US Conservatism vs UK

[HershOstropoler]

"You can veto it's removal IIRC."

Technically, you could scrap the underlying market regulations and programs by qualified majority. The veto is the "vital interest" veto, and political coalitions. CAP has been moved substantially from output to income support, but it's still a total mess, and it will take at least 20 years to knock some sense into it.

[The Andy-Man]

Er, sort of... I'm not a member through a constituency association so I don't have a swish one though.

Lucky sod, they havn't even sent me one , and i am a member of a constuency association :evenmadder:


And when i said near the beggining that UK conservatives are more conservative, i ment with a small 'c'

Its interesting everyone associates conservatism with purley free market economics, conservatism hasn't always been about that, and there is more to it also imo....

[MikeH]

I associate the UK Conservative party with moral conservatism the public school old boy network. "Family Values" and all that sick making stuff whilst behind closed doors they are all ****ging whores and/or bumming each other.

[MikeH]

BTW, not implying there's anything wrong with the homosexual aspect, just the hypocricy of being outwardly against it whilst doing it.

[CerberusIV]

The real difference is that in the US the conservative party (Republicans) get to be the government. In the UK...

The reason is that the general political tendency in the UK seems to be to elect slightly right of centre governments. Unfortunately for the Conservative party here we have such a government and they are not it!

[MikeH]

Yeah, the Conservatives seem to basically have the same policies as Labour ('cause Blair stole most of them) but they haven't got over the fact that no-one trusts them after 18 odd years of lies.

[The Andy-Man]

I am not sure, I think the reason labour are in is because the thatcher years just burnt out (couldn't stay in forever!), and it was such a blow that some pieces need picking up.

[MikeH]

If they weren't so split that they can't elect a strong leader they might have a chance.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by Rogan Josh


Dear Mr. Grammar Nazi,

I feel an urge to pointlessly criticize your recent post complaining about Mr Oedin's 'Grammar'. First of all, it was not Mr. Oerdin's Grammar whcih was at fault, but rather his spelling. This sort of mistake can easily arise from a simple typographic error. Secondly, in ending such a missive it is more correct to end the concluding phrase with a comma, followed by "yours sincerely," with no capital letters and then the author's name, as demonstrated below,

yours sincerely,

Mr. Rogan Josh.

Typos are not acceptable to the Grammar Nazi.

[The Andy-Man]

I think IDS is ok, and a strong PM is not what british politics needs right now, we've recently had to many of those.

[Drogue]

Originally posted by Park Avenue
Postcodes do...

How so? How were they to know what type of school I went to from my postcode. People go to both posh private schools (about 100 metresa from my house) and very bad state schools (about 500 metres from my house) in my postcode.

[MikeH]

Originally posted by The Andy-Man
I think IDS is ok, and a strong PM is not what british politics needs right now, we've recently had to many of those.

Be nice to have someone who the public had heard of though. the best thing you could say about IDS is that he's 'OK' but then Blair's 'OK' so why vote for IDS?

[The Andy-Man]

cos blair is a megalomaniac

IDS is the type of PM who NEEDS a good cabinet to stay afloat, and a good cabinet is worth a thousand great PM's.

[MikeH]

Shame all he's got to choose from is the rest of the Conservative MPs then.

[The Andy-Man]

Originally posted by MikeH
Shame all he's got to choose from is the rest of the Conservative MPs then.

they ain't all that bad. Better then some 'centre left' types, or te laternative 'raving lefty loonies'.
And politics is about the best of a bad bunch.