- Kaislioc
- Feb 14, 2008
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2016 AD, 1 SDCFADP. Or is it more like 32 SDCFADP? I figure it would be best to get it out of the way now so we don't end up with any of the silliness the Georgian calendar had when it turned out Jesus was not actually born on 0.
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- Kaislioc
- Feb 14, 2008
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Because cutting off the resources used by the opposition isn't that?
Let's see, in the past few months we've seen the conservatives:
- Dramatically throttle the already limited powers of trade unions to strike in their members' interests
- Cut off large amounts of political funding from those trade unions to the parties they support
- Threaten to neuter the second chamber for doing their job of vetting and challenging lovely legislation and underhanded tactics
- Threaten to cut off the funding which allows the opposition to act on a level playing field with the Government.
- Repeatedly lie about the motivations of the opposition and utilise a friendly press to make out that the opposition are everything from a security threat to outright terrorist sympathisers
- Start a war (or exppand it to an new country, anyway) with a nebulous and ill-defined foreign enemy in order to stir jingoistic fervour
- Repeatedly demonise the leaders of the opposition for any number of imagined slights to said jingoistic fervour
I don't know about you but I'm getting progressively more and more terrified of Cameron and cronies right now. And this is only 8 months into a 5 year term.
e: some relevant historical fact I don't know.
How could you write a post on this without mentioning increasing the number of spies threefold and trying to get powers to spy on everyone in secret courts where it is also a crime to tell people exactly how the government is trying to hack people's PCs and their long standing commitment to getting rid of the red tape of the humans rights act so are boys can't be trialed for war crimes?
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Jan 2, 2016 21:02
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- Kaislioc
- Feb 14, 2008
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Cuts have lead to a reduction in ukmt services.
I'm still hopeful that grassroots anti-cuts movements like the one spearheaded by upstart David Cameron will get us a new thread.
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