Nick Clegg's house targeted by UK Uncut campaigners

VictorEagleman · 2012-05-26T18:31:57.614064+00:00

However valid a cause, targeting a persons private home in a residential street is deplorable. Why should anyone have to put up with that sort of hassle in their own home?

In the end, what'll happen if these protests carry on along these lines is that the addresses of politicians will become secret - and in a democracy that would be a very bad thing.

senyam · 2012-05-26T17:38:48.954939+00:00

Are we allowed to trade in gold coins & bars then?

You are allowed to trade in anything you want.

Legal Tender in the technical sense applies only to debts, and obliges the creditor to accept payment of the debt in legal tender if so offered.

Benjamizzle · 2012-05-26T17:30:59.321371+00:00

It restarted today.

infidel118i · 2012-05-26T16:45:15.022639+00:00

I've lived next to the river for the past 5 years and it isn't actually that unusual a sight.

Usually coming/going to the canals via Limehouse.

Benjamizzle · 2012-05-26T13:30:11.274707+00:00

Taking trips in a steam train along the Epping Ongar railway and walking between the old churches along the route.

Skilbride · 2012-05-26T07:38:02.526073+00:00

I am well aware of the attempted coup.

I am also aware of quite a lot of things - I wasn't aware that omission of every single detail in a debate was tantamount to "selective memory".

I am having a "Pub debate", not writing a 200 page thesis for the UN Security Council.

Pizza401 · 2012-05-26T07:36:14.731598+00:00

Guns have one function - to kill or maim. Whether it is animal or human, used in anger or defence, a gun has a single operating function.

Alcohol is a socially pleasurable drug that is tolerated in society because in general the downsides are limited and alcohol has a wide range of functions - of which death by accident is a very minor aspect.

...to extend your argument to its logical fallacy - in the USA around the same number of people are killed in road accidents as by alcohol. I wonder if the USA would support a ban on the motor car?

HMP_AMA · 1 day

I read Ben's Prison Blog so I have his side of the debate. How much do you agree/disagree with his view of the system?

seanbastard1 · 1 day

If the website is operated by a sole individual as a personal website then you are allowed to conceal your identity.

igeldard · 1 day

If it decreases car usage and therefore congestion and smog in London then it's fine by me.

...except that the Dartford Crossing isn't in London

DVC888 · 1 day

The UK is democracy with an elected government and Parliament and has for historic reasons a hereditary head of state who is just a figurehead with no political power whatsoever.

syuk · 1 day

If detective movies are to be believed, then all detective agencies are subject to violence, threats and broken marriages - and are perpetually on the verge of being kicked out of their office because they are broke.

Skilbride · 1 day

By screwing the oil companies I am talking about sacking quality managers and putting in political apointments in their place.

I am talking about driving down financial reserves so that the companies cant invest in future production.

I am talking about forcing them to subsidise services directly that should be coming out of general taxation.

I am talking about the very thing I mentioned in the first comment - a short termist approach that will ruin the economy in the long term and actually goes against the principles of socialism.

EquanimousMind · 1 day

You can argue the semantics of whether it is formal request, or a request put out in public for everyone to snigger at.

Whichever it was - it made them look like a bunch of idiots.

PeterLondon · 1 day

In some situations consistency is useful - and to be honest, if a person has a "favourite independent" are they not equally guilty of seeking a consistent service instead of walking for 20 minutes to the next independent to get a different service?

For me the most important consistency is the chance of getting a seat - and its that which is probably the biggest determinant of where I will sit down for a coffee.

If I see two coffee shops, one a chain and the other an independent, it's the one with seats that gets my custom, regardless of which it is.

87liyamu · 1 day

I would expect you to read the entirety of my comment where I pointed out that I am not singling out Gove in my criticism.

Skilbride · 1 day

Although Chavez also destroyed independent media, screwed the oil production companies that the economy depends on and terrorised the opposition politicians.

Frankly, I'd rather live in an unequal but free country than in a Chavez dictatorship.

EquanimousMind · 1 day

On that one we will disagree then on the issue of the facts rather than the paranoid twitterings of the wikileaks twitter account.

There are sufficient issues for an investigation and insufficient reasons for him to avoid being treated as any other suspect in such a situation would be.

Although you are still refusing to answer my question - was Wikileaks right to expect The Queen to interfere in the issue?

EquanimousMind · 1 day

I am not actually judging the issues they raise - I am mocking their comments and behaviour when trying to deal with serious issues.

Do you really think they were right to call for the Queen to interfere in the judicial process, or do you think they were a bunch of idiots for saying that?

jjonnnyy · 1 day

http://853blog.com/2011/11/25/have-you-tried-your-local-bike-shop/

EquanimousMind · 1 day

Wikileaks also called for The Queen to interfere with the judicial process and block an extradition if one is decided upon.

When they come out with crap like that, and then someone cites them as a legit source, you have to just laugh.

And laugh lots.

...regardless of the merits of their arguments - their behaviour has been their own worst enemy.

EquanimousMind · 1 day

plugged by @wikileaks . should be legit

Rolls around the floor in fits of hysterics.

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