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None of those are particularly important issues. Pretty poor if that's all you came up with for a 70-odd page document. Besides, their cider tax can **** off. Here in the South West we drink proper cider, not that White Lightning crap. Why should I pay yet another 10p a pint on an already...

Health is something you don't mess around with, so yes I believe in the NHS - although I would prefer a system of public funding for private treatment, rather than the centrally controlled system we have now. Minimum wage is a double edged sword. The more it costs to employ someone, the less...

The NHS is better in some ways, and worse in others. In no way does the current state of it justify the colossal amount of additional money that's been spent under Labour. Education under Labour is a joke. Basic academic standards have plummeted, teachers have little to no power to control or...

Not really. Devon has around the same population as Birmingham.

Yeah, must be even worse for you, up in ye olde Labour stronghold... It winds me up too so I don't tend to discuss politics with most people. The way people of our age group think today, you'd be forgiven for thinking we lived in some sort of eco-communist utopia. If it isn't all about the...

I'm not hating on anyone, I'm simply stating a fact which is corroborated by evidence that is all around us. This country is, in almost every measurable way, a far worse place to live then it was 13 years ago. This isn't some abstract philosophical debate where there is no right or wrong...

There's a reason why people over 30 are a lot more likely to vote Conservative. It ain't because people get stupider as they get older. I defy anyone to actually read the Conservative manifesto and then criticise it in any serious way with a straight face. Even if the "fairness" argument were...

How exactly are the UKIP 'extremists'?

And the UKIP are scary why?

Unfortunately, civil liberties without economic liberties are nothing more than privileges bestowed upon us by our masters. It's a mere illusion of freedom. Social freedom creates choice, but it's economic freedom that creates true liberty and self-determination. In a very high tax economy...

I very much disagree with them on that issue. Surely it would hurt Labour the most though. I could go for that. As long as the new election was held. If nothing else, the size of the state as it is now would have been considered pure fantasy in the not too distant past. 52% of GDP...

I'd be happy to see a Lib-Con coalition on that basis. Electoral reform alone isn't enough to warrant five years of a party that has pledged not to cut government spending at a time when the size of the state really needs to be slashed in half, and which wants to take the piss even more, as if...

I can also accept that they are idiots! Conversation with normally intelligent housemate: "So who are you voting for then?" "The conservatives." "The Tories? They're not really for the working man now, are they?" And that's how smart people make up their mind. God forbid the...

If by "balancing the economy" you mean "inheriting a healthy balance sheet and leaving the country on the brink of financial ruin" and by "social responsibility" you mean "creating a society which rewards the useless, punishes the ambitious and successful, and discourages social mobility" then...

Cool. I've been here two years now and I'm starting to get a little bored of Exeter, but a lot of that can be attributed to the fact that I get bored easily. I loved having all these new places to explore when I first moved down here. I doubt I'll be here for more than a few years, but it...

Yeah there's a hell of a lot worse places in the world. Whereabouts do you live? I love visiting there in the summer, but I don't think I could live there. The weather was atrocious enough in June. 9 degrees at midday in Inverness! I think summer was on a Wednesday that year...

Yeah, the motorcycle police over here are some of the best riders in the world. Fortunately in a lot of cases, they're more friend than foe. Most forces run a scheme called Bikesafe where you do a day's observed riding with the police. When I did mine, I spent a good 20 minutes chasing the...

Yeah, all good. It's been bloody ages, where have you been? Aye it's the good half of the year again so making the most of it. :) Went to Wales a couple of weeks ago. The UK rocks for biking (the hilly and mountainous western half of it anyway). The whole of Wales is basically like a...

It's missing a couple of wheels but it seems to work OK.

Yeah, expenses too. The thing is, I think MPs are actually quite underpaid for the responsibilities that they have - and I have no problem with them being paid according to what they are worth. £65k isn't actually a lot of money in the grand scheme of things. However, it's become about the...