Try googling the term "radical left" and see what comes up. That might explain why people compare what you say to what has come out of the US for the last four years.How’s that any different than you using the word “populist”?
Of course those who are left leaning on this forum are going to use smears to attack my position, it’s what they always do.
I am going to carry on posting what I think and feel regardless of whether you or anyone else wants to call it something it isn’t.
So because I’ve described those on the fringe left in the UK, who are pushing for significant change, as radical (not forgetting it’s a term the left use for themselves too), that means I am somehow attached to US politics and Trump, because he also used it a couple of times?Try googling the term "radical left" and see what comes up. That might explain why people compare what you say to what has come out of the US for the last four years.
The word "populist" also provides similar hits but are more related to people commenting on the people who use the term "radical left".
Spoiler - Trump appears a lot.
The better term to use is cuts and whilst I am no fan of Osbourne and Cameron, nor how harsh austerity was, you’ll need to provide clear evidence it specifically led to the deaths of 150,000.
And well, that’s obvious, there was a global financial crash that affected everyone. The public voted in, not once, but twice, a party that stood on a manifesto that stated they would do these cuts.
As much as I dislike David Cameron, at least I can acknowledge it was the public’s decision. You lot seem to think he staged a coup and got in that way to force austerity on everyone.
Yeah I’ve checked but no article I can find states 150,000 deaths, you got a link?For clear evidence of the 150,000 deaths you'd just need to read the United Nations Rapporteurs report .....
Universities and their students in widespread left of centre political outlook shocker.
Quick, act horrified and kick around a point scoring political football so that we can return to the nineties, er, no, er, eighties, er, no, er, seventies, er, no, sixties, er, no, ...... hang on, when was this golden age of university campus' and students not being generally skewed towards what would be considered left of centre?
(That's not to say that there aren't examples of stupidity or shouting down of views that have been incorrect/wrong, in my view. But if you think that there was a golden age where students wouldn't shout down people from certain parts of the political spectrum, you are uninformed. Some of the students doing the shouting down often go on to become relatively right wing politicians, so I wouldn't worry too much that it's heralding a queer, communist, godless revolution - unless you are swallowing the culture war koolaid)
Put the drink down man.Universities and their students in widespread left of centre political outlook shocker.
Quick, act horrified and kick around a point scoring political football so that we can return to the nineties, er, no, er, eighties, er, no, er, seventies, er, no, sixties, er, no, ...... hang on, when was this golden age of university campus' and students not being generally skewed towards what would be considered left of centre?
(That's not to say that there aren't examples of stupidity or shouting down of views that have been incorrect/wrong, in my view. But if you think that there was a golden age where students wouldn't shout down people from certain parts of the political spectrum, you are uninformed. Some of the students doing the shouting down often go on to become relatively right wing politicians, so I wouldn't worry too much that it's heralding a queer, communist, godless revolution - unless you are swallowing the culture war koolaid)
Yeah I’ve checked but no article I can find states 150,000 deaths, you got a link?
It’s worth noting I am on record of being anti austerity.
I did think this would be the case. One of those things where it has obviously cost lives, most economic decisions that are significant do, but those stating 150k are using the deaths to point score.It was a bmj article that suggested it after comparing the rise in death rates. I don’t think it argued it was solely down to austerity though, just that it was a big factor in it. Going back a few years though.
Oscar Wilde reincarnated.Put the drink down man.