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Okay, a little background. I’m a military brat. My parents are very hardworking and my dad was in the army for 29 years. I’m now 24 and when I was 16/17 I was getting upset and fed up of my dad calling me lazy and such because I didn’t pull my own weight and didn’t have a job when at my age my parents and my sisters did. Baring in mind times have changed and most employers don’t want to hire younger people. Anyway as you can imagine being a defiant teenager, between playing sims and going to college/sixth form I spent my time printing and handing CV’s out to local shops. We live in a very small English market town so there isn’t much apart from takeaways, charity shops, betting shops, cafes and ecig shops (not so much the latter back then). I handed my CV into a sports shop. It was more of an off brand foot asylum so it was more fashion and trainers rather than an actual sports shop. I didn’t think anything of it. I went with my mum to do it and apart from the older men that worked there smirking at me it was normal. I was a weedy teenage girl that clearly had no interest in sport or fashion after all. A couple weeks past and I see the same person following me on social media and adding me as a friend. His name was Martyn. A 30 something YO man. I thought it was weird but my family are kind of popular in our town so I thought it could be a family friend and being an outcast child I wanted more people on my social media. So I just accepted the requests. Time goes on and of course I receive messages from this man. We talk as normal human beings just having conversations and it was weird don’t get me wrong but not too weird. It didn’t seem like grooming as such but that’s the point of it, isn’t it. One day I’m in greater Manchester helping my sister set up booths for a big event she was hosting. (She was a business owner until recently and used to host this event annually for all things dog related) I would work for her part time whilst at college. Halfway through the day I get a message from Martyn, whom I hadn’t told about the event or where it was. Saying “I can see you”. I look around. This event is in a clearing in a huge park. Apart from the stalls and trees there was nothing. I couldn’t see him and it still scares me now. I was clearly not interested and opened up to my mum where we made fun of him and eventually I blocked him on everything. I still haven’t heard from him at this point. But this man, had seen me go into the sports shop and handed in my CV. had gotten my contact I donation from the CV- he wasn’t in a managerial position baring in mind. And had used that information - knowing my age - to pursue me. So, Martyn from DW sports, let’s not meet again.
I have loads of stories ranting from let’s not meet to paranormal. I shall be back xo Love you Insta - amberpaigetaylo

I hope this thread allows everyone in this thread contribute positively, with opinions and facts, and not be afraid to voice out something that this sub isn’t too favourable on. I have asked the mods to remove votes for comments to allow discussion and not get the hive mind to start upvoting/downvoting whenever something is set.
 
Warning this is going to be a big, meaty, thread entailing a lot of points, some not included because of how long it is – so if you have no patience to read, don’t voice your opinion just because you feel like contributing.
 
*I was trying to write a basic view in how our democracy works but I realised it was too complicated to add it as an addition to what is going to be a hefty piece already so I compromised. I might make a separate thread for how things work within our democracy but I think it might be too much for a sub dedicated to economic thought and theories.
 
Also do note my main sources are the parties individual manifestos and the BBC, I choose the BBC over other new sites because I think it takes the most unbiased position it can for all three parties. And in regards to some of the vagueness of policies, it's either because it's vague on purpose as I have found nothing concrete to add onto or they have not yet released information to the public. And yes, I didn't have the time to perfectly align positions that are similar or different in a side by side comparison, I will fix this in the coming days but for now I wanted to make sure everything important was included.
 
(Let me just say how annoying it is to go through countless pages of just bullshit, nothing but pandering and pointing fingers and rarely highlighting a god damn policy… 80-120 pages of this urghhhh)
 
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Now without further ado, let’s begin.
Economy and Business
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Click above to see how much revenue they predict they’ll get from these changes.	Click above to see how muc-oh? They don’t have any of the calculations for the public to see their policy effects? How strange, I wonder why...	Well would you look at that, Lib Dems also put their costs up for all the pledges they made.
Bring the railways back into public ownership as franchises expire	Increase the personal allowance to £12,500 and the higher rate to £50,000 by 2020	£100bn package of additional infrastructure investment
Regain control of energy supply networks through the alteration of operator license conditions, and transition to a publicly owned, decentralised energy system	Keep pledge to ensure residents can veto high increases in council tax via a referendum	Boost the economy with a major programme of capital investment
Replace water system with a network of regional publicly-owned water companies	Improve HMRC's capabilities to clamp down on smuggling, including improving policing of borders as UK leaves EU	Eliminate the deficit on day-to-day spending by 2020 to control the national debt, and then borrowing only to invest
Reverse the privatisation of Royal Mail "at the earliest opportunity"	Reduce online VAT fraud	Install hyperfast, fibre-optic broadband across the UK
Create at least one publicly-owned energy company in every region of the UK, with public control of the transmission and distribution grids.	Spend more on research and development	Additional funding to bring more private investment into renewable energy
Income tax rate 45p on earnings of £80,000 and above	Ensure industry and businesses have access to reliable, cheap and clean power	Raise employee national insurance threshold to the income tax threshold, while protecting low earners' ability to accrue pension and benefit entitlements
Income tax rate of 50p to be reintroduced on earnings above £123,000	Deliver road, rail, airports and broadband that businesses need.	Ensure those with the highest incomes and wealth are making a fair contribution
Boost wages of 5.7m people earning less than minimum wage to £10 an hour by 2020	Increase the amount levied on firms employing migrant workers	Reverse cuts to corporation tax from 20% to 17%, capital gains tax, marriage allowance
Create a National Transformation Fund that will invest £250bn over 10 years in upgrading the economy	Listed companies will have to publish ratio of executive pay to broader UK workforce pay	Raise inheritance tax threshold
Deliver universal superfast broadband availability by 2022	Maintain pledge to cut corporation tax to 17% by 2020	Action on corporate tax evasion and avoidance
A National Investment Bank as part of a plan to provide £250bn of lending power over the next decade for infrastructure	Reform business rates, with more frequent revaluations	Reforming corporation tax to develop a system that benefits the smallest
Scrap quarterly reporting for businesses with a turnover of under £85,000.	Simplify the tax system	Expand the activities of the state-owned British Business Bank
Corporation tax to increase: (21% 2018-2019)(24% 2019-2020)(26% 2020-2021)	Regulate more efficiently, saving £9bn through the Red Tape Challenge and the One-In-Two-Out Rule	Create a new 'start-up allowance' for new businesses
Corporation tax for profits below £300,000: (20% 2018-2019)(21% 2019-2021) *For some reason someone didn’t check their numbers and apparently 2019-2020 is unknown – which I assume it means that it applies to the second increase rate.	Legislate for tougher regulation of tax advisory firms	Review business rates
An end to zero-hours contracts to guarantee workers a "number of hours each week"	Update the rules that govern mergers and takeovers	Protect the science budget, including the recent £2bn increase, by raising it at least in line with inflation
‘Balancing the Books’	Ensure foreign ownership of companies controlling important infrastructure does not undermine British security or essential services	Stamp out abuse of zero-hours contracts
Meet the OECD target of 3% of GDP spent on R&D by 2030	Legislate to make executive pay packages subject to strict annual votes by shareholders	Encourage employers to promote employee ownership
Separation of investment and retail banking	Consider a ban on companies which cold call people to encourage them to make false personal injury claims	Champion the Northern Powerhouse and Midlands Engine initiatives
Breaking up RBS and create local public banks.	Reduce insurance costs by "cracking down on exaggerated and fraudulent" whiplash claims.	40% of board members being women in FTSE 350 companies.
Introduce an Excessive Pay Levy on companies with staff on very high pay *The Excessive Pay Levy is a payroll tax, it basically charges employers for paying exceptionally high rates to individuals.
Switching from RPI to CPI indexation
Develop a version similar to the Australian system of binding arbitration and fines for persistent late-payers for the private and public sectors.

