British Prime Minister Praises Gamer Charity

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Put your troll face away.

 

[CosmicCommander]

Alright, I'm sick and tired of all the Cameron-bashing going on here. Just shut up, and smile at the fact games are getting some good praise. Then go to your Labour conference, you sandal-wearers.

 

[Will Holmes]

Who let the Labour brigade in? David Cameron, by and large, is doing the right thing for the country. It's the contrarians and left-wingers with nothing to lose that don't like that he's running the country but can't come up with a coherent reason why he shouldn't beyond senseless emotive language.

It's all 'Oh, he's just a twat' or 'Oh, I don't like him' or 'Oh, he's like Thatcher'. Come up with a reasoned argument that involves a better alternative, or shut up.

To put this post more on-topic, it's not really surprising. Politicians praise charities all the time, part of the business, although Cameron lost a disabled son, so he's got good reason to highlight this one.

 

[ramboondiea]

Who let the Labour brigade in? David Cameron, by and large, is doing the right thing for the country. It's the contrarians and left-wingers with nothing to lose that don't like that he's running the country but can't come up with a coherent reason why he shouldn't beyond senseless emotive language.

It's all 'Oh, he's just a twat' or 'Oh, I don't like him' or 'Oh, he's like Thatcher'. Come up with a reasoned argument that involves a better alternative, or shut up.

To put this post more on-topic, it's not really surprising. Politicians praise charities all the time, part of the business, although Cameron lost a disabled son, so he's got good reason to highlight this one.

whether he is doing the best for the country or not is highly debatable, and you dont have to support labour to see that. but one of the main reason for hating him is because a large majority of what he says is compleatly crap, all he does is put on a show, he doesn't actually do anything, really most of the things he says is just sabre-rattling comments, its like he is still running for the position and just didnt stop the PR campaign.

the argument that he is like thatcher is completely justified, because he is, but the same could have been said about tony blair, so if you didnt like thatcher chances are you hated him, meaning if you hate Cameron aswel then if anything it means your consistent.
a coherent reason he shouldnt be in power is that he shouldnt be in power, he only holds the power he does due to the coalition government, admittedly a legal process, it doesnt change the fact he did not attain majority. also a lot of his policy are short term focused.

 

[gibboss28]

Folks, he is a politican confronted with an organization that helps handicapped kids.
What else was he possible going to say? That man makes a living of being popular.

I'm inclined to agree with you, however politicians also have the power to keep their mouth shut and ignore charities like this. Cameron could've done that but he didn't, which is nice.

Well, he didn't probably because there is a sizable gamer population in the UK. He could have ignored it, but it would raise his popularity with two focus groups. He is a good politician. I don't know enough about the man to make any judgments based on this though. I'm just glad someone is giving a worthwhile charity some attention.

Well cameron had a severly disabled son (who sadly died a couple of years go) so i don't think we can put this down to simple political points scoring. He seems to have a real appreciation of the charity.

Came to say this.

 

[ultimateownage]

Wait, David Cameron is PRAISING people who give away money? I thought those were his mortal enemies!

 

[Jazoni89]

Is that David Cameron or Margaret Thatcher in disguise?

Seriously, don't trust this guy, bought up with a silver spoon in his mouth, he has no ideas of the issues affecting the average person.

That reminds me of this picture.

 

[A Username Not In Use]

Who let the Labour brigade in? David Cameron, by and large, is doing the right thing for the country. It's the contrarians and left-wingers with nothing to lose that don't like that he's running the country but can't come up with a coherent reason why he shouldn't beyond senseless emotive language.

It's all 'Oh, he's just a twat' or 'Oh, I don't like him' or 'Oh, he's like Thatcher'. Come up with a reasoned argument that involves a better alternative, or shut up.

To put this post more on-topic, it's not really surprising. Politicians praise charities all the time, part of the business, although Cameron lost a disabled son, so he's got good reason to highlight this one.

Alright his government has reduced the size and strenght of our armed forces and now he is putting pressure on a tinpot dictator to surrender with out the military strength to back up his no fly zone, to public service pensions that effect people who have to deal with stresses and situations that very few people in the private sector have to deal with. Raised VAT but then reduced tax on cider. Two fuel price rises that are higher than anything Labour ever did and don't forget we had protests and fuel blockades because of the price fuel when they were in power. He's reducing the strength of the police and causing major reductions in the NHS, a body who help in the care of disabled people, and ignored the protest of the Great British public except when it come to school milk and tree.

As for the loss of his son, yes is was tragic and I do feel sorry for him but as my sister who works with adults with learning disablilities pointed out, he was a young man looking after a child. She works with people whose parents are either retired or are in need of care themselves and her jobs on the line right now because of his governments spending cuts.

How's that?

 

[Simalacrum]

David Cameron eh? The one who'd going off and cutting large elements of the disability services in Britain, praising disability charities?

Hypocrite... I shall also leave this song here:

 

[hardband]

:O For once i'm actually happy to be English

 

[Baresark]

Well cameron had a severly disabled son (who sadly died a couple of years go) so i don't think we can put this down to simple political points scoring. He seems to have a real appreciation of the charity.

I did not know that, I'm glad you told me. I have seen some very cutting comments on this issue, but it does sound like he has a vested interest in seeing disabled people, made able, at least in some areas.

