Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

Did no-one have a response to the last post?

Re: Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

It may have been archived... or it may have died a deserved death. Why have a frivolous nonsensical thread when you can have frivolous nonsensical threads about US politics?

Re: Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

After 239 pages of glorious questions and valiant efforts to derail it, the thread was allowed to die a quiet and passive death.

Doesn't mean there couldn't be another one, does it?

Re: Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

I'm barely in touch with English politics, and I live here. I don't stand a hope of mocking what the Americans have got going on.

So... Coalition government, eh?

Re: Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

Can I assume that you think the current UK government isn't all you may have been led to believe?

Re: Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

Oh yeah, we stuck parties together to try and make this place run.

To be honest, the government is never what I have been lead to believe. Plus they have just decided, after at some point promising they wouldn't, to up student tuition fees to a maximum of £9,000 per year.

Course, then we had the riot when people were unhappy about it, and eggs were thrown at members of the royal family... And then we had a couple of policemen seeing a man in a wheel chair who had cerebal palsy and was minding his own business, dragged him out of his chair and beat him up...

Fun times here.

Re: Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

If the government has never been what you were led to believe then it's time you changed your belief systems. It's not that I necessarily disagree with you, in fact I think it's highly likely that it's not what you were led to expect, and growing to realise that can be a shock. Just bear in mind that although you have spent a large portion of your life living under a New Labour government that this is not the same as if you had spent it under an "old" Labour goverment.

The original Labour movement was intended as a centre-left democratic socialist movement . New Labour, although simply a label and not an official party name, used the phrase "what counts is what works" and was simply a post-Thatcherite centre-right government hiding behind the name of "old" Labour.

So, Thatcher was there in the 80s, giving us grief; there was a brief respite, then Blair continued her work (Chicago School economics all round); Brown was falling apart on us for a brief period and now we have the Tories (essentially, with some LibDem fall-guys) getting ecstatic at the opportunity to bring in full shock-doctrine policies.
Now, if that's what you were led to believe, then you're spot on.

Now this conversation could go on for a while because, frankly, Labour as it used to be was no better - different, but no improvement.

So I'm off to get a cuppa and then I'll come back to this in a day or two...


p.s. whilst I'm away you could try reading this article and see if anything sounds familiar.

Re: Whatever happened to the "Has there been a question thread before?" thread?
 

I have never paid attention to politics in my life before this year as, before this year, there was not a damn thing I could do to change it, because I was too young to vote.

Then, the year I am able to, I can't because I was too damn ill to go to the polling station, and I was in another city with no way to get back. Darn.