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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 05:06 PM
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Oops! David Cameron and Tony Blair clash over cause of riots
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/aug/21/david-cameron-tony-blair-riots
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David Cameron has reaffirmed his belief that the riots were symptomatic of moral decline in Britain as Tony Blair dismissed this argument as a "highfalutin wail" that ignored the true cause of the problem.

In a relatively rare intervention in the world of domestic policy, Blair said that there was no problem with moral standards in society generally. The riots, he said, were primarily caused by a minority of disaffected and alienated young people who were outside the social mainstream and who constituted "an absolutely specific problem that requires deeply specific solutions".

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/20/tony-blair-riots-crime-family
Blair

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/aug/20/tony-blair-riots-crime-family
Cameron

You know I detest Blair but he exposes Cameron as the shallow idiot from Eton.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 05:07 PM
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1. Yeah, I 'm bummed about agreeing with *'s poodle, but I do.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 05:08 PM
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3. So I am not alone
:hi:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 05:23 PM
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5. Not at all! :^D
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Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 05:08 PM
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2. So both were wrong.
Poodle and Poodle II.
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Angry Dragon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 05:13 PM
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4. moral decline of politicians is the problem
no morals, ethics, no empathy, they live on greed and other peoples' money
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 05:23 PM
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6. I think you are on to something there.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Aug-21-11 06:09 PM
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7. and the royals
ding ding we have a winner!! :D
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