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The UK Welfare State is:
Too generous 9%  9%  [ 2 ]
Too generous 9%  9%  [ 2 ]
It works fine 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
It works fine 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
Not generous enough 23%  23%  [ 5 ]
Not generous enough 23%  23%  [ 5 ]
Don't know 18%  18%  [ 4 ]
Don't know 18%  18%  [ 4 ]
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eamonn
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15 Sep 2005, 9:16 am

USA has the word United in it, that doesnt necessarily make it so.



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15 Sep 2005, 10:49 am

dare i mention Great Britain...?



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15 Sep 2005, 12:36 pm

vetivert wrote:
dare i mention Great Britain...?


lol



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16 Sep 2005, 6:51 pm

Nice to see Mr B getting his share of the limelight again, using your position and civil servants for your own benefit can be dangerous if the said civil sevants don't think you fit in.
On a technical point Socialism is supposed to be the route to Communism, hence the eager manner in which the term Socialist is grabbed by many quasi-communist parties.
PS if we assume something with a term incuded has to be taken literally ie CCCP is socialist, then where are all the baseball fields? There are millions of people here wearing baseball caps, but I can see no fields.



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16 Sep 2005, 6:56 pm

jb814 wrote:
On a technical point Socialism is supposed to be the route to Communism, hence the eager manner in which the term Socialist is grabbed by many quasi-communist parties.


It doesnt have to be. Just as being Capitalist doesnt have to lead to the elderly being too poor to heat they're homes in winter time but unfortunately often does.



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16 Sep 2005, 7:34 pm

True, just that for historic reasond I thought it might clear up why the word was so often hijacked.