tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.comments2023-03-25T13:58:08.712+00:00The Progressive ContrarianContrarianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comBlogger95125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-40469626454478939132016-06-07T12:52:13.337+01:002016-06-07T12:52:13.337+01:00Here are the long and short term impacts of leavin...Here are the long and short term impacts of leaving the EU<br /><br />Short Term <br />Economic collapse, run on the pound the British economy hits the buffers as the banking and financial sectors are ripped to shreds. <br />The Right wing take over the UK and decide the look for scapegoat, many are targeted Jews, Gays, Gypsies, muslims and all immigrants. The collapse of house prices and the financial sector is blamed on the weak and vulnerable and Britain quickly becomes a fascist state. <br /><br />Long Term<br />Europe breaks up, in geopolitical instability, and becomes a playground for the proxy wars, imposed dictators, civil wars and a land of human rights abuses, by leaders imposed on it by China, Russia, India and the USA. <br />I love the USA but it will not be able to stop danger happening to a divided Europe.<br />Nina Legnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-2276337993662953432015-07-27T11:22:55.277+01:002015-07-27T11:22:55.277+01:00Not that I know of. Though there was at least one ...Not that I know of. Though there was at least one senior member of Lambeth council at that time who was known to be interested in boys...Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-32044822261242880352015-07-25T13:13:55.247+01:002015-07-25T13:13:55.247+01:00Does any of this relate to Lambeth child sex abuse...Does any of this relate to Lambeth child sex abuse and care homes and cover ups? Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-26303324643735287192014-12-26T04:59:45.672+00:002014-12-26T04:59:45.672+00:00It wasn't just any old school; they targeted t...It wasn't just any old school; they targeted the children of soldiers and policemen for revenge and intimidation.StefanLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-71067323065172978832014-12-17T07:25:28.180+00:002014-12-17T07:25:28.180+00:00By the same token, someone else, military intellig...By the same token, someone else, military intelligence or some other government agency mounting an attack on this scale on a school full of kids at an army-run institution would be even more high-risk and brainless. Occam's Razor suggests that the simplest explanation - this was an attack by Jihadis wanting to hurt the army - is the one to go for.Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-18528627741605071902014-06-23T07:21:27.074+01:002014-06-23T07:21:27.074+01:00Sorry - being buried in work... Will try and make ...Sorry - being buried in work... Will try and make some time to come back to this again soon.Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-40039256397709289122014-06-21T20:09:54.872+01:002014-06-21T20:09:54.872+01:00Blog please. You stuff is good.
PaulBlog please. You stuff is good.<br /><br />PaulAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-28319853107280520092013-11-26T10:25:24.979+00:002013-11-26T10:25:24.979+00:00Dear Anonymous Journalist - if you want me to cont...Dear Anonymous Journalist - if you want me to contact you please leave contact details, just like the other journos who've been in touch...Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-29840197352730261892013-11-26T09:15:30.237+00:002013-11-26T09:15:30.237+00:00Hi, I'm a journalist working to create a pictu...Hi, I'm a journalist working to create a picture of the Maoist community of Brixton during the 70s. Would you be able to speak to me? We can preserve your identity. Do you have an alternative means of contact?<br /><br />Thanks and best,Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-7796247345730651312013-11-26T04:34:31.347+00:002013-11-26T04:34:31.347+00:00How ironic. Professing to free the proletariat fro...How ironic. Professing to free the proletariat from slavery, only to practice slavery themselves.<br /><br />What are the odds these people would turn Britain into one entire slave plantation (daily beatings free of charge) in the unlikelihood they gain power?<br /><br />One can just look at the Khmer Rogue to see an example in action.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-88399688684738753932013-11-25T23:46:24.051+00:002013-11-25T23:46:24.051+00:00good call :)good call :)Cassidyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16262064764581175745noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-71260771561854162692013-11-25T23:03:32.321+00:002013-11-25T23:03:32.321+00:00Unlike say, Abimael Guzmán of the Shining Path, or...Unlike say, Abimael Guzmán of the Shining Path, or Pol Pot, or Kim Il Sung or even old Mao himself you mean?Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-15276603764293732632013-11-25T21:00:05.549+00:002013-11-25T21:00:05.549+00:00Jim Jones wasn't a Lefty. Just a nutter.Jim Jones wasn't a Lefty. Just a nutter.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-40823212622562737942013-10-03T08:28:06.252+01:002013-10-03T08:28:06.252+01:00The penultimate paragraph sums it all up.
