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politics for beginners question here, if I join a political party do I then get to vote when they have a leadership election?
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I'm not quite a frothing berserker but I am getting rather cross with our government messing with the good stuff.
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I STILL think Tesco should fucking well PAY THEIR STAFF. Workfare is wrong!!!!
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Politics Book Club anyone?
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'The poor deserve to die; the rich deserve unmediated power.' What do you think?
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I feel stupid for not realising that the change in tax credits would effect me
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Some undoubtedly uncanny similarities
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Rule Britannia! The Queen owns the seabed.
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The Queen's Speech - Newsnight would like to know what we think of it
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Tories' savage disability benefit reform in chaos as two in five appeals
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Anyone watching QT tonight?
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Do you want the NHS Bill dropped?
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Can someone fill me in on Cameron and his rescue package for Europe
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Cameron thinks patents with a disability, low income, ruin life for the rest of us?
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Labour wants tax cuts now ??
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frothers what do you think about mumsnet and waitrose and shell?
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Andrew Lansley says he's changed his mind on the NHS bill
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Do we no longer live in a democracy?
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Occupy Mumnset - Mumsnet, i know you are P(p)olitical. Seriously, can't you tell your advertisers to fuck off if they are workfaring?
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AIBU that the benefit cap is actually a cut on child benefit?
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Fancy zero or negative growth and an optimum population for the UK? Then the greens might be for you
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Cllr Mackenzie calls disabled people the "unwashed"
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I agree that giving people work experience for a while is great for job seekers, but who really thinks stacking shelves at midnight in Tesco is anything other than a piss take?
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Has anyone actually been affected by the cuts to housing benefit in the private rented sector?
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So all this stuff about releasing the risk register for the proposed NHS changes, can someone help me understand my MPs reply?
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So what are the Coalition policies which everyone hates?
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Jonathan Freedland article on progressives and eugenics in the past
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New workfare shock
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You know what I cant get out of my mind wrt coaltion policy on cuts?????......
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OMFG They want to make disabled and ill people do workfare indefinately.
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What would the economic implications of salary capping be?
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Local MP is coing to talk about nhs changes, what should I be asking or telling him?
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Speak Up Save A Life. Petition against domestic abuse.
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Boris Johnson trying to ban protest & free press in Trafalgar & Parliament Squares
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I hate the government
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It's time for Mumsnet to choose the next Labour leader
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In hoping the benefits cap may prove to be A Good Thing?
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RSA Animate: The Crisis of Capitalism
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Amazon.co.uk pay ZERO tax in the UK. Why are people more annoyed about the bloke down the road maybe getting a benefit that he shouldn't than that. I don't understand.
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Why didn't Labour build millions of social homes and end "right to buy" during their 13 years in power?
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Good riddance to bad rubbish: Bye-bye Mr Trouser Press!
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The "Down with this sort of thing" picket. There is a burger van and you can wear your donkey jacket and fingerless gloves
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I think this benefit family need to take a long hard look at themselves
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to think the benefits cap is a deliberate smoke screen to divert us from the bigger picture?
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Today's child access news
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yay im going to be cured
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This is amazing, explains Tory twattery in such a simple way ;)
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Should the Government be able to over-rule the House of Lords?
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Why didn't Labour build millions of social homes and end "right to buy" during their 13 years in power?
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I think the Coalition aren't doing a bad job
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