 
Worker Rights
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Introduce four extra public holidays each year to mark national patron saints' days	Increase the National Living Wage to 60% of median earnings by 2020	Encourage the creation and widespread adoption of a ‘good employer’ kitemark covering areas such as paying a living wage, avoiding unpaid internships and using name-blind recruitment to make it easier for customers and investors to exercise choice and influence.
Maximum pay ratios of 20:1 to be rolled out in public sector	Ensure people working in the 'gig' economy are properly protected	Establish an independent review to consult on how to set a genuine Living Wage across all sectors. We will pay this Living Wage in all central government departments and their agencies, and encourage other public sector employers to do likewise.
Ban unpaid internships	Change the law to ensure listed companies nominate a director from the workforce, create a formal employee advisory council or assign specific responsibility for employee representation to a designated non-executive director	Extend transparency requirements on larger employers to include publishing the number of people paid less than the Living Wage and the ratio between top and median pay.
"Clamp down on bogus self-employment" and extend rights of employees to all workers - including shared parental pay	Introduce a right for employees to request information relating to the future direction of the company.	Modernise employment rights to make them fit for the age of the ‘gig’ economy, looking to build on the forthcoming Taylor Report
Guarantee trade unions a right to access workplaces		Strengthen enforcement of employment rights, including by bringing together relevant enforcement agencies and scrapping employment tribunal fees.
End the public sector pay cap		Strengthen worker participation in decision-making, including staff representation on remuneration committees, and the right for employees of a listed company to be represented on the board. We will change company law to permit a German-style two-tier board structure to include employees.
Repeal the Trade Union Act and roll out sectoral collective bargaining, whereby industries can negotiate agreement as a whole		Reform fiduciary duty and company purpose rules to ensure that other considerations, such as employee welfare, environmental standards, community benefit and ethical practice can be fully included in decisions made by directors and fund managers.
Enforce all workers' rights to trade union representation at work		Reduce the reporting requirement for disclosure of shareholdings to 1% in order to increase transparency over who owns stakes in the biggest companies.
Use public spending power to drive up standards, including only awarding public contracts to companies which recognise trade unions		Require binding and public votes of board members on executive pay policies.
Give all workers equal rights from day one, whether part-time or full-time, temporary or permanent
Shifting the burden of proof, so the law assumes a worker is an employee unless the employer can prove otherwise.

 
Education
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Reintroduce maintenance grants for university students and abolish university tuition fees	Pump an extra £4bn into schools by 2022	Invest nearly £7bn extra in education
A National Education Service for England to incorporate all forms of education	Scrap free school lunches for infants in England, but offer free breakfasts across the primary years	Triple the Early Years Pupil Premium to £1,000
Overhaul existing childcare system and extend 30 hours of free childcare to all two year olds	No school will have its budget cut as a result of the new funding formula	Oppose new selective schools and give local authorities control over admissions and new schools
Promise to reduce class sizes to "less than 30" for five, six, and seven-year-olds	At least 100 new free schools a year	Raise the quality of early years provision
Devolve responsibility for skills to city regions or devolved administrations	End ban on grammar schools - conditions would include allowing pupils to join at "other ages as well as eleven"	End the 1% cap on teachers' pay rises
Free school meals for all primary school children, paid for by removing the VAT exemption on private school fees.	Ask universities and independent schools to help run state schools	Guarantee all state school teachers are fully qualified or working towards qualified teacher status from January 2019
	A specialist maths school to be opened in every major city in England due to new funding arrangements	Introduce a professional development entitlement of 25 hours per year for all teachers, rising to 50 hours by 2025
	Every 11-year-old expected to know their times tables off by heart	Tackle unnecessary teacher workloads
	If universities want to charge maximum tuition fees, they will be required to "become involved" in academy sponsorship or the founding of free schools	Reforming Ofsted inspections
	Introduce T-Levels	Scrap the planned expansion of grammar schools
	Change the rules to allow the establishment of new Roman Catholic schools	Ensure that identification and support for special educational needs and disabilities takes place as early as possible
	New faith schools will now have to prove parents of other faiths and none would be prepared to send their children to that school	Protect the availability of arts and creative subjects in the curriculum
	Work to build up the investment funds of universities across the UK.	Improve the quality of vocational education, including skills for entrepreneurship and self-employment, and improve careers advice and links with employers
		Challenge gender stereotyping and early sexualisation
		Reinstate university maintenance grants for the poorest students
		Double the number of businesses that hire apprentices.

 
BREXIT
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Accept the EU referendum result and "build a close new relationship with the EU" prioritising jobs and and workers' rights	Exit the European single market and customs union but seek a "deep and special partnership" including comprehensive free trade and customs agreement	Second referendum on Brexit deal
Guarantee the rights of EU nationals living in the UK and work to "secure reciprocal rights" for UK citizens elsewhere in the EU	Vote in both Houses of Parliament on "final agreement" for Brexit	Press for the UK to unilaterally guarantee the rights of EU nationals in the UK
A "meaningful" role for Parliament throughout Brexit negotiations	Assess whether to continue with specific European programmes and it "will be reasonable that we make a contribution" to the ones which continue	Urge same rights for UK citizens living in European Union countries
Scrap Conservatives' Brexit White Paper and replace with "fresh negotiating priorities" with strong emphasis on retaining the benefits of the single market and customs union	Agree terms of future partnership with EU alongside withdrawal, both within the two years allowed under Article 50	Membership of the single market and customs union
Reject no deal as a viable option and if needs be negotiate transitional arrangements "to avoid a cliff-edge for the UK economy"	Convert EU law into UK law and later allow parliament to pass legislation to "amend, repeal or improve" any piece of this	Protect freedom of movement and EU schemes which increase opportunities for young people
Keep EU-derived laws on workers' rights, equality, consumer rights and environmental protections	Remain signatories to the European Convention on Human Rights for the next parliament	Defend social rights such as maternity leave
Maintain UK's leading research role by seeking to stay part of Horizon 2020 and its successor programmes	Repeal or replace the Human Rights Act "while the process of Brexit is under way" ruled out, although consideration will be given to the UK's "human rights legal framework" when Brexit concludes	Maintain EU environmental standards and cooperation for law enforcement and justice
Seek to maintain membership of European organisations which offer benefits to the UK such as Euratom and the European Medicines Agency	Reduce and control immigration from Europe after Brexit	Retain City of London's rights in EU financial markets
Will not allow Brexit to be used as an excuse to undercut UK farmers and flood Britain's food chain with cheap and inferior produce.	Seek to replicate all existing EU free trade agreements	Campaign against any reduction in investment in UK universities
	Support the ratification of trade agreements entered into during our EU membership	Retain European Health Insurance Card, reduced roaming charges and pet passports
	Introduce a Trade Bill in the next parliament	Protect the rights of the people of Gibraltar.
	Create a network of Her Majesty's Trade Commissioners to head nine new regional overseas posts
	Reconvene the Board of Trade to increase exports from Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland as well as England.

