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Twitter claims its first victim of the campaign

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...nd/8610934.stm

Of course maybe he was just taking hints from two jags.

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/61924,...dword-campaign

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OMG Prescott to be a Lord??? What has the world come to!
Still, the Queen could dub him Lord Two Jags couldn't she?
Better yet, give him an OBE then make him an Earl.
That way he'll be an earlobe :D

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Flyboy ... Fanboy, more like. Is there any danger of intelligent debate breaking out around here? Such as acknowledging another point made during the same programme, that nobody sitting in opposition can ever make guarantees about anything? Or are you determined to simply parrot whatever the Labour press office tells you to?

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If none of the politicians promised anything, what would be the point of campaigning?

The Tories have told us they have identified six billion pounds of savings. They therefore must be able to tell us where, when and how.

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Try watching the BBC News. Osborne is giving Darling a kicking, live on air right now, on this very issue.

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:banghead::banghead:Jesus H. :dozey:
I despair of mankind.If you had the slightest inkling of how incredibly dumb your post is,you'd go :banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

:rolleyes:

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Which they have.
For instance, they've stated 20-40,000 back office public sector jobs won't be re-filled after people have left saving approx £2billion a year.
Turnover in the public sector is approx 400,000 a year.

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The Tories are coming out with hype again, l bet you anything that that saving will be NHS, as that is where all the pen pushers are, a friend of mine works for our local hospital, and she had three secretaries, and there were more admin staff than there were nurses and doctors, that is where the savings will come from - NHS.

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Which is surely a good thing?

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This sounds like a great plan to me, getting rid of pencil pushers hired during Labour's years.

---------- Post added at 13:39 ---------- Previous post was at 13:32 ----------

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politi...10/8610560.stm

In other news what a complete and utter twunt Gordon Brown is. This story is astounding. Has it come to things like that to justify his authoritarianism? He is attacking the Tories for wanting to put a halt to the Government's illegal retention of DNA of those cleared of crimes.

EDIT: This is a great quote from the BBC story:

OK and how many of those 79 cases were solved by this match? I mean presumably the police must have had some way to catch these people prior to the DNA database being created, so how many of those 79 cases relied on the DNA. Probably wouldn't be such a pleasing statistic, and certainly not justification for such wholesale intrusion of our privacy. More CCTV cameras per head than anywhere else in the world including China, and more DNA profiles on record than China despite having less than 1/20th the population.

All perfectly acceptable to some apparently.

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Yes and those lazy nurses should be doing even more of their share of the paperwork.

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Or we get rid of the unnecessary paperwork.

That you have nothing better to say to this than a glib comment speaks volumes.

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25-30 years ago, if you'd said that the Tories would be campaining for people's privacy and freedoms while Labour would be acting like Big Brother, people would have said you were mad.
Then again, IngSoc and Labour...

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And instead of attacking and insulting me, why don't you tell us all where these savings will come from?

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That's the labour way, why give your own ideas or use logic to discredit someone else's when you can just say they were made up on the back of an envelope?