At his heart Blair was a good man, He would have made sure kids got fed,
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BBC just had a lady on talking about the fact she needed the free school meals as she couldn’t work due to lack of affordable childcare but part way through she said her partner was currently out of work. Why can’t the partner look after the kids?
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Its arrogant in the extreme to think we have the right to just run up and invade other countries because we think we know better when we've fecked up every country we've got involved in over there. we need to keep our noses out and stop inflicting our fecked up sense of morality on places that don't want it or need it. -
I also find it insulting you think I would think that about ww2, I had family that fought fecking bravely for our freedoms and I'm incredibly proud that they did what they did. -
It is not my thoughts that count it is your words, If you find anything insulting it should be your own words not mine, be more careful with your words and avoid generalisations, We have liberated many countries and situations who are grateful for our intervention, In Bosnia while Muslims were been executed by the thousand and the UN prevaricated trying to agree a vote Tony Blair sent in our armed forces unilaterally to stop it, Congo was the same, It is easy to sit in safe comfort letting innocent people die in other countries for the principle of its nothing to do with us.
BTY I apologise for the word "snowflake" in my original post i have been advised it has been removed by the moderators as is apparently a banned word on the forum, -
Again, In situations like Bosnia we were justified in what we did and were successful in our goals. How can you say anything we have done in Iraq has been successful because if anything more people died after we got rid of Saddam and everything there became infinitely more dangerous for ordinary people. You keep trying to paint me as a non interventionist when I'm not, I think we went into Iraq for the wrong reasons with no plan whatsoever beyond getting rid of saddam. That is arrogance plain and simple.
Also, wouldn't you be slightly offended if someone said you would just let hitler kill 6 million jews. a bit different from calling tony blair arrogant for invading iraq isn't it really. -
You seem to have an identity crisis posting this,
"Its arrogant in the extreme to think we have the right to just run up and invade other countries because we think we know better "
Then this
"You keep trying to paint me as a non interventionist when I'm not,"
I think it best we park it here till you decide what you really believe -
And if you think we should go in and invade places to get rid of tyrants, what about all the tyrants like Mugabe we just ignored the entire time? Oh that's right, there isn't any oil in Zimbabwe. -
I removed your reference to his comment and with it the petty insults as I told you at the time. The OP made his position on the issue quite clear without getting personal. On the other hand, you decided to use the personal insults to make your own point which was unecessary.
Personal insults will continue to be removed inline with the site etiquette rules. -
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With something like SureStart it may have been a good policy but Blair/Brown spent a lot of money on a lot of things like that but we there was very little tangible benefit being shown. It's possible it needed another 10 or 20 years for the benefits to be really seen but politians have to react to what voters at that minute are concerned about and with the financial state Labour had got the country into at that point made worse by the financial crisis any party would have been under pressure to scrap things that weren't showing great results and were costing a fair bit no matter how much they may benefit if you look long term.
In many ways Politics is like how Football's become in that everything is about short term results when sometimes you have to have faith in a long term project (Fergie would have been sacked these days long before his job came under threat, despite the fact we now know his long term plan was a great one)Stop hovering to collapse... Click to collapse... Hover to expand... Click to expand... -
Government U-turned again.
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https://www.bradfordcityfc.co.uk/news/2020/november/city-to-support-snowflake-appeal/
Sorry @Dennis, could not resist, -
Saw the photos of some of the food being given out and while it's probably reflective of a minority of cases and was initially overblown in terms of costs (the lady said it should have been reflective of £30 whereas it was actually only supposed to be worth £10.50) it was definitely sub standard and shoddy.
Is it being left up to individual schools to sort out the meals for their pupils or does it fall only the councils or direct from the government? -
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