 
Health and Social Care
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Deliver safe staffing levels and reduce waiting lists	Real terms increases in NHS spending reaching £8bn extra per year by 2022/23	1p in the pound on income tax to raise £6bn for NHS and social care services
End hospital car parking charges	A new GP contract and changes to the contract for hospital consultants	Transform mental health care and waiting times
One million people will be taken off NHS waiting lists by "guaranteeing access to treatment within 18 weeks"	Retain the 95% four hour A&E target	Limit the amount elderly people have to pay for social care
Scrap NHS pay cap	Require foreign workers and overseas students to pay more to cover the cost of NHS care.	Guarantee the rights of all NHS and social care service staff who are EU nationals to stay in the UK
NHS will receive more than £30bn in extra funding over the next parliament		End the public sector pay freeze for NHS workers
Mental health budgets will be ring-fenced, and Labour will ensure all children in secondary schools have access to a counselling service.		Reinstate student nurse bursaries
		Protect NHS whistle-blowers
		Produce a national workforce strategy to prevent shortage of GPs, hospital doctors, nurses and other NHS staff
		Increase access to mental health talking therapies
		Examine the case for introducing a dedicated service for children and young people based on the Australian 'headspace' model
		Early mental health support for pregnant women, new mothers and those who have experienced miscarriage or stillbirth
		Fast-track exceptional graduates into children's social work and encourage high-achieving graduates to pursue a career in mental health social work
		Tackle stigma against mental ill-health
		Ensure that LGBT+ inclusive mental health services receive funding and support
		Raise the amount people earn before losing Carer's Allowance from £110 to £150 a week
		Promote easier access to GPs and prevent practice closures
		HIV prevention available on the NHS
		Tackle childhood obesity
		Develop a just settlement for haemophiliacs who were given contaminated blood.

 
Social Security and Pensions
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Cuts to bereavement support payment will be scrapped, as will the bedroom tax and the "punitive sanctions regime"	Scrapping the triple-lock on the state pension after 2020, replacing it with a "double lock", rising with earnings or inflation - but no longer 2.5%	Maintain the 'triple lock' of increasing the state pension each year.
Reinstate housing benefit for under-21s	Means test winter fuel payments to pensioners	Withdraw eligibility for the Winter Fuel Payment from pensioners who pay tax at the higher rate (40%).
Guarantee state pension triple lock, as well as the winter fuel allowance and free bus passes	Tighten the rules against pension abuse and increase punishment for those caught mismanaging pension schemes	We will retain the free bus pass for all pensioners
"Rejects" proposal to increase state pension age further	Give the pensions regulator powers to issue punitive fines for those found to have wilfully left a pension scheme under-resourced and if necessary, powers similar to those held by the Insolvency Service to disqualify relevant company directors	Introducing a single rate of tax relief for pensions, which would be designed to be simpler and fairer and would be set more generously than the current 20% basic rate relief
A commitment to "protect the pensions of UK citizens living overseas in the EU or further afield".	Consider new criminal offence for company directors who put at risk the ability of a pension scheme to meet its obligations.

 
Families and Communities
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
30 hours free childcare to be extended to two-year-olds and "some" to one-year-olds	Introduce a "breathing space" scheme to help those in serious debt be protected from further interest, charges and enforcement action for up to six weeks.	Extend free childcare to all two-year-olds and to the children of working families from the end of paid parental leave
An end to the so-called "rape clause" - part of the policy of restricting child tax credits to the first two children in a family. It means mothers who have a third child as a result of rape can be exempted, but would have to provide evidence in order to do so		An additional month's paid paternity leave
A review into reforming council tax and business rates, in favour of options such as a land value tax		Introduce a new Young Person's Bus Discount Card for 16-21 year olds, giving a two-thirds discount on bus travel
A national review of local pubs to examine the causes for their large-scale demise, as well as establishing a joint taskforce that will consider future sustainability.		30 hours' free childcare a week for all parents in England with children aged from two to four years
		Take 13,000 children out of poverty by letting both parents earn before their Universal Credit is cut
		Reverse cuts to work allowances in universal credit and housing benefit for 18-21 year olds - increase jobseeker's allowance and universal credit for 18-24
		Uprate working-age benefits at least in line with inflation
		Abandon the two-child policy on family benefits and abolish the 'rape clause'
		Reverse cuts to employment support allowance to those in the work-related activity group
		Increase local housing allowance (LHA) in line with average rents in an area
		Scrap the 'bedroom tax' and the work capability assessment

 
Migration
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Labour will not "scapegoat migrants" and will not set a cap on immigration, describing targets as "bogus"	Commitment to "bear down on immigration from outside the EU" across all visa routes	Vote against attempts to scrap the Human Rights Act or withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights
International students will not be included in immigration numbers, but the party will crack down on "fake colleges".	Immigration cut to under 100,000	Offer safe and legal routes to the UK for refugees - offering sanctuary to 50,000 Syrian refugees over five years
Labour believes in the "reasonable management of migration" but "will not make false promises on immigration numbers".	Students expected to leave the country at the end of their course unless they meet new "higher" requirements allowing them to stay	Reopen the Dubs scheme to take 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children from Europe.
	Overseas students to remain in the immigration statistics.

