General Election 2015

[Master]

USA are very right wing but it comes from their history that freedom of the individual is the ultimate expression of democracy and any state intervention is bad. Whereas we see the state as a support mechanism for the most needy and vulnerable.

[walrus]

Can I ask you Brits something. I'm reading a book on the American Revolution dealing much with the British perspective. In the book they mention how disappointed the British prime minister at the time was. I'm wondering how much power the prime minister had at the time of the revolution. I thought all negotiations at the time were done with the king. Thanks for any info. Did the prime minister position arrive at the signing of the Magna Charter

[Master]

Basically, and this is very basic because I did not do British history at school instead they made me do agricultural farming which was boring as phuck, there was a civil war between royalist and the roundheads. The roundheads in 1649 won. They were parliamentarians who did not want Kings rule. Parliament was supreme and the King/queen just signed acts and were insignificant.

[pacfan]

Can I ask you Brits something. I'm reading a book on the American Revolution dealing much with the British perspective. In the book they mention how disappointed the British prime minister at the time was. I'm wondering how much power the prime minister had at the time of the revolution. I thought all negotiations at the time were done with the king. Thanks for any info. Did the prime minister position arrive at the signing of the Magna Charter

Come to think of it, I never thought about the British point of view on the issue. I've been taught in school how their British motherland would tax the their new world sons without giving them representation, that led to a big tea party in Boston, etc., etc. but never heard about anything regarding the British point of view. So I also want to know if the British folks considered them as their cute little brothers, just like how I consider cutierocco, or did they consider them as their miss-guided and ill-mannered lost sons who speak in severely mangled queen's language?
I've had this experience myself. In school, I was taught in world history class the Magellan was killed by a nameless local tribesman in the Philippines. But when I came here, I was surprised to know that that nameless indian fella actually had a name and was a local hero, with his statues displayed in some prominent public places. Talking about points of view...

[El Kabong]

USA are very right wing but it comes from their history that freedom of the individual is the ultimate expression of democracy and any state intervention is bad. Whereas we see the state as a support mechanism for the most needy and vulnerable.

We're not a democracy, democracies are just mob rule, we're a Constitutional (that's why that piece of paper is still important as ever) REPUBLIC. The Constitution and God protect those not in power as those citizens not in power are endowed with inalienable rights from their creator ie things the government can't give out and therefore can't take away.

[Kirkland Laing]

USA are very right wing but it comes from their history that freedom of the individual is the ultimate expression of democracy and any state intervention is bad. Whereas we see the state as a support mechanism for the most needy and vulnerable.

We're not a democracy, democracies are just mob rule, we're a Constitutional (that's why that piece of paper is still important as ever) REPUBLIC. The Constitution and God protect those not in power as those citizens not in power are endowed with inalienable rights from their creator ie things the government can't give out and therefore can't take away.

Apart from black people who only count as 3/5ths of a white person according to the US constitution.

[Master]

Green leader Bennett sorry for 'excruciating' interview

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has apologised to party members for what she said was a "very bad" radio interview about its housing policy.

Ms Bennett said she had suffered a "mind blank" during the "excruciating" exchange, where she tried to explain how the party would fund a pledge of 500,000 new social rental homes.

She was speaking as the Greens launched their election campaign.

Other policies include a "citizen's income" of £72

a week for all adults.

During an interview on LBC, Ms Bennett seemed to struggle to explain the funding model for the new homes, saying she had a "huge cold".

Later, speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics, she said a fully costed manifesto would be published in March.

"I had a very bad interview on housing this morning," she said.

"I am very happy to confess that and I am very sorry to the Green Party members who I did not do a very good job representing our policies on.

"That happens, I am human."

The policy would cost £27bn, she said (although she had earlier mistakenly said £2.7bn in the LBC interview) which would be partly funded by removing tax relief on mortgage interest for private landlords.

BBC News - Election 2015: Green leader Bennett sorry for 'excruciating' interview

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Green leader Bennett sorry for 'excruciating' interview

Green Party leader Natalie Bennett has apologised to party members for what she said was a "very bad" radio interview about its housing policy.

Ms Bennett said she had suffered a "mind blank" during the "excruciating" exchange, where she tried to explain how the party would fund a pledge of 500,000 new social rental homes.

She was speaking as the Greens launched their election campaign.

Other policies include a "citizen's income" of £72

a week for all adults.

During an interview on LBC, Ms Bennett seemed to struggle to explain the funding model for the new homes, saying she had a "huge cold".

Later, speaking on the BBC's Daily Politics, she said a fully costed manifesto would be published in March.

"I had a very bad interview on housing this morning," she said.

"I am very happy to confess that and I am very sorry to the Green Party members who I did not do a very good job representing our policies on.