SNIP

Alright his government has reduced the size and strenght of our armed forces and now he is putting pressure on a tinpot dictator to surrender with out the military strength to back up his no fly zone, to public service pensions that effect people who have to deal with stresses and situations that very few people in the private sector have to deal with. Raised VAT but then reduced tax on cider. Two fuel price rises that are higher than anything Labour ever did and don't forget we had protests and fuel blockades because of the price fuel when they were in power. He's reducing the strength of the police and causing major reductions in the NHS, a body who help in the care of disabled people, and ignored the protest of the Great British public except when it come to school milk and tree.

As for the loss of his son, yes is was tragic and I do feel sorry for him but as my sister who works with adults with learning disablilities pointed out, he was a young man looking after a child. She works with people whose parents are either retired or are in need of care themselves and her jobs on the line right now because of his governments spending cuts.

How's that?

I understand your angst, but he is only trying to get a charity he believes in more attention. As far as I know, he hasn't spoke of subsidizing it with government funding.

As far as what you said though...
The problem that most governments are having at this time is they dramatically increased spending during a boom period. This is completely stupid because as soon as a bust happens, they need to get rid of all that spending. On top of that, because they held the misguided belief that it would not end (fuckin' stupid really), they also took on a policy of deficit spending. Are they shrinking the public pot on behalf of everyone else to try and save themselves? Hell yeah they are. I don't vote for anyone who doesn't believe in a balanced budget. I have never worked for the state, nor would I want to, because they are all a bunch of twats who know nothing about real life. I feel what your going through, I have some friends who are teachers and work with special populations. That is the problem when anything is state subsidized. They giveth, and the will taketh away when it suits their needs.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

Soooooo, UK is on its way to modernization.
First the Jedi thingy and now this.
I wonder when will they start disregarding ESRB like japan did years ago.

We don't use ESRB ratings, all titles here are rated by the BBFC (British board of film classification) or PEGI (Pan-European game information). And while you see people 'outraged' at 18 games, the general population here seems much more pro-game than a lot of other countries.

OT: Good charity, Cameron needs good publicity the amount of people he's succeeding in angering at the mo'. All in all; PUBLICITY STUNT.

 

[A Username Not In Use]

Well cameron had a severly disabled son (who sadly died a couple of years go) so i don't think we can put this down to simple political points scoring. He seems to have a real appreciation of the charity.

I did not know that, I'm glad you told me. I have seen some very cutting comments on this issue, but it does sound like he has a vested interest in seeing disabled people, made able, at least in some areas.

SNIP

Alright his government has reduced the size and strenght of our armed forces and now he is putting pressure on a tinpot dictator to surrender with out the military strength to back up his no fly zone, to public service pensions that effect people who have to deal with stresses and situations that very few people in the private sector have to deal with. Raised VAT but then reduced tax on cider. Two fuel price rises that are higher than anything Labour ever did and don't forget we had protests and fuel blockades because of the price fuel when they were in power. He's reducing the strength of the police and causing major reductions in the NHS, a body who help in the care of disabled people, and ignored the protest of the Great British public except when it come to school milk and tree.

As for the loss of his son, yes is was tragic and I do feel sorry for him but as my sister who works with adults with learning disablilities pointed out, he was a young man looking after a child. She works with people whose parents are either retired or are in need of care themselves and her jobs on the line right now because of his governments spending cuts.

How's that?

I understand your angst, but he is only trying to get a charity he believes in more attention. As far as I know, he hasn't spoke of subsidizing it with government funding.

As far as what you said though...
The problem that most governments are having at this time is they dramatically increased spending during a boom period. This is completely stupid because as soon as a bust happens, they need to get rid of all that spending. On top of that, because they held the misguided belief that it would not end (fuckin' stupid really), they also took on a policy of deficit spending. Are they shrinking the public pot on behalf of everyone else to try and save themselves? Hell yeah they are. I don't vote for anyone who doesn't believe in a balanced budget. I have never worked for the state, nor would I want to, because they are all a bunch of twats who know nothing about real life. I feel what your going through, I have some friends who are teachers and work with special populations. That is the problem when anything is state subsidized. They giveth, and the will taketh away when it suits their needs.

I am one of those twats, I work in the heritage sector were I was paid £11,000 per year FULL TIME but I'm now working unpaid as I can't find a job and have been forced to move back home to my parents, while our Priemier who is a distant relation of the Queen has a personal fortune of over £3,000,000 lives in two houses supplyed by the state and is paid over £140,000 a year. So which one of us knows nothing of real life?

 

[Baresark]

I am one of those twats, I work in the heritage sector were I was paid £11,000 per year FULL TIME but I'm now working unpaid as I can't find a job and have been forced to move back home to my parents, while our Priemier who is a distant relation of the Queen has a personal fortune of over £3,000,000 lives in two houses supplyed by the state and is paid over £140,000 a year. So which one of us knows nothing of real life?

You need to go back to primary school, or read my post a little closer, =P. I wasn't calling you a twat. I was calling people like your premiere a twat. I basically said that when it was all good, they would spend like crazy. Now that it's bad, you're on the chopping block so they don't need to change their lifestyle. And your hit double because they raised your taxes already.

I also pointed out that working in the public sector is always ill advised, in my opinion. You get paid from tax revenues, which are "legal theft", and the people above your head will take what you have to protect themselves. The only way your protected is to have a job outside that system. But then you get raped for taxes. The whole system is broken really.