MPs awarded £3,500 pay rise only months after shunning nurses

[zouzounaki]

a return to blairism is what people are after? it makes little sense to me.

 

["Misfit"]

negotiating with the EU - not at internal war trying to stop it / make it happen

that bits done, and it needed doing, one way or another.

Do you think the UK will benefit from it ?

 

[Simon G]

Do you think the UK will benefit from it ?

Ask Corbyn, he's always wanted to leave the EU.

 

["Misfit"]

Ask Corbyn, he's always wanted to leave the EU.

Why Corbyn is it his deal they are negotiating ?

 

[Simon G]

Why Corbyn is it his deal they are negotiating ?

ah sorry, I thought you meant generally speaking.... I've not been following the thread.

 

[ZT]

Do you think the UK will benefit from it ?

I’m really not going into this again - it’s been talked about till faces are blue.

 

[Simon G]

a return to blairism is what people are after? it makes little sense to me.

most people don't want any 'ism' they just want a half decent and competent government.

There hasn't been a better PM in my lifetime. John Major comes in second.

I remember the 1990's quite fondly, good times.

 

[zouzounaki]

most people don't want any 'ism' they just want a half decent and competent government.

There hasn't been a better PM in my lifetime. John Major comes in second.

I remember the 1990's quite fondly, good times.

that a PM that lied to his cabinet, the parliament and the public to get involved in an illegal war that killed half a million people is in your opinion the best PM in your lifetime isn’t really a great look for us and our PMs. and that’s not to mention the countless other criticisms of blair.

 

[Simon G]

that a PM that lied to his cabinet, the parliament and the public to get involved in an illegal war that killed half a million people is in your opinion the best PM in your lifetime isn’t really a great look for us and our PMs. and that’s not to mention the countless other criticisms of blair.

I never said he was perfect and I'm really talking about the government as a whole...

so, if not Blair then who would you say? Thatcher, Cameron?

.. don't tell me Brown, all he did was lose to Cameron. (he was a decent Chancellor though)

 

[Simon G]

We had low inflation, he brought in the minimum wage, high employment, wrote off debts for the poorest countries, did a lot for the NHS, did a lot in Education, gave you lot devolved powers, upped child benefit, funded sure start centres, winter fuel payments, introduced child tax credits, scrapped Section 28, introduced civil partnerships, banned fox hunting, banned fur farming and the testing of cosmetics on animals, free off peak local bus travel for over-60s, free eye test for over 60s, free nursery places for every three and four-year-olds.

...... ain't no pleasing some I guess.