Posts by Rich 11 4584 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Jul 2009
Obviously a joke? I can't agree with that. I've seen too many people claim that the Nazis were socialists, without them ever bothering to look up the reason why the word stayed in the name (though they shut up fast when you tell them they must also believe that all those Soviet-era nations who had 'Democratic People's Republic' in their name must have been well-functioning democracies).
History shows that far right movements generally enjoy the support of the wealthiest ones.
Indeed. Greed frequently overrides any democratic principles a person might once have held, with rationalisations which would awe even the most fundamentalist of religious apologetics.
While not believing in any personification of evil, I can broadly agree with the biblical notion that money is the root of all evil. Money buys power and power corrupts.
If I were a billionaire the country wouldn't be in this situation at all. I would have had UKIP thoroughly infiltrated and all the worst of their fruitcakes, racists and loons long since exposed, tainting their fellow travellers beyond redemption. The clandestine campaign I would have waged against Farage, Banks, Johnson et al would have seen them permanently associated in the public mind with offences far worse than the poisonous bile the anti-EU tabloids dribbled in the public ear for twenty years. And I wouldn't have had to tell a single lie to do any of it.
So anyone wandering across the border is liable to be picked up by immigration services sooner or later.
Didn't the government announce a plan, a year or so ago, to recruit volunteers to help staff the UK Border Agency and the Immigration Enforcement division? That's a pretty big admission that the service is already underfunded.
We done need nor seem to want to so thats the EU.
So you're quite happy for anyone who can make it to Ireland to wander across the border and start a new life for themselves in the UK? I mean, once we've got all these wonderful new free trade deals we've been promised with the rest of the world, the streets will be paved with gold and the UK will become much more attractive to illegal immigrants and bogus asylum seekers than the failin' EUSSR.
* The lucky bastards were people with Irish Citizenship as they get to keep Freedom of Movement and the Common Travel Area.
Although you could also say they'll count themselves considerably less lucky if a hard border with Ireland should reappear and damage the peace process, giving the IRA and UVF an excuse to resume their traditional activities.
you simply reduce your standards until you can.
I expect the Romanian horsemeat mafia have already cottoned on to this and are ramping up the slaughter of diseased and aging stock as we speak.
Are those the lower standards which you would accept as 'problem solved'? No, I expect not. Please think before you encourage solutions which will hurt people, and in cases kill them.
Seriously, this appears to be utter bollocks to me.
That's because (and please don't think I mean to be rude to you personally here) you don't know much about how international trade works, can't have been paying attention for the last two years and haven't really stopped to think about it. That, unfortunately, is exactly how Brexit came about.
You should see the Mail today: the headline is "Theresa's Triumph!" They're celebrating her ability to support an amendment which forces her to go back to Brussels to change something which she spent a month telling everyone couldn't be changed. Not only did she fail to get a deal which could satisfy Parliament, she has now become a hypocrite and denounced her own work. And just when you'd think the insanity couldn't get any more convoluted, the Daily Fuckwitted Mail declares it all a triumph.
Oh, what times we are living in. I'm glad I don't have any grandchildren I'll have to explain this to one day.
Fox is rank. You really don't want to eat Fox. Oh, you meant the animal. No, you don't want to eat that either.
Owen Patterson was on Today this morning, talking bollocks as usual. This time he was also being very dense, declaring the utter insanity of yesterday's amendments a triumph. I can see why the badgers found it so easy to move the goalposts when he was in charge of killing them.
I'm not working for 30% and work less hours.
Oh good. That opens up a part-time position for someone who is willing to work and to earn more than they are currently earning.
Isn't that how capitalism works? I accept that I could be wrong. I keep getting contradictory messages from capitalists.
Suggestions such as "Grovel before Me, worm, or taste the eternal flames of Hell!"
Ah, poor God. So badly misunderstood. One set of believers want to think he's a good and loving god and the other set live in terror of the Old Testament monster. Neither of them have an ounce of evidence that their delusion personified is in any way justifiable, so just to prove their dedication they occasionally spend some time killing each other. And that's just within any one of the three Abrahamic religions -- it's even worse when they start arguing over who has the bestest cuddly little prophet.
Sure it'll give your old mum a new hip but you probably paid 10x the actual cost of the procedure through taxation of your entire family.
Did you actually read what you wrote? Are you capable of understanding why that is not in any sense a reasonable real-world comparison and an utterly invalid argument?
You are Daniel Hannan and I claim my £5.
as the belief is that the airbag will protect you against harm.
Too true. There's even a formal medical term for the pattern of fractures across face, ribs and arms that are the common result of having your life saved by an airbag. It's better than being dead but you're still looking at weeks in hospital.
(Hey, El Reg, can we have a Crash Test Dummy icon, please?)
one assumes that he's had had first class healthcare, medical advice and diet through his adult life
The royal family are believers in homeopathy, another inexcusable holdover from the 19th century. I bet they only use it for minor, time-limited ailments, though, and the rest of the time rely upon the services of expensive private hospitals.
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