On Wednesday, June 10, 2009 8:13 PM [GMT+1=CET], Bru <[email protected]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > Roger wrote ... > >>> Nope, George Orwell. I was rereading 1984 this week, and a lot of it >>> makes a lot more sense to me now than when I had to read it for >>> English O-level. >> >> Yep, rather prescient for the current political situation isn't it? >> Why do they persist in treating the electorate as mushrooms? > > Which rather begs the question ... > > Why do we, the electorate, persist in electing them?
I reckon most people are voting *against* a party rather than for one, though one optimist elsewhere thinks that the recent apparent gains in support for UKIP and the Illinois Nazis^w^w BNP really *were* due to The Electorate being disaffected with the EU. (Boggles on both pistons) -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> There ought to be a /La/ against it.
