Gransnet is right wing?

You're right, there, vq. My DH and I were discussing this the other day and also exactly what skills and experience anyone needs to be an MP. Answer (apparently) none at all.

Lilygran Qualifications and experience for being Chancellor of the Exchequer seem even thinner on the ground.

I suppose attending Eton is one qualification - or sharing chambers with Blair.

Bullingdon Club anyone?

Being a white male?

I have just found and joined this forum, si I hope there will be some right wingers I can argue against. I think Cameron is a privileged idiot - how he got to be PM, I'll never know. If he gets his way and we end up out of the EU, ourecobomy will collapse. But that's what hecwants because he will then justify cutting everything that makes this country a good place to live.

Is this country a good place to live?

Welcome yankee. Lots of differing opinions on here, which is great. I quite like DC as a person but suffer his politics with increasingly less patience!

Better than many absent.

JessM But lots of other equivalent European countries seem to work more efficiently and provide a much better standard of living and general lifestyle.

In the words of the late great Gerry Rafferty;

*Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right
Here I am, stuck in the middle with you*

gillybob one if my all-time favourites
They were playing it in Fenwicks this afternoon.

I adore it too janeainsworth

I find it impossible to listen to without actually pointing at whoever happens to be on my left or right at the time !

Think GN is very left wing .

Well, well, I managed to miss this thread altogether. Such talent. Buffs nails.

Until now...

Yeah.

Nonu What – as in communist or further left?

What are your top 3 European countries absent and why?

I'm glad you asked absent that question, jess. I hate questions like that. Can't do them!

Waits expectantly for absent's answer....

I'm not holding my breath!
Don't like ANY politics or politicians. Think it's all a load of _______!

G'net in itself is neither left wing nor right wing. A number of members may gravitate together because they share the same political standpoint and at any one time the left or right may be the more vocal. I would hope that we can engage rather in rational, evidence-based debate than in opinionated dispute, though this hope is not always realised!

If it was my DGD she would be saying "What's your favourite european country Nana"

Yankee

That's probably why you won't get too many right wing responses. You want to argue not debate, there is no point to that it only ends up in a slanging match and someone threatens to leave and the thread finishes.

POGS exactly. When you see a question of a political natured posed, you do just sigh and think, the responses are entirely predictable, so what is the point? It's not the House of Commons, it's a forum and there's lots going on in my life, do I really want to write a dissertation? Lots of textbook, knee jerk comments sadly.