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A Question of Democracy
Much is being made at the moment of the fact that Gordon Brown is under attack from inside and outside of his own party and generally it does look like he won’t be able to hold on much longer.
I think this is all generally pretty unfair, to be honest, but there we go. That’s a discussion for another day, really.
What is annoying me though is the constant references to what will happen if he goes and that the country will then end up with another prime minister that it didn’t vote for.
Er… hello? Since when has this country voted for its Prime Minister? I think, roughly, it comes to about never. It votes for its governing party, and the leader of that becomes Prime Minister. We don’t vote for the guy at the top, it’s not the way the system works. Please, people, try and put that idea out of your heads.
So if shortly a general election is announced please don’t vote for the party based on the leader, vote for the party itself. (And if you do that, you’ll note, Cameron becomes a much less attractive option, because however reasonable he sometimes looks, the Conservative party itself is still definitely a bunch of c**ts.)
Posted on September 14, 2008 | Filed Under The World we Live In
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Response left by Ben on September 14th, 2008
Absolutely seconded. Unfortunately people in this country believe that the person they can see represents the party rather than just being a figurehead. Given a choice, if Wayne Rooney was in charge of the Conservative party there would be probably the largest turnout of non-voters ever seen, and god forbid it was a phone vote. All those X-Factor viewers going, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ll vote for him, I?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ve heard of him. I would love to be able to isolate politicians from the view of the public and could only communicate policies by simply worded text. Then the few of us who thought it was important to vote could do so on the basis of the policies proposed, and take those to task who lied.
Of course it?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢s interesting that subliminal advertising and outright lies are not allowed whereas hectoring rhetoric and bitching about the opposition rather than provide clear alternatives is completely permissible.
Response left by Pandemonia on September 18th, 2008
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Thank you! Finally someone who isn’t uttering that depressing “they can’t be any worse than…” load of bullpoop. They said it about Hitler, they said it about Palpatine and they said it about Ed Tudor-Pole. Well, okay, maybe not Ed Tudor-Pole. I don’t think anyone was disputing Richard O’Brien’s reign. No matter how ludicrously juvenile internal Labour party politics get, I’d still sooner stick with them than see a (sadly increasingly inevitable) blue Britain next year.
People should pass a simple intelligence test before being given the vote. Or using the underground. Or having children. This is the manifesto of the right wing liberal.