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Many Irish heads heading to the rising commemorations tomorrow? An incredible occasion for the nation, can't wait to head into the GPO for the reading of the proclamation of independence!
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Brilliant millitary parade and commemorative ceremony at the GPO. I've never quite felt the history around Dublin or been as proud to be from Dublin as I was this morning. Wonderfully done by the Irish armed forces.
I liked the doggies....
Can't stand the Greens but this is hilarious
[video=youtube_share;s2dNEQiHUUo]http://youtu.be/s2dNEQiHUUo[/video]
Shame about the patronising tone at the end considering her party only has 1 MP and isn't even at the big boys table.
But still very well done.
[video=youtube_share;s2dNEQiHUUo]http://youtu.be/s2dNEQiHUUo[/video]
Shame about the patronising tone at the end considering her party only has 1 MP and isn't even at the big boys table.
But still very well done.
I like the Greens. I don't think they have the right ideas to form a majority government and I don't vote for them, but I like their presence in politics. They make a good voice as an opposition party, and I can see a theoretical Labour/Green coalition working. Ideally we'd have a PR system, and a Green Party with ~30-50 MPs. But under FPTP, they split the left vote and may do more harm than good.
Bunch of bunny hugging, clueless,middle class morons who think we can solve the world's problems by getting a herb garden and a couple of cats.
The credibility of the mainstream parties, especially the Tories, are heading on a course for tatters IMO. My generation (Generation Y), and generations onwards are completely f*****. A lot of people my age aren't aware of how bad we have it:
- House prices making housing unaffordable, or extremely expensive. Buy-to-let landlords making a killing off all the young people renting, but the cost of housing is keeping us in a rent trap. Increasing house prices makes it even harder to get on the housing ladder, as the deposit keeps increasing. Demand for houses is increasing much faster than the number of houses available, meaning everything is going to get increasingly worse. My generation is beyond help. I have already rented for 6 years, ~£20,000 down the drain, whilst homeowners are making a killing off their ballooning property wealth.
- Meanwhile, we have become a very well-educated generation. So many people going to university is a great thing, but it has had the consequence of flooding the job market with graduates. Degrees aren't an investment to get you ahead any more; they are mostly a necessity to stay competitive in the job market. They don't necessarily give you a high-paid job, you can come out of your degree a graduate in a non-graduate job, as so many people are doing. Three years of potential salary gone, tuition and maintenance fees applied, all to get you to a place that older generations managed to get to without having to do a degree.
- Our generation are paying NI contributions towards a state pension we will probably never receive. Older generations underpaid for their state pensions, then went on to live longer. The liability is now covered by current taxpayers and so the state pension age is increasing. It will only get worse because of the ageing population and that little has been done to account for the increased demand of the state pension on the state. There's talk about the state pension age going up to 75. That's 10 years worth of state pension, or approx. £62,000 (plus inflation) that I will be down. If we want to support our retirement, there is a much bigger onus on us saving personally. But we can't afford to because of the increasing housing costs and the cost of living.
- Meanwhile, benefits that broadly effect my generation are being cut left-right-and-centre.
We have quietly accepted at some point over the past 40 years that where previously a large family could be supported by a single-income, a small family struggles to be supported by a dual-income. My grandparents had 6 children... who could afford to do that these days?
There's a lot of self-congratulating that goes on amongst the mainstream parties for their so-called credibility. But they haven't adapted to the changing world, and have already done incredible amounts of damage to my generation as a result. Change is needed. Not to say that the Greens are the solution; but the sneering at the Greens for being impractical and clueless, when the establishment is impractical and clueless, is beyond hypocrisy.
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What's all that got to do with the greens?
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The hypocrisy behind supporting the establishment whilst dismissing the Greens on the account of credibility. Even without the answers, at least the Greens have the general gist of the problem.
Then so do UKIP
No.....but close!!
J'nuh to be fair to the current and previous coalition government. They've done far more to help people get on the housing ladder. They've also radically changed private pensions so they are actually beneficial to people as opposed to getting a pathetic premium when you retire.
Help to buy ISA's (soon to be lifetime ISA's), help to buy schemes are actually really good if you want to get on the housing ladder. I just wish they were available 9 years ago.
The greens are a difficult party I admire them but a lot of their ideas simply don't work.
Help to buy ISA's (soon to be lifetime ISA's), help to buy schemes are actually really good if you want to get on the housing ladder. I just wish they were available 9 years ago.
The greens are a difficult party I admire them but a lot of their ideas simply don't work.
Help to Buy is too little, too late in a lot of cases.
The wise thing for a young British person today is to emigrate. There's no shortage of countries that speak our language that have a better standard of living. I'm sitting in one now and, for all I love home and all the US has serious flaws, I'm probably going to settle here within the next five years.
I'm just saying this government are actually trying but the genie is out of the bottle in terms of rapid rise in costs. I will also note this is probably one of the few areas I agree with them.
As for the US I wish I'd taken opportunity when I had it to spend extended time out there. Major issue with working there is terrible workers rights in terms of fIring and annual leave.
As for the US I wish I'd taken opportunity when I had it to spend extended time out there. Major issue with working there is terrible workers rights in terms of fIring and annual leave.
Might wait till this election ends to look at the US.
Not looking forward to Clinton v Trump potentially.
Not looking forward to Clinton v Trump potentially.
Seriously though the democrats need to stop the love affair with Sanders. Clinton is a slam dunk win for them against Trump. I was reading some national poll coverage the other day that essentially said that moderate repiblicans would rather vote Clinton than Trump. It basically boils down on voter intentions Trump fanbase doesn't really grow that much from the primaries whcih is nowhere near enough to win overall.
Sanders has a similar but lesser problem and drives those moderate republicans back to thier party.
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