14/11/2010 by admin.

What a difference two years make, US President Barack Obama looks positively tired and jaded, his speaches are lack lustre. I think you can tell that his heart is not in his job anymore, and so can American voters. It has been two years since he became president elect in a euphoria of millions of people on the streets of Washington. But during that time he has achieved very little, probably his biggest achievemnet was to get the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize, but for what? Things haven’t got any better for the average American and now he has just said “no nation should rely on exports to the United States for growth” with other things he has said recently all I can see is that America is getting ready to implement protectionist trade policies, which will impact deeply on the European economy.

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13/11/2010 by JohnB.

Iain Duncan Smith is planning to bring in a single Universal Credit to replace work-related benefits and claimants moving into work will keep more of their income than now, but they will face losing benefits if they refuse a job. He said 70 per cent of the four million new jobs created  recently had gone to foreign workers, while 4.5 million British people continued to draw benefits. What is not realised is that foreign workers are prepared to live in overcrowded and sometimes squalid conditions to pay the rent. I see housing costs as a major drawback to taking on low paid work, or is it that the torries want all the poor people to live in an out of the way village in Wales. In theory Iain Duncan Smiths ideas seem great but in practice I think he will save very little money and more people will move from job seekers allowance to some sort of sickness benefit due to the extra stress that they are put under. This is such a complicated issue and each individual has his own story of why they can’t or won’t work, and of course they are being told by a bunch of millionaires to pull their socks up!

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05/11/2010 by Dandy.

Harriet Harman, Labour deputy leader finally apologised after she branded  Danny Alexander, Treasury Minister, a ‘ginger rodent’. Apparently she was forced to apologise after a direct order from Labour party leader Ed Miliband and she withdraw the rodent slur.

But what about withdrawing the ginger slur, because that to me is worse, it is actually racist. If she had called Obama for example a “black rodent” or even worse, “ni***r rodent” where would that have led her.

I suppose I have a vested interest in all this because I have red hair and at school I was teased and set upon for my “colouring” probably more than some of the black kids. It has been much the same all my life and out of all the names I have been called “ginger” has been the worst. We are the butt of all jokes and if there is a serial killer or any evil psycho in films or tv, they are usually portrayed as having red hair and freckles.

“Rhodent” to me is ok “Ginger” is slang racist, so I think Harriet Harman had better watch her back saying this in Scotland where there are a lot of us “redheads”.
 

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