What anyone in the Accounts Dept. would do

Obnoxio:
The British deification of this shambolic, expensive clusterfuck is nothing more or less than a malevolent manifestation of “Not Invented Here” Syndrome – any alternative cannot be as good because it’s not British.
I’m not sure that knee-jerk Jingoism is sufficient to account for the phenomena observed.
The trouble with the NHS is that it is [...]

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NHS=BBC

Despite my respect for Ian Parker-Joseph I’m damned if I can work out why I need to join Facebook or equip myself to use Twitter (with neither of which I have bothered in the past) merely to express the view that the NHS, far from being what the oppressing class in all of its chromatic [...]

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Mutation

Mummylonglegs:
Laying the blame for this kind of stuff on ‘The Welfare State’ is to basically state that the person that carried out these crimes is not really to blame. If you truely believe that ‘The Welfare State’ is to blame for the death, torture, rape, abuse and maltreatment of thousands of children every year then [...]

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Old meme

I cannot help but notice that this is the second time that the Ambush Predator has referred to a story in the Daily Mail about professional beggars.
This is not a new phenomenon; I would call to the Predator’s attention The Man with the Twisted Lip, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Discrepancy

One cannot help but to contrast and compare accounts of the performance of the UK ‘border agency’ given by the Salted Slug and the Devil’s Kitchen.
The obvious conclusion emerging from this is not altogether an encouraging one.

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Offensively provocative

The Blind Cyclists’ Union on London:
London is overcrowded, over priced, over hyped, full of stroppy wankers and it smells of wee.
I’d agree with all of that. And I was born there, damn it.
Which brings me to the genuinely contentious subject of optimum population metrics, which caused a bit if a stir when it was discussed [...]

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Drivers’ strike

An uncompromising and without doubt drastically effective direct action plan, from leg-iron.
If everyone were to give up driving, and to walk or cycle instead, it is quite possible that the government’s targets on reducing obesity might actually be met.
What’s it going to be then, eh? They can’t have it both ways.

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Send ‘em on the wishful-thinking course!

Outrage at what appears to be unanimity between Red and Blue corners in respect of the creation of some kind of Komsomol (or perhaps Hitlerjugend).
The Devil points out the similarity between the usual suspects’ promises, while Their Contempt For You Is Total and the Cynical Optimist are united in condemnation, though perhaps somewhat different in [...]

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Scummy Underclass

At last, someone with a grasp of history.
mummylonglegs:
For all of history there has been a scummy underclass. So it will ever be. Taking away the benefits system will not change this. To blame benefits for the demise of society is idiotic at best and down right dangerous at worst. Money doesn’t make good parents, and [...]

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“How much for the little girl?”

[The Blues Brothers]
Anna Raccoon:
When exactly did we stop thinking of children as being the natural outcome of sex, and turn them into commodities to be traded on the open market?
Part 1: ‘natural outcome’. I believe that this view changed with the invention, in the early twentieth century, of reliable methods of contraception (antecedent methods having [...]

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