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dmulally said:
Sydney during the 2000 games remains the only time I have enjoyed driving around town. The place was a ghost town due to everyone thinking that billions of rental cars would clog up the place.
Stop posting things based in fact. This is a traditional UK moan thread.
When things work out they will go strangely quiet, and then read something else about people on benefits or something and have a moan about that instead.
Colonial said:
dmulally said:
Sydney during the 2000 games remains the only time I have enjoyed driving around town. The place was a ghost town due to everyone thinking that billions of rental cars would clog up the place.
Stop posting things based in fact. This is a traditional UK moan thread.
When things work out they will go strangely quiet, and then read something else about people on benefits or something and have a moan about that instead.
So true.
dmulally said:
Colonial said:
dmulally said:
Sydney during the 2000 games remains the only time I have enjoyed driving around town. The place was a ghost town due to everyone thinking that billions of rental cars would clog up the place.
Stop posting things based in fact. This is a traditional UK moan thread.
When things work out they will go strangely quiet, and then read something else about people on benefits or something and have a moan about that instead.
So true.
interestingly, the build up to the Olympics on TV, news and other media is definitely very good PR for the UK from what i am seeing in Asia, it only seems to be the people back in the UK that are moaning miserable gits about it!
From here it looks like it will be a bloody good show!
t loads of tax - loads of my tax goes on stuff I am not interested in, nor have any use for. Horses for courses...There's an interesting article on the games--> Jumping Through Hoops and well worth a read.
DJRC said:
Come again?
Take a look at who runs for office in the 2 foremost Republics in the world...France and America.
Now correlate what you just said with the above, available real world evidence. The notion that I would have to elect a Francois Hollande, Nicholas Sarkozy, Segolene Royal, Marine le Pen, Barrack Obama, Bush, Clinton, Romney, Al Gore, John Kerry...
...the country would revolt within a generation.
Elected politicians are elected politicians the world over. The best part of 2500 years of human history experimenting with democracy has shown that with absolute, irrevocable, cast iron proof. Be it the Greeks with the Demos, Romans with the Senate or modern polics. In all that 2500 years of democratic history, which has been the most stable, successful and popular system? The British system. We've kept it going for 1200 yrs, longer than anybody else has managed any other system at any time in human history.
You can keep ideology, Ill go with history thankyou.
I couldn't agree more, with both your stance, and that of Derek Smith. What very much struck me about the Jubilee celebrations - quite apart from the clear, vocal and majority support for the royal family - is how much of a constant the monarchy is. And how much I appreciate that constant in a time where everything is changing, and much of it for the worse.Take a look at who runs for office in the 2 foremost Republics in the world...France and America.
Now correlate what you just said with the above, available real world evidence. The notion that I would have to elect a Francois Hollande, Nicholas Sarkozy, Segolene Royal, Marine le Pen, Barrack Obama, Bush, Clinton, Romney, Al Gore, John Kerry...
...the country would revolt within a generation.
Elected politicians are elected politicians the world over. The best part of 2500 years of human history experimenting with democracy has shown that with absolute, irrevocable, cast iron proof. Be it the Greeks with the Demos, Romans with the Senate or modern polics. In all that 2500 years of democratic history, which has been the most stable, successful and popular system? The British system. We've kept it going for 1200 yrs, longer than anybody else has managed any other system at any time in human history.
You can keep ideology, Ill go with history thankyou.
Laurel Green said:
There's an interesting article on the games--> Jumping Through Hoops and well worth a read.
Interesting machinations, but a sort of false innocence about it to me, and I would guess many others, who never thought the Olympics was anything other than a big corrupt gravy train.jbi said:
This is the biggest stain on the olympic landscape IMO.
WTF were they thinking?
hairykrishna said:
eldar said:
In that case, every man, woman and child would have been £286 richer, and we could have watched the Olympics on TV.
I hadn't really thought of it in those terms. Can I have the money instead please? 300 quid for a sports day is a bit steep for my liking.Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff