General Election 2015

[Kirkland Laing]

And when you use a word like "phyletic" do you really think that people reading it who know you believe you know what you're talking about or do you think they start giggling?

[El Kabong]

I see. So all those slaves had exactly the same rights as every other person in America. That's an interesting take on American history and not one shared by many historians.

So 100% of black people were slaves? If you hopped in a time machine and told that to Anthony Johnson I'm certain he would be shocked.

And when you use a word like "phyletic" do you really think that people reading it who know you believe you know what you're talking about or do you think they start giggling?

Aww honey, if the question was too complex and you wanted me to break it down for you then you should have just asked princess....I didn't mean to bruise your ego.

Come here Kirkland, sit on my knee and let me tell you a story.....you see phyletic gradualism is a slow drawn out dare I say GRADUAL (see where that comes from, GRADUAL-ism....oooh we're learning...it's fun!) process where an organism undergoes changes in order to best adapt to the challenges the environment presents it with. After a while these changes lead the organism to become an entirely different species from it's ancestors. Kind of like the way some dinosaurs are believed to have slowly and steadily developed into birds.

Now on the other hand we have punctuated equilibrium which is a quick dynamic form of evolution happening over a short period of time where an organism quickly separates from it's ancestors into an entirely different species.

....but I interrupted you....you were being condescending

[Master]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

[SlimTrae]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

A one-sided drubbing of a tennis match.

[Master]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

A one-sided drubbing of a tennis match.

Which way? I see it back and forth.

[SlimTrae]

I love you, really good informative posts, it is like a tennis match.

A one-sided drubbing of a tennis match.

Which way? I see it back and forth.

A modest Master?

[SlimTrae]

lol

[Master]

Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News

[pacfan]

Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News

Wow, that's pretty 'progressive'.
Here in the Philippines, there are lots of far left from the universities, unions of all sorts but despite their numbers and noises they make, they failed to get the nod of the general public, the common man, and always failed in their attempt to get elected. I guess they used the wrong approach with people always seeing them on the streets, I mean on demos, sometimes vandalizing public properties and the people see them more as trouble-makers than anything. I'm not much of a left but in country like ours, where vast majority of people are poor and while the politicians are getting richer by the minute, I think the left could help the poor but unfortunately they have failed them. One example, everybody here pay 12% VAT and why? Because the big businesses evade taxes in cahoots with their favorite patrons - the politicians, of course, and the poor are the ones financing the deficit left by those crooks. But these same poor folks, who are poorly educated but who hold the votes, elect these same crooks over and over again to the consternation of the more educated middle/upper class who holds the rest of 20% or so votes. Here, the left failed miserably because they failed to offer any viable alternatives.

[Master]

Ed Miliband has said Labour will "change the way the country is run and who it is run for" as he launched the party's election manifesto.

Saying he had been tested as opposition leader and was "ready" for power, Mr Miliband said Labour would be a "party of change and responsibility".

He ruled out a "shopping list of proposals", guaranteeing all policies would require no extra borrowing.

But PM David Cameron accused Mr Miliband of trying to "con" the public.
The 86-page manifesto, which is 20,421 words long, sets out Labour's main policy pledges, including:

Raising the minimum wage to more than £8 by the end of 2019
A one-year freeze in rail fares, costing £200m, paid for by delaying upgrades to the A27 and A358 trunk roads
Twenty-five hours of childcare for working parents of three and four-year olds and a new right to pre and after-school help, paid for by rise in bank levy
Freezing gas and electricity bills until 2017, so they can only fall not rise
A £2.5bn fund for the NHS paid for largely by a mansion tax on properties valued at over £2m
Scrapping winter fuel payments for the richest pensioners, capping child benefit rises and protecting tax credits
A 50p tax rate on incomes over £150,000 a year and abolishing non-dom status. Rises in VAT and national insurance ruled out
A cut in university tuition fees from £9,000 to £6,000

Speaking in Manchester, Mr Miliband said the first page of Labour's manifesto "sets out a vow to protect our nation's finances; a clear commitment that every policy... is paid for without a single penny of extra borrowing".