Leftish...The penultimate paragraph sums it all up.<br /><br />Leftish greenery is about feeling good, or not feeling guilty.<br /><br />Evidence, data, results don't enter into it.<br /><br />It is a substitute for thought, analysis and realitybilbaoboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-34740806007753804122013-09-21T20:05:27.692+01:002013-09-21T20:05:27.692+01:00Have you even read these posts? The starting point...Have you even read these posts? The starting point is that the three main parties are a waste of time. <br /><br />UKIP might have the solutions in your opinion, but they haven't got the spelling if you're anything to go by...Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-38914528976284355572013-09-17T20:34:25.268+01:002013-09-17T20:34:25.268+01:00@Dodgydosser
I generalise not on this particular ...@Dodgydosser<br /><br />I generalise not on this particular case but on a long and broad experience with NHS healthcare. I am closely involved with two cancer charities and have direct personal experience of the NHS and health care in Germany. And I have to say that the standard of care can be really great, but mostly it's not. In many cases it's downright appalling.<br /><br />To pin the blame on a lack of spending is too simplistic. There's an endemic cultural issue within the NHS that puts patients low on the list of priorities.<br /><br />Aside from the recent spate of scandals, and the numerous cases like this one, we can also look at the statistics from Professor Jarman. Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-72855524694227235792013-09-17T19:29:45.625+01:002013-09-17T19:29:45.625+01:00Regarding the NHS. It's not a question of ...Regarding the NHS. It's not a question of 'blind loyalty'. It's just that the NHS despite what you say is a very good system.<br /><br />Your generalisations from the particular are not reasonable positions. We need to look at the overall picture. <br /><br />For instance you talk about an overblown bureaucracy, but in fact the NHS has one of the lowest administration costs of any system. Before the introduction of the ridiculous internal market administration costs were only 5%. This compares favourably with social insurance systems like France or Germany.<br /><br />The same is true of quality of care. Both France and Germany have higher error rates than the UK.<br /><br />But finally, like many people who ignorantly slag off the NHS, you have ignored the issue of money.<br /><br />We spend much less. Per capita spending in France and Germany is much higher than the UK. <br /><br />The answer is to stop wasting time and money trying to turn healthcare into a business and to pump reasonable amounts of money (say reaching the OECD average) on the NHS.Dodgydosserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14860987374507124283noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-46556823860672591642013-08-14T21:12:41.834+01:002013-08-14T21:12:41.834+01:00I'd disagree that it's small c conservatis...I'd disagree that it's small c conservatism. My outlook is more libertarian - the conservative outlook is more statist and corporatist. But then that pretty much describes all the establishment political parties in the West - it's the same wine in different bottles.Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-76545235951515824932013-08-14T20:23:21.782+01:002013-08-14T20:23:21.782+01:00The funny thing is that, while you mark yourself a...The funny thing is that, while you mark yourself as progressive contrarian, the essence of what you describe is conservatism. In an alternate world Conservatism would have followed it's raison d'être; it would be fighting and rail against many of the shibboleths of modernity; climate change, european integration and muticulturism for example. The problem is that a small c conservative movement ends up having fellow travellers who are niwits like the buffoon bloom. It's ever been so; for every Peel, Disraeli, Churchill and Thatcher there is a nutjob babbling on like Prince Phillip on crack. The point of leadership is to smack that kind of stuff down and speak with a louder more authorative voice. Sadly Farage is not that man. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-39057557752483606412013-08-14T14:45:20.063+01:002013-08-14T14:45:20.063+01:00I didn't claim that the party is racist, and i...I didn't claim that the party is racist, and if you read the post again you'll see that I agree with the policy of cutting back foreign aid. My point is that Bloom doesn't come across as someone engaging in disposable humour at all. I've got less time for political correctness than I have for the ideology of multiculturalism, so I have no problem with humour or coarse language.