Cheer up! It's not all bad

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 11-08-2009, 17:28

The "progressive" income tax is the worst of all taxes. It does not encourage thrift as does a consumption tax and does not tax wealth and thereby redistribute that wealth evenly. The PIT serves best to keep people where they are economically or to encourage only minor improvements save for a very lucky few.

**Strike For The South** · 11-08-2009, 19:33

Your country can't go to hell in a handbasket, my country is going to hell in a handbasket.

WHERE WILL I MOVE TO

**Louis VI the Fat** · 11-08-2009, 20:06

Originally Posted by Strike For The South

WHERE WILL I MOVE TO

Hey!

Did you not like that picture I send you of my sister after all?

**Strike For The South** · 11-08-2009, 20:10

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Hey!

Did you not like that picture I send you of my sister after all?

Oh don't get me wrong I loved the picture, it's just I don't speak French.

I guess if you promised her as my ahem translator for my first couple of months I'll buy the ticket today

**Louis VI the Fat** · 11-08-2009, 20:15

No.

I told you to send us the ring first. Then she'll do, erm, some 'translation work' for you.

**Strike For The South** · 11-08-2009, 20:22

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

No.

I told you to send us the ring first. Then she'll do, erm, some 'translation work' for you.

The ring? I thought this was a freelance gig!

You're lucky I had your translation work before her translation work

hairy, sweaty, rough and completely awesome.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 11-09-2009, 22:34

Meh. He should've written a letter without spelling mistakes. If he is lysdexic, then he's been so for a long time and should've had his letter corrected. Other than that, I would not care very much about his 'disrespectful' behaviour. An Americanization of politics indeed. Driven by the sensationalist press. Who focus on irrelevant trivialities, blow these up way out of proportian, and make them the focus of political debate. That is, continual outrage.

Also, I dislike politicians remembering wars in an altogether too military fashion. And I disapprove of them wearing poppies, flags, or pink breast cancer symbols altogether. Symbolism and silly populism. It is the banner of politicians firmly on the leash of this world's Rupert Murdochs.
I prefer them with a spine, proudly showing themselves to be well above the annual Daily Mail November poppy campaign, which comes a few weeks before the 'teh foreigners and PC are killing Christmas' campaign.

Not to mention, I think the poppy itself is a pseudo-fascist symbol in the first place, the result of that most obscene poem in the history of European literature, 'In Flanders Fields'.

**Pannonian** · 11-09-2009, 22:46

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Meh. I disapprove of politicians wearing poppies, flags, or pink breast cancer symbols altogether. Symbolism and silly populism. It is the banner of politicians firmly on the leash of this world's Rupert Murdochs.
I prefer them with a spine, proudly showing themselves to be well above the annual Daily Mail November poppy campaign, which comes a few weeks before the 'teh foreigners and PC are killing Christmas' campaign.

Not to mention, I think the poppy itself is a pseudo-fascist symbol in the first place, the result of that most obscene poem in the history of European literature, 'In Flanders Fields'.

I approve of having these symbols. But not to the point of fetishising them, of promoting them to the point where they're seen as more important than what they're supposed to represent. That's the kind of image-based politics that Subotan is referring to, and that kind of politics is what's propagating the political domination of the odious, unbelievably selfish, suburban middle class. If Thatcher hadn't been the person who brought this political battleground into being, I'd wish for someone like her to appear and rip the consensus apart like she did to the old order.

**Philippus Flavius Homovallumus** · 11-10-2009, 14:33

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

Meh. He should've written a letter without spelling mistakes. If he is lysdexic, then he's been so for a long time and should've had his letter corrected. Other than that, I would not care very much about his 'disrespectful' behaviour. An Americanization of politics indeed. Driven by the sensationalist press. Who focus on irrelevant trivialities, blow these up way out of proportian, and make them the focus of political debate. That is, continual outrage.

Also, I dislike politicians remembering wars in an altogether too military fashion. And I disapprove of them wearing poppies, flags, or pink breast cancer symbols altogether. Symbolism and silly populism. It is the banner of politicians firmly on the leash of this world's Rupert Murdochs.
I prefer them with a spine, proudly showing themselves to be well above the annual Daily Mail November poppy campaign, which comes a few weeks before the 'teh foreigners and PC are killing Christmas' campaign.

Not to mention, I think the poppy itself is a pseudo-fascist symbol in the first place, the result of that most obscene poem in the history of European literature, 'In Flanders Fields'.

I could say some very rude things here.

I shall instead say this: Form is important, lack of care for the proper forms and protocols is symptomatic of disrespect.

In Britain, form and protocol was once social glue, now it has been abandoned and our society is litterally coming apart at the seams.