Labour would not promise anything it could not fund, he said, contrasting this with the Conservatives which he described as the "party of sums that do not add up and commitments that cannot be kept".

Election 2015: Miliband says he is 'ready' to lead country - BBC News

Wow, that's pretty 'progressive'.
Here in the Philippines, there are lots of far left from the universities, unions of all sorts but despite their numbers and noises they make, they failed to get the nod of the general public, the common man, and always failed in their attempt to get elected. I guess they used the wrong approach with people always seeing them on the streets, I mean on demos, sometimes vandalizing public properties and the people see them more as trouble-makers than anything. I'm not much of a left but in country like ours, where vast majority of people are poor and while the politicians are getting richer by the minute, I think the left could help the poor but unfortunately they have failed them. One example, everybody here pay 12% VAT and why? Because the big businesses evade taxes in cahoots with their favorite patrons - the politicians, of course, and the poor are the ones financing the deficit left by those crooks. But these same poor folks, who are poorly educated but who hold the votes, elect these same crooks over and over again to the consternation of the more educated middle/upper class who holds the rest of 20% or so votes. Here, the left failed miserably because they failed to offer any viable alternatives.

The right wing press owned by the super rich also control the media and perception of the left. Labour was destroyed and never got into government until they re-branded to New Labour and got into government after 18 years of inequality.

[Master]

[Gandalf]

That is what the voters want? They have been sold property dreams. It is not sustainable. You will have to take away property and have a revolution. So, everyone has a home.

That is not rhetoric. Really. It just means giving a voice to poor people.

[Master]

That is what the voters want? They have been sold property dreams. It is not sustainable. You will have to take away property and have a revolution. So, everyone has a home.

That is not rhetoric. Really. It just means giving a voice to poor people.

Not enough poor, black and young people bother to vote. That is their fault and are wasting their chance to make a change.

[ryanman]

That is what the voters want? They have been sold property dreams. It is not sustainable. You will have to take away property and have a revolution. So, everyone has a home.

That is not rhetoric. Really. It just means giving a voice to poor people.

We don't have great options Miles, but to us here the last 5 years of the Tories have had a real impact on many of us and people we know.
Of course we want more, of course Labour in it's current guise is far too close to the Tories, but we don't have the luxury of not deciding to vote as that will just let the Tories back in. Bigger change is needed I totally agree, but we can't just allow the Tories to roll back in while we wait for the bigger change.

[Kirkland Laing]

I see. So all those slaves had exactly the same rights as every other person in America. That's an interesting take on American history and not one shared by many historians.

So 100% of black people were slaves? If you hopped in a time machine and told that to Anthony Johnson I'm certain he would be shocked.

And when you use a word like "phyletic" do you really think that people reading it who know you believe you know what you're talking about or do you think they start giggling?

Aww honey, if the question was too complex and you wanted me to break it down for you then you should have just asked princess....I didn't mean to bruise your ego.

Come here Kirkland, sit on my knee and let me tell you a story.....you see phyletic gradualism is a slow drawn out dare I say GRADUAL (see where that comes from, GRADUAL-ism....oooh we're learning...it's fun!) process where an organism undergoes changes in order to best adapt to the challenges the environment presents it with. After a while these changes lead the organism to become an entirely different species from it's ancestors. Kind of like the way some dinosaurs are believed to have slowly and steadily developed into birds.

Now on the other hand we have punctuated equilibrium which is a quick dynamic form of evolution happening over a short period of time where an organism quickly separates from it's ancestors into an entirely different species.

....but I interrupted you....you were being condescending

So we can agree that it was only the black people who were enslaved who counted as 3/5ths of a person as far as the US constitution was concerned. Excellent.

And yes, I'm going to continue laughing at you until you eventually go the full Al Gore. Then I'm going to laugh even more.