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# ignore me, just letting off steam
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:43, archived)
# Thatcherzilla returns!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:45, archived)
#

(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:47, archived)
#
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:52, archived)
# Cameron killed jobs?
I knew he was evil, but surely he can't get away with that?
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:55, archived)
# Well he seems to be getting away with everything else.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:56, archived)
# I remember Stevie Wonder being in this joke
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:59, archived)
#
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:57, archived)
# O_O
Scary!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 15:08, archived)
# hahahaahahahahah
....oh. :(
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:46, archived)
# That messianic pose at the end of his speech made me physically ill.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:50, archived)
# he's not the messiah
he's a very naughty boy cunt
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:51, archived)
# Let off your steam . . . anytime . . . baby!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:54, archived)
# Hahahaha
Brilliant
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:47, archived)
# Oh, indeed, yes
leeched off getty...

(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 12:59, archived)
# heehee
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:24, archived)
# Tuesday.
Shut it Vince!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:31, archived)
# I hate the Tories as much as the next man
but even I'm not convinced that this is all their fault
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:02, archived)
# accidentally sold off the public sector?
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:08, archived)
# Rumpole of the Bailey?
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:13, archived)
# i bought a barbecue today, it's fucking great
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:28, archived)
# Yes it is.
Next!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:10, archived)
# yes!
lets get labour back in, they'll sort all this mess out...


...oh, fuck.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:40, archived)
# haha yep.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:16, archived)
# whilst i'd agree with the sentiment,
I'd say the situation is not really comparable with slavery.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:26, archived)
# true
some slaves were able to buy their freedom
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:35, archived)
# yeah, the jammy sods
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:45, archived)
# I'm quoting a reported statistic on the financial divide between rich and poor
which is greater now than in the days of slavery

I'm not saying we're slaves
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:42, archived)
# reported where?
Sorry, I think the comparison is fatuous. I'm in South Carolina at the moment and, having toured a rice plantation yesterday, I'd say the slaves were worse off than the poorest in the UK at present.

Anyway, I'm off for a mint julep.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 13:53, archived)
# I believe the statistic springs from here
hotterthanapileofcurry.wordpress.com/2010/04/22/londons-rich-poor-gap-widest-divide-since-the-days-of-slavery/
it's saying how rich the rich are, not how poor the poor are. I assume slavery is used as an example of rock bottom.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:00, archived)
# Slavery would give someone zero wealth, zero debt
I'd guess that now, there are people with little wealth, significant debt (albeit with greater freedoms than slaves).
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:28, archived)
# (in London)
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:32, archived)
# hahaha :(
*cries a little*
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:00, archived)
# We need to get rid of them and vote in a communist dictatorship
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:22, archived)
# *queues for state-issue bread*
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 20:07, archived)
# I love you
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:24, archived)
# Woo!
Nice one BBd'O Happy Toast!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:33, archived)
# At least the charts should be getting better soon.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 14:39, archived)
# TOAP on the front page YAY!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 17:27, archived)
# really? find the single magic source image online then :P
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 17:45, archived)
# 15 more years!
15 more years!
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 17:48, archived)
# I prefer AngryToast to EmoToast :D
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 18:03, archived)
# Fucking cunts
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 18:21, archived)
# don't know whether to laugh or cry
If you really think that the current coalition government is to blame for the current state of affairs regarding unemployment or the rich/poor divide, please gaz me with your reasoning as it seems to me that the inherent issues that have resulted in the current state of affairs (regarding employment and wealth distribution) are all hangovers from the previous government and cannot be rectified immediately with some magic wand by the coalition within one year during a global financial crisis (not least due to the massive overspending by the previous government which led the current administration to take power in a situation of already massive debt and impending financial meltdown).
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 18:50, archived)
# you should laugh
because this is b3ta

But no, I don't think they magicked up all these problems in the last few months at all. I think the majority of the problem (financial) they set in motion in the 80s with letting the banks get ahead of themselves and encouraging everyone to buy houses and things that they could never afford.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 19:16, archived)
#
B3ta is not a place I expect to see political propaganda that contains no actual joke but instead just unfounded accusations. I have nothing against your picture but was surprised it was FP'd.