"That happens, I am human."

The policy would cost £27bn, she said (although she had earlier mistakenly said £2.7bn in the LBC interview) which would be partly funded by removing tax relief on mortgage interest for private landlords.

BBC News - Election 2015: Green leader Bennett sorry for 'excruciating' interview

I was listening to that on LBC and nick ferrari didn't have to do much to make her look silly.

Embarressing.

[Master]

That is a shame as I like Green but she did sound foolish. Wait until they have the televised debate.

[El Kabong]

There are many reasons the United States is more individualistic than the rest of the world be it for the fact that this nation was born out of a war against a tyrannical government or for the fact that colonists begat settlers who went off and did for themselves, by themselves, with little to no help from the government, or be it for another reason Americans are how we are and ever since we have arrived the rest of the world has attempted to tell us how to live, how to govern, how to rule....OUR nation, the nation built with the blood sweat and tears of our ancestors. America has attempted to export our values, I don't deny that for one second and some places find these ideas scary, some find it new, some find it silly but again these people these nations aren't from the same birth that America came from, they have different experiences, different cultures, different values.




I for one don't want to deal with the government as a part of everyday life, I would assume most people feel like that if they have ever had any true dealings with bureaucracy...but some people apparently are gluttons for punishment, I am not.

[El Kabong]

Apart from black people who only count as 3/5ths of a white person according to the US constitution.

Which article and clause would I find that in if you would be so kind?


Also you didn't answer my question: phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? Thanks

[Kirkland Laing]

Apart from black people who only count as 3/5ths of a white person according to the US constitution.

Which article and clause would I find that in if you would be so kind?


Also you didn't answer my question: phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? Thanks

Article I, Section 2 use to have a line that read, "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

It did't specifically say "black men", but said if you were not a free person, nor Indian, you were 3/5 of a person.

It was later replaced by Section 2 of the 14th Amendment: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."

[El Kabong]

Apart from black people who only count as 3/5ths of a white person according to the US constitution.

Which article and clause would I find that in if you would be so kind?


Also you didn't answer my question: phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? Thanks

Article I, Section 2 use to have a line that read, "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

It did't specifically say "black men", but said if you were not a free person, nor Indian, you were 3/5 of a person.

It was later replaced by Section 2 of the 14th Amendment: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."

Oh it didn't SPECIFICALLY say black people....so I reckon you're wrong. Shame that

Also phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? Still waiting on your answer for that but take your time, study up

[Kirkland Laing]

Apart from black people who only count as 3/5ths of a white person according to the US constitution.

Which article and clause would I find that in if you would be so kind?


Also you didn't answer my question: phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? Thanks

Article I, Section 2 use to have a line that read, "Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons."

It did't specifically say "black men", but said if you were not a free person, nor Indian, you were 3/5 of a person.

It was later replaced by Section 2 of the 14th Amendment: "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed."

Oh it didn't SPECIFICALLY say black people....so I reckon you're wrong. Shame that

Also phyletic gradualism or punctuated equilibrium? Still waiting on your answer for that but take your time, study up

I'm not wrong at all. Read a little about your history and find out why your constitution had to make black people 3/5ths of a white person. Also, too, slavery. Apart from the fact that it allowed slavery and for slaves not to be counted as human beings the US constitution was a triumph of equal rights and a shining example to the rest of humanity.

Three-Fifths Compromise - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And just because you learnt a new couple of big words doesn't mean you understand what you're talking about. So I'll just wait until you finally fully accept that Al Gore was right and that inevitably you were wrong.

[Master]

Conservatives offering 'a good life' for all

David Cameron has said his aim is to guarantee a "good life" for British workers and families as he launched the Conservatives' election manifesto.

The prime minister said he wanted "to finish the job" of rebuilding Britain on behalf of "working people".

He pledged to pass a law to keep minimum wage workers out of tax, double free childcare to 30 hours a week and boost "right to buy" home ownership.

Labour said the Conservatives were the "party of the richest in society".

The Conservative launch in Swindon came the day after Ed Miliband put forward Labour's version - promising to improve the lives of Britain's workers and not to pay for any policies through additional borrowing.

In his speech, Mr Cameron said the Conservatives would build on the "solid foundations" laid by his government since 2010, proclaiming that Britain was "on the brink of something special" and warning that Labour would take the UK "back to square one".

"We are the party of the working people offering you security at every stage of your life," he said.
His goal over the next five years, he said, was to "turn the good news on our economy into a good life for you and your family".

"They're about realising the potential of Britain, not as a debt-addicted, welfare-burdened, steadily declining, once great nation, which is what we found. But a country where a good life is there for everyone willing to work for it."

David Cameron: Conservatives offering 'a good life' for all - BBC News