What should I ask the Labour Party Conference?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-09-15 12:40pm

Ok, the BBC has just phoned me and invited me along to the Labour Party Conference on Sunday. Assuming I don't get fucked by work and end up having to go in at the same time (which is now a certainty if fate is the cock it always tends to be), what question/s should I ask?

I gather the thrust of many of the issues are: Does Gordon Brown suck? Should David Miliband take over, etc? While personally, I don't think Gordon's done that bad a job, he's mostly been dealing with the bad world situation that's a direct result of the USA's economy (plus peak oil, climate change, etc) and wars. Am I wrong in this assessment? I don't particularly agree with him on detaining terror suspects, but otherwise, with his speeches and such, he doesn't seem to say much I disagree with. That said, with the media telling everyone that he's shit and his lack of media darling status to counteract that as Blair tended to be able to do, I also suspect that the opportunism and buzzard-like infighting in the Labour party could be dealt with by a coup by Miliband and that may be better in the long run since it might be able to stop the tories getting in.

On the phone, the guy asked me what I was interested in, and the first thing that popped into my mind was my thread on here about faith schools and creationism. It's unlikely that faith schools will be on the agenda, though, so I may have to let that one pass.

Another thing the guy asked me was what party I'd vote for, and I said either Labour or Lib Dem since the future needs more investment and the tories want to avoid that, though they are more centrist than they used to be, I'll give them that. Nuclear power, well, I'm all for that and the guy seemed relatively surprised at that. I told him I'd like to have one in my back yard if possible. It is unfortunately nuke power that I disagree with the lib dems over, since their policies seem heavily anti-nuke.

If I do get this chance to say something, I want to make it worthwhile and not a throwaway useless question, or one that can easily be avoided. Any ideas?

Admiral Valdemar · Post by **Admiral Valdemar** » 2008-09-15 12:47pm

Ask them if they can stop sucking.

No, really. Do that. They're obviously trying to outdo the GOP in terms of ineptitude. The faith school thing I'd have mentioned, but methinks the economy would be a bigger issue. Oh, and how NO ONE thought being totally reliant on Europe for gas and having no long term storage capacity was a bad idea. Ask them if they can think more than seven days ahead without their heads exploding.

Actually, can you just tell them to fuck off and die?

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2008-09-15 01:20pm

Ask him why the DWP has had every competent worker made redundant in his money saving schemes and kept the untrained monkeys on.

Psychic_Sandwich · Post by **Psychic_Sandwich** » 2008-09-15 02:07pm

Ask them where the bajillions of pounds they fed into the NHS has disappeared to, and when they say 'bureaucracy', ask them why they thought bloating the management like that was a good idea.

white_rabbit · Post by **white_rabbit** » 2008-09-15 03:51pm

Actually, can you just tell them to fuck off and die?

This seems reasonable, since they aren't ever gonna answer your questions without copious arsecovering bullshit.

[Tags fixed. - K]

Stuart Mackey · Post by **Stuart Mackey** » 2008-09-17 10:06pm

Why are they ruining the RN faster than the Tories?..for the umpteenth time?

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-17 10:25pm

Why didn't they renationalize electric, gas, water, telecommunications, and rail transport after over a decade?

NoXion · Post by **NoXion** » 2008-09-18 08:11am

Big Orange wrote:Why didn't they renationalize electric, gas, water, telecommunications, and rail transport after over a decade?

Because that would be godless communism, and we can't be having that if we're to emulate the Americans.

And besides, how else are the politicians' rich friends going to get richer?

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2008-09-18 02:12pm

Ask Gordon what his plans are once he retires at the end of the year. Or how it feels to be forced to rely on the DUP to get their fascist 72 Hour Detention crap through.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-18 05:10pm

Also ask them why, considering the Forces are being used more and more, why they are cutting force levels, like in the RN.

Also, when they say the Nimrods are old, why they consider leasing Boeings that are nearly as old as a good idea.

