Lakewell

Lakewell

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6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Too often, the West al... · 0 replies · +1 points

No silence at all. Aaron Banks paid for most of the leave.eu campaign along with UKIP members and indeed John Mills u der Labour Leave. Again with small individual donations. I do not think the leave campaign had anywhere near as much money to play with as the Remain campaign, who had massive donations from Sainsbury’s boss, Branson, Soros, and many other European bigwigs. Even Gina Millers court crowdfunding was done via thousands of small business donations through Italy, Germany and France and Soros. None of significance from UK. Then of course there was the £9m of taxpayers money that the government used to send out its propaganda.

It is all there in the public domain and Leave had less than half the funds of the Remain campaign.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Too often, the West al... · 2 replies · +1 points

Quite honestly the Russia card has now been played to oblivion. No one believes that Russia is the bad boy anymore. You only have to spend a few weeks watching RT.com to realise they produce far better quality news and facts. They have a bias as most media does today, but they leave the BBC and it’s cohorts with First prize for bias and propaganda.

As far as the documentaries they produce, I found more information about the workings of the EU in hour long documentaries last year than in all the coverage by our own media. The disgusting Fair Trade/African farmer situation was discussed and shown in detail on RT last year. Long before it was being discussed by the establishment in this country. The Olympic punishment of Russian athletes has also been shown to be a vindictive move by the USA in particular.

What really interests me now, is how the government are going to deal with the much known and discussed affairs of George Soros and his Open Foundation. Again the bloggers and citizens have suspected and known about this sinister man for years. However, they were called conspiracy theorists by the establishment, until now, when he has finally crawled out of the woodwork. Will we get a government coverup? Or will we get an independent investigation. I suspect neither. The government will just ignore the stories and hope it goes away. Fortunately people in today’s world will always have the means of finding out the truth, even if there is a media block or indeed a move to suppress free speech.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Nicky Morgan: Conserva... · 1 reply · +1 points

No one dies for their country at 16yrs old. The armed forces do not send under 18year olds into battle. This is a myth that needs to be out to bed. It also needs to be said that the armed forces aged 18yrs old are earning mo years and paying taxes as well as being trained to kill or be killed. And yes they do have a right to vote

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Nicky Morgan: Conserva... · 0 replies · +1 points

It s nothing to do with whether a student is bright or not. It has everything to do with lack of life experience and no responsibility. I have always argued that when you start to pay tax you start to think about how that tax is spent. You start to take responsibility for a job and then you start to mature. There will always be the counter argument of some youngsters being more savvy than some 60yr olds but it doesn’t hold sway. The majority of youngsters are quite naturally ideologists. They want the world to be a beautiful place where everyone gets what they want. Note...want, not needs.

I have campaigned for many years and have actually seen youngsters becoming less astute at what goes on around them. They have the internet, they have lots of good ideas and they have strong opinions (often formed through group thinking). But they are on the whole idealistic. Unlike those people who came from school at 16yrs old who worked, budgeted and saved their money. Those youngsters are still there today but are fewer than 30yrs ago.

I did a spot of campaigning in colleges a few years ago and was quite surprised how many youngsters felt, even then, that pensioners were ‘too rich’, that everyone should own a home by 25yrs old. When asking them how they came to the conclusion that pensioners were too rich, there was an overwhelming consensus that pensioners had lived their lives and didn’t have the needs of younger people or families. Not one student understood that many pensioners still had a lot to give to their community and were often the carers of other old people and indeed the carers of grandchildren so that women of today had the choices that their mothers and grandmothers never had. That pensioners had often worked longer years than many people would today and had to struggle far more than many would do in the future. It was a sad fact that so many students didn’t even have a strong connection with a grandparent.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - The stubborn resilienc... · 1 reply · +1 points

I think the last election was all about Brexit. Mrs May chose not to sell the opportunities of Brexit, but Labour exploited her terrible failures to connect with the public. On top of that UKIP leant their votes to the conservatives, which seems to be so easily forgotten. There were nearly four million UKIP voters, the majority of whom held their noses and voted for TM because of Brexit. She has let those people down and they will not vote for her again.

On top of that those UKIP members who came from the labour ranks would never vote conservative so along with labour constituencies who were led to believe that Jeremy Corbyn would also honour their vote they decided to return to the fold. This means that 85% of the electorate were expecting to leave the EU. No hard or soft, just leave the EU and its inherent institutions. Neither the conservatives nor labour have held to that promise. They are now both seen as betraying the will of the people. To this end it would not rely on the Conservatives even getting close to winning the next election whether TM is still leader or not.

