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A mortgage makes one less socialist in worldview .

Expect a lot more socialists, so, given that mortgages are getting further and further out of the reach of so many ordinary people.

If you are not a socialist when you are 20, then you have no heart.
If you are still a socialist when you are 40, then you have no brain.

Thank heavens we have posters here to provide us with such incisive political commentary and original wit.

Thornberry? Are you smoking something ?

She's miles ahead of Johnson. Burned Fallon beautifully on Andrew Marr a couple of weeks ago, too.

Unlike Johnson, she gives the impression of actually thinking before and while she's speaking.

So yes, I'd take her any day ahead of what the Tories have to offer.

The issue of Corbyn is not leadership, it is competence. 

The word Tory and the word competence are mutually exclusive.

Taking Britain out of the EU
No Brexit plan and likely WTO tariffs on exports
Cutting over 20,000 police and unable to protect Britain against terrorist attacks
Utterly clueless on social care
20 billion out on the cost of High Speed 2 rail
Hundreds of millions out on the cost of free breakfasts

A Prime Minister who has nothing other than a slogan?

A front bench made up of Johnson, Hammond, Rudd, Fallon, Leadsom, Hunt, Davis and Fox etc.?

You are kidding me when you talk about competence, right?

Replace the aforementioned with a load of wheelie bins and you'd get more competence out of them.

Labour's shadow cabinet such as McDonnell, Gardiner, Thornberry, Rayner, Long-Bailey etc. have been infinitely more impressive by comparison, and Corbyn is miles ahead of May in terms of how he has performed.

And that's even with Diane Abbott, who really doesn't look so bad when you compare her to her direct Tory equivalent, the hapless Amber Rudd.

Roger Ailes - Former headman at Fox News in US

Wow!

A lot of tongues will have to be held in check for a few days.

Ailes, Trump and Bill O'Reilly, the three amigos of sexual assault, could never manage to do that.

[The typical hysterical democrat position that we've come to expect, call someone a racist, fascist, sexist etc if you don't like someones point of view.]

I'm not furnishing you with anything. If you want to argue that endorsements across international lines started in 2017 with Obama, knock yourself out.

As for the why, I suspect that it was obviously because Obama, like many of us, didn't like the the views of LePen and the National Front, which she led until a couple of weeks ago. Do you think everyone who endorsed Donald Trump knew him well?? Do you think Ted Cruz, who endorsed him, even likes Trump?

I don't know why you're whining about free speech. More red herrings?

You can't provide examples, especially of this scale. Just be honest and say you can't.

The why bit is important, especially if you read macron's background. Couldn't take a chance that he could fail like Hillary did which is why obama was rolled out.

How is democrat protestors stopping free speech a red herring? Should be ashamed of themselves for promoting the idea.
Democrats are easy to program and bleat out the same mantra. I'm not sure they're able to think for themselves any more.
Should rename themselves The Kardashian party.

J70, why do you dignify this troll with a response. He spouts nonsense ... just read the last paragraph and it makes no sense.. It's Charlie Brown Wha,Wha, Wha, Wha.....
He is always demanding answers and never answers a question. You are a kind man to devote time to trying to talk sense to a "Birther" who is so invested in belittling democracy, decency and facts.

+1. I've been surprised that J70 keeps engaging with that character. In my opinion, to respond to the moronic but vicious nonsense he spouts seems to lend it some kind of legitimacy. When you use the ignore button the temptation to respond is non-existent. There's nothing to respond to. If everyone had him and his ilk on ignore, their narrow-minded ranting would be just shouting at the mirror.

Then again, who am I to talk? I've been known to respond to Tony Fearon.

Hardly - Please please please put me on ignore - then I can call you a co******er like Rossfanny as many times as I like without you knowing.

The typical hysterical democrat position that we've come to expect, call someone a racist, fascist, sexist etc if you don't like someones point of view.
I'm debating with J70 about the term interference, not you. I disagree with him but I haven't resorted to your tactics because I don't believe he's right.

GAAboard imitating american politics. Sad.

J70 and all the other non-Trump supporting posters quite obviously aren't racist, fascist or sexist.

You quite obviously are, as anybody with any sort of rational mind can see.

Sean Spicer has announced that he'll be supporting Tyrone in this years All-Ireland football championship, because both himself and Tyrone are among the bushes.

A president who is utterly out of control and drunk on his own power.

A president who beyond any doubt is attempting to pervert the course of justice.

And still the shills will shill for him.

