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DJP wrote:According to the caption on the first few frames of the video, it's Godfrey Bloom.
Oh him. He is no longer in UKIP but was kicked out by them in 2013 for making derogatory remarks about women. He isn't an MEP any longer either. He's not likely to be an antisemite.His wikipedia entry suggests he wouldn't really be a suitable person to debate with, though it sounds as if it might be an entertaining evening.
Just occurred to me. DJP has identified the person spouting currency crank ideas as a UKIP MEP. If we get his name we can challenge him to debate and publically expose the bollox he's talking.
I thought you said that they were on track to win ! Clearly, opinion polling in Iceland is at an earlier stage. I see that the actual winners were a party that seems to be the equivalent if the europhobic wing of the Tory party:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/oct/30/iceland-elections-ruling-centre-right-party-pirate-partyAnyway, a Pirate Party government might have introduced more "transparency" into government decision-making, but it would still be a government of capitalism — transparently.
Have to agree with DJP that the speaker, whoever he is, is talking a load of bollox, especially when he claims that banks can lend what they haven't got. To record and expose such nonsense is the reason for this thread.
As we know that those who run the bookfair (as opposed to anarchoid footsoldiers we might meet) will refuse us yet again if we ask (because we're a party that contests elections), if we've got any self-respect we won't ask but do what we've been doing for the past few years, i.e set up a stall outside.
Not quite. The free postal distribution is only for candidates but you still have to pay for the leaflets to be printed. That's what I meant the second £500 was for. Anybody can distribute leaflets at an election but if you don't have a candidate you have to pay for them to be distributed either by Royal Mail or otherwise commercially (unless you do this yourself).
It will be in this by-election because we have an active branch in the area. Anyway, the sum involved in contesting an election is not that much (£500 for the election deposit and another £500 or so for leaflets for the post office to distribute free to every household). That was not the major decision in the vote not to contest by-elections.The other parties have started already and the date has not even been announced (1 December has been mentioned as a possibility). I got a leaflet through my door this morning from the Lib Dems and passed a group of Green Party canvassers on my way to the shops. Also saw someone sporting a UKIP badge. Since Richmond Park is the constituency with both the highest turnout and the highest Remain vote in the referendum (meaning that 60% of the electorate voted to Remain), they could well end up being beaten by Mr Bobby here if he chooses to stand.
According to this report (in yesterday's Times) the Walloon regional government did achieve a concession which leftwing opponents of CETA (and TTIP) had been campaigning for:
Quote:One of Mr Magnette's concerns was a plan for a secretive supranational political body that would settle disputes between companies and EU governments. He secured a ruling by the EU judges that the Ceta investment court would be in line with European law, and an obligation that all proceedings would be in public.No doubt the states involved would not have objected..The proposed investment court would be one in which multinational companies could sue governments for compensation if a change in government policy resulted in them making less profits than anticipated. I wonder in fact if the UK government gave Nissan a similar pledge to get them to stay in Sunderland..
I'm afraid he's not. He accomplished his feat ten years earlier in what we know as the Little and Sad by-election but at least we didn't finish bottom.
Good work Alan ! The lead letter attacking us and Marx together, though I see you've met your match in making short contributions.I'll write something about the absurdity of the claim that Marx was not against commodity production, when his criticism of this is the essence of his economic writings and even of his philosophical stuff about alienation. For him, capitalism was the highest form of commodity production, where everything including human labour power becomes a commodity. So the abolition of capitalism is the abolition of commodity production and all that goes with it (markets, money, wages, etc). "Market socialism" is an oxymoron and so are those who advocate it.I'll leave to Robbo (hope you're reading this, Robbo) to deal with Sharpe's (and von Hayek and von Mises's) claim that you can't organise the production and distribution of wealth rationally without having recourse to markets.
This (scroll down to 2016 and ignoring the appeals to vote for the Democrats) mentions various referendums taking place this year in the US in which some socialists might not be inclined to write "Socialism" across the ballot paper and might even get some anarchists to abstain from abstaining:
Quote:Of the various ballot measures, the one I’m most fervently supporting this time around is California’s Proposition 64, which will legalize recreational marijuana. Similar propositions are on the ballot in four other states (Arizona, Maine, Massachusetts, and Nevada) and the polls are looking favorable in all of them.I always thought that the media were exaggerating (the pro-Brexit ones gleefully) when over the weekend they were sensationalising that this EU deal with Canada had fallen through because of the opposition of pig farmers in the French-speaking part of Belgium. That was never going to happen.
Because he pledged he would provoke a by-election if the government went ahead with Heathrow expansion. He made such a fuss about this during last year's election (he's my MP or, rather, the MP for the constituency I fall into) that if he didn't he'd be completely discredited. He needs to restore this after his disatrous campaign to become mayor of London during which he played the anti-Muslim card.
