Things to do with the poor

[Bakunin]

I owned an SMLE no. 4 Mk 1 that I used for target shooting, and can see where your grandad was coming from. Good stopping power, reasonably large capacity (10 rounds) mag, easy to reload "on the fly", short bolt travel when re-cocking


He's lucky to have been in a service that allowed "non-standard" sidearms. The poor bloody infantry were stuck with Webley .38s loaded with sub-sonic ammo.

He didn't rate the Webley revolvers at all. Not enough stopping power for his liking and, if your target is close enough for a pistol you need to drop him with the first or second shot ideally.

 

[Jennifer Droid]

Every inbred hillbilly mammy-jammer can have a Katyusha. They're 1930s technology.

What Iran has (courtesy of China mostly) is some very advanced mobile-launcher guided ground-to-air missiles, which are to a Katyusha what a Lee Enfield No.4 Mk 1 rifle is to a Brown Bess musket.

No they are not. It isn't 1930's technology they have been using, but 1960's, and using newly developed rockets. The name Katyusha has been generic for newer Soviet-built rocket launcher systems. Not just the Stalin Organs of the Great Patriotic War.

 

[Dillinger4]

Jennifer Droid - Are you related to the poster Andrew Droid?

 

[Sweaty Betty]

Pack them all in to their nearest Mc Donalds then nuke at will !!!!

Two problems solved in one go

 

[Jennifer Droid]

Jennifer Droid - Are you related to the poster Andrew Droid?

Nope.

 

[The Black Hand]

Look at this shite;

http://www.cesi.org.uk/events/past_events/the_welfare_to_work_2008_2.htm

Bastards.

 

[Steve Booth]

A really good vote loser for Labour

Back in the 1990s around 1995 or 1996 when the 'Job-Seekers Allowance' was being brought in there were various attempts to organise claimants unions against it. Some folks picketed job centres. I don't think these campaigns were well supported by unemployed people. Which is a pity, because the state got away with it and so will come back to tighten the noose a little further.

It seems to me that perhaps a slightly easier approach might be to encourage the unemployed people to vote tactically to Always unseat the sitting candidate during elections. This could particularly be directed against the Labour Conservatives or the Tory Conservatives who have thin majorities.

They could produce lots of leaflets in a diversity of styles and themes, picking up on the workfare rubbish the Labour Tories are producing just now, and send them to the marginal constituency MPs as a sort of indicator.

It is an upsetting and scarey thought but people get exactly what they are prepared to tolerate / vote for.

 

[trevhagl]

Back in the 1990s around 1995 or 1996 when the 'Job-Seekers Allowance' was being brought in there were various attempts to organise claimants unions against it. Some folks picketed job centres. I don't think these campaigns were well supported by unemployed people. Which is a pity, because the state got away with it and so will come back to tighten the noose a little further.

It seems to me that perhaps a slightly easier approach might be to encourage the unemployed people to vote tactically to Always unseat the sitting candidate during elections. This could particularly be directed against the Labour Conservatives or the Tory Conservatives who have thin majorities.

They could produce lots of leaflets in a diversity of styles and themes, picking up on the workfare rubbish the Labour Tories are producing just now, and send them to the marginal constituency MPs as a sort of indicator.

It is an upsetting and scarey thought but people get exactly what they are prepared to tolerate / vote for.

Good plan. There are 5 million unemployed (whatever the lying statistics tell you) so if all those voted Lib Dem there'd be a real chance of causing some upsets.