@ Sarah 1. “And as I previously stated (page 12)which you conveniently ignored..“I

Comment on General Election 2010 Poll Results by Helen.

@ Sarah

1. “And as I previously stated (page 12)which you conveniently ignored..“I read the Telegraph, the Times, the Guardian and the Independent. I felt that the Daily Express was more your cup of tea as you previously said “no thanks” to an article from the Telegraph.”

I didn’t read and still haven’t read that post as I only look at the most recent pages; not conveniently ignoring it. The Telegraph and The Express are much of a muchness – useful in emergencies when the toilet roll runs out. What you need to remember when quoting figures from newspapers, is that journalists are sometimes a) not very good, b) good journalists but not good with numbers, c) giving their story a slant the readers want to read about etc etc etc.

2. “You jumped on this line in a literal interpretation with a “you’re barking up the wrong tree” along with previous jibes of the “people like you”.

I don’t think I’ve used the expression ‘people like you’ at any point within the context of a jibe – taking things too personally again.

3. “You’re obviously irritated with the whole capitalism and people taking a certain amount of responsibility for themselves point of view.”

Capitalism doesn’t irritate me (I am a beneficiary), but raw capitalism without adequate social conscience is a doomed ideology as, by definition, for capitalists to capitalise, there will be people at the bottom of the pile. Resentment towards the concept of taxpaying and living in a society with equal opportunity at least in health and education, is a stinking ideology. If people are hard working on low incomes, should the option of social affordable housing not be encouraged? You disparage it in your comment “I have accumulated much through sacrifice and hard slog not tax credits or council houses.” Good for you, but could you be any more stuck up?

4. “You remember the “how can you reconcile your statements”? Who else other than someone who is obviously rankled?”

I do indeed remember that comment. I also remember you have still failed to explain the contradiction you presented; you felt you weren’t given enough support to work in the late 90s, and now people have working tax credits available to them to supplement their incomes, you resent it.

5. “Lincoln actually stated “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” – the right to the benefits of capitalism and the right to earn them.”

Are you saying you have been denied the right to benefit from capitalism? Forgive me, I thought you must have benefitted from it as you have mentioned copiously that you have ‘accumulated much through hard work’ etc etc.

6. “Labour is prior to, and independent of, capital” – without Labour there is no capital so if everyone does nothing then everyone gets nothing.”

But everybody doesn’t to nothing. Couples with kids, hard working, low income, tax paying, council house. These, together with many other denominations, are the people you have zero ability to relate to.

7. “I don’t support throwing good money after bad (particularly when it’s not affordable) and I even went as far as putting my own idea of what the health service should encompass. Your response was pretty much that you took issue with most of what I proposed whilst acknowledging awareness of the merits of the French and Canadian systems.”

My response was pretty much that we should continue to support and improve the NHS and I illustrated that point in detail indicating areas of my own experience. Because of that, of course I take issue with what you say, as I think it’s out of touch, damaging and ill informed.

8. “That section wasn’t even aimed at you, so can I suggest you get over yourself.” What a laugh – you replied to my post!”

The section about the EU, which is clearly what I was referring to wasn’t aimed at you it was aimed at others posting on the blog. This is evident in my remark to open the paragraph: “As for the anti Euro sentiment echoing around this blog…” If by ‘this blog’, you think I meant you, then surely you do need to get over yourself a bit.

9. “A child dies every 30 seconds from malaria. This could be prevented by a basic mosquito net. How angry are you about that?” – sorry, so who is the “you” here?”

As already explained above, the ‘you’ here isn’t you Sarah. It was in direct response to the recent posts at the time regarding the EU by several bloggers none of which were you.

10. “People are upset about the EU because they don’t have a choice in it and the EU can impose laws not compatible with British Law against the will of the elected Government and the will of the people.”

It doesn’t upset me as much as many other things, as I have said multiple times now. People are talking about the EU ruining people’s lives, and someone gave the example of the man who went to court about selling bananas in imperial measures. Now whilst I think that’s silly that it happened, big waste of money etc, I don’t think it has ruined his life, in the sense that much more serious issues exist in the world where lives are not only ruined, but lost needlessly. On my list of things to be upset about, the EU doesn’t even feature. I’m entitled to that opinion, it doesn’t make me a bad person.

To avoid confusion….

@ the blog generally

I think the election will be a very close affair; the UK has apparently undergone economic recovery only surpassed by Canada as revealed by the BBC today – David Cameron will be gutted. My money’s on a hung parliament with (unfortunately) Cam the Sham as PM.

@ David
Got some stuff coming up end of May/June so this is probably my last post. Thanks for the site and good luck, hope you get plenty of debate in the run up to the election.