 
Energy and Environment
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Ensure that 60% of the UK's energy comes from zero-carbon or renewable sources by 2030	UK should have the lowest energy costs in Europe, both for households and businesses	Ensure that four million properties receive insulation retrofits by 2022, prioritising fuel-poor households
A ban on fracking	Establish an industrial energy efficiency scheme to help large companies install measures to cut their energy use and their bills	Prevent 40,000 deaths a year with Air Quality Plan to reduce air pollution
Nuclear power "will continue to be part of the UK energy supply"	Smart meters offered to every household and business by the end of 2020	Ensure British farming remains competitive
Introduce an immediate emergency energy price cap to ensure the average dual fuel household energy bill remains below £1,000 per year	Make it easier to switch energy providers and introduce a "safeguard tariff cap"	A diesel scrappage scheme, and a ban on the sale of diesel cars and small vans in the UK by 2025
Maintaining access to the EU's internal energy market and retaining access to nuclear research programme Euratom will be a priority in Brexit negotiations.	Independent review into the cost of energy to ensure UK energy costs are as low as possible, while ensuring a reliable supply and meeting 2050 carbon reduction objective	Extend ultra-low-emission zones to 10 more towns and cities
	Against more large-scale onshore wind power for England, but maintain position as a global leader in offshore wind and development of wind projects in the remote islands of Scotland, where they directly benefit local communities	Run all private hire vehicles and diesel buses licensed to operate in urban areas on ultra-low-emission or zero-emission fuels within five years
	Develop the shale industry in Britain	Pass a Zero-Carbon Britain Act to set targets to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions by 80% by 2040 and to zero by 2050
	Non-fracking drilling treated as permitted development	Aim to generate 60% of electricity from renewables by 2030
	Set up a new shale environmental regulator	Support investment in energy storage, smart grid technology, hydrogen technologies, offshore wind, and tidal power
	Change proposed shale wealth fund so greater percentage of tax revenues from shale gas directly benefit the communities that host the extraction sites.	Oppose 'fracking'
		Establish a £2bn flood-prevention fund
		Increase the amount of accessible green space
		Suspend the use of neonicotinoids until proven that their use in agriculture does not harm bees or other pollinators
		Increase maximum sentence for animal cruelty from six months to five years, and a ban on caged hens
		Clamp down on illegal pet imports
		Reform agricultural subsidies
		Pass a Zero-Waste Act
		£2bn to ensure the provision of high-speed broadband across the rural UK
		£2bn Rural Services Fund to co-locate council offices, post offices, children's centres, libraries and visiting healthcare professionals.

 
Transport
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Extend high speed rail link HS2 to Scotland	Review rail ticketing to remove "complexity and perverse" pricing, with a passenger ombudsman introduced	Investment in road and rail infrastructure, continued commitment to HS2, Crossrail 2 and rail electrification
Build a new Brighton main line for the SouthEast	Minimum service levels agreed with train companies and staff during times of industrial action. A pledge to make this mandatory if a deal cannot be reached voluntarily	Take over the running of Southern Rail and Govia Thameslink
Build Crossrail 2 - to run north-south through London between Hertfordshire and Surrey - "to ensure our capital continues to prosper"	Focus on creating extra capacity on the railways to ease overcrowding, bring new lines and stations, and improve existing routes - including for freight	Invest capital in major transport improvements and infrastructure
Recognise the need for additional airport capacity in the South East	Continue investment in High Speed 2, Northern Powerhouse Rail and the expansion of Heathrow Airport, while ensuring these projects develop the skills and careers of British workers	Oppose expansion of Heathrow, Stansted or Gatwick and any new airport in the Thames Estuary - instead focus on improving existing regional airports such as Birmingham and Manchester.
	Almost every car and van to be zero-emission by 2050 with £600m investment by 2020 to help achieve it.

 
Housing
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Build over one million more homes, with at least half for social rent	Halve rough sleeping over the course of the next parliament and eliminate it by 2027	Build 300,000 homes a year by 2022, including half a million affordable and energy-efficient homes
Homeowners will be offered interest free loans to improve their properties	Meet 2015 commitment to deliver a million homes by the end of 2020 and half a million more by the end of 2022	£5bn of initial capital for a new British Housing and Infrastructure Development Bank
Guarantee help to buy funding until 2027 and give locals buying their first home "first dibs on new homes built in their area"	Build better houses to match the quality of previous generations	Green Buildings Act to ensure every home in England reaches at least an energy rating of Band C by 2035
Legislate to ban letting agency fees for tenants, and look at giving the Mayor of London power to give London renters "additional security"	Support for high-quality, high-density housing like mansion blocks, mews houses and terraced streets	Ensure at least four million homes are made highly energy efficient (Band C) by 2022, with priority given to fuel-poor households
Make 4,000 additional homes available for rough sleepers to end homelessness.	160,000 houses built on government land	Restore the zero-carbon standard for new homes
	Maintain the existing strong protections on designated land like the Green Belt, National Parks and Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty	Create at least 10 new garden cities in England
	Continue £2.5bn flood defence programme to protect 300,000 existing homes by 2021.	End the voluntary right to buy pilots that sell off housing association homes and the associated high value asset levy
		Enable local authorities to levy up to 200% council tax on second homes and 'buy to leave empty' investments from overseas
		Enforce housebuilding on unwanted public sector land
		Penalise excessive land-banking when builders with planning permission have failed to build after three years.

 
Defence
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Support the renewal of the Trident submarine system	Spend at least 2% of GDP on defence and increase the budget by at least 0.5% above inflation in every year of the new parliament	Spend 2% of GDP on defence
Work with international partners and the UN on multilateral disarmament "to create a nuclear-free world"	Pledge to "maintain" the overall size of the armed forces	Spend 0.7% of gross national income on aid
Commit to the Nato benchmark of spending at least 2% of GDP on defence	Retain the Trident continuous-at-sea nuclear deterrent	Suspending arms sales to Saudi Arabia
Will have a complete strategic defence and security review	Better compensation for injured personnel and the families of those killed in combat.	Recruit STEM graduates to be armed forces engineers, providing 'golden handshakes' of up to £10,000
Insulate the homes of disabled veterans for free.		Work to lead international nuclear disarmament efforts
		Provide free further or higher education for anyone who has served in the armed forces for 12 years or more.

 
Drugs and Policing
 

Labour	Conservatives	Liberal Democrats
Recruit an additional 10,000 police officers to work on community beats	Create a "national infrastructure police force", which brings together the Civil Nuclear Constabulary, the Ministry of Defence Police and British Transport Police	Bring in a legal, regulated market for cannabis
	Serious Fraud Office to be incorporated into the National Crime Agency	Introduce limits on potency and permit cannabis to be sold through licensed to over-18s
	£1bn to modernise the prison estate	End imprisonment for possession of illegal drugs for personal use
	Legislation to make changes in police practices if "stop and search does not become more targeted and stop to arrest ratios do not improve"	Reducing the proliferation of betting shops and cap maximum bets on fixed odds betting terminals at one time to £2
	Legislate if progress not made to reduce the "disproportionate use of force" against black, Asian and ethnic minority people in prison, young offender institutions and secure mental health units.	£300m for community policing in England and Wales
		Require all front-line officers to wear body cameras on duty
		Replace police and Crime commissioners with police boards made up of local councillors.

 
Hope this thread gains a lot of traction from people so we can have valid discussion on these policies in regards to neoliberalism and other -isms.
 
If you feel like I missed something, or there are mistakes, then PM me so I can fix it :)
 
Enjoy!

