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[Hiberno-Britannic Politics] You Brexit, You Buy It
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Can't disagree with you there.
Best PM is an easy call for me, in terms of legacy and most good done Clement Atlee is the most successful PM in the last century.
I have nothing but respect for Churchill. He was very much a product of his time but I'd be hard pressed to name any other British politician at the time who could have held the nation together like he did during WW2.
Note I'm not saying I think he was the best.
Maybe best Wartime PM though.
Churchill's record pre- and post- war is pretty terrible, but his ability to lead the nation through WW2 redeems a great deal of that
Sure, but Churchill and Brooke combined very well. Churchill is the greatest wartime PM because of what he did for the country and its people, lending a seemingly invincible determination to a hard-pressed country and casting a very long shadow on the world stage, rather than any military acumen he might or might not have possessed.
Even Brooke, critical though he was in his diaries (something he acknowledges he may have leaned into a little hard because it was one of his only outlets for expressions of that sort), considered him to be "superhuman" as the country's leader.
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Yeah but one of the many things that make Churchill "great" (I don't ascribe to the great man theory but I do generally describe Churchill as above average even for all his faults) was that he kept Brooke through the entire war.
That's pulled off of Churchill's wiki. I think it's a good description of their relationship.
There are -many- reasons for the Bengal famine but Churchill being a racist bastard (he was) is about the least of them.
The Japanese in Burma and their Navy holding dominance in the pacific for some time, nevermind other wartime theaters + german submarines are the ones just off the top of my head.
There's also the fact that this was an area half way around the world, Europe was still recovering from the first world war infrastructure wise and in a dozen other ways, and the fact that the actual government statistics for like India as a whole had been flubbed for a long long time are some other reasons I can think of this happening.
You can't lay the blame entirely on Churchill for that.
Also weigh it up against actions like Norway, Greece, Dieppe and Italy.
I get that he was useful for fighting spirit and all that but I simply question how useful it was beyond the battle of britain. At least in the context of how impervious his reputation seems to be to criticism.
Picking the right people to which you delegate power is surely an important part of any leader's job.
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...wow
he was operating under the constraint of Indian demands for independence and provincial devolution
that's the sort of trouble you make for yourself, so to speak, as nationalists. if you brexit (so to speak) and then mire yourself in a lot of trouble, you can hardly go around then arguing that brussels had a moral duty to be less incompetent, even if brussels could have been less incompetent. that's what national sovereignty means. it means that these are now your own problems, and they are on your head, and the blood is on your own hands.
his postwar attitude toward decolonization (ie any attitude that did not accept its inevitability) was unrealistic in the extreme though
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
So, all of them, then.
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and there are inevitable comments about immigrants causing this. When the top four have freedom of movement.
EDIT: don't see a link to the report/figures but that's the citation he's giving.
If May wanted to sideline him in a pointless job she has succeeded.
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Having actually been to Poland several times I actually can't imagine what it is that makes them want to leave. It has it's shit bits that are frankly no shitter than our shit bits and it's nice bits are as nice as ours, with the added benefit of a central European climate. I know they have their crappy right wing government elected by a minority of the electorate running around saying and doing xenophobic things but... if that's what they're running from coming here is a straight up case of out of the frying pan and into the fire.
Last time I talked to a Polish colleague, the Salary for our jobs was something like 2-3 times more than in Poland
If that graph is anything to go by not for long, plus our "higher" wages are cancelled out by our higher costs of living.
Yeah...there's not enough there to be worth anything really. Is this average wages (so including all the top end super bonuses folks who took cuts during the recession)?, what's the loss in real terms? etc I don't mean to suggest that some people aren't worse off, because some people are definitely worse off, but that is the classic un-labled graph to make a splashy headline point rather than something definitive.
A citation of the data used would be lovely.
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Don't we?
It was liking looking into a mirror, a conservative government trying to change how their courts work, and claiming their razor thin majority based on less than 40% of the electorate gives them a mandate to do this.
The big one that comes to mind was their neutering of their supreme court. Essentially making it so none of their shiny new batshit laws will be opposed.
That and the proclivity of all public held (none governing) positions to suddenly change once a new party comes into power. Endemic cronyism essentially.
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Pretty much. And Theresa May is PM now. We've all been so busy feeling relieved that it wasn't Boris or Gove no one has taken a moment to fret about what that means. It might be a week, maybe a month or perhaps longer but you can safely bet your left nut that it's only a matter of time until she does something fascist.
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I think it's even more questionable, in the sense that the EU is taking notice of some of the stuff they're trying to pull, such as changes to its constitutional court that would endanger the rule of law, and might result in sanctions (the ultimate sanction, although unlikely) being stripped of its EU voting rights against the country.
I mean, I'm not going to say all things are nice and dandy in the UK, but it seems Poland are crossing a line the EU doesn't like.
That should be interesting, if this government actually threatens Polands EU membership, and by extension their freedom of movement, the population will full on revolt on them.
I'm a Civil Servant, and my pay rise this year is 0.8%, or around £9 a month, after tax.
As they pledged us 1% a year until 2020, they've made up the difference with a non-pensionable lump sum of £60, which will be about £40 after tax.
I'm determined not to go on a mad spending spree, but a local Cash Converters has Lego Batman 3 for £9.99, so I may get a little crazy when we get paid on Friday...