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Re: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Reply #15 - Apr 13th, 2006 at 7:59am
 
Not gonna happen, I think, but I do sometimes think about some of these ideas and think, "hang on, that's not Labour.  Weren't you guys socialists once?"  Tuition fees, for instance.  Big issue for me; I am one of the first to have to pay the whole £3000 a year.  Not a very socialist path of education policy.
  But I don't think it will lead to totalitarianism.  We are basically just mimicking America, which is a shame.  (Why can't we make up our own way, without deliberately infuriating the Islamists etc?)  I see the solution coming when people just calm down, people don't even think about invading Iran, and we try to patch things up.  Maybe when a Democrat is back in the White House. The late nineties was great - why can't we have that back?  And besides, we might not even have the same country in 20 years.  The effects of global warming could cause a massive rise in temperature in summer, and a great decrease in winter; and the rising seas will engulf a lot of the coastal areas, which, let's face it, is much of the country.
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Re: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
Reply #16 - Apr 13th, 2006 at 8:05am
 
Okay another example (lol - I really do have to go do some work, but this is more fun)

Before the onset of the iraqi invasion (war my arse - [i]'it's slings and arrows against the lightning[/i]' ) Over 1 million people filled the streets saying it  was wrong and not to do it.
Now in a 'democracy' that would have had some weight.
It was ignored because the government - even then - knew it had sufficient powers to ignore the general populace.
that kind of regime ring any bells ?
It sure as hell isn't what I would call a democracy.
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Reply #17 - Apr 13th, 2006 at 8:14am
 
Yeah, but you can get some good comedy out of tyrants.  "Team America", that's pretty funny; and stand-up comics can get plenty of mileage out of politics nowadays.  But if a government of England wants to change the law without asking the populace in any way, then they will have to go through me.  A whiny little grey, old, politician?  Single right hook, that'll settle it.  Unless he's John "Marlon On The Waterfront" Prescott.
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