That Lunancy from the Greens in Full...

That Lunancy from the Greens in Full...

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Scuffers

20,887 posts

275 months

Thursday 26th February 2015
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Elroy Blue said:
And that, despite the car crash that is Politics today, is why proportional representation should never be introduced. It would give these utter nutters influence way beyond their little camp fires.
kind of reminds me of the great Blair speech: education, education, education.

look how well that went, grade inflation, 1,000's of pointless degrees, and a generation of people brought up to believe in stupidity.

carinaman

21,334 posts

173 months

Friday 27th February 2015
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The coughing line fluffer is on Any Questions on Radio 4, repeated tomorrow afternoon.

gregf40

1,114 posts

117 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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I love the Green party...







...they take votes away from Labour. smile

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

256 months

Saturday 28th February 2015
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carinaman said:
The coughing line fluffer is on Any Questions on Radio 4, repeated tomorrow afternoon.
Caught the repeat today.

Question.."which party would you be prepared to form a coalition with?"

Natalie Bennett..."I certainly wouldn't prop up a Conservative government"

Audience....VERY LOUD AND RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE

Natalie Bennett ...something about Labour

Audience....UTTER SILENCE

So, a balanced audience selected by the BBC once again. No left wing bias there at all, absolutely none.





turbobloke

104,094 posts

261 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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mybrainhurts said:
carinaman said:
The coughing line fluffer is on Any Questions on Radio 4, repeated tomorrow afternoon.
Caught the repeat today.

Question.."which party would you be prepared to form a coalition with?"

Natalie Bennett..."I certainly wouldn't prop up a Conservative government"

Audience....VERY LOUD AND RAPTUROUS APPLAUSE

Natalie Bennett ...something about Labour

Audience....UTTER SILENCE

So, a balanced audience selected by the BBC once again. No left wing bias there at all, absolutely none.
Yes indeed. Just another BBC audience, same old.

jmorgan

36,010 posts

285 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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I wonder if it is more the case that the audience, being green, actually made the effort to get into the audience. I suspect that is the case in many of such programs, whist we sit back and bh about it, they actually do something about it.

turbobloke

104,094 posts

261 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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jmorgan said:
I wonder if it is more the case that the audience, being green, actually made the effort to get into the audience. I suspect that is the case in many of such programs, whist we sit back and bh about it, they actually do something about it.
The composition of the audience is down to the local organiser, which gets two-thirds of the tickets with the rest supposedly available via them to the general public. All the BBC does is hope for balance - if there was an overwhelming Conservative or UKIP bias then questions might be asked, otherwise it was 'balanced', of course it was.

turbobloke

104,094 posts

261 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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Almost forgot: the BBC mention making some tickets available to political Parties but while Con, Lab and LIbDem get a mention, UKIP doesn't. Nor do the Greens yet the audience seemed quite cabbage looking.

PRTVR

7,133 posts

222 months

Sunday 1st March 2015
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jmorgan said:
I wonder if it is more the case that the audience, being green, actually made the effort to get into the audience. I suspect that is the case in many of such programs, whist we sit back and bh about it, they actually do something about it.
Its worth looking at the questions on the internet if you would like to be in the audience for QT I filled it in and did not get on, I wonder if I had filled in the form with all green information if I would have been picked.

BJG1

5,966 posts

213 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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turbobloke said:
Almost forgot: the BBC mention making some tickets available to political Parties but while Con, Lab and LIbDem get a mention, UKIP doesn't. Nor do the Greens yet the audience seemed quite cabbage looking.
They've definitely had a load of local ukip members on before - they were all sat together a few weeks ago, one of them had a long rant

jmorgan

36,010 posts

285 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Interesting. I wondered at the policy though I do not have the inclination to go on these shows.

Diderot

7,350 posts

193 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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It's all down to the special way the BBC is funded.

Dr Jekyll

23,820 posts

262 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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To get back to the £60,000 new homes. Realistically how much would it cost to build say each two bedroomed terraced house on a large development if you ignored the cost of the land?

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

256 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Dr Jekyll said:
To get back to the £60,000 new homes. Realistically how much would it cost to build say each two bedroomed terraced house on a large development if you ignored the cost of the land?
Various ways of keeping the cost down...

Like letting Paddy do the drives with some of his tarmac, left over from patching the M1.

McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

205 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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Dr Jekyll said:
To get back to the £60,000 new homes. Realistically how much would it cost to build say each two bedroomed terraced house on a large development if you ignored the cost of the land?
A grand a sq meter isn't an unrealistic price per square meter for a low to medium quality house

So making flats you could charge 60K each and still make a profit


turbobloke

104,094 posts

261 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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mybrainhurts said:
Dr Jekyll said:
To get back to the £60,000 new homes. Realistically how much would it cost to build say each two bedroomed terraced house on a large development if you ignored the cost of the land?
Various ways of keeping the cost down...

Like letting Paddy do the drives with some of his tarmac, left over from patching the M1.
At 70+ Ashdown is a bit long in the tooth for that malarkey. Still, he may need to buy new braces to keep his pants up.

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

256 months

Monday 2nd March 2015
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turbobloke said:
mybrainhurts said:
Dr Jekyll said:
To get back to the £60,000 new homes. Realistically how much would it cost to build say each two bedroomed terraced house on a large development if you ignored the cost of the land?
Various ways of keeping the cost down...

Like letting Paddy do the drives with some of his tarmac, left over from patching the M1.
At 70+ Ashdown is a bit long in the tooth for that malarkey. Still, he may need to buy new braces to keep his pants up.
I'll mention that next time he knocks at my door. He tried to get me to let him do my roof last time, too...hehe

ChemicalChaos

10,404 posts

161 months

Sunday 8th March 2015
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The lunacy just got even more loony...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2984169/Hu...

McWigglebum4th

32,414 posts

205 months

Sunday 8th March 2015
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Some good ideas in there

Build hospital ships to help the 3rd world is an excellent way to spend money

Forest schools to teach townies about trees and stuff is an excellent idea

And some loopy ones

Give all animals human rights. So when my cat kills a mouse does he have to go to cat jail?

Jasandjules

69,966 posts

230 months

Sunday 8th March 2015
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jmorgan said:
I wonder if it is more the case that the audience, being green, actually made the effort to get into the audience. I suspect that is the case in many of such programs, whist we sit back and bh about it, they actually do something about it.
Surely, being "Greens" they should have all stayed in their homes with the TV and heating off, so as not to waste valuable CO2 on travel and the like...