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Aye the younguns of today..... I remember when we used to have bomb scares at the metro centre several times a week. And this was in the period when Manchester shopping centre had just been bombed so it was serious stuff. Used to get coded tannoys asking us to look for bombs!!!!

A wins a win. Doesn't matter how the goals went in!

Andy Winter, Sky News Online The Real IRA has said it will resume attacks on the UK mainland - with banks and bankers its principal targets. Vowing to alternate between "military, political and economic targets", the republican terror group has said that bankers are "criminals" - and their role in funding Britain's colonial system "has not gone unnoticed". Responding to questions from The Guardian, a spokesman for the Real IRA said: "We have a track record of attacking high-profile economic targets and financial institutions. "The bankers grease the politicians' palms, the politicians bail out the bankers with public funds, the bankers pay themselves fat bonuses and loan the money back to the public with interest. "It's essentially a crime spree that benefits a social elite at the expense of many millions of victims." Although it has just 100 members, the Real IRA has claimed support is on the rise among young disaffected nationalists. However, unlike the Provisional IRA - which consistently targeted the City of London in the early 1990s and then Canary Wharf in 1996 - it has never launched a serious bombing campaign. But the terror organisation told the paper: "We have regrouped and reorganised and emerged from a turbulent period in republican history. "As we rebuild, we are confident that we will increase the volume and effectiveness of attacks."

The national office of statistics today announced that employent figures rose in the last three months faster than at any other time since records began back in 1971. The private sector being responsible for most of the upturn. Another few years and the country could be back on it's feet again. (communist unions having not completely fucked us up ofcourse).

But surely as a reasonably intelligent human being you understand that there is no Supreme being, pearly gates or fiery pit etc. Yes you've being brainwashed in your youth, but surely that's no excuse now. Common sense let's children eventually see through the tooth fairy and Santa ( sorry Kevin ), so why not God. I also don't buy the line religion teaches lots of good. There are countless good and kind people who manage to become that way without religion. I understand why in the beginning people worshiped the sun, gold idols, volcanoes etc but just can't quite understand how it persists in modern times.

Shoulda bought a pub.

All sounds so familiar..... Shepherd / Labour throwing good after bad to try and maintain the good times. Ashley / Tories reigning in the spending and paying off the debt. Bizarre fucking world init.

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I would say that he seems to be a very strong voice within the TUC. He is leader of a union that has grown since he took it over and I would guess that he feels very bullish and that other union leaders back him. They have already agreed to coordinate their action. With regard to the Labour party, it is such turmoil and with the leadership elections going on its hard to say. All the candidates are wooing the unions so I guess they will keep on doing what they are told

If your interested Alex Im sure you can google various soundbites from various commentators from Harman to Milliband and countless union leaders inbetween. I think most people in the centre ground realise cuts have to be made and are cutting their cloth accordingly as "we" in the private sector have had to do for some years now. I also understand public outrage as with the poll tax. However a handful of communist union leaders like Crow plotting together to try and bring down the coalition is wrong. Unions trying to gang up and force government policy is wrong. Lets see where the cuts fall and then let the people, backed by a union take it from there. Some sectors mat face big job losses others may not. But a few communists trying to gang up and dictate policy aint on and hopefully this will be the deathnell for this type of union leader. Oh aye, the case for cuts gets stronger every week. Keep reading Krugman CT and have a think about why inflation is rising yet growth is stagnant. Sounds just like what he predicted was going to happen is happening. The case for cuts has certainly not been made anywhere as far as i can see. The Chinese aren't cutting expenditure. Funny that. TBH the cuts and whether they are right or wrong have been done to death in various threads. This was more about the havoc the unions will reek by joining together to organise mass general strikes. Bob Crow is the one who thinks the public should have sit down protests on motorways!!! Back to the seventies.

If your interested Alex Im sure you can google various soundbites from various commentators from Harman to Milliband and countless union leaders inbetween. I think most people in the centre ground realise cuts have to be made and are cutting their cloth accordingly as "we" in the private sector have had to do for some years now. I also understand public outrage as with the poll tax. However a handful of communist union leaders like Crow plotting together to try and bring down the coalition is wrong. Unions trying to gang up and force government policy is wrong. Lets see where the cuts fall and then let the people, backed by a union take it from there. Some sectors mat face big job losses others may not. But a few communists trying to gang up and dictate policy aint on and hopefully this will be the deathnell for this type of union leader. I'm interested in what you specifically have a problem with which is why I asked you the question. Seems fair enough given you started a thread on it but have just ranted against a perceived commie plot but haven't provided any details. I think its pretty clear.