Based in Manchester before Euryale attacked it and mostly dead after, these groups were originally an attempt to recreate the King's Men by Ten, who was a Bet veteran.
However, a rift grew between the group's leaders - Ace wanted to be more proactive in fighting crime, while Ten wanted to focus on building infrastructure with capes the way Bet never had. This eventually led to an amicable split into the Evens and the Odds, which turned much less amicable over the years, causing an intense rivalry between the two groups.
The odds wear black jumpsuits outfits with helmets and black capes.
The evens wear red dresses or a red suit jacket with red slacks, covered in decorations and jewelry by Eight. Their costumes project weak forcefields over themselves, reducing what they get hit by but not stopping it completely.
Black Ace
Trump 8
He can choose one weaker version of any power he’s had before whenever he needs it; gains powers by being near other capes. Immune to powers effecting him.
Six foot of pure muscle, with an ability similar to Eidolon's, he was Britain's rising star on the cape scene. Didn't talk about his trigger. He'd bond over mutual experiences with his teammates by sharing their powers and accompanying every patrol. LoveIt's-complicated of Three. Leads through his members' personal loyalty.
Black Three
Mover 7/ Brute 7/ Thinker 7
Alexandria package, with strength, speed, and thinking speed enhanced to 81 times normal; has to be careful to not break everything. Finds it difficult to talk to people, due to her faster perception of time; mainly communicates by text. Ace is one of the only people who can communicate normally with her. Can't normally move at anywhere near her full speed, because she might cause sonic booms and set people around her on fire.
In the course of a week, she lost her job, was mugged, lost her house, and was mugged again. As she lay in an alley, bruised and surrounded by criminals, she wished that the world would just slow down a bit. And it did.
Black Five
Master 6/ Shaker 2
Can force people injured by him to give him a trophy of his victory within twenty-four hours; if he’s somewhere far from them, they’ll know where he is and seek him out. He can set the type of token (flesh, money, weapons), but not the value of it. Also turns any broken things in the surrounding area into tools made of the same material as the original area at will.
Bought his powers from Orphics, in exchange for keeping Ace and Ten alive.
Black Seven
Thinker 4/ Blaster 4
Precog-based ability to determine who or what in an area is in the most danger. Impulsive. Can also fire lasers out of his fingers.
A former firefighter, he triggered after he had to choose between saving either a mother or child, in two different areas of a building. He went after the child, only to learn that he had gotten out himself, and couldn't get back to the mother in time to rescue her.
Black Nine
Brute 5/ Blaster 3
Impossible for others to move him when he’s unwilling. Redirects kinetic energy away from him, in a random direction.
The sort of person who doesn't stop talking, and the son of an MP. Triggered when a car hit him on purpose, and tried to run him over repeatedly, to mess with his dad.
Red Deuce
Trump 2
Grants luck to another cape, allowing them greater ability with their power at the cost of them being unlucky for twelve hours. The youngest of the team, she’s a teenager with an overenthusiastic attitude.
She triggered after supporting her boyfriend for several months, only to learn that he had been promoted to a decent job and was breaking up with her because of it.
Red Four
Thinker 4, Master 3, Brute 5
Can spawn three secondary bodies from her main one. Each body has a parahuman enhancement in one of three areas (durability, healing, and perception), a regular level of ability in one of them, and a below-human level in one of them; no secondary body can share the same strengths, weaknesses, or regulars.
Had a habit of making appointments all the time, even when she couldn't keep them, and found that more and more events demanded her time. Triggered when she found herself fired, heavily fined, and drifting away from her friends because she kept missing appointments.
Red Six
Master 4/ Striker 1
Can grow flowers on his skin which, when touched by another person, cause them to fall in love with him for exactly eight hours.
A pretty-boy who seems to have forgotten you're supposed to button a suit jacket and wear a shirt underneath. He triggered when his fiance died during Scion's rampage.
Red Eight
Tinker 7
Her work becomes better the more extravagant it is and the more nonfunctional pieces are on it. Mainly works with lasers and force fields.
Triggered when her crafts shop went out of business after three years of trying to stay afloat.
Red Ten
Mover 8/ Shaker 9/ Breaker 7/ Brute 5/ Master 6/ Tinker 4/ Thinker 3/ Stranger 2
A Golden Morning veteran, a major player in Bet's southern Europe. She'd worked with the King's Men on several occasions, and found herself admiring them. When she found herself in Resh's Manchester after Golden Morning, she tried to recreate their group. Triggered when attacked by a villain in her town, an Alexandria package with space warping abilities. Seems to have gotten a shard that the Entities used for coordinating space-warping abilities.
Has ten abilities.
1) Able to teleport in line of sight, as well as enhanced eyesight; able to see miles away.
2) Creates beams that fire telekinetic “whirlpools” around objects.
3) Breaker state in which she can become a mass of telekinetic force reflexively to hit, become intangible, or slip into gaps larger than a pinhole.
4) Able to destroy objects by Shaking the space they occupy and converting any mass inside to energy; the energy stored in the mass can be turned into lasers.
5) Hammerspace pocket with no limit.
6) Massively enhanced reflexes.
7) Able to phase into and through organic objects.
8) Able to create a substance that seems to be solid telekinesis, which can be used as a weapon by others.
9) Able to create telekinetic animal-like constructs, which have one of her other powers.
10) Something that she's refused to tell anyone on Resh about.

