You've proved my point; seemingly unable to accept that the left's heroes aren't OK and instead attacking the left's villains; you've come back with the stereotypical left wing dogma:
- Very few feminists are doing anything about muslim repression of women. The silence is deafening. We hear plenty about patriarchy in the west however.
- Muslim good; Jew bad (Animal Farm). Both sides are bad in my opinion.
- Fight the Tories. Don't work with the Tories. Don't listen to what they say and make intelligent contributions. Don't understand the rationale of what they are trying to do and accept that there are many ways to improve the country and I don't have a golden opinion. Fight them; disagree with them; pigeon hole them; hate them; make generalisations; accept the mantra; everything is black or white. In my opinion they are the party that is most likely to bring greater wealth to the entire country just now. I don't care what school someone went to, I care about what they say and what they do.
- It is not naive. It is easy to stick to the mantra that it's a global recession and Tony Blair's fault. However in practice the recession was caused by two countries: the USA and the UK - the two biggest financial centres by a country mile. Greenspan and Brown and his disingenuous friend Balls - they did all the damage. I wish that Blair had the power to stand up to Brown but he didn't. This is something we could discuss in a thread all of its own and we have in the past.
- "Nasty" was the operative word I intended. For sure there are some nasty racists everywhere; but my point is the 'nasty' accusation - disagree with me and you're nasty. Vote to leave the EU and you're nasty. Try and balance the economy and you're nasty.
This post has so much ignorance it's unbelievable.
FGM and women's rights in Muslim communities has been a left wing issue for fucking years!
No one says Jews are bad apart from the far left, which is the same as the far right. If you're going to tar the whole left, you have to tar the whole right. I mean for fucks sake Nigel Farage used to sing "Gas them all" at school and Breitbart is a blatantly anti-semetic publication (see Steve Bannon's comments). There is no equivalent left wing figure with similar views.
That's just politics. And I've heard loads of Labour and Tory MPs agree, just on Friday on AQ Alan Johnson and Anna Soubrey <sp?> were in total agreement about all kinds of things. If you think they just oppose each other, you don't pay attention to politics. Look at the cross-party report on integration, fixed odds betting terminals, etc. etc. etc. Give me an hour on Google and I could find thousands on cases of cross-party work. Just because you don't see it on the news or hear it on PMQs doesn't mean it doesn't happen.
The GFC was caused by greed and poor business practice. Should Blair and Brown have regulated more? In hindsight obviously, were the Tories pushing for more or less regulation at the time? Far far less. Gordon Brown is widely recognised across the international community as having been a key figure in making sure it didn't get far worse by acting quickly to sure up the markets. That's why our economy was growing again post crash until 2010, remind me what happened there again?
I wouldn't use the word "nasty" for the right, more like "stupid". You seem to believe any old nonsense you're told (like they're "balancing the economy" when every piece of evidence goes against that assertion). You buy simple answers to complex problems.
