stella40
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ORIGINAL: NorthernGent I've no problem with that, but what about labelling people the 'PC brigade'? From where I'm standing it's simply vague, meaningless rhetoric. It's a stereotype. To give you another example. Someone here could write 'thick Northerners' - and you and I could become offended, but we would be offended only if we felt the term thick Northerners applied to us. There's such a saying. "If the cap fits...." Well, I listened to Bernard Manning and I listen to some of the other insulting derogatory references towards people like me and I have decided that the cap doesn't fit. quote:
ORIGINAL: NorthernGent Britain is not politically correct, never has been and never will be. Who are the brigade, then? It's fashionable to jump on the "PC brigade" bandwagon. It has no credibility in my book, and is really a load of old bollocks designed for the sort of mindset at which your original comment was aimed i.e. those craving group conformity. I disagree with this. Who are the brigade? The media. At the moment it's such working class heroes as John Gaunt and Mike Mendoza, spouting outdated right wing values (as seen in the press) and getting everyone all upset and riled up about the socially unacceptable people in society - asylum seekers, people on benefits, single mothers, etc. quote:
ORIGINAL: NorthernGent Edited to add: the lack of substance in British politics today is more of a problem for me than the BNP, or the Conservatives, or any of the tough on crime, tough on youth, ban immigrants etc mindset. It's this mindless "PC brigade" type drivel that passes for political discussion. Yeah, and how many times have we been down this road? There was Thatcher, John Major's 'Back to Basics', Tony Blair's 'Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.' It's a bit like the old 50p glued to the pub floor joke, been there so many times but it's not funny any more. It's not a lack of substance in British politics today, just a lack of interest. It's a political mafia married to the fatcat corporations and privatised firms, not interested in the people, outside of those who are still working and who may still have some disposable income left to do some spending and keep the economy going. Ah yes, the myth of the 'great' British 'taxpayer' working so hard to pay for everything - prisons, schools, the NHS, people on benefits, asylum seekers, oh yes, they keep this country going. 'I'm a taxpayer' they bleat, as if its a major lifetime achievement. 'Good on you' says the media, 'you are one of us, you belong, you are not like the fat, ugly, lazy benefit pigs who use up all our money and cause old people to die on NHS waiting lists'. PC - politically correct - you are expressing the correct political views, and responding to the hype, the media and the propaganda. And do you know what? I'm not PC. I don't fall for all this bullshit and crap, because it IS bullshit and crap. If it was true that taxpayers keep the country going this country would have gone bankrupt years ago. How many people are working in the UK? How many of them are paying tax? Do you know how much it costs to run the NHS? To support our forces in other countries? Prisons? Schools? Truth is the 'great' British taxpayer is almost as heavily subsidised as everyone else, and unless they're spending disposable income and keeping the economy going, they're paying for nobody. But try telling that to this PC brigade and they will get extremely upset. A bit like telling a small kid Santa Claus doesn't exist any more, isn't it? quote:
ORIGINAL: NorthernGent It's meaningless and a fair example of a society fixated with packaging at the expense of substance. At least the BNP believe in something of substance, I can handle that. No, this is a society fixated with saving a few quid, if the truth be known. Doesn't matter if it's an employer hiring Eastern European migrant workers for minimum wages, shopping in Argos, the family with the Polish au pair, buying and selling on eBay, at boot sales, shopping at Asda, or trying to get out of paying more income tax or National Insurance contributions. It still is very much the 'f**k you Jack, I'm alright' and 'me me me' society of the 1980's and Thatcher who has fallen for every single gimmick and cheap election promise from John Major and Blair.. not once, not twice, but three times. And meanwhile the mortgage has been remortgaged and been consolidated with other debts, the privatised companies took over because it was supposed to be more competitive, cheaper and better but from what I can see it's much more expensive and worse. You go for the BNP if you feel it's the step forward. Personally I'd rather pay a few quid more and get some decent values back. But barring a revolution, there's fat chance of that.
< Message edited by stella40 -- 6/19/2007 2:37:16 PM >
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