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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

they are not your clothes norwegain prosser you are trying to sell my poetry and my intimate footage now git ...

18 September 2012 12:32PM

Response to JoeSmithie, 17 September 2012 10:20PM

And what about those city bonuses?
Once NI is taken into account as well as income tax, for each £1m paid as a bonus an employee receives £480,000 and the Exchequer gets £658,000.

Aw deeeee-dums! My heart bleeds for the poor traders who devalue our currencies, gamble on and thus cause to rise the prices of our food, fuel, fabric for our clothes and everything else they can put their grubby little hands on, and the bankers who've swindled everyone from the Bank of England to the poorest of their customers by fixing loan rates, mis-selling mortgages and insurance policies, charging extortionate rates for services and then whining about how everyone should pay a management fee for their accounts. I sit here weeping at their misfortune.

Tell you what, if I can get just one of those £1m bonuses a year, I promise I'll be more than happy to give the Treasury not just £658,000 but £750,000, or even £800,000, as long as they dedicate it to the upkeep of schools and the NHS, and for the aid of those less fortunate through the upkeep of the Welfare State.
AN

TerminalGerminal

17 September 2012 2:03PM

According to BBC News, the DWP says that 'people "awaiting, receiving or recovering" from chemotherapy or radiotherapy would now be treated as having a"limited capacity" for work.'
Get it, folks? Not "unfit for work," but "having a limited capacity for work."

Sorry cancer patients and their families. We at the DWP, and the Government as a whole, deal mainly in platitudes. So there you have it: we've said what you want to hear, now bugger off and don't keep your hopes up too much while you're busy trying not to die.

and there she is ...
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HERE HE USES THE THREAT AS AN EXCUSE TO SHOW INTIMATE FOOTAGE OF ME TO A 23 YEAR OLD RAPE VICTIM BEFORE HAVING HER SCRUBBED UP ...

being subjected to maiming threats

DWearing

18 September 2012 11:49AM

On the protests over the Islamophobic film:

The Indian War of Independence (aka the Indian Mutiny) was ostensibly sparked by the British offending the religious sensibilities of Indian soldiers in their army with the introduction of grease in gun cartridges (which had to be bitten before loading) derived from pork or beef.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Rebellion_of_1857#Tallow-greased_cartridges

However, this was merely the spark. The dry tinder was the preceding decades of British domination and humiliation of the sub-continent.

I think a parallel can be drawn with the current unrest over the Islamophobic film, which needs to be seen in historical context, rather than in isolation as an issue of pure religious offence.

William Dalrymple wrote a wonderful book on the War of Independence, and would be perfect to write an article along these lines
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2006/nov/11/featuresreviews.guardianreview6