Should they bring you the majority voting system, you'd have less reasons to not feel responsible for what is going on, mind you!
On 19 Apr., 02:49, archytas <[email protected]> wrote: > British politics has been dire since the mid-70s and everyone threw in > the towel on alternatives to letting the banks run the country. I'm > not sure why this happened, though it became obvious around then that > the Soviets and Chinese had been running vile forms of state > capitalism under cruel tyranny around then and skills were becoming > ever more machine embodied and transplantable to wherever operating > costs were cheapest. We have had no real politics in Britain since. > Each election has been about "change", though none has really been > offered and certainly none achieved, other than the breaking up of > social solidarity and massive immigration. > Now we have "real change" on the scene. Nick Clegg is young, pretty > and has an even prettier partner (the very lovely Miriam). He's a > public schoolboy and looks every inch the same as what has gone > before, without being tarnished by being a member of either of our > usual ruling parties. All he's done is stand up in one debate and > look so very much better than the two absolute turd-marionettes put up > by our main parties. I intended to vote Liberal Democrat long before > this election run in, simply because the other parties both now have > such a severe and vile record of sleaze. I'm worried this is a > millennial moment. > > One poll now shows the Liberals on 35%, Tories on 33 and Nulabour on > 28. This would still leave the Liberals with less than half the > number of seats of both the other parties, exposing the farcical > nature of our electoral system. With luck we will all throw our votes > in the air and give them a massive majority to bring in a new system > we can actually vote for after fair debate. > > Most millennial moments, as Obama watchers will know, are full of hot > air that fades away. Maybe Clegg is one last hope for this sad > country? Nulabour are evil now and nothing at all to do with the old > Labour Party - it's as though the stoats and weasels have taken it > over (maybe the CIA did?). The Tories are now Blue Socialists > promising a "Big Society" with little government. They will be saying > that 'the State will wither away' soon! Everyone except the Liberals > is offering "no change to services" as they mutter about leading > massive change and pretend they can mend the budget without raising > taxes and still give their friends loads a dosh. > > Soon the Liberals will be accused of being queer, pansies, unBritish > and about to sell us out to Islam by abandoning our nuclear deterrent > (the one we rent from the US - who keep failing to send us the key) > and leaving Afghanistan. One can only hope the spin will not only > fail, but also turn more of us against its use and the crass main > parties. Whatever is going on it does show just how sad our system > now is. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > ""Minds Eye"" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