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I've never played a Fallout game, I've never played any game in fact, and you need to get out more dude. This is one of the least politically correct statements possible on Reddit.	You want political correctness, definitely go to a different site.
Who would win in a fight, you or Danny Trejo?	Trejo for sure. I would forfeit. I wouldn't even fucking show up for that one.
My mother is a huge fan of you and probably wishes she could have married you. Her question is "Are you going to be narrating anymore books?"	You mean doing books on tape? Well I have my own book coming out in September called Easy Street, and I'll be doing the audiobook for that as well.
My own question is "Was it difficult for you to be in a interracial marriage in back when you got married to Opal?" I myself am a black woman married to a white man and sometimes I still encounter racism.	Racism is everywhere. You know, you're going to encounter it whether you want to or not whatever your situation is or isn't. You make your choices and you deal with them.
How long did it take to do that "sweet pussy" speech from Sons of Anarchy last season without laughing your ass off?	Oh, I actually have to admit I laughed my ass off. It probably took twice as long as it usually should have because I ruined twice my own takes cracking myself up.
The first movie I remember seeing you in was Blade 2. I wondered who is this guy who out-badassed Snipes in his own movie? Then Hellboy exploded into theaters and I thought Finally! Big budget awesomeness for an actor who is quickly becoming one of my favorites. I stumbled across Afro-Samurai and I recognized your voice before I even saw the credits. I think that is when you became my favorite actor. Then I heard about when you visited a terminally ill child in Hellboy make-up. That impressed me on a much deeper level. As a result, I will now go see any movie you are in just because you are in it. Even shitty ones like “In The Name of the King”… Damn Uwe Boll… Voice acting for Teen Titans, Afro Samurai 1 and 2, Danny Phantom, you are FREAKING Firelord Sozin in Avatar, Tangled, Batman, 1000 Ways to Die, you are the the FUCKNG LICH from Adventure time! So, I saw you in the airport last year and I did a triple take because I didn’t believe it. Personally, I was amazed at my self-control. I ordered my drink and waited until you and your co-star had a break in conversation before I asked a question that I now don’t remember. Before you left I asked for a picture (above) and you agreed. You made airport travel awesome. What was your most memorable role voice acting?	My question: will you still need me, will you still feed me? I can't remember my most memorable role voice acting. It's because sixty-fucking-four.
You’re turning 64 next week (happy birthday) and you’re fucking HUGE compared to me!! How much can you bench?	I can bench at least 33 pounds.
What was it like working with the Make-A-Wish foundation?	Awesome. I've been working with them since Beauty and the Beast, which was in 1987.
What is your best Guillermo Del Toro story?	I'm not allowed to share it.
	The best Guillermo del Toro story is that he fought for seven years to give me the role of Hellboy, when everybody else wanted a bigger star. Seven years is a long, uphill battle man. He's the best. The fact that he's my friend is the best of all.
What is one interesting thing about you that most people don't know but that they really should?	I'm way better looking in person.
Ron, thanks for being Mickey Kaline in "Hey Arnold" it was one of my favorite shows as a kid. What did you like most about voice work compared to other acting?	You don't have to wear pants.
What was it like working with the cast and crew on Season of the Witch? Thank you again for taking time out of your day to give us this opportunity, on behalf of this AMA I'd like to commend you on your amazing work and wish you luck on your current future projects	I hope it sees the light of day. We have a great cast and a really cool director who I loved working with called Greg Francis. I loved Greg and loved working with Greg. I hope the movie sees the light of day ASAP. Nic Cage is just GORGEOUS. He's just beautiful. He's absolutely the first one on set, he not only knows his own lines, he knows your lines, he knows everybody's name. He's the most unmovie-star like movie-star I've ever met. Incredibly humble and so professional, a delight to be around, I had such a good time working with Nic and I consider him to be a friend for life.
Hey Ron, thanks for doing the AMA. I could see you pulling off a really evil Star Trek villain and I think it would be awesome to see you in an Expendables film. With that being said, what do you consider to be your dream role that you have not had the chance to do yet?	Tevye from the Fiddler on the Roof.
	I think I have an awesome Eastern European Jew in me.
How did you like being a voice actor on Archer vs. acting in SOA?	What a fucking HONOR it is to be on Archer. Are you crazy? And then to be reprised a season later, to bring back Ramon Limon a season later… oh my god indeed. My daughter was on an episode of Archer, she came with me to one of the parties and met everybody, and they said "well we'll give you something to do on the show" and she was one of the best ones ever on Archer. She played a Columbian drug lord sex symbol who ended up being a cop. It aired about 3, 4 weeks ago. She was mindblowingly good. She and I, that's one of our guilty pleasures. We watch that show together.
What was it like working on City of Lost Children?	The fact that we were in a city we were always lost in. No, I'm kidding. I'm kidding. City of Lost Children was like going to church everyday. These guys were like the high priests of cinema in their time, and the set was the most intense, serious place I've ever been in my entire professional career. Considering they make comedy, that's a strange combination, but then again, there's nothing conventional about Jeunet and Caro.
Ron, whose dick do we suck to get another Hellboy movie? Edit: He answered me!	I don't know. Just click your heels three times like in the Wizard of Oz and maybe it will happen. Or do whatever it was that brought Tinkerbell to life in Peter Pan.
What is your favorite beer?	Sapporo Draft.
Did you ever find your shoe in Pacific Rim?	Yes, at Guillermo Del Toro's house. Along with all the other props I tried to take with me.
Is there something you're scared of, Ron? Can you tell us?	My wife.
How was it playing a gangster in Drive?	Well, considering I was with three of my heroes, Ryan Gosling, Albert Brooks, and Bryan Cranston, and I made a few new heroes - Carey Mulligan, Oscar Isaac, Christina Hendricks, and Nicolas Winding Refn - it was pretty great.
Just now realized that Roy Dotrice played "Father" in Beauty & the Beast with you in 1987 also played "King Balor" in Hellboy II: The Golden Army 20 years later. Was it a good reunion?	Every moment I spend with Roy is a great moment. He's my adopted pops. He possesses a humanity that is almost too good to be true, but he is the kindest, sweetest, most genuine human being I've ever encountered, and I adore him.
Hi Ron. Love your work. A guy your height would normally attract a lot of attention. Let alone someone with your accomplishments. Are you able to go out like a normal person or do you always get noticed?	I just live my life exactly as I would like, and for the most part, I'm able to move freely. Every once in a while, somebody wants to stop, but it's all for the best possible reasons. Anybody who tells you that they don't like living with being complimented or being told that you did something they appreciated greatly, anybody who considers that an annoyance, may as well cut it out. There are so many harder ways to get out of life than that. I do my own shopping 2-3 days a week. I have already established how much I like to eat, so I do all my own shopping, I've never had a personal assistant. The only time I hire an assistant is to hang out with my dog while I'm on location to hang out with my dog while I'm doing 12, 14 hour days. I've never had to alter my life for any reason, and I like it that way.
Hey Ron, Thoughts on marijuana? When's the last time you smoked?	Me and Bill Clinton had a doobie with Barack a couple of years ago. Once of us didn't inhale, but the other two just had the munchies for like hours.
How often are you mistaken as the actor who played Chewbacca? I spent 18 years of my life thinking you were Chewbacca and I have no idea why.	I've never been mistaken as Chewbacca but I have been mistaken for Harry in Harry & the Hendersons.