<br /><br />The point is that if you want to have more appeal than as a home for the protest vote or a more respectable version of the BNP then you've got to come across seriously and to a wider range of the electorate. Bloom's behaviour doesn't do that, it just conforms to an image the mass media are happy to propagate.<br /><br />As a final aside, why assume that people like Winston Mackenzie, Sushil Patel and co are happy with Bloom's comments?Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-58392983665747435412013-08-14T14:27:04.383+01:002013-08-14T14:27:04.383+01:00Presumably you'd include UKIP's members li...Presumably you'd include UKIP's members like Winston Mackenzie, Priti Patel's father (a UKIP candidate) and Mike Zuckerman (a member of the Board of Deputies of British Jews) in that definition?<br /><br />The bongo bongo stuff is disposable humour just as referring to people from Ipswich as 'tractor boys' is not insulting.<br /><br />There is nothing racist about wanting to control your country's borders or restrict foreign aid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-26469975971918277382013-06-07T18:46:04.238+01:002013-06-07T18:46:04.238+01:00Exactly
And they will do anything to achieve thei...Exactly<br /><br />And they will do anything to achieve their aim.<br /><br />Another group of truly dangerous people, because the majority of their supporters think they are doing something else.bilbaoboynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-88760604984169879942012-07-24T13:29:22.990+01:002012-07-24T13:29:22.990+01:00I am interested in the comment by Dodgydosser.
Ac...I am interested in the comment by Dodgydosser.<br /><br />According to the figures that I found, to gain the French levels of spending would require us to spend an extra $12 billion USD on healthcare. Considering that the French system makes ours look like the heaped up pile of shite that it is, and that the NHS IT computer project is now projected to cost more than £12 billion that is a very interesting figure.<br /><br />They treat the NHS like some kind of shining white edifice, whilst in reality it is a corrupt and totally inefficient centralised organisation.<br /><br />It needs to be utterly destroyed and be replaced with something like local health co-operatives for example.<br /><br />Furthermore, it always fascinates me that a private hospital can be so clean, well staffed and run, and make a huge profit, whilst an NHS hospital is dirty, inefficient and unresponsive whilst overspending all the time. They normally trot out the old "private hospitals do not cover critical care" canard, however, I believe the actual physical cost of an operation in £ is broadly similar when taken privately as to the actual cost to the NHS. I could be wrong but I recall reading a report to that effect several years ago.<br /><br />At the end of the day, the NHS is a massive bureaucracy, whose sole purpose is to protect and expand the bureaucracy at all and any costs. Patient care is a distant afterthought with these people.Man with Many Chinshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06248880738395410731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-84565971092940847192012-07-14T17:59:31.383+01:002012-07-14T17:59:31.383+01:00Hmm. The illustration shows starving Irish grubbin...Hmm. The illustration shows starving Irish grubbing in potato fields, with the caption "Throughout history, the impact of plant pests and diseases, such as potato blight, can devastate lives"<br />Good example, as we supposedly get a steadily hotter, dryer climate. <a href="http://www.williamcoffeyvc.org/five.html" rel="nofollow">Just like the 1840s:</a><br />A long wet summer promised another bad crop as a foul stench lay over the rotting potato fields, and storms at the beginning of August proved the beginning of the worst winter on record - biting cold winds, torrential rains, mist, flooding and snow.Malcolmnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24053083.post-69718174646948580032012-07-13T19:50:16.429+01:002012-07-13T19:50:16.429+01:00Thanks for making my point clear - as I said, any ...Thanks for making my point clear - as I said, any discussion soon turns into a simplistic NHS versus private health care argument.<br /><br />That's not the point I'm making. My point is about the centralised, overly bureaucratic system and how it tends towards a system where the patient comes last.Contrarianhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03991871513925117347noreply@blogger.com