I don't understand your reply. I didn't suggest that they magicked these problems up, more that they existed and that the inability to magic them away cannot be held against the tories.
Also I don't understand what you find wrong about encouraging house ownership Don't you think people should aspire to own property and assets? Do you want your children to own homes?
And what of the years of labour rule? Do you think that the tories fucked it all up before, then labour came in and did nothing wrong, and now the evil tories are ruining it all again? What about labour selling off our assets and gold, borrowing left right and center, increasing the civil service into a huge unsustainable bloated mass (in order to decrease unemployment by employing them directly by the state) and encouraging mass immigration at a huge rate which resulted in a figure of something like 97% of new jobs created in london being filled by immigrants since 2007?

I'm just saying, they took over the country in an awful state and blaming something like unemployment or the wealth divide on them is as hypocritical as it is pointless. They have done plenty to make fun of without pandering to cliches and lies.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 19:42, archived)
# well I thought the burning tree logo was quite funny
:D
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 19:54, archived)
# granted
and apologies if I snapped at you. Again my rant wasn't so much at your picture as it was at backing up the sentiment using rabble-rousing statements out of context. Don't wanna seem OTT but in my defense I did suggest gazzing me for debate rather than carrying on here.

Anyway obviously I know this is just b3ta and I don't take any of this seriously, but if some people are gonna yell "bunch of cunts" then it can't hurt to hear the other side.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 20:02, archived)
# One thing you should know about this site, and it even says on the Uncyclopedia page, is that most users
are rather left wing. This site attracts the urban middle class crowd.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 20:08, archived)
# I live in the hope that
the urban middle class crowd might one day be interested in actual politics rather than popular opinion and hearsay. I don't care which wing you are, what newspaper you read or what party you support, but I do care that people form opinions based on facts not fictions.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 20:17, archived)
# Here Here.
People have got to stop demonizing others just for their views.
(unless they're BNP/NF)
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 20:34, archived)
# Or the UAF
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 22:20, archived)
# In that case
I'd like a citation for "massive overspending by the previous government", please.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 22:00, archived)
# Among the many a google search pulled up
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 22:27, archived)
# not really a dependable source though is it?
now plesae fuck off tory boy
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 0:09, archived)
# Yeah,
I didn't think I'd have to ask for a non-partisan source, but there you go. I could easily post a "no they haven't spent it all" from the Guardian in reply, after all.
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 1:30, archived)
# The Guardian, you say?
How about this one?
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 18:08, archived)
# I'm interested in Hear'Say.
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 0:59, archived)
# I thought it was an asteroid
coming to wipe out all the dinosaurs again
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 20:44, archived)
# ^this
i'm used to seeing cutting political satire on b3ta, often from people like HT and BBD'O, but to see something this dry FP'd is a bit...hmmm
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 9:07, archived)
# The satire has usually been shit
BBD'O is rarely funny, Happytoast with very few exceptions is great though. But it's getting worse and worse. I've become really quite sad at the way b3ta has changed from a fun, fluffy way to spend some time to what we have now. The dinosaurs compo was a nice change though and reminded me of how much of a nice place it used to be.

B3ta has always done current affairs, but generally it's done them in a way that everybody has accepted is wrong, but funny. The political stuff isn't funny, it's just hatred.
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 11:04, archived)
# Well said.
Also, to adress the point about "letting the banks go mad", Banks are private businesses and should be treated with the same rules as any other. They should be Neither overegulated, as in socialism , nor bailed out, as in corporatism, when the consequences of their actions hit them.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 19:22, archived)
# Great
Until the company you work for can't pay your wages because its bank has just shut down.
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 21:26, archived)
# Is that the same previous government
who blamed everything on the previous government?
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 19:34, archived)
# to be fair it's mainly workshy northerners,
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 19:59, archived)
# Not soft Southern gits
or sponging Jocks then?
(, Wed 12 Oct 2011, 20:27, archived)
# Inevitable consequence of massive credit expansion under Zanu Liebore.
You're all lucky you're not starving while being ridden as livestock by the Chinese.
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 15:00, archived)
# and then there's us midlanders
We are all so fucking loaded here it's awesome. Officially 94% of midlanders have their own private penguin collections and a small country somewhere or other.i long to be a soft southern shandy drinker or cheeky scouse tea leaf.
Why can't people hate us too. ( weeps ( sort of )meaningfully).
( Braces for impact )
(, Thu 13 Oct 2011, 21:38, archived)
# clearly
you lot have NO idea on politics or this was done out sheer boredom because you couldnt think of anything else to do.
(, Fri 14 Oct 2011, 16:36, archived)
# Ha ha...
How'd I miss this?!

(, Tue 18 Oct 2011, 13:10, archived)