Thanks for doing this AMA Mr. Perrlman. Beauty and the Beast was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid. Throughtout your career, you've done a lot of roles that require heavy makeup. How difficult is the process? What's been your favorite role requiring heavy make up?	The process is not difficult for me because every role I put the makeup on for I absolutely adored. I can't pick a favorite. If I would say Vincent I would be doing a disservice to Hellboy, and if I was saying Hellboy I would be doing a disservice to Vincent. But those would be tied for first.
Who was more interesting to play, Clay or Hellboy?	Hellboy.
Big fan, i was wondering how is it working with Doug Jones? as a lover of practical effects i'm always amazed at what he can do (you're no slouch either :)	Doug Jones - I'm going to go on the record now that might upset some people. But I hate Doug Jones. Doug Jones pisses me off, because Doug Jones is SO GOOD, SO SWEET, SO NICE, THAT HE REALLY MAKES ME LOOK BAD. SO FUCK YOU DOUG. FUCK YOU AND YOUR NICENESS.
1) When did you realize you had the coolest fucking voice ever?	Well, I appreciate that a lot. And like I said, what an honor it is to have an impact on a kid's life who is looking at the worst scenario ever and thinking about something that you did that cheered him up.
How did you find your experience with Nicholas Winding Refn in Drive?	I love Nic. I loved working with Nic. It was very bizarre, very interesting. Keeps you on your toes, because he doesn't think like anybody else I've ever met, and because of that, he challenges you to not think like anything you've ever done before. So I thought that the performance he elicited from me, and indeed from everyone in that film, was very original and very unlike the typical Perlman profile.
Do you ever wake up in the morning, look in the mirror and think , wow I am one badass motherfucker?	The answer to both those questions is no. First of all, I wake up in the morning and most of the mirrors in my house are covered so I don't have to look at myself. And no, I don't ride my own Harley.
Do you actually ride your own harley?	Oh wait, I do ride my own Harley, or whatever you want to think.
Hey Ron, what is something everyone in the world is doing wrong?	Well, half the world is doing something right all the time? So the whole world is never doing something wrong all of the time. I gotta tell you though man, whoever it is that is denying that our planet is deeply being affected by the shit we're putting out into the air, I hope you're the first ones to have to answer for whatever it is the fuck you're thinking. We better get a handle on taking care of this incredible planet of ours. I'm sure that not everybody on the planet is guilty of that, but we're in trouble. And our kids are the ones that are going to have to pay that fucking bill.
	If you're ever denying that we're fucking up our planet with the shit we're putting in our environment, god help you. Because that is irrefutable.
Can you mention anything about your experience with helping out the make a wish foundation?	It's an honor to be asked to work with the Make A Wish Foundation. And I'm a very lucky guy that I've been asked on a number of occasions. It just means you're in the thoughts of someone who is battling for their lives, and what greater service can there be?
Love watching you in SoA ( especially when you're ranting about pussy ) and also in Hellboy, so my question is, are there are any other superhero properties you would like to be involved in ?	Hellboy 3.
	He's kind of like the quintessential anti-hero, you know? He's a bachelor who lives with empty pizza boxes and beer cans and cat litter all over the place, a big slob, and he would much rather be watching Marx brother movies than being out saving the world, that's what makes him a great superhero for me. Because even though he possesses these extraordinary powers, he's an ordinary beer drinking slob. It's a delicious juxtaposition.
Hello Ron we think you're really good looking for your age and we'd like to know... Would you ever play Hellboy again?	I am possibly attempting to keep the conversation about Hellboy for me alive. It's an uphill battle but I'll never stop trying. I don't have any updates other than that.
For my question, on SoA, which regular in real life would most likely be in a motorcylce gang club?	The character Happy, because he was actually a member of the Hell's Angels.
Are you aware that Manchester United and England footballer Wayne Rooney named his son "Clay" after your character in Sons Of Anarchy?	I actually did read that, I guess on Twitter. And wow. All I can say is wow.
	Thanks Wayne! If I have another kid I'm going to name him Wayne Rooney after you.
What do you imagine the finished product would be like if Guillermo Del Toro and Jean-Pierre Jeunet did a film together?	Sensory overload.
Ron thanks for being such a great character actor! I grew up watching you on Beauty & the Beast then Hellboy & into Sons of Anarchy! You're just awesome! What's your favorite thing to eat from Krafty or do they make you special meals on set?	Well, craft services is definitely chocolate. I'm a chocaholic. I have about a $550 a week chocolate habit. I'll buy chocolate anywhere, from M&Ms to the best belgian chocolate on the planet, and everything in between. I eat what's in front of me. Because the craft service people on the shows I work on, they get to know that I really appreciate when they supply me with different types of chocolate. So I just like a good variety of it around, even if it's Reese's peanut butter cups? Whoever came up with that fucking combination? That guy is tied for first with the guy who invented Viagra.
Who wouldn't want to talk to Ron Perlman? Thanks for doing this AMA sir!	My pleasure!
What is your favorite scene in all of SoA?	That's a tough one. My favorite scenes are the ones I did with Kim Coates. He's the best actor on the show, myself included.
What's your favorite Sinatra song to do during Karaoke?	The Best Is Yet To Come, French Foreign Legion, Mood Indigo, My Funny Valentine, and You Go To My Head.
Hey Ron! Huge fan; LOVED you in Hellboy 1/2 and Blade 2. Also love all of your voice over work. What are you working on now besides 13 SINS? And what is a good reason to see it besides the fact that youre involved and youre an absolute fucking stud?	Beautiful film called Before I Disappear which will hopefully be out over the next few months. A new pilot for Amazon called Hand of God, which should air sometime in the summer or fall. About to shoot a movie called Moonwalkers, which should be out in 2015. And about to direct my first movie, called Wooden Lake, in August of 2014.
off, I just want to say thank you for doing this AMA. I've been a huge fan of your work since middle school. That said.	Pure luck!
I rewatched Tangled last night, and want to ask how did you get the role of the Stabbington brothers? I know you always wanted to do a Disney movie, but I am wondering how it happened.	Everybody else who was up for the role died.
Hi Ron. Curious what you think of your sons music? I'm a fan of Delroy Edwards and was always curious what your take on stripped down techno is.	I think my son is the smoothest motherfucker on the planet.
I love listening to your movie commentary, and it sounds like you have a lot of fun on set. On which movie did you have the most fun on set? And why?	I gotta keep going back to Hellboy, because Guillermo has got the intellect of like Nietzche, Schopenhauer and Freud all put together. But he never graduated from 11 year old fart jokes. Nobody has the right to be this funny and smart at the same time. His sets are a complete mirror of who he is. When we're actually doing the work we're incredibly serious and focused, but while we're waiting for lighting to happen, or in between takes, I've probably never laughed harder or had more fun than on his. And I've done 5 movies with him now, so it's not just any one movie, it's just being in his presence.
Hello Ron, As I love your narration in Fallout 3, and I've seen that you have done other jobs in video game voice over, what is your opinion about well known actors taking roles in video games, be it voice acting or even full acting with motion capturing. How do you see the future of actors in the video game industry?	I think the whole thing boils down to is imagining it in writing. It doesn't really matter where it exists. Like right now for me, because if you'd asked me this question 5 years ago it would have been different, the best writing is in cable television. 5 years ago, it would be in independent cinema. And sometimes the way these video games are rendered, it's a very satisfying exercise for a good actor to take part in, which is a great challenge. I love being a part of them because people write great characters and great stories. It doesn't matter what form it takes, as long as there's some great depth and great originality behind it.
Hey Ron!, what was your favorite segment from 1000 Ways to Die and what was the "death" you found to be the most hilarious?	Oh jeez there were too many to mention. I can't remember. But thank you for playing You Bet Your Life!
