I've just thought of another for 1977 - A Farewell to Kings by Rush, In my book their best album, but with Permanent Waves a very close second.
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I'm no lover of Bush, Blair or any other politician but I don't thinks its nearly as simple as which person gets voted in.
Most politicians on a personal level are reasonable individuals (of the ones I've had dealings with).
Politics is more about how things look than how things are so all parties have become more concerned with image than substance.
Then there's the fact that politics attracts a certain sort of person - so we, the voting public, vote for or against individuals and parties.
To my mind the whole weakness in the system both sides of the pond have is that there is no way of voting for no-one and making that vote count, if you see what I mean.
How can we register our displeasure with those on offer? To not vote doesn't work, so the only options left are to vote for the lesser evil or spoil your paper, and neither of those get the message across.
My own view is that we need an official abstention, and the bigger the vote for no-one becomes the more likely that someone will notice that the current state of politics is not sustainable and hopefully change will happen.
But while we continue to vote in smaller and smaller numbers and return unrepresentative governments whose main objective is the gaining and retention of power and not the effective government of the state for the benefit of its people, nothing will change.
Sorry to be pessimistic - but it really is in our hands ultimately.
SA
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Yep, I do, mostly the giving part.
SA
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Thanks for the support FF, this one's kinda died :cry:
SA
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Waaaaah!!!!
I can't see the pics, they just won't download. AND my band is broad, (via satellite dontcha know).
I'm just going to have to keep refreshing until they appear - and I'm very good at the 'fresh' part :twisted:
SA
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