A special prosecutor is an absolute necessity now.

I think Corbyn gets an easy enough ride from the media, considering where he is taking the Labour Party - oblivion.

I never knew calling for somebody to be "knifed to death" was "giving them an easy enough ride".

Given such, one would hate to see what getting a rough ride from the media would look like.

I don't think you can include KMcK as representative of the media or any grouping for that matter.

I think he's entirely representative of much of the mindset that permeates the right-wing UK press.

Others may not be stupid enough to explicitly call for Jeremy Corbyn to be knifed to death, but their poisonous rhetoric raises the possibility of something like that occurring. One only has to go back to the murder of Jo Cox to see that.

The Daily Mail, The Sun and the Daily Express are nothing less than agents of fascism. The Telegraph isn't much better.

I think Corbyn gets an easy enough ride from the media, considering where he is taking the Labour Party - oblivion.

I never knew calling for somebody to be "knifed to death" was "giving them an easy enough ride".

Given such, one would hate to see what getting a rough ride from the media would look like.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/under-new-healthcare-bill-rape-is-a-pre-existing-condition.html

In Trump's America, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition

An amendment in the GOP health-care-reform bill will allow states to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, including sexual assault.

Pre-Obamacare rape survivors who sought treatment for their injuries could be denied health care later on. Under Obamacare, preexisting conditions were guaranteed to receive coverage — among them, sexual assault. The American Health Care Act is going to change that.

The new MacArthur-Meadows Amendment will allow states to discriminate based on medical history, reportedly without addressing the subsequent high cost of health care for millions of Americans.

In addition to rape, postpartum depression, cesarean sections, and surviving domestic violence are all considered preexisting conditions. Companies can also deny coverage for gynecological services and mammograms.

At 4:46 in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNACy0To-9M
there is a chart that shows the additional cost of a selection of pre existing conditions from 17K for pregnancy to 142K for metatastic cancers

Healthcare is almost one fiifth of the US economy. At least 5% of GDP is rent seeking.

Dont believe everything you read on the internet or see on TV......I believed a guy onetime who swore up and down that under Obamacare, our premiums were going to DECREASE and that we could keep BOTH our doctors and our plans if we liked them.  Want to hazard a guess as to how that one worked out??

Yes. Only believe what you watch or read in right-wing media.

Or something.

Nice anecdote, and all that. Pity it does precisely nothing to rebut the point.

http://nymag.com/thecut/2017/05/under-new-healthcare-bill-rape-is-a-pre-existing-condition.html

In Trump's America, Rape Is a Preexisting Condition

An amendment in the GOP health-care-reform bill will allow states to deny coverage for preexisting conditions, including sexual assault.

Pre-Obamacare rape survivors who sought treatment for their injuries could be denied health care later on. Under Obamacare, preexisting conditions were guaranteed to receive coverage — among them, sexual assault. The American Health Care Act is going to change that.

The new MacArthur-Meadows Amendment will allow states to discriminate based on medical history, reportedly without addressing the subsequent high cost of health care for millions of Americans.

In addition to rape, postpartum depression, cesarean sections, and surviving domestic violence are all considered preexisting conditions. Companies can also deny coverage for gynecological services and mammograms.

Maybe because the lies and delusion are exclusive to the left/democrat media?

I'll just leave this here again.

Probably the most stupid thing I've ever read on an INTERNET forum from undoubtedly the stupidest poster I've ever read on an INTERNET forum - foxkkkommander.

its not even close siddy.

There's a couple of posters with a crush on me...they can't tell the difference between a question and a statement

Every reasonable poster can see through you for what you are - a simpleton who can't help making a fool of himself every time he comments.

A bit like Mr. Trump, actually.

Hence you classing Breitbart, Alex Jones and the National Enquirer as credible and truthful sources.

Maybe because the lies and delusion are exclusive to the left/democrat media?

I'll just leave this here again.

Probably the most stupid thing I've ever read on an INTERNET forum from undoubtedly the stupidest poster I've ever read on an INTERNET forum - foxkkkommander.

Maybe because the lies and delusion are exclusive to the left/democrat media?

Oh. Sweet. Jesus.

So going by your reaction can I get a yes or no answer to the following question please (I don't require a vague rambling)

Do the left/democrat media (CNN/MSNBC etc.) tell lies?

This from the chap that has already said he thinks Breitbart, Alex Jones and Infowars and the National Enquirer are credible and trustworthy sources.

You can't make this shit up.