Darth Nostril · Post by **Darth Nostril** » 2008-09-20 02:37pm

Ask them why, in the face of all the expert financial advice offered, Brown ignored it all and fucked the pension system to a fare-thee-well.

Then ask why the moronic dour unlikeable twat sold half of the UKs gold reserves when the price of gold was at it's lowest, then invested the $2 billion in Euros.
Oh sure the Euro investment increased in value to £3 billion, but the gold would be worth £5 billion plus.

Those numbers are six months out of date by the way, with the current economic fracas I have no doubt that gold is worth more, making this incomptent fucktard look even more foolish.

Brown couldn't economise his way out of a wet paper bag, Labour is going to lose the next election, whether they change leadership or not.
Public confidence in them has been shaken by a phenomenal series of blunders, arrogance and stupidity.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-20 03:14pm

Not to mention there's a sizeable amount of what were once 'guaranteed safe seats' that have been lost.

Saying that, I personally don't want that smug twat Alex Salmond around any longer than necessary.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-21 12:48pm

Also ask them why are they making Britain take it up the ass from the EU on practically everything?

And while immigration is not intrinistcally bad per se, why did they let so many Eastern Europeans and Asylum Seekers flood in without accomodating them properly in the last decade, let alone not thinking properly about the social and economic impact this had on 'native' Brits?

Raptor · Post by **Raptor** » 2008-09-21 01:19pm

Because 'native Brits' don't count (I include white, black, asia Brits in this) just the opinions of the pro-immigration lobby who don't live in any areas of massive immigration, or see its effects good and bad ones.

My idea for a question? Why the fuck are you not letting the Gurkha's stay? Hamza, Bakri, that Italian kid that stabbed that headteacher, the illegal immigrant that with no insurance, licence,over the limit and speeding killed a 3 year old can stay, on tax payers money Yet Gurkha's who have fought for this country, patriotic and who 95% of the population would want here aren't For christs sake they are truing away 2 VC winners. Even the BNP say they should be allowed to stay.

Jade Falcon · Post by **Jade Falcon** » 2008-09-21 01:43pm

Raptor wrote:My idea for a question? Why the fuck are you not letting the Gurkha's stay? Hamza, Bakri, that Italian kid that stabbed that headteacher, the illegal immigrant that with no insurance, licence,over the limit and speeding killed a 3 year old can stay, on tax payers money Yet Gurkha's who have fought for this country, patriotic and who 95% of the population would want here aren't For christs sake they are truing away 2 VC winners. Even the BNP say they should be allowed to stay.

Fuckin' A. If anyone deserves to stay, that lot do. It's disgusting that piece of scum Hamza was allowed to stay as long as he did, but the Gurkha's get a raw deal.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-22 09:29pm

Scumbags, hardened criminals, chavs, and pikeys are given a higher priority than real people in the UK anyway and perhaps the Gurkas would be better off leaving the UK (alongside the approximately 26, 000 citizens voting with their feet every year and the EE migrant workers in the coming months, after the ecomomy bottomed out). I'm contemplating on leaving Britain within my lifetime, it seems to be a sinking ship.

Has Rye gone to the Labour conference yet?

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2008-09-23 05:28am

I was supposed to go on Sunday, but we are understaffed at work.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 2008-09-23 01:02pm

Sorry to hear that Zuul, but the way things are going now I guess the people who attended asked our questions for us.

I have no genuinely bad experience with the NHS recently: the staff were kind and attentive, the treatment first rate, and the facilities were very clean and well maintained, with the only real snags being that the parking was very poor and you had to fucking pay to use electronic amenities.

The main trouble with this country is that loutishness, laziness, selfishness and ignorance seems to be too ingrained in a siginificant section of the population, no matter what their social standing is, and it is not necessarily the fault of the politicians and big business (even if they have not really helped). But I still think renationalizing transportation, reversing the pussification of criminal courts, and curbing greedy utility corporations from taxing everybody to the hilt (including vulnurable pensioners) would be good steps in the right direction.