Well at least you bothered to take time to answer. Thank you for that, and I'd agree with a lot of your points. Especially about not being mates. I made no comment about the general level of intelligence in this city. I said the place is full of thickos who will always vote labour. Sorry if that upset you. It was a figure of speech. To be less abrasive, Manchester ,and many other northern cities, has large numbers of people who unthinkingly vote labour because they always have done, because they mistakenly still believe that the Labour party is "their" party. Personally, I fail to understand how after 9 years of labour government we still have child poverty, or why pensioners are relatively poorer than they were because pensions are not linked to average pay, or why unions are still emasculated, or why house prices are now so high that ordinary working people struggle to pay for a roof over their head. Whatever happened to "from each according to his means, to each according to his needs"? As for the minimum wage - do me a favour. Why isn't it £10 an hour, to ensure people get a decent wage? It's a disgrace. My daughter - who works in a big store - gets given minimum wage. It guarantees she never has twopence to her name. It guarantees she and he boyfriend can't afford a house. It guarantees cheap labour in a pathetic economy based on service industry flogging cheap crap to the masses. And yeah, I know there's hardly any manufacturing left. That was the point. And that's why our economy is a house of cards which will eventually tumble. If we don't produce to export, eventually we run out of money. Labour should have protected its manufacturing - wealth-producing - base. It hasnt. As for Iraq, it isn't paranoia. Bush would not have dared go to war on his own. He could only do it because he had Britain on side to legitimize it. Of course Saddam was a monster. But that wasn't the reason for deposing him. If that were the case, we'd be going round Africa rooting out tinpot psychopathy dictators right left and centre. But there's no profit in that for USA. Iraq was picked on for purely strategic reasons - US domination in the Middle East and secure oil supplies. If you don't believe me, look at the PNAC documents. Theyre there in black and white and theyre chilling reading. USA certainly IS imperialist. The PNAC - project for new american century - is the blueprint drawn up by the current US administration before it was elected, spelling out in black and white its strategy to ensure that USA dominates the world economically and militarily and politically in the 21st century. If that isn't imperialism, then I don't know what is. And UK, thanks to Tony Blair is its number one supporter. If you really do see through Labour as it currently is, you should be voting to get it out of office so it can rediscover what it's supposed to be.

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