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 Post subject: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 9:21 pm 
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As some of the people here may have noticed, the Daily Telegraph seems to be the Mos Eisley of the internet in terms of comments. So i thought it might be a good idea to collect the ramblings of the idiots on the Torygraph site and post them.

Almost like a COTD for the Telegraph.

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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Mon May 16, 2011 9:46 pm 
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I have never been brave enough to dive into the Telegraph comments after seeing them quoted so I look forward to someone else donning the Marigolds.

Everytime I get banned for suggesting a columnist lives in Florida or that a significant stake in a TV news outlet might be an undeclared source of bias against the BBC I like to remember that for every one of us that is banned there must be dozens of Mailites expressing Telegraph-friendly comments barred.

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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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As some of the people here may have noticed, the Daily Telegraph seems to be the Mos Eisley of the internet in terms of comments. So i thought it might be a good idea to collect the ramblings of the idiots on the Torygraph site and post them.

Almost like a COTD for the Telegraph.


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:03 am 
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Mr Mordon wrote:
thegreatgatsby wrote:
As some of the people here may have noticed, the Daily Telegraph seems to be the Mos Eisley of the internet in terms of comments. So i thought it might be a good idea to collect the ramblings of the idiots on the Torygraph site and post them.

Almost like a COTD for the Telegraph.


'You'd better watch yourself, i've got a posting ban in twelve newspapers!'

'I'll be careful'

'YOU'LL BE DEAD!!'


Seems like we might be sporting these bans as a badge of honour - like feral yooves with their ASBOs. Guilty as charged :)

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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2011 11:27 am 
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SoulBoy wrote:
I have never been brave enough to dive into the Telegraph comments after seeing them quoted so I look forward to someone else donning the Marigolds.


My thoughts entirely.

The thought that the Telegraph writer might well have a very good job- unlike Mail Man who's got some David Brent position- makes it particularly unbearable.

No offence to the Brentmeister intended there.


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
PostPosted: Sat May 21, 2011 4:26 pm 
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Kreuzberger wrote:
Mr Mordon wrote:
thegreatgatsby wrote:
As some of the people here may have noticed, the Daily Telegraph seems to be the Mos Eisley of the internet in terms of comments. So i thought it might be a good idea to collect the ramblings of the idiots on the Torygraph site and post them.

Almost like a COTD for the Telegraph.


'You'd better watch yourself, i've got a posting ban in twelve newspapers!'

'I'll be careful'

'YOU'LL BE DEAD!!'


Seems like we might be sporting these bans as a badge of honour - like feral yooves with their ASBOs. Guilty as charged :)


Ditto!


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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On a story which reveals that the Tory government plans to introduce ID cards, but using information collected by your bank (you will log in to use government websites using your credit card details). No, honestly...

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there next move is to microchip ? all human beings ? in the world, click prison planet for more info? these are FACTS? NOT FICTION?


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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On the 50p tax rate:

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I think that the 50 p rates should be abolished, and income taxes cut regressively, so that the more you earn, the less you pay. Thus those at the bottom would pay the highest taxes. They are, by definition of being lowly paid, or, even worse, on benefits, the most unproductive and least efficient members of society. They need to be made much poorer in order to do they and their families better. Conversely, the rich are, by definition, more talented and therefore more productive to society. They need to be incentivised to create more wealth, and should be rewarded at all times. That is the only just course for our divided society to heal itself.........


Anywhere else, I'd think this was a piss-take but in the Telegraph it's about par for the course...


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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Twenty high-profile economists have urged the government to drop the top 50p tax rate, which they say is doing "lasting damage" to the UK economy.

They'll be 50% taxpayers then.

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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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That was my first thought - "Ooh they'll be impartial, it's not like they have an enormous vested interest in maintaining their place at the top of the pile or anything."


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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20 economists isn't really that many.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2006/ma ... features11

Lot of smug shit about how the economists were all wrong. But bringing inflation down by fucking over the working class doesn't sound so clever to me. And apparently their prediction of social conflict was out of place. So no miners' strike then.

Here are north sea oil revenues:

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications ... 22160331/8

1984-5 £12.3bn
1985-6 £11.2bn

Poor old John Major never got more than £3.35bn.

Wonder if those figures had anything to do with Thatcherism's "success", eh?


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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As we said at the time, but the press never focused on.


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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As Harold Wilson put it, "Whoever is Prime Minister when North Sea oil starts flowing will be in power forever."


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 Post subject: Re: Daily Telegraph Comment Watch
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There's more:

How to solve high property prices - cut unemployment benefits of course!

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One element contributing to higher prices in London is due to paying the unemployed. In poor areas of London such as Tottenham, the market is landlords renting to the council for the unemployed. Bizarrely, taxpayers are heavily contributing to the unemployed who in turn are contributing to sustaining higher property prices!

House prices in Tottenham were barely affected by the riots simply because 400 quid per week rents a lot of property. We need to drop the amount paid to the unemployed as this is a huge number contributing to price inflation in London.

In addition, this would break the stranglehold which the unemployed have on poorer areas. Why should the unemployed price out first time buyers?

So let's do it.


On gay people being allowed to donate blood...

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At the risk of this whole conversation becoming a
politically minded football I thought I'd throw my hat in the ring as well.

It staggers me that people can believe that this is a PC vs Non-PC argument, or
liberals vs The Right wing etc etc...

I believe that this is a straightforward example of the "rights of a
minority" vs the rights of the majority. I am certainly Left Wing in my
politics but find it hideous to allow anything into the Health Service that
could potentially have a negative effect on the health of anyone let alone
possibly kill them.

This is simply society bowing the bullying tactics of the Homosexual noise makers.
They need a regular input of so-called "human rights" issues
and use the services of symbiotic "human rights lawyers" who
themselves milk the coffers of society for their own benefit. It beggars belief
that these lawyers even exist, after all I find it incredulous that they could
earn a living doing anything else - in real terms its easy money. And so the
likes of the "Gay Movement" force their place into society on the
backs of parasitic lawyers, who don't care what the outcome is, so long as they
get paid. Well I'm sure that - when, not if - this goes wrong, which it will,
they will only regret infecting or killing an innocent victim (and they would
be victims), if it one of the lawyers' family or close friends....

Let's wait for the next drum beat or band-waggon excuse for the PC brigade to
hijack common sense with their rhetoric of injustice... it's only a matter of
time....


Bloody homosexual noise makers, cause of all life's ills...

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It used to be that you'd feel safe not going anywhere near certain pubs in Manchester and the West End in London. Now you will never feel safe going to A&E.

Is it PC to swap ones Donor Card for a card that says 'normal blood only'?

Well, they modded my last post off so it must have been offensive to say that to appease Peter Tatchell and his mob, the whole nation is to be put at risk. That's the cancer of Equality and Diversity for you.....


No Standox, it isn't, you homophobic twat. I dread to think what his previous post said.


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