If your interested Alex Im sure you can google various soundbites from various commentators from Harman to Milliband and countless union leaders inbetween. I think most people in the centre ground realise cuts have to be made and are cutting their cloth accordingly as "we" in the private sector have had to do for some years now. I also understand public outrage as with the poll tax. However a handful of communist union leaders like Crow plotting together to try and bring down the coalition is wrong. Unions trying to gang up and force government policy is wrong. Lets see where the cuts fall and then let the people, backed by a union take it from there. Some sectors mat face big job losses others may not. But a few communists trying to gang up and dictate policy aint on and hopefully this will be the deathnell for this type of union leader.

Can never quite understand why he doesnt seem to get a fair crack for us.

Who'd have thought, the tory voters that got them in support the cuts being implemented that effect them least. Not sure what's undemocratic about the people suffering the worst of the cuts not lying down and taking it up the arse. Firstly there was always going to cuts and therefore job losses whoever won the election. Secondly and more importantly most cuts havent even been decided yet so its not the "people" rising up its the communist egomaniacs like Crow who are trying to organise mass general strikes. If this action goes ahead it will have very little support from the majority of the public imo. Have the mass general strikes you're talking about been anywhere near as widely mooted as the cuts proposed by the government? If so, provide the evidence. Well they only came to light yesterday with the start of the TUC conference but every media source from TV to press etc are all running with it. The labour candidates are all over it. Surely your not after google links to the biggest story of the last 24 hours?

Dont totally disagree with the second point however theres something a bit different going on here I think. Talking about General coordinated strikes is bad enough, but before most cuts have been announced is not on really. Add to the mix that a lot of the private sector has been putting up with job losses, pay cuts and various shit for the last three years while the public sector has been protected by Labours wasteful spending. All points to a very unpleasant time.

Who'd have thought, the tory voters that got them in support the cuts being implemented that effect them least. Not sure what's undemocratic about the people suffering the worst of the cuts not lying down and taking it up the arse. Firstly there was always going to cuts and therefore job losses whoever won the election. Secondly and more importantly most cuts havent even been decided yet so its not the "people" rising up its the communist egomaniacs like Crow who are trying to organise mass general strikes. If this action goes ahead it will have very little support from the majority of the public imo.

no they didnt, they got the majority of the votes. hence they won. (admitedly not by a sufficient margin to govern independently) They just lost less badly. Quite an achievement too considering they had the full force of Murdoch on their side, and were campaigning against a hugely unpopular PM in the midst of the deepest recession in peace time history. This is one of the things that really bugs me. I can accept there is a need for a coalition even if in reality it has minority support (not many Lib Dem supporters left now). But what I don't accept is that the government has the mandate to make such huge and brutal cuts, or to make such fundamental changes to the NHS (changes which were not even part of their manifesto). I would say that a coalition has a responsibility to be more measured in their actions than they have been so far, no wonder we are facing a winter of discontent. We are facing a winter of discontent because of the wishes of several individuals such as the communist, Bob Crow. It is their decision to try and bring the country to its knees. Its not like the poll tax where mass protests have taken place to unpopular government policy, this is a few extremely left wing old dinasoars wanting to change the country. Very dark days ahead and once again it looks as though the Labour puppet masters are going to make us the sick man of europe.

Someone tell the prime minister.

Whats the news delay over there? Large scale coordinated strikes were only sanctioned at the TUC general conference yesterday. Its a very different and new debate. Dont come whinging though in a few months when the bins arnt being emptied, the dead are being stockpiled and theres no post going anywhere.

Maybe not a masterpiece but a film packed full of laughs, so alien to today's comedies. Maybe it's just the fact that it's just brilliant python that the laughs seem so effortless. Even the weaker sketches like the man who chose his own death by being chased by topless women over a cliff, are funny IMO . Maybe not a masterpiece, but a classic none the less.

Im sure its being done to death on here but the older I get the more bizarre I find it that people can still in this day and age, believe in religeon. With all the sex abuse stuff coming out isnt it time that mankind grows up and leaves religeon behind. Most of us live in communities where a miniscule percentage actually attend church. I never did really get the whole religeon thing as a young un, but as a grown up I just dont see what makes sensible people believe in a superior being.

Covered by most major broadcasters a few weeks ago. So, 57% didn't think they were better than the last one. And, most major broadcasters isn't really a source. No info on numbers polled, demographics etc. Come on CT, straws being clutched a bit here ? Its no good, cant put up a good fight while laughing at Monty Python but when the majority of voters (in this you gov poll and similar polls) are happy with the way the government is tackling the mess left by Labour, what gives the unions (more importantly a few fat cats in smokey rooms), the right to heap more misery on the country. I think most people just want the country putting right.