed of themselves.

• Posted by: scotchray • Report Comment

SINCE WE’RE ON THE THREAD OF ORWELL…

21.03.08, 11:10am

On George Orwell – a few facts for the “O'Brians” of the world!!!
(O'Brian is the one who sends people to room 101 whilst quaffing his expensive wine.)

The novel “1984” was written in 1948.
It was written by Eric Blair (pseudonym George Orwell)
Orwell = a Suffolk river; George = quintessentially *English*
Orwell regarded himself as an Englishman.
1984 was a direct attack on left wing politics
The media in “1984” is completely controlled by the govt and used as an instrument of suppression.
Orwell saw socialism as a direct route to totalitarianism
Orwell regarded socialism as the direct enemy of individualism.

Try reading Animal Farm – no media there – just corrupt ‘socialist’ leaders snuffling in the trough while they sell off (literally) their comrades for glue!

As I said on a post a while back – blaming the Daily Express or the media for this lousy govt is akin to blaming a child for having unruly parents.

Our current govt may have had good intentions in 1997 (briefly, fleetingly) but those good intentions caved in within months.

Thankfully, whether people have read George Orwell's novels or not, the majority of the electorate recognise the levels of corruption radiating from Westminster.

And trying to discredit posts because of typing errors is pretty Orwellian in itself!!

10 out of 10 for irony though; superb!!!

• Posted by: back_to_basics • Report Comment

ORWELL

20.03.08, 7:49pm

in 1984 was all about how easily people could be manipulated by media into hating or loving any particular group or country depending on the circumstances.

the fact that the express uses the same tactics to stir anti-muslim and anti-immigration feeling is lost on you so-called orwell scholars who can't even spell.

• Posted by: crayfishbanker • Report Comment

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SEND THEM A MESSAGE!

18.03.08, 5:05pm

The real con is what has been going on for years regarding the CPI and RPI. By measuring inflation in the way that they do, the Office for National Stastics calculations include the spending habits of the like of Richard Branson and the Duke of Westminster, investment bankers and so on all the way down to the least well off.

In the case of pensioners and the low paid it is a fact that the cost of food, heating and council tax consumes practically all of their income. However the weighting of the statistics makes no allowances for this. Because in the case of the elderly their pension increases are calculated from the CPI this means that for years their real disposable income, such as it is has been declining in real terms. Add to this the obscenity that most of them are now also paying more in tax than they should since Gordon Brown abolished the 10P rate of income tax.

Hopefully such people will turn out in droves at the forthcoming London mayoral and local elections and send the only sort of message this awful government undestands.

• Posted by: figurewizard • Report Comment

ARE YOU DISGUSTED WITH LABOUR'S ARROGANCE?

17.03.08, 9:12pm

Personally I am all in favour of bringing the guillotine over from france

• Posted by: syd • Report Comment

ARROGANCE

17.03.08, 5:34pm

A prime example is allowing Chris Bryant, a disgusting pervert by most people's standards,to have an imput into our children's sex education. A more recent example is Ed Balls reply to CMD's comment about being having the highest taxes in history "SO WHAT".And probably the most serious example wasfor NULab to promise a referendum on the EU constitution, and promptly renege.

• Posted by: redwhiteandblue • Report Comment

GEORGE ORWELL

17.03.08, 12:56pm

Squalor & poverty are strong, reoccuring themes in GO’s writings.

In 1984 there’s squalor and poverty evident in the gin-houses & living conditions, set against the surveillance technology.
The people at the top lived in luxury!
Bang on, wasn’t he!
Squalor & poverty set against a sophisticated surveillance system!
Our politicians live in clover!

• Posted by: timeforachange • Report Comment

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LOLOLOLOL

17.03.08, 11:42am

Then again,your wonderful Labour party presides over the worst (sic, you mean 'best') education policies in Britains [sic] history,[ ]perhaps your poor spelling is purposeful to advertise th[is] fact.

Fool. And I'm not even going to start on his spelling of 'Goerge' /Lz/

To repeat: just how often did Orwell make predictions about the pension system?

• Posted by: Lefty_Labour_Loverr • Report Comment

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LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

17.03.08, 10:30am

Satire much?

• Posted by: Lefty_Labour_Loverr • Report Comment

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LLL

17.03.08, 7:55am



Penisions sic.

People in glass houses.......blah,blah,blah.
Do not seek to correct the spelling of others when your own is atrocious.

Then again,your wonderful Labour party presides over the worst education policies in Britains history,perhaps your poor spelling is purposeful to advertise the fact.

You are a cretin beyond words.

• Posted by: thewarlord • Report Comment

LLL

17.03.08, 7:08am

Looking at your last post and your way of spelling pensions makes me wonder if you drive a big car.

• Posted by: Mickle • Report Comment

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PROPHISY [SIC]?

16.03.08, 8:33pm

Yeah, because Orwell discussed penisions in great detail! /Lz/

• Posted by: Lefty_Labour_Loverr • Report Comment

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