http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Thu, 23 May 2013 16:22:51 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:22:51 Labour have implemented social democratic ideas the best they can within the limited powers of the Welsh Assembly. As a result they were rewarded by the voters.

In Scotland the SNP were saved from their decade-long flirtation with the small state neolib model that caused such booms in Ireland an... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/220 Fri, 06 May 2011 15:59:24 i.e. the transfer of ownership of the female from the patriarch of her household to a new husband.

Not to be confused however with other forms of coexisting partnership types, but the above became a dominant form before feminist agitation made institutional marriage somewhat more egalitarian.

... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/219 Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:12:50 Lynton Crosby, the Australian political strategist used anti-abortion and anti-immigration standpoints successfully for ex-PM John Howard in Australia.

Crosby became ex-Tory leader Michael Howard's strategist for the 2005 election. They briefly tried to inject moral panic about abortion into the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/217 Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:33:49 [div class="excerpt"][b]SNP plan to influence Westminster [/b]

Scottish First Minister Alex Salmond is to outline details of his plan for the SNP to wield greater influence at Westminster.

(snip)

Mr Salmond has set a target for the party to boost its tally of MPs from seven to at least 20. ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/216 Fri, 16 Oct 2009 23:07:09 [div class="excerpt"][b]Stop Press: Jewish Bolsheviks to blame for Holocaust[/b]

(With thanks to Nothing British About the BNP)

When Lee John Barnes, legal officer of the British National Party, proclaims on his blog, “WW2 – Time To tell The Truth” you wonder if at long last the BNP leadership... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/215 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:23:29 A very short-sighted one of course. Davey had to appeal to the Tory bigots in the Shires to become Conservative leader and it appears as if it's coming back to hurt him.

Europe continues to remain a ticking time-bomb for the Tories. They can afford xenophobia in opposition but it doesn't lend its... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/214 Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:23:32 She mentioned Glenn Beck, and I do wonder why he's got a regular tv show and radio broadcast? I know he's very RW and everything, but surely in any other country his employers would have given him leave to sort out whatever emotional issues he's having. Bursting into tears 5 times every hour just do... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/213 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:17:06 Give me a heads-up whoever you are. :)... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/212 Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:53:23 SNP strategists over the last 10 years had pinned their hopes on an emulation of the Irish economic model to bring stable economic growth to Scotland while making up for any economic loss resulting from the costs of separation and the replication of functions that were once pooled at the UK-level.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/211 Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:31:22 The first recession of the Bush43 years was more to do with the 90s boom running its course and leading to an overproduction of goods and services with liquidity unable to keep pace.

The Bush tax-cuts were a political giveaway for his core-supporters but presented in the guise of 'restarting' the... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/210 Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:26:46 Ireland was the only colony that Britain seriously attempted to integrate into the metropolitan UK, but like Algeria was for France, this proved to be a huge failure.

The artificially-defined six county rump statelet was merely putting off the inevitable. The British people (English, Scots, and W... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/209 Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:55:12 The Major government's dealings with Europe were paralysed by its right-wing, and the right-Eurosceptic philosophy is reasserting itself once again for a Tory Party in power.

It makes me wonder how the City will react to this. The perceived business benefits of Eurointegration and the increasing ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/208 Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:13:02 but those well-meaning hard-working individuals within the police can't change the institutionalised right-wing bias (whether New Labour or Tory), nor change the sexism, racism, homophobia and anti-working class nature of the police.

The police forces' main focus is not to protect the public, but... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/207 Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:42:37 There is no groundswell of support backing these groups like which supported the OIRA and PIRA.

Aaronivitch is correct to say that the purpose of the attacks was to bring the British Army back to Ireland. To do so would have seen the collapse of the Peace Process and the return to war. It's a rel... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/206 Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:46:11 designed to convince workers that imported foreign labour is the root cause of their poverty, rather than the inevitable outcome of unrestrained capitalism. If anything, off-shoring has been far more damaging to workers' wages than imported labour.

Unequal trade relations between the wealthy nati... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/205 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:57:22 [div class="excerpt"]"Reporting the British ban on its website, the US church added: "God Hates [b]the UK - Land of the Sodomite Damned[/b]".[/div]

:rofl:

That's a catchy title. Maybe we should use it for tourism purposes.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/204 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 00:21:43 The public finances are shitty but bankruptcy is a long way off. Higher taxes are to pay for the PFI nonsense and the bailout of the City (socialising the follies of the ultra-wealthy) as demanded by monetarists and neolib ideologues. The high personal debt levels are a result of the flawed economic... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/203 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 22:09:06 I think Canada (and other Commonwealth Realms) should convert the G-G post into an elected Presidency much like the what come of the Republic of Ireland's 1949 constitutional settlement.

Whereby you have an elected head of state, but whom stands above the political fray most of the time acting ou... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/202 Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:00:00 the monetarists, bankers and corporate CEOS declared "it's not for the government to prop up unprofitable industries" and "no more government money for 'lame duck' producers."

Come the 2008 Financial Crisis, and those same monetarists, bankers and CEOs were first in the queue for a slurp of the g... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/201 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 00:40:00 He's supposedly broke but yet he'd rather pay higher taxes under McCain than under Obama.

I think his issue is that he *thinks* he'll be a millionaire when he hits the big time as a country and western star (hahahahaha) and so will be looking for those upper band tax cuts. Whatever, Joe.... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/200 Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:46:25 When he was on The Rachel Maddow Show the other day the ticker relayed some of his musings regarding US politics.

On the Electoral College - "They know better than you"
Predictions for the Election - "One candidate will reveal a hook for a hand"
On the Clintons - "Don't count them out, not even... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/199 Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:34:08 Palin is the one they love. Freepers think McCain is "too liberal" but they know that a Palin presidency is the real prize in the McCain-Palin ticket.

Freepers love Bush and Palin, as they are anti-intellectual, authoritarian, egotistical, and love power for power's sake. Freepers seem to respond... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/198 Mon, 20 Oct 2008 23:36:43 GOP percentage of the African-American vote had been increasing steadily over the last 16 years, reaching a height in 2004 when the GOP used the wedge issues of gay marriage and funding of churches to target African-American congregations. This vote fell back in 2006 due to the racism of the governm... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/197 Sun, 19 Oct 2008 20:50:13 In the past, this would cheer the financial sector as cheap borrowing means more capital floating around the stock market (equalling higher stock prices and returns) however I judge that this won't be effective in the current situation.

Previously one of the side effects of this type of rate cutt... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/196 Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:30:45 ...many DUers are susceptible to old school palaeocon nuttiness of the Ron Paul and Pat Buchanan variety.

There is a presumption that because palaeoconservatism opposes neoconservatism, palaeoconservatism must have some sort of nobility in it, when in fact palaeoconservatism is a deeply insidious... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/Anarcho-Socialist/195 Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:02:50