#opedpolitics

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As insane and idiotic as our politicians are in the UK, at least they are NOT as bat-shit crazy as the ones in America.  

So on the one hand we have a government that has Frozen public pay for two years Cut benefits from the poor Done nothing to stop energy prices, train prices and other privatised service prices going through the frakking roof Is launching a legal appeal to make sure Bankers can get bigger bonuses ...

(Note - the next general election might not actually be on the 5th of May. It might be the 15th. But right now I can not be arsed looking it up. So for now I am going with the 5th) Item 1 :- OD Gets a UK Politics Circle so that I don't have to…

After listening to Deathly Hallows, I have come to the conclusion that the world of Harry Potter (as portrayed in the seven books) is actually a pretty dark place, and not entirely suitable as a place to set stories for children. Not because it is scary. Voldemort, the Death Eaters and The Dement...

A few decades ago, we saw Russia and the USA fighting their own personal war in Afghanistan, using local agents as their proxies  That went so well that it gave birth to Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Laden, which - you have to admit - kind of came back to bite the USA in the ass in a...

Every where you look, the government is cutting public services. Slashing benefits to the poor, cutting money to Education and to The NHS - in general making life a misery for all those not rich enough to warrant the Tories' attention and kindness. But they do this because we - as a nation - appa...

Today the government set out on a crusade to ban various sites on the internet because they find the content on those sites distasteful. Most people would find this objectionable - the idea that - just because a sector of the public disapprove of something - the government can ban it and prevent ...

The government are clamping down on "extremist" websites and on views that are considered "extremist". However in doing this, they are considering revising the definition of "extremist" to be set at a lower threshold than it currently is. Which means that - in the fu...

Day 1 - Tuesday The morning was pretty quiet - we packed up in the hotel, and took our cases to the hospital. Then we found out we could not gain access to the room we were provided with until 3pm. So we left our cases at reception and went out for lunch, and to…