Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
There's nothing more irritating than an antipodean monarchist. You like them so much, you take them!
British Police Assault Damn Near Everyone
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I'm disoriented: Didn't they just have an election? Like yesterday?
To me there are two major problems here:
a) In said election 36% voted for "hit me with a stick, please".
b) Another 23% had no idea what they were actually voting for at all.
The latter is the funniest thing anyway. Before the election we German were - apparently - in a dire need for education. We presumed the LibDems were a bunch of reckless market radical snobs.
Like our "liberals".
But the British corrected us over and over again:
"No, no, no, no, no, they are much more like your Greens."
We then usually asked: "But you do have Greens, too, don't you?"
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
In Britain, the Government can dissolve parliament at any time (but after no less than five years after the last General Election), although the traditional stability of British politics (this being the first coalition government since the war) means that they usually occur at four to five year intervals. The last "premature" dissolution was in 1992, after a two year Conservative government.
Best summary ever!
Well... Consider us enlightened, is all I can really say.
(Although, on the upside, we have a Green MP now, so that's something. That seems to suggest the feasibility, at least, of an effective left-wing alternative if we ever get to establishing an electoral system that post-date the Industrial Revolution.)
ParkCungHee
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That sounds like a relative decrease in Glasgow violence.Well, what I know is that nobody actually got killed, maimed or made to eat haggis vindaloo, so perhaps the latter?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Chalk that up to the notable absence of the working class in the Socialist Worker's Party.
I'm not sure. I doubt they will any time soon; they invested a lot of their prestige in the coalition, and if they turn from it with nothing to show, they will doubtlessly lose a large amount of the gains which they've won over the last twenty years (although perhaps not as much as recent polls would suggest; I suspect that a lot of that loss was in those areas in which they have limited electoral success, Labour safe seats and the like). I can only see it happening if an organised anti-Clegg faction forced it while being able to characterise it as a "reclamation" of the party, although that sounds altogether too dramatic for the usual turgidity of British centrism.
True. The difference is, the police are meant to be better than the other side. As much as it seems like a double-standard, it is entirely true to say that the poor behaviour of one police officer reflects badly on the whole force in a way which is not true of a protester and the protest. The machinery of the state is simply held to a higher collective standard; that is the price of our consent to their monopoly on violence.
And, of course, then you get into the issue of the police knowingly provoking protestor violence...
Well, what I know is that nobody actually got killed, maimed or made to eat haggis vindaloo, so perhaps the latter?
what kind of perverse joke is this
amadeus
burning out his fuse out here alone
If the Liberal Democrats pulled out and an election was called and the Conservatives won a plurality, the Conservatives alone would be able to form a minority government, right?
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
Yes. (They would also have the assumed support of the Democratic Unionists, although that isn't worth very much.)
This seems as good a place as any to post this.
I'm looking into starting an MBA next year, and one of the schools I'm looking into applying at is the London School of Business. Would anyone happen to know if the tuition increase will affect rates for graduate courses?
I'm looking into starting an MBA next year, and one of the schools I'm looking into applying at is the London School of Business. Would anyone happen to know if the tuition increase will affect rates for graduate courses?
Mise
isle of lucy
I've been telling you lefty nobs for ages that the Lib Dems were FAR more right wing than Labour but none of you bloody listened. Now look what's happened
@Vordeo: No, it wouldn't affect that. LBS is far and away the most expensive business school in the country, though. (£50k per year for an MBA or something, compared with £30k at Oxford, Cambridge, and other good London schools.)
@Vordeo: No, it wouldn't affect that. LBS is far and away the most expensive business school in the country, though. (£50k per year for an MBA or something, compared with £30k at Oxford, Cambridge, and other good London schools.)
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Cool, so it only affects undergraduate courses then?
And yeah, was just using that as an example, still not sure what schools I'm actually applying to.
ComradeDavo
Formerly God
The 2 videos demonstrate why protests turn violent and how the police in the UK deal with protesting, which is a key part of freedom fo speach, in a bad way.
GinandTonic
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Yes
A couple of protesters run to the guys aid, an older cop runs over and drags the cop who's lost it away and the last two cops run away from a baying mod of students.
GinandTonic
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The Tories want power and the Libs know they will be crucified at the polls. The coalition is not going to break until the libs have the results of the referendum on PR and a bill on the books. The libs can take even a couple of decades in the wilderness as the price of PR.
The day the bill is signed into law however, they'll be playing to the galleries. The Tories know this so they'll drag it out as long as they can, and wield the axe as much as possible while it is Nick that gets sprayed with the bad blood rather than them.
Virote_Considon
The Great Dictator
Heh, give the Brits a choice between a woman like Palin renowned for her stupidity and the Monarchy I know which way they will jump.
Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
At least they have to live with the consequences of it! A Brit singing the praises of the Chief Hun is, for all the abhorrence of their views, actually paying for her ridiculous luxuries, rather than expecting someone half way across the globe to do it for them.
