Do you support labour or the conservatives? Why do you support them?
Neither. I used to be a Labour party voter for years and years. I stopped supporting them when Blair became the Labour leader (before he was PM). I need substance in politics not endless sound bites, virtue signalling, photo-ops with young children and so on. Blair Mk II (aka David Cameron) had the same problem. I expect these people are charming at a dinner party, but I don’t want them representing me in major domestic and foreign affairs (or negotiating on my behalf).I no longer believe that party politics gives the people the best representatives for parliament and am no longer sure I ever did. I can see the use of parties in stating general positions on policy but I no longer believe manifestos. I look at the economics of the position of each party but mostly it is optimistic nonsense. Rarely do the figures actually add up.Moreover, I no longer apply terms like “left” and “right” to myself because such distinctions are unhelpful though I use them in conversation to talk about the position of parties on the tax/spend axis. I don’t belive “left” politicians are any more compassionate than the right, The solutions to problems are simply different.So, I now vote for local candidates on their ability to represent me and the people who are like me. I like ordinary but energetic candidates who seem more interested in me/us and not themselves. Of course, I require them to support policies I can live with. For instance, I would never vote BNP, SWP or whatever.
Can I join both the UK Conservative and Labour parties simultaneously, to vote in both leader elections in 2016?
If you believe in democracy you might take the view that whilst you have a preferred party, the opposition is a valuable contribution to political life and needs some, perhaps limited, support. So you might think that all the parties in your area could use a small contribution and if they offer you membership in exchange, then so be it.It was with some disappointment I found that the Tories had ceased to invite me to their very pleasant Sunday morning drinky poos as I had been elected for another party, but there’y’go. They didn’t offer to return my membership fee!I would also remind you that all the parties scrabble to convert voters for another party to their cause. If they refuse to recruit members of another political party, they might as well give up, for who else is there?We used to go (as a band of friends of all political persuasions) to the Tory evening drinks party just before Christmas which those with feet in both camps had ensured was on the same night as the LibDem Christmas dinner. Quite an evening.Start from the premise that politics is an intellectual sport between friends in the UK, and it’s Gove who never understood, and you won’t go far wrong. When it gets serious you have to have principles and jolly japes have no place (Johnson please note). So you can do pretty much as you choose as long as you do it with conviction. If I had a vote in the Tory party I would vote for May, because I think she would be best for the nation if she gets in, but I wouldn’t vote for her myself. Seems fair to me.
Can your employer make you work on Labor Day?
So in the hand book it says that the company has Labor Day off. But their making the Call center work but no one else in the company is that right??? They also Made us work 2 other holidays that just past and again in the handbook states that we have it off. We dont get paid holiday pay just a regular work day but they try to spice their words up to make it sound like were wrong and their right and we dont know what were talking about I just need to know what i can do if i dont show up on labor day and then get fired because im sure thats whats gonna happen. Please Help. I need advice!
For each MP voting against Corbyn, 1000 Labour members voted for him. Should those MPs go?
Indeed, they should.Their stance and actions show that they do not represent the party they are members of.Whatever issues brought them into the benches during their election, seem to be transient matters for their voters by the time of Corbyn’s election.They are deliberately attacking the leader their own voters put into leadership. This, is basically a coup. Against not only the elected leader, but collective will of their entire party base.Even if what they are pulling flies, then in the next elections they will get their payback, and would be ousted anyway.If we move from the logical side of the matter into the history of the issue, MPs voting against Corbyn constitute Blair’s ‘New Labour’, and they are exactly the people who backed Blair when Blair was doing everything he did. Including Iraq war, there is a decent amount of members in those benches who voted for Iraq war.Its no coincidence that their long-awaited and planned coup suddenly surfaces just at the time of Chilcot Report, and right at the time Corbyn was going to call for prosecution of Tony Blair.Corbyn coup designed to stop him 'calling for Blair's head' after ChilcotAlso these are the people who neoliberalized Labour party and made it a center-right party for all accounts and purposes, and helped the ruin UK has become along with Tories.They would feel more at home in Tory benches than where they are currently. And from the looks of how real Labour flock is turning back to Labour by voting Corbyn in, fed up from all the neoliberal madhouse UK has been made into, they would do better to seek their place on the other side of the benches.No need to describe how distant Westminster is from the reality and necessities of their own countrymen. Tories can be excused to a degree for that, since they are a group of elites without any pretense of being on the side of the people, but Labour is not the same.
Why Are Hockey Fans So Conservative?
hockey fans really don't want their game to change for a couple of reasons, the one that i'm utterly convinced is number one is because Bettman has already almost single-handedly ruined the game for us. Bettman has tried and for the most part, changed our game's landscape for the worse. Since his power in 1993, we've lost four teams, lost the name of our divisions, lost one and a half seasons to labour disputes, gained several franchises that have diluted the NHL talent pool and are languishing in debt or have a poor season ticket base, lost fan interest (remember about 1994 when hockey might've been as popular as basketball? try coming up with that now...) lost TV ratings, lost TV contracts, and had to invent a bunch of "new" rules in order to win some fans back after the most recent labour dispute. and for the most part, it's killed our game. not to mention one thing that Bettman isn't in charge of - ridiculous new jersey designs. a good example is - and i don't care how good Buffalo is, or how much their fans support the team. ask a Sabres fan what they think of that ridiculous logo of theirs and they're going to tell you how they feel. in short; longtime hockey fans don't want a bunch of crap, they've always liked their game the way it was. Bettman has almost single handedly ruined any kind of tradition this game once proudly owned. call that "conservative" if you'd like. i just think that hockey fans enjoyed their game without having some commissioner who doesn't know jack squat about the game come in and ruin it. on a side note: the "trapezoid" rule that prevents goalies from playing the puck near the corners of the rink.... that's ridiculous. cheers
Will Brexit destroy the Labour party?
I don’t think so. The United Kingdom tends to have two main political parties, due in the main to the First Past the Post system we have. In the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Century it was Conservatives and the Whigs, and then with the extension of the franchise and the formation of the Labour Party it became Conservative and Labour.Rather new parties taking over; old parties are taken over; for instance the Conservatives in the late 1970s changed considerably due to Mrs Thatcher and her advisors whilst Labour has also changed considerably from New Labour to the present party under Corbyn.As much as I would love there to be a new centre-left party I don’t think they would be able to garner enough votes to be a threat to the status quo. Labour have become exceedingly unpleasant and incompetent under Jeremy Corbyn and I don’t think they are in a position to win an election anytime soon, however I think the Labour party will stay as the main opposition party. After New Labour were swept into government in 1997 the Conservatives appeared to be in disarray for quite sometime with lightweight leaders and a reputation as “the nasty party”, but Cameron shook them up and eventually they became electable.Brexit has caused problems for both major parties (the Tories more than Labour I think), but I suspect both parties will survive. The Liberal Democrats are the most Remain party out there and yet they seem to be nowhere. Perhaps unfortunately the only two parties who can realistically win any general election are the Conservatives and Labour, and I think that will be the case for quite awhile.