Well first of all I am quite aware of the difference between the UK Great Britain and England....When I said Brits I was looking for a fast cheap joke...then I went over to saying that I liekm England...since I've never been to Scotland I can't really say anything aboot that...but Wales is pretty nice too ✅
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Originally posted by Linkalicious
So when are you going to point out the difference to me?Blair is a warmongering, lying psychopath just the same as Bush. You're lying to yourself if you believe otherwise. Last time I checked Blair was the first to sign up for the "coalition of the willing" not the last.
And who's to say John Kerry was just "pathetic" and not actually a "accident waiting to happen"? Sounds like Michael Howard is just as pathetic as John Kerry if he can't win the vote over your current leader.
The similarities between our countries are astonishing, but not nearly as astonishing as the general attitude on this board that the British government is in any way better than that of the United States.
Blair isn't neccessarily a war-mongering psychopath. He's a liar, he's a corrupt moron and he FOLLOWS a war-mongering psychopath, but if Bush were not around, he wouldn't be bombing countries he couldn't find on the map.
Whether Blair was first or last, true...he would have joined anyway. The only reason US and UK are in everything together is because all the other fairweather allies like the French and the Germans bail out when it suits them. That doesn't make the UK/US relationship any better though. UK join for the most part because our government know we need the relationship with the US, your country doesn't need us. We, sadly, need the US, politically.
John Kerry is no Michael Howard, I've seen both of them try to win votes and if it was a Kerry/Howard battle, I'd be voting Kerry.
I'm not saying our government is better, but it's not as bad as the administration the US have in power right now.
-AC
Not ture we told them that we would help them if they wanted revenge.....and their prince was killed so I guess its not even their fault...and well I guess we had to go through belgium sionce that was our only chance at all to maybe winn against everyone. ....but lets stop talking aboot that...since its quite off topic
I'm not sure how much Bush went down the Weapons of Mass Destruction path when attempting to justify the war to the US people, but that appears to have been Blair's mistake. He was desperate for some "intelligence" to help justify the decision he made, whereas I think Bush was perhaps a little less concerned with justifying his decision -- perhaps he didn't need to turn the people around to his way of thinking as much as Blair did.
Michael Howard this week said he thinks we would have been correct to go to war even if we'd known there were no WMD, not on the basis purely of regime change but because of certain UN resolutions Saddam had already broken. I have to admit I admire Howard more for this piece of honesty, and the Conservative party in general in the build-up to the war and throughout for agreeing in principle with the actions Blair had taken.
Charles Kennedy and the LibDems disagreeing with the war, and then proudly proclaiming to be the only anti-war party of the big three, smacks to me of vote-chasing.
Only problem is, if I agree with ousting Saddam, which I do, then I suppose I also have to agree with ousting leaders of other evil regimes, and that would basically mean a hell of a lot of wars.....and who defines evil; if we're not careful, Bush's ill-advised choice of the word "crusade" shortly after 9/11 could actually become scarily apt.
Final thought, i have never heard anyone make any connection before between the date 9/11 and the fact that it's the number you guys in the US dial for the emergency services.....911.....has that been discussed before or is it just a coincidence?
Blair has helped the Lower classes of this country and Brown will soon take over so lets not say no to labour just because the war.
not to put to fine a point on it...but what planet have you been living on for the past 8 years?
Blair has helped the working class
lets look at 2 policies of Blair's working class saviour style
Blair cut corporation tax and now there are more millionaires keeping an even larger percentage of the nations wealth than ever
on the other hand Blair's working class labour party raided company pension schemes to the tune of £5,000,000,000 a year for the past 8 years leaving some people with only 5% of what they paid in
and why is it that if labour are helping the working class so much...and i am as working class as they come...yet i have earned less year on year for the past 4 years because of Labours tax increases
if you vote lib dem then you'll be subjecting yourself to even higher taxes because they're liberal policies of sending criminals on rehabilitation holidays to spain will have to be paid for by someone...namely johnny taxpayer
"Michael Howard this week said he thinks we would have been correct to go to war even if we'd known there were no WMD, not on the basis purely of regime change but because of certain UN resolutions Saddam had already broken. I have to admit I admire Howard more for this piece of honesty, and the Conservative party in general in the build-up to the war and throughout for agreeing in principle with the actions Blair had taken."
That's certainly the reason I always thought the war was justified, so fair play to Howard there- but frankly, although I have voted Tory all my life, they are a total mess right now, not offering any thing of any interest, and I really can't see myself voting for them tomorrow. Simply useless.
I mean, just look at the situation with Labour right now; I am sure I don't need to spell it out. Yet the Conservatives cannot make ANY headway against them? That's not without reason. Frankly I have never seen them in worse shape. I cannot see a Tory vote actually doing anything to improve this country.
Anyway, as we all know, Labour are going to win, the only question is by how much.
ok so the elections...i definately want conservative to come in to power. Theyre really concentrating on listening to the people and what they think needs sorting out.sorry if this sounds harsh but i think blair needs to pull his finger out when it comes to listening to the public.his heads to far up his arse to get my vote. and taking us to war with iraq-not the idea of the century in my opinion.hes done a good job and all but its time for conservatives i think