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Originally Posted by Count Dooku

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Hold on... is that literally A Fiscal Compact poster above a Lisbon 2 poster?

[Uncorruptable]

Originally Posted by BOHtox

The whole far left are a bunch of chancers!

This has to be entered into the boards.ie definition of irony,

What would you call the entire banking 'fraternity'/political yes men we have in this country & worldwide?

Chancers, that have pulled the biggest stroke in history, they have successfully broken down the seperation between Public & Private sectors, where we are all now sources of income for the international private financiers.

Governments now decide policy based on the demands of the private financiers interests & have agreed to socialise private debt on threat of blackmail they will not be supported with loans unless the population cover the losses of a few.

I certainly wont be voting yes to continue supporting this scam/charade perpetrated by charlatans and chancers.

[Fussgangerzone]

Originally Posted by Ulysses1874

I thought the Socialist Party and the Socialist Workers Party (registered owners of the People Before Profit brand) hated each other?

The Socialist Party is a Trotskyist party affiliated to the Committee for a Workers' International. The Socialist Workers Party is a Trotskyist party affiliated to the International Socialist Tendency.

I haven't the faintest idea what the difference between them is, apart from the fact that the Socialist Party uses its own name on election posters instead of a brand name. I haven't a clue why they aren't one Socialist party and affiliated to one international Socialist grouping.

All sounds a bit People's Front of Judea, if you ask me.

There's a bunch of differences, but if look at their repectiv einternational affiliations, that shows the main ideological differences.

The SP are affiliated to the CWI
The SWP are affiliated to the ISI
These affiliations represent stances on various key issues around socialism rather than a rigid dogma or an external hierarchy.

On a more day-to-day basis, their is a difference of approach between the two. For example, the SWP like to rebrand (People Before Profit, though there are other people in that who aren't SWP) and are worried about alienating people with the word socialist. The Socialist Party on the other hand, are up front about it, the approach there being that it's better to be up-front, if we ever expect to find common cause.

Speaking of common cause, both parties are now part of the United Left Alliance, so your Life of Brian reference is out of date.