Methinks you know the answer... MUCH would be mine. The Tory party is a tabloid editors wet dream come true...How much worse is this internal Tory squabble going to get before something blows?
Methinks you know the answer... MUCH would be mine. The Tory party is a tabloid editors wet dream come true...How much worse is this internal Tory squabble going to get before something blows?
Look around you. See all those zombies eyes glued to their smart phone? Does that help you understand that modern propaganda is much more dangerous than the old flavour?One of the Urban Myths is here
Concerning the doings (or not doings) of Cambridge Analytica regarding it's support (or not ) of the Leave EU Campaign.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-40423629/what-was-the-role-of-cambridge-analytica-and-psychographics-in-the-eu-referendum
On balance they look like a bunch of Con men, but there are questions as to whether work was carried out and not declared to answer.
There seems to be also a lot of altered versions of their position on the matter too.
And of course whether what they are selling is "Snake Oil"
If as they say a thing sounds too good to be true, it usually is.
It's not so much that I doubt propaganda works, I am just suspicious that they have the statistical and analytical skills to manipulate the public in a short time.
Like a tree Propaganda needs time to grow, and these characters claim to be able to bottle it and produce results on demand, which would make Hypnotism seem pretty crude by comparison.
In principle manipulation by means hidden from the victim is of course insidious and sinister, even if the effect is simply to con large fees from those who want to employ it to gain an unfair advantage over opposition, and exploit their Gullibility.
Morally the idea is bankrupt., but a nice little earner.
No wonder it appeals to the Far Right, it is like something out of 1984.
So you believe it works? Whilst I accept the possibility, I'm not convinced.Look around you. See all those zombies eyes glued to their smart phone? Does that help you understand that modern propaganda is much more dangerous than the old flavour?
Those big data manipulators scare me silly. They are only in it for proof of concept, they don't care whether the extreme right or men from mars pay for their work, they just want to see if it works. And they have done so. Twice...
Locked broom cupboard preferablyTM should keep Fallon in a broom closet.
Perhaps you should ask Gordon Brown and Lord West of Spithead that question. (Both staunch labour,of a sort)And it passed under the Bridges too!
Am I allowed to ask this?
What is it for?
Sorry, I suppose I shouldn't ask questions like that.
Just why are you asking me?Perhaps you should ask Gordon Brown and Lord West of Spithead that question. (Both staunch labour,of a sort)
Brown gave go ahead on building the ships ( there is a second somewhere)
It was said at time Brown gave go ahead to create jobs in Scotland. Tories inherited this shambles..
Brown who sold the pot of gold...under Blair who started all the conflict...and we wonder why we,ve had Tory rule for so long???
I don't think even the excuse for a chancellor Osborne would have sanctioned such a colossal waste of money.
Some days you lose sight of reality completelyThe project was well established by time Tories took over rule.
You asked the question " What is it for?"
To get an answer you need to ask the Admirals who requested it and the administration that sanctioned it. Quite obvious really.( I think West was secuirity minister at time but had been admiral campaigning for their building)
Simple fact is it was a Labour administration that made worst decisions in our last 30 years. We are all paying price now both directly ( conflict ) and indirectly ( tory rule). Unfortunately the last labour government proved itself totally incapable of running country, we are simply now waiting for Tories to prove same,which to be fair they have almost achieved, but not quite yet. They have a hard act to follow in incompetence. Infact Blair was beyond incompetent, he was criminal.
It's just risen to 43% no, but the press will as I said before convince it's gullible public that a BIGLY victory has been won against the Evil Bullying EUone rare time I took a peek at the Express, all because it says something about the divorce negotiation may last beyond 2019.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/822196/Brexit-news-key-Juncker-aide-swipe-unprepared-British-negotiating-team
There is a poll on the page:
Will the UK get what it wants from brexit talks?
7.5k votes, 58% yes, 42% no.
I did not quite expect this poll result - Is the Express prepare public opinion for a soft brexit?
They do seem to be edging away from the previously agreed right wing line, don't they?one rare time I took a peek at the Express, all because it says something about the divorce negotiation may last beyond 2019.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/822196/Brexit-news-key-Juncker-aide-swipe-unprepared-British-negotiating-team
There is a poll on the page:
Will the UK get what it wants from brexit talks?
7.5k votes, 58% yes, 42% no.
I did not quite expect this poll result - Is the Express prepare public opinion for a soft brexit?
Perhaps not, but I was never going to vote Lib Dem, like some were.Some days you lose sight of reality completely
New Labour was a Tory light party
Got that? same policies, same mistakes, why do you keep making the same mistake every time you post?
New Labour was a bunch of Charlatans that used the mantle of being a pseudo socialist party to hijack the support of Labour's traditional voters.
Nothing more nothing less
In no way is socialism descredited by their Tory light policies.
The last truly Labour Government gave us the NHS and rebuilt the country at the end of the second world war, no way can you spin that with your thinly disuised right wing bias.
Come off it Zlatan, you are no socialist are you? far from it!
What, again? who cares about Blair, why do you keep going on about him? is this an obsession?Perhaps not, but I was never going to vote Lib Dem, like some were.
You can call Blair admin whatever you want but it was voted in as Labour and unfortunately , as anyone who knows anything about Labour, for some odd reason Blair still has a massive following within the party.
If not supporting JC or Blair stops me being a socialist, well so be it.
To my mind JC is simply an over reaction to Blair, without Blair JC would be a simple minority " loony left".
As it is IMO the lunatics have taken over the asylum in Labour, and its why they lost the last election.
OG, a person can still be a socialist and not support the two extremes of it.
But all that is irrelevant, to answer your original question of what are the two Aircraft Carriers for ?
To promote Scottish economy and reduce unemployment there and probably carry a few American planes to go and bomb somebody.
And ofcourse Blair tarnished labour movement. Its the only time I,ve been ashamed of supporting an individual and voting labour.
There's no chance of that, they are too small for the USA who prefer larger catapult launch carriers, not these smaller jump ramp types.Here is a practial suggestion, why not sell the two aircraft carriers to the Americans rather than provide them for for their use for free?
We cant afford to either use them, equip them and protect them at sea.
It wouldn't cost the Americans too much to rip out the dodgy Gas Turbines and install Atomic power, would it?