What'd ya have for lunch Mr. Perlman?	Branzino. Italian sea bass. It was pretty good.
Ron, just wanna say I loved the film Outlander. Did you enjoy filming in Nova Scotia? Any funny behind the scenes stories?	I'd rather be eating Nova Scotia. Especially with a nice bagel, a pumpernickel bagel and some schmear.
off, I just wanted to say you're an awesome actor. Personal favorites are your voiceovers of the Fallout series and the Hellboy adaptations. Pacific Rim just got even better with you in it! Thank you for doing this! Two part question, possibly things you get all the time: One, how long did it take to get the Hellboy gear on? Two, any plans to voiceover any future video games?	Don't have any video games on the horizon right now. The Hellboy makeup took 4-6 hours.
Is Theo Rossi a nice guy in real life? I loveee Juice. And how'd you like working on Sons of Anarchy?	Theo Rossi is a great guy. I love Juice too, he was one of my favorite things about Sons of Anarchy. My two best friends on that show were Theo and Jim.
Do you think Hellboy could take down a Kaiju or a Jaeger ?	Yes. At the same time. With one hand tied behind his back. It's Hellboy, for crying out loud.
Hi Ron, huge fan. My question is regarding Drive - I really enjoyed your part and found you made your character incredibly convincing. How did playing a bumbling criminal differ from playing a badass non-human vigilante? Also, what does Ryan Gosling smell like?	Um, let me answer the second question first. I didn't get close enough to Ryan to see what he smells like. My love for him is always going to be from afar, but no less intense. And you know, the character that I played was not unsimilar to other things I've played before, but the circumstances were unique because working on a set controlled by Nic is very very unlike anything I've ever experienced before, so it was kind of like one of those moments that I search out, which is the moment you're kind of reborn again, and you're discovering yourself as an actor the first time, so you're not getting caught up in this monotony, workaday, cynical repetition.
What is your favourite food?	Pizza. Pizza in general.
	I'm a New Yorker, so hint hint.
Hello Mr. Perlman, First thing I must say is that you are one of my most fave actors. Your movies are epic! So loved you in Hellboy.. You are fanastic. I have to ask, if you wasnt acting, what would you see yourself doing? What was one if your biggest influences that made you want to become an actor?	I had a number of influences. Jerry Lewis was a big influence on me, because the effects he had on me, with those scenes as an entertainer, made me think it would be really cool to do that. To look like you're having so much fun doing something, and to keep that many people involved in your being purely entertained. Actor influences, I remember when I saw The Hunchback of Notre Dame, I actually was blown away at trying to process the combination of being at one time that outcast and ugly and unacceptable and also that beautiful and attractive, whoever was able to thread that needle was doing something truly extraordinary. It just made me curious, like what must it feel like to begin an exercise like the one Charles Laughton was given in performing Quasimodo? And to be able to do it with so much effectiveness and poetry, and how much someone must feel as a result of having done that. I think that all this contributed to my curiosity about what it might be like to be an actor, and to have that kind of an opportunity.
Wow Ron, huge fan of yours, thanks for doing the AMA. You've played a really large spectrum of characters and I was wondering which one was the easiest for you to step into?	Hellboy.
Hey Ron, big fan here. I was just wondering, did you get Charlie Hunnam on board for Pacific Rim, or was it just a coincidence?	More like a coincidence. I think Guillermo knew about him more because Charlie had worked with Alfonso Cuaron on Children of Men, and Alfonso is Guillermo's best friend, so Guillermo had heard good things about Charlie from Alfonso and asked me what my experience was like with him, and I said "he's a shit, he's completely unprofessional, but if you want to hire him, I don't give a shit." that's not true, I gave him a ringing endorsement, but I think Guillermo was going to hire him anyway with or without my endorsement. I'm really fond of Charlie, I consider him a kid brother, I consider Guillermo a kid brother, and it was great to expand the family and get two people I really love working together.
Ron, Whats your best Arnold Schwarzenegger story?	I don't think I have a good Arnold Schwarzenegger story!
	I got to know Arnold a little bit when he had made True Lies because Jim was married to Linda Hamilton at the time, so there was a lot of socializing taking place, and I just remember Arnold being just really smart, really charming and really funny. A great storyteller, which, I'm a sucker for that. But I don't have a great Arnold story because I never got to work with Arnold.
I've seen many adorable pictures and videos of you with your little dog (a Jack Russell?). What is his name and do you take him with you everywhere?	His name is Nigel. He's a Jack Russell terrier. He's 10.5 years old. And I take him with me everywhere I can. There are places I can't take him, but he goes with me all places I can take him.
Did you enjoy being a part of Enemy At The Gates? How was it having those silver teeth?	I loved Enemy at the Gates. I loved the movie, and I'm glad you asked this question. The director is just magnificent, and he continues to reappear bearing the most beautiful gifts. The role of Koulikov, I hope you, all of you who are listening in or participating in this, go out and read East Street (my memoir) because so many of the questions you ask are going to be answered in this book. You'll read about the profound effect he had on my life.
Thanks for doing this AMA! I've enjoyed your work since I was a kid watching Beauty and the Beast with my mom. My question is: what role has been the biggest challenge for you so far, the one that required you to get the furthest out of your own head to really get this other person?	The one I'm about to do in Hand of God. Clearly the most challenging role I will ever play. It's hard to describe, because I'm in the process of creating it right now and I don't like to discuss characters I'm creating until they are done, but when we meet him he's in the midst of breaking down emotionally and spiritually. He's an incredibly complicated character even when he's in control. To play someone that complex and multidimensional as that, who also happens to be breaking down emotionally, is incredibly challenging and there's no playbook for it. There's nothing that will make the doing of this any easier.
Hey Ron, how much work is it getting to ready to be Hellboy everyday during shooting? Thanks for doing this!	It took some time as I mentioned earlier, it was 4-6 hours, but I don't consider it work, it was a labor of love the whole thing.
Hi Mr. Perlman! Huge fan, my boyfriend and I love Sons of Anarchy. Do you have any funny or interesting stories from the set of SOA that you care to share with us? Thank you for doing this AMA.	I'm sure I have a ton but I can't remember them now.
Who was your role model growing up?	Mickey Mantle.
What is the best advice ever given to you?	Stick with acting!
I don't know if it's too late but I loved you in ice pirates!	It's too late!
This is a statement rather then a question.. You're one sexy son of a bitch!	Mom?
Hi Ron.Since Mission To Moscow,you've had a hell of a lot of success but I'm curious as to know what you see as the defining moment in your movie career..And although I love Hellboy,Pacific Rim and Outlander my favourite film of yours is Mutant Chronicles.	I think I mentioned earlier that Guillermo fought for SEVEN YEARS to get me the role of Hellboy. The only reason I got that role was because he was successful at the end of the day. That gave me a kind of validation I would have never gotten were it not for him prevailing in a battle that all logic said he should have lost, and the way the business works said he should have lost. So I ended up being the beneficiary of this very singular devotion. And it ended up changing the entire direction of my career. So I would have to say that I don't remember what the fucking question was, but I think I answered it.
Hi Ron, No question, I just wanted to thank you for making Hellboy one of my favorite characters ever. Nobody else could have brought him to life like you did. I dressed like Hellboy for Halloween a couple of years ago, Link to instagram.com we're pretty much twins.	Well that's cool. Thanks darling.
Fucked if I know, but thank you for taking the fucking time, and thank you for being a fucking bad-ass!	You're fucking cool.
All this time I thought Ron Perlman was that boy band producer	You need to get it together!

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