Everyone who runs the polls or listens to advisers never bothers to take in to account the silent majority. Polls have been losing credibility for a number of years. The Conservatives just do not listen to anyone outside London. Even labour front bench are full of MPs who live and work in London and never set foot outside the M25 circle. They have no respect for the country and no desire to reach out. We have millions of people without a voice. Unless the conservatives start to realise they mistakes and stop chasing the left leftwards and concentrate on building the country, put in place a true conservative as leader. Not the likes of Rudd, Hammond or Soubry. The Conservatives are going to get another nasty shock.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: McDonnell - Bet... · 0 replies · +1 points

This is true. Soubry did belong to the SDP although she now denies it. There was a link to her giving a talk as an SDP member on Guido last week. I think, however, that the LibDems have been strongly pro EU and are still selling that ticket but their ratings haven’t increased dramatically. Anna Soubry worries me because CCHQ seem to want to force Remainer candidates on all associations and are in the process of deciding whether to completely wash away the associations altogether. If this is the case her strongly Leave constituency may well decide to vote Labour this time. It was a very close run thing on the GE even though she managed a tiny wee increase in her majority, so did the Labour candidate improve his following by quite a bit.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Conor Short: A minimum... · 2 replies · +2 points

I do not believe we should have a minimum wage or indeed a living wage. I believe the wage people earn should be equal to the job they do, whether it is a man or a woman who does that job, that in itself will create a market force to set a wage that is affordable to the employer and acceptable to the employee.

The globalists and the big international companies have created this unfair and totally unnecessary situation because they want to control movement of money and people. They lobby governments to do their bidding and in changing the laws they can buy out or stop new businesses from developing. We have high streets full of international shops selling the same produce, many with foreign workers serving the community. These workers are often on the worst possible wage while the international companies do not register their tax in this country. Our own people cannot get work because of our wage laws.

Years ago people worked for small and medium companies and if they wanted the luxuries in life or indeed in some cases to pay for extra heating in the winter, they took on another job. Today we expect to have one job to pay for our families. The lobbyists have upset the natural order of working to such an extent that many families need both parents to work. This means children are handed to strangers to be cared for. It means the family breaks down and people become unhappy. The country becomes demoralised because taxes rise higher, the lobbyists want the living wage raised, then they can charge more for their product and make bigger profits whereby they avoid the tax. Sometimes they will move their workers around in case they become eligible for the living wage.

It is a vicious circle that could so easily be avoided if governments stopped the lobbying, chased their tax avoiders and then encouraged small and medium businesses to invest in their local people. The market would readjust and start to work for the ordinary person. We wouldn’t need food banks or the heavy welfare bill. Unfortunately we are now learning that many of these large globalists are actually paying Governments in return for favours. Soros is a known meddler in the safety and stability of countries. He apparently visits Juncker on a regular basis. We know he had a close relationship with Bill Clinton and Barack Obama. This is the tip of the iceberg and someone at some point needs to grasp the nettle and pull it by its roots.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: McDonnell - Bet... · 1 reply · +1 points

Seems to me after the usual Sunday Remainer fest that Soubry and Immuna are well on the way to creating an alternative party. I suspect there will come a time soon when she will either have the whip withdrawn so she can concentrate on her new party or Mrs May will allow her to build momentum for another Remainer party and she will declare herself for the May elections. My suspicion is Mrs May will give her as much time as she needs to create the new party.

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - WATCH: Gauke on Hammon... · 0 replies · +1 points

And though the whole country know this, Mrs May keeps him in place. Her judgement is appalling

6 years ago @ http://www.conservativ... - Mark Burrows: Why the ... · 0 replies · +1 points

We leave. We do not join other organisations that hold us in close alighnment to the EU. EFTA and EEA have changed quite a bit and there is a danger that we will be stuck for years in a situation that involves some form of rule taking.

The UK for crying out loud is the fifth biggest economy in the world with many leading sectors. Why do the politicians have to create so much confusion. Why don’t they understand it is not they who lead the country to prosperity, it is our young entrepreneurial businesses. They need to be given support, not tied to regulatory frameworks.

I think the country is now seeing an overbloated bureaucracy that has lost the ability to listen to the right people. They make poor decisions and will run this country into a brick wall unless they become more co servatve and less socialist.