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		<title>Glorious Britain</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2012/05/12/glorious-britian/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 May 2012 14:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The root cause of the British political dichotomy is probably the British class system. The toffs are indoctrinated in special schools to have unjustified self confidence. They believe that they are born to rule and hence they find ruling easy. They do not have to be competent, they just have appear confident because we, the working class, still have an ingrained and erroneous respect for toffs.

You deny it but you do! We all do. We may hate the middle class middle manager but we love the eccentric old toff. Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart in Doctor Who, General Mike Jackson in The Balkans. When British troops went into Iraq Colonel Tim Collins gave a speech and said: “...Iraq is steeped in history. It is the site of the Garden of Eden, of the Great Flood and the birthplace of Abraham. Tread lightly there...”. We loved it. We lapped it up. We British are romantics. We listen to these well educated, confident men and we sneer at the egalitarian Americans. We British are content to send our sons to die on the other side of the world as long as we have some Eton educated idiot fill our heads full of romantic nonsense. "Play up! play up! and play the game!" It is our pride and our curse.
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		<title>In, Out, In, Out, Oy!, Oy!, Oy!</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/12/09/in-out-in-out-oy-oy-oy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 12:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Britain is a problem for Europe but now that push, has come to shove, Britain has been forced to decide: in or out of the central core. Cameron has chosen out and, given the current state of the Euro, I doubt that Mr. Milliband would have decided differently.

The hysteria of Mr. Milliband's comments are indicative of Labour's continuing media focused leadership. Just last week Mr. Milliband was pontificating on the comments of Jeremy Clarkson on a chat show. Mr. Clarkson is the presenter of a car program. Like him or loath him CLARKSON DOES NOT MATTER. I do not elect and pay politicians to commentate on popular TV shows.

New Labour's current performance are evidence that they still have not understood that 13 years of spin was a failure. They need to get serious and start identifying solid policy differences between themselves and the Conservatives. And a dose of sincerity would not go amiss.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4597&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Labour call for tax cuts you have to be suspicious</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/06/16/cut-taxes-labour-with-their-reputation/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/06/16/cut-taxes-labour-with-their-reputation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to be suspicious when you hear that Labour want to cut taxes and so when I heard this evening that Ed Balls wanted to cut VAT I did not believe that this waspart of  a well thought out economic strategy. Balls knows that reputable bodies such as the IMF and the EU do not agree with him and he knows that the government will ignore his calls. But that is not the point.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=4054&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Banks recovery is a cheap trick</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/04/09/banks-recovery-is-a-cheap-trick/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Apr 2011 10:23:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bankers argue that they have done a brilliant job in making profits for the banks since the credit crunch and in so doing dug the banks out of the mess they were in. This disingenuous as they have achieved all this merely by the putting their prices up. Competition has dropped out of the market, base rates are ludicrously low let yet loan rates and fees are high.

So who is really paying for the banks recovery and Mr. Dimon's bonus? You are! Joe bloody public again. The same poor bastard who also paid for the banks bail out. You don't need to pay a £3m bonus for a trick like that.

Whenever criticised bankers usually reply that you have to pay the market rate or you will lose people. Well, OK, let's lose some of these people. Firstly, where can they go? Secondly, if they have so little solidarity with their fellow countrymen then bollocks to them and thirdly their past performance IS an indicator of future results so good riddance to them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3910&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Voting reform &#8211; where&#8217;s the debate?</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/04/07/voting-reform-wheres-the-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 20:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What I'd like to know is: Where is the debate? Where are the TV documentaries full of university professors discussing each system? Where is the comparison with other countries? Where is the manic news reader with his swing-o-meter producing charts and statistics to show what would have happened in various previous elections if one or the other alternative system had been in place? Where is the Referendum web site explaining the options?

In short: Where is the informed debate?

As far as I can see there is none and I expect that, despite of the support of Ed Milliband and Nick Clegg, the Tories and Labour do not want a change. May the 5th will come and go and most people will be unaware or too uninformed to vote.

The chance to make a major change to British politics will have passed us by because the political establishment and, presumably, the media are happy with the status quo.

Bollocks!<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3903&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Apathy wins again</media:title>
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		<title>More Labour Promises</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2011/02/06/more-labour-promises/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Feb 2011 13:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear that Ed Miliband has warned that the young generation have been betrayed by spending cuts. Mr. Miliband is TALKING BOLLOCKS! It is right to be concerned that cuts to education could damage the potential of the next generation but it is absolute hypocrisy for Mr. Miliband to pretend that Labour policies are more friendly to the next generation than those of the coalition government.

It was on Labour's watch that the UK ran up massive debt and Labour are now opposing every effort to bring the deficit down and repay the debt. The real betrayal of our children would be for us to escape cuts now by borrowing more money to service the debt and just pass the burden on to the next generation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=3631&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ed Milliband &#8211; Toadying pays off</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/09/27/ed-milliband-toadying-pays-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Sep 2010 18:42:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I hear that “close friends” of David Milliband claim that he said before the leadership contest that if he didn't win then he would leave politics. The Guardian reported today David's wife, Louise Shackleton, was “in floods of tears” and “furious about the manner of his defeat”. I am reminded that Tony Blair, after bullshitting us for years that he was “passionate” about everything in politics from schools to hospitals to freedom, he chose to give up his seat as the member for Sedgefield after he resigned the leadership.

All this goes to show that the main players in New Labour were, and are, arrogant narcissists interested only in power and not in politics. Good riddance to the lot of them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2973&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labour Leadership &#8211; starry eyed, starey eyes and scary eyes</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/09/01/labour-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 19:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don't know too much about Andy Burnham but he seems equally distanced from Blair and Brown and relativity untarnished by the New Labour experiment. Perhaps he could be a good leader. Not that I'd vote Labour for a few terms yet. Labour really need to stop adjusting their policies in order to garner votes and figure out what they stand.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2876&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mandelson reincarnated as a mouthy young Tory</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/17/good-grief-has-mandelson-been-reincarnated-as-a-young-tory/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/17/good-grief-has-mandelson-been-reincarnated-as-a-young-tory/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jonesxxx</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good grief. I thought that the age of politicians cynically talking out interviews was over. Over the past 13 years Peter Mandelson had developed the art of talking a lot but saying nothing. He honed his techniques of deceit and obfuscation and almost rendered interviews pointless. His goal was to say nothing. I thought that with New Labour out of power we might return to the days when the purpose of political interviews was to give the public a chance to understand the actions of politicians. It seems that Zach Goldsmith, MP for Richmond Park, has other ideas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2743&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Labour&#8217;s disgusting self riotousness</title>
		<link>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/09/disgusting-labour-self-riotousness/</link>
		<comments>http://talkingbollocks.net/2010/07/09/disgusting-labour-self-riotousness/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jul 2010 23:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am getting really irritated by Labour in opposition. Their outrageous self riotous indignation is disgusting. From Roy Hattersley arrogant assumption that the Lib Dems should ally with Labour to Harriet Harman winging that Lib Dem voters did not vote for the current policies. Hey Harriet! I am a Liberal Democrat voter, don&#8217;t tell me [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=talkingbollocks.net&#038;blog=2000120&#038;post=2674&#038;subd=talkingbollocks&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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