Comments on: A Question of Democracy http://www.fallen-angel.co.uk/2008/09/14/a-question-of-democracy/ Rob's Homepage Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Pandemonia http://www.fallen-angel.co.uk/2008/09/14/a-question-of-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-415 Pandemonia Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:18:25 +0000 http://www.theshitefantastic.net/fallen-angel/?p=166#comment-415 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?｢どｨび｢ll vote for him, I?｢どｨび｢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?｢どｨび｢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.

]]> By: Ben http://www.fallen-angel.co.uk/2008/09/14/a-question-of-democracy/comment-page-1/#comment-414 Ben Sun, 14 Sep 2008 16:55:11 +0000 http://www.theshitefantastic.net/fallen-angel/?p=166#comment-414 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. 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.

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