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No, this is utterly wrong.
These are not statistics. They are real numbers of real people. They are not percentages per head of population, or proportions, or statistical correlations. They are people who were alive but are now dead and there are a great deal more late drivers than their ever were late miners. It does not have to be proven with any argument, it is what it is.
Had I wanted to play with figures I would have done. The simple fact of the matter is that more people have died behind the wheel of a car in ten years than have died in mines in fifty years.
There is no sophistry here, despite others attempting to introduce it.
ergo you are more likely to die while driving than you are while working as a miner.
I really don't know how many different ways I can write the same thing.
It is clear that many people are going to vote for this failed Government just because of some deep rooted prejudice of another party, or even party leader. This is plainly ridiculous.
Gordon Brown and the Labour party have had thirteen years and have comprehensively failed. They have done incalculable damage to the country and have forced many millions into penury, not to mention the debt now owed by millions of babies too young to talk but who have already inherited the higest public debt in British history.
Jester, Gordon Brown does not drive because he only has one eye, notwithstanding the fact that he does not need to and far from taxing people off the roads, he has done no such thing. What he has done however, is made life a great deal harder for a great many people, but in particular the less well-off, through his punitive taxation on fuel. Very few people drive for pleasure anymore. We drive because of the parlous state of the public transport system and which, had they wanted to, Labour have had thirteen years to fix.
Taxes on fuel hit the poorest the hardest because a greater proportion of their disposable income has to be spent on fuel, which costs the same regardless of how much money you have. Fuel is a distress purchase, when you need it you need it. It cannot be put off, it has to be bought then and there.
Some might argue that Nick Clegg and his "new" party might offer an alternative. Of course, they are hardly new, being able to trace their roots back to the 17th century and the Liberal party was founded in 1859, 40 years before Labour's founding conference in 1900.
Those thinking the polls are correct should cast their minds back to December 1981 when the Liberal-SDP Alliance scored 50% in a Gallup poll, but took only 23 seats, on a 25% share of the vote, in the 1983 general election. Their more recent experience in power, when rebranded (again) as Liberal Democrats in local authorities suggests they are just, if not more likely, to form coalitions with the Conservatives.
Originally posted by scoobydoo
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These are not statistics. They are real numbers of real people. They are not percentages per head of population, or proportions, or statistical correlations. They are people who were alive but are now dead and there are a great deal more late drivers than their ever were late miners. It does not have to be proven with any argument, it is what it is.
Had I wanted to play with figures I would have done. The simple fact of the matter is that more people have died behind the wheel of a car in ten years than have died in mines in fifty years.
There is no sophistry here, despite others attempting to introduce it.
ergo you are more likely to die while driving than you are while working as a miner.
I really don't know how many different ways I can write the same thing.
It is clear that many people are going to vote for this failed Government just because of some deep rooted prejudice of another party, or even party leader. This is plainly ridiculous.
Gordon Brown and the Labour party have had thirteen years and have comprehensively failed. They have done incalculable damage to the country and have forced many millions into penury, not to mention the debt now owed by millions of babies too young to talk but who have already inherited the higest public debt in British history.
Jester, Gordon Brown does not drive because he only has one eye, notwithstanding the fact that he does not need to and far from taxing people off the roads, he has done no such thing. What he has done however, is made life a great deal harder for a great many people, but in particular the less well-off, through his punitive taxation on fuel. Very few people drive for pleasure anymore. We drive because of the parlous state of the public transport system and which, had they wanted to, Labour have had thirteen years to fix.
Taxes on fuel hit the poorest the hardest because a greater proportion of their disposable income has to be spent on fuel, which costs the same regardless of how much money you have. Fuel is a distress purchase, when you need it you need it. It cannot be put off, it has to be bought then and there.
Some might argue that Nick Clegg and his "new" party might offer an alternative. Of course, they are hardly new, being able to trace their roots back to the 17th century and the Liberal party was founded in 1859, 40 years before Labour's founding conference in 1900.
Those thinking the polls are correct should cast their minds back to December 1981 when the Liberal-SDP Alliance scored 50% in a Gallup poll, but took only 23 seats, on a 25% share of the vote, in the 1983 general election. Their more recent experience in power, when rebranded (again) as Liberal Democrats in local authorities suggests they are just, if not more likely, to form coalitions with the Conservatives.
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