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    Oooh, banning socialnetworking? People will just bypass it
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    For what its worth, banning social media would probably help the rioters out a little bit. I mean, I really don't understand why you would organize something illegal over facebook, doesn't it just make it so much easier for the police to catch you? Especially since every post you make has your first and last name next to it.
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    Well, it would compromise their core appeal, as we can see with many Lib-Dem MPs concerns over the Tories tough, illiberal response to the riots. Embracing state controlled blackout on communications policies would completely alienate them from their core voters and it would be electoral suicide. This doesn't mean it might not happen - Clegg is going along with Cameron's comments on this matter - but it would destroy them.

    Not that the destruction of the Liberal Democrats is very high on my list of things I give a fuck about.
    The trouble with expecting anything at all from the Lib Dems now is that they are utterly ruined. They know that the next election could well be the death toll of the party and around 90% of their current MPs will be losing their seats. On the other hand while they wait for that, they at least get the fun of being in Government. So they want to maximise the time they are in Government and keep the date of their wipe out as far away as they can. That means they will go along with just about anything now.
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    Well, it would compromise their core appeal, as we can see with many Lib-Dem MPs concerns over the Tories tough, illiberal response to the riots. Embracing state controlled blackout on communications policies would completely alienate them from their core voters and it would be electoral suicide. This doesn't mean it might not happen - Clegg is going along with Cameron's comments on this matter - but it would destroy them.

    Not that the destruction of the Liberal Democrats is very high on my list of things I give a fuck about.
    I dont disagree with you, but they've already pretty much committed collective suicide as a party already ...
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    The Tories are Bastards. You'd be better off with Labour
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    Maybe the UK's teens will put down their Blackberries and read some Marx, probably a bit too much to hope for
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    i think the riots are probably mostly finished now- i london at least. well, i haven't seen anything on the news about it- but maybe that's because finally the BBC and sky has cottoned on that by televising it they are actually increasing them.
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    on parliamentary procedure etc blah- based on public school debating- the house of commons is one big public school

    labour have nothing to say they would have made the exact same cuts just over 4 years

    if the coalition carry on down this road pressure will build up again
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    Maybe the UK's teens will put down their Blackberries and read some Marx, probably a bit too much to hope for
    just so you know a moblie phone is v important if you are homeless or in state care
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    The Tories are Bastards. You'd be better off with Labour
    It wouldn't make any difference. I don't mean that in hand waving sense of some here that claim that current politics means nothing at all and ignore all differences, but rather that Labour have an appalling track record here. Tony Blair was even quicker to resort to authoritarian responses to this kind of thing than Cameron is.
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    just so you know a moblie phone is v important if you are homeless or in state care
    I have a feeling a lot of people shitting on the rioters have never been unemployed or broke.
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    Maybe the UK's teens will put down their Blackberries and read some Marx, probably a bit too much to hope for
    A lot of good that'll do.
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    The main reason I hate those fucking things along with Facebook and other social networking sites is that it basically teaches people to use poor grammar and to spell like idiots, reading most Facebook posts by my friends is fucking sickening

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