If you could get rid of one organisation in the country what would you choose?

I'd say it does, although I think there is in this country a group of people who, even if it did not exist, would quite happily find another reason to not like someone of a different skin colour/origin.

Besides, if they were intelligent enough they'd know that hating someone for that reason is a pretty pointless affair as it won't rectify the situation. But then racism alwys exists where intelligence and common sense are lacking.

 

RE: ooh

There are things that Govt has no right to control and there are things that should not be left purely to profit based decisions. Unfortunately in this country we can't have a balanced approach - it's got to be one or the other.

 

RE: Ofgem

I bet a fair few on pre-paid meters manage to pay their Sky bills monthly.

 

Nah, people are stirred up by the powers that be so they

have someone to blame for the countries ills. This takes the attention away from big business who can then put their fat noses in the trough and bleed the rest of us dry.

 

They watch telly?

The ******* cnuts. Lets charge them even more for their gas and electricity.

 

i'm not exactly sure what big business bleeding us dry has got to do with political correctness and

'positive' discrimination to be honest

 

Gone off at a tangent this thread, hasn't it?

But you mentioned the racism in your first post. So I blame you!

 

Not only do they watch telly

but they have trampolines as well

 

RE: They watch telly?

That's not what I said! For the majority the solution would be in their own hands.

However I do agree that more should be done to help, but the difficulty is that deregulation has driven costs significantly down for the majority. Unfortunately getting rid of Offgem would make it worse.

 

Universities

a complete drain on the tax payer.

 

RE: Nah, people are stirred up by the powers that be so they

The government do stir the situation up and use it for their own benefit, but even without it some people would still hold views classed as being racist. Having said that i think that the overall economic inequality and a system which encourages the gap between rich and poor to widen, does more damage than a law which attempts to 'rectify' the situation. Indeed blaming that is a bit of cart before horse.

 

RE: They watch telly?

i've seen immigrants with mobile phones too.

Scandalous.

 

I'm not suggesting anyone should have hand outs

I'm saying that everyone should pay a fair price for their energy. That includes those on pre-paid meters. There is no reason for them paying more and if Ofgem had anything about it they would put a stop to such practices immediately. I don't know why you think the solution would be in the own hands of some of the poorest in our society. Many people this winter will have to decide between heating their homes and having something to eat.

 

RE: Yes, really.

In that case, I know racism exists, I just don't think it's that big a deal.

So that makes it OK.

 

RE: Universities

I know exactly what you mean, if we weren't funding all those pointless studies into illnesses and such like we could all get a free subscription to the Daily Express instead, sit in a corner and **** over pictures of Princess Di until the end of days.

 

RE: Yes, really.

Then it's agreed, let's all blame the darkies for holding us back in our careers.

 

RE: I'm not suggesting anyone should have hand outs

I agree for some of the poorest it will be difficult. But there will also be a high percentage who have a pre-paid meter but manage to sort themeselves out to pay Sky with direct debits.

As ever the difficulty lies with identifying the truly needy.

 

RE: It's just with you saying.....

You brought it up.

 

True

But no one can expect to have a diverse and multi cultural society and expect there not to be diverse opinions or attitudes.

Diversity and freedom works both ways.

 

RE: I'm not suggesting anyone should have hand outs

The problem we've got goes back decades - Govt allowed the nationalised utilities to become slow and unresponsive to the nation's needs. Like the NHS has become, they were just a vehicle for employment of managers and staff that would struggle to get jobs elsewhere. They should have been run by managers from the private sector, on performance related contracts, and then the profits generated could have gone straight to the Treasury,a nd there would have been some control over prices for consumers.</p>

Now we are dependant on foreign owners to self regulate. In reality Brown can't do f-ck all - a windfall tax would be just eventually passed back to consumers. There's no way out of this other than renationalisation. But there isn't the will to do it.
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