You're the last person on this board who I would have thought would fall for the total falseness of the Tories, Vastman. They are, and always have been, interested in two things : GREED and MORE GREED!!!

The irony here is exquisite.

and shagging pigs heads!

Except the fact that the UK has the lowest growth rate of all the G7 countries, all thanks to the Tories policies. All whilst racking up a record amount of national debt over the last 7 years.

The two things to avoid discussing amongst friends are politics and religion, it never ends well.
Also, never let it be known that you support the Conservatives in the Wakefield area as same again it never ends well and you will be shouted down by the liberal lefty brigade.

Best we all stick to our common ground of rugby league.

I wakefield no1, the unions brought it about with their greed ,youl see when mcluskys decisions will run the country and six months is about right in my opinion

A total embarrassment for the poor old pig!!!

Unions greed! They fought for terms and conditions that we all benefit from today. For greed, you need to examine the Tories, selling off our assets to their city mates for a knock down price, sending profits abroad to avoid tax, bringing in and abusing cheap foreign labour to maximise their profits then complaining about immigrants, slashing funding for state schools yet giving tax breaks to private schools, closing hospitals. All in the name of siphoning as much cash as they can from workers pockets into their Panamanian bank accounts. May's hubby stands to make a fortune from equity release insurance if the Tories are elected again and implement their dementia tax, designed to stop plebs passing on their hard earned wealth to their kids. When it comes to strong and stable long term economic plans this shower are a bunch of snake oil salespeople, they refuse to talk policy and just indulge in Public School style bullying of anyone who stands against them, they're a bunch of autocratic elitist pseudointellectual lightweights.

Don't Vote Tory

Wasn't Thatchers plan to sell off the shares in the nationalised industries supposed to give people like thee and me a stake in these grand new private concerns. Just how many of the likes of us still own these shares? They were all quickly bought up by big foreign and British businesses, just like Thatcher knew they would be. THEY DON'T CHANGE!!
I agree with everything you say wakeyrule. Keep it up lad.

Mmmm. I don't consider myself an expert by any means and my simplistic logic cannot understand why, after years of austerity the national debt has doubled since the tories came into power. I look forward to another 5 years of balancing the books!

I remember the Scottish couple who gave the Scottish nationalists 5.5 million of their 161 million pound euro lottery win. I thought at the time it was such a waste of money, 161 million wouldv build a Stadium and let us spend up to the cap for years to come and still give the person most of his winnings

AT LAST somebody has mentioned the word "stadium" again. With a bit a bit of luck in another 3 pages we will get a post with both "Wakefield" and "Stadium" in it.

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Good post, lets stick to the Trinity Stadium issues and leave the Election to the news and the pub.

This is hillarious coming from you

Do 2500 votes make that much of a difference in Wakefield?

4000 - and yes, Wakefield is a marginal

They do if they walk out before it's over.

It never ceases to amaze me the stick the trade union movement gets. No one claims that it is a perfect beast, but it's opponents are all too quick to point to its mistakes without mentioning the, quite simply, incredible achievements.

36 Reasons Why You Should Thank a Union
Weekends
All Breaks at Work, including your Lunch Breaks
Paid Vacation
FMLA
Sick Leave
Social Security
Minimum Wage
Civil Rights Act/Title VII (Prohibits Employer Discrimination)
8-Hour Work Day
Overtime Pay
Child Labor Laws
Occupational Safety & Health Act (OSHA)
40 Hour Work Week
Worker's Compensation (Worker's Comp)
Unemployment Insurance
Pensions
Workplace Safety Standards and Regulations
Employer Health Care Insurance
Collective Bargaining Rights for Employees
Wrongful Termination Laws
Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
Whistleblower Protection Laws
Employee Polygraph Protect Act (Prohibits Employer from using a lie detector test on an employee)
Veteran's Employment and Training Services (VETS)
Compensation increases and Evaluations (Raises)
Sexual Harassment Laws
Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)
Holiday Pay
Employer Dental, Life, and Vision Insurance
Privacy Rights
Pregnancy and Parental Leave
Military Leave
The Right to Strike
Public Education for Children
Equal Pay Acts of 1963 & 2011 (Requires employers pay men and women equally for the same amount of work)
Laws Ending Sweatshops in the United States

Yep those pesky unions really had it in for us honest hard working folk.

It's an interesting irony that Vasty accuses lefties of shouting people down...

Anyhow - my point about this is that the Tories were cynically using our plight for a bit of election PR; my hope is that at the same time, MC was using them to apply pressure to Box and co.

That Yorkshire radio piece on MC seems to say that they're planning to try and borrow the money somehow and the developer pay back when the new market development gets to the Trigger Point

Was hoping to read about the work being done by MC and the club to secure a new community stadium.. and all I read is the bleating of nostalgic trade unionist activists and the descendants of the 50p millionaires created by Thatcher capitalism!

I get so annoyed when people see things in such black and white terms... good or evil... right or wrong... just STOP IT!

We need radical 'middle of the road' goodwill and positive thinking to make this happen... and the sooner people stop seeing division and start acting with common cause... the better!

I'm not sure we humans have that capacity in us though!

Hope I'm wrong

I've seen that list before, isn't it about the American Unions.

Yep thought I had.

So was I tbh, but as for the rest of what you've typed I've got to agree.

Indeed. Far too political now.