BNP - Could it really happen? Page 16

Quote: Tim Walker @ June 9 2009, 6:43 PM BST

Yes, but you can't trust them to deliver on their manifesto, can you? In 2005 the Labour manifesto ruled out top-up fees. It will be the same empty promises about ensuring racial purity and banning property rights. They just say anything to get elected.

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Actually (ahem) it was the 2001 manifesto in relation to top up fees but what's a few years between friends. However, at least the Nazis delivered on their manifesto commitments and also made the trains run on time.

See, Hitler was more reliable than Blair.

Quote: Aaron @ June 10 2009, 12:07 AM BST

See, Hitler was more reliable than Blair.

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Had a better moustache as well.

Easy really, as Blair is moustache-less. You're probably mixing him up with Ann Widdecombe.

Easy mistake to make.

Quote: Yellows 586 @ June 10 2009, 12:03 AM BST

Actually (ahem) it was the 2001 manifesto in relation to top up fees but what's a few years between friends. However, at least the Nazis delivered on their manifesto commitments and also made the trains run on time.

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Thanks for the correction. Labour have broken so many election manifesto promises it's hard to keep track of them. Also they are very good at producing major policies affecting the lives of every citizen, which somehow they forgot to even mention in their manifesto.

And it was Mussolini's Fascists who were historically lauded for getting the trains to run on time. Which actually turns out was a myth anyway.

Quote: Aaron @ June 10 2009, 12:07 AM BST

See, Hitler was more reliable than Blair.

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A 1000 year Reich that lasted less than 20? Aaron may I sell you your next gurantee?

Quote: Tim Walker @ June 10 2009, 1:25 AM BST

And it was Mussolini's Fascists who were historically lauded for getting the trains to run on time. Which actually turns out was a myth anyway.

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First Great Western's idea of getting the trains to run on time is to add 5 minutes onto the expected duration of services each time they publish a new timetable.

FGW? C**ts! *spits repeatedly*...

They also have the brilliant idea of simply cancelling a lot of the last timetabled trains of the evening without telling anyone. If a train service is regularly overcrowded they solve this by reducing the number of carriages and then telling you can't get a single fare on the service, you have to get a f**king return.

They have this wonderfully British way of somehow making you feel that they're doing you a favour if they can get you to your destination on time.

This is probably where Americans should be descending on Europeans and squawking about your elections as if they were our own, but let's embrace CHANGE and just say that we trust you to know what's best for yourselves and your countries.

FGW dress their staff like Nazis and there's plenty of guards during the day to torment polite commuters. But come the night when the trains full of nutters, dogs and people who probably voted BNP. None to be seen.

I swear I saw one of their guards check everyone's ticket in a carriage,éxcept the guy with the broken nose drinking SpecialBrew.

I also once got on a train with 20 seconds to spare saw the guard and asked to buy a ticket. He refused as I should have used one of the broken machines, but was happy to issue me a penalty fare if I liked.

FGW are amazingly even worse than Metronet.

Quote: DaButt @ June 10 2009, 2:32 AM BST

we trust you to know what's best for yourselves and your countries.

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After three Labour Governments, it's quite clear that we don't.

Quote: Tim Walker @ June 10 2009, 2:02 AM BST

If a train service is regularly overcrowded they solve this by reducing the number of carriages and then telling you can't get a single fare on the service, you have to get a f**king return.

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Quite.

Quote: Aaron @ June 10 2009, 12:10 PM BST

After three Labour Governments, it's quite clear that we don't.

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Yeah because the Decades of Conservative rule before that were a resounding success!

I don't know if the highlight was unemployment rates reaching their highest ever level, the complete destruction of the mining business or us beating some Argies for a rock with a sheep on it near Argentina in a glorious War.

They are both as rubbish as each other and that is why we have bigger voter apathy than ever before.

Don't forget a glorious war that could have been avoided if some one had read the intelligence reports in advance and sent the navy before the lump of rock was invaded.

Oh and don't forget the death of the Steel industry, the selling off of our highly valuable national rail and power etc at a loss, poll tax, endless riots, the NF disapearing becuase the Conservative government was so right wing as to make them irrelevant, schools, hospitals, the army social services all starved of funds till they became a national shame (and frequently dangerous), section 28.

Alot of problems Labour have had have been reversing some of these mistakes.

Quote: Spagett @ June 11 2009, 2:38 AM BST

Yeah because the Decades of Conservative rule before that were a resounding success!

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I'm glad that you agree.

Quote: Spagett @ June 11 2009, 2:38 AM BST

I don't know if the highlight was unemployment rates reaching their highest ever level

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In what year? Under what circumstances? What were the levels over the previous decade? Including all of the people the ONS chooses to omit from its figures now? Do you have a chart or list of year-on-year levels with the definition of "unemployed" for each of those years?

Quote: Spagett @ June 11 2009, 2:38 AM BST

the complete destruction of the mining business

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Largely the fault of the miners, striking constantly throughout the previous 2 decades and thus making themselves more or less obsolete anyway. Besides, I thought coal was bad and polluting and we shouldn't be using it anymore? Or are you not a subscriber to the green agenda?