And another thing.........
the fact that they wear their baseball caps back to frint!!!!!
I like the ones who have the tanning tubes and fish tank lights underneath their cars best..like an alien vehicle...And those daft little blue lights on the bonnet...sweet
I want to respond the the 'politician' thing....
Politicians are voted into Parliament by you lot (and I bloody well hope you do vote otherwise you hae no right to complain!!) - if you don't like what they do then vote them out again and try another one.
However - if you are SO fierce in your complaints about them then you go try and be one and see how you get on!! Never mind just watching PMQ on a Wednesday for an hour, get involved, speak to you MP, ask what s/he is doing, tell them what you think, spend a day shadowing them at work, ask them what decisions they have made and why etc etc etc.
Being an MP is only a job - the interview is in public and the work is time-limited to a (max) 4 year contract then they have to do the whole public interview again. Meanwhile those who can't be bothered to vote or don't want to vote sit in pub corners and judge them. It makes me mad.
If you think democracy stinks try living in a dictatorship/autocracy and see how you like it. Thank your lucky stars you have a freedom which citizens of other nations are dying to achieve, and I mean dying in the correct sense.
Again, the Euro-parliament falls into the same category. VOTE... make a difference, have your voice heard. I don't care who you vote for just do it. With rights comes responsiblities. We are so priviliged in this country.
End of rant!
Don't take it that way - I just mean some of us are older than 16 and we know this.
In all honesty - my sense of frustration and annoyance is not at all with you Jags, but with our political class - which is now jaded, deseased, vain and permanently cornered by a media which abuses its power.
If our current political class were displaced by people who conducted politics in a fresh, more mature manner - they would probably be also naive and eaten alive by the media, corporate ruthlessness and politicians abroad who resembled sharks and wolves.
I'll comment no more now.
Proportional representation + people who vote en masse = potentially rapid displacement of the jaded, entrenched political class
PS THE ANARCHIST VOTERS DIDN'T VOTE - because that was the really anarchic thing to do!!
I agree with much of what Alex has said. It does feel sometimes as though we are living in dictatorship (political correctness and like), sometimes it's like the Macatrney era in America, if somebody makes a point about an issue of the day and it goes against government thinking a witch hunt ensues.
As for politicians I thought they were elected to represent the people, but come a vote in parliament, such as top up fees and all these representitives of the people are against the government until they are told "Your leader doesn't like that" and suddenly morals go out of the window and constituants can take a hike.
That's all I have to say on the subject, I am now going to mellow for the evening.
Jags and ManAlive
We may say things in different ways but I thing we all concur on the fact that you have to be prepared to vote. But people must not only vote but make a considered choice when they mark the paper with an X.
Unless people stop voting for a party and start voting for a person and his beliefs we will never break out of this system we are in.
OK - no more politics for me today.
Back to my original hate.........
I HATE boy racers!
Kitkat if you are in the know you can still get your bargin . Sorry to be sooooo sad about work :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry:
Jaine you have a good thread here ! lots and lots of replies xxx
One thing that drives me crazy is hearing a snippet of music on an ad on TV, and having to spend the next hour remembering what it is.
The Chemical Brothers, "The Private Psychadelic Reel", if you were curious. I'll be able to sleep tonight.
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