Floating voter - UKIP why not?

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eharding

13,568 posts

283 months

Sunday 7th October 2012
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BJG1 said:
Breadvan72 said:
Don't say naughty things about St Farage, Kermit! That will make you an extremely unpleasant person.
Cheers for making my point. You have pretty much exclusively been a condescending arse adding very little to the discussion.
Well, thus far your contribution has been to pop up, announce your dislike for a couple of those who view UKIP as an extremely dubious outfit, and then accuse one of them of 'adding very little to the discussion'.

Is that it?, or have you any further pearls of bumptious guff you're willing to share?

The Don of Croy

5,973 posts

158 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Regrettably, whether you 'UKIP' or not, the chances of anything changing in the UK for the foreseeable is unlikely IMHO.

Too many turkeys have a vote and they'll not be choosing Christmas.

Democracy is a nice experiment, but once the greater populace were able to vote themselves money (or rather what money provides - shelter, healthcare, education, etc etc) without having to worry about where it came from (as they will never be in a position to pay it back)then the writing is on the wall.

No reason why we shouldn't give the complacent former Conservative Party a good kicking though...


anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Democracy, as Churchill said, is the worst system of government, except for all the others.

Fatigue with democracy got us into trouble in the 1930s. We should hold onto it as the best of a bad lot. Trying to educate the population to think about stuff would assist, but that is hard to do.

Phat Phinger Edit.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 8th October 12:23

chris watton

22,477 posts

259 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Breadvan72 said:
Democracy, as Churchill said, is the worst system of oivernment, except for all the others.

Fatigue with democracy got us into trouble in the 1930s. We should hold onto it as the best of a bad lot. Trying to educate the population would assist, but that is hard to do.
The population is now too 'fragmented' to be educated in such a common cause. It may have worked 50 years ago - but I very much doubt if it would now.

I will be voting UKIP, BTW smile

Edited by chris watton on Monday 8th October 12:22

The Don of Croy

5,973 posts

158 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Breadvan72 said:
Democracy, as Churchill said, is the worst system of government, except for all the others.

Fatigue with democracy got us into trouble in the 1930s. We should hold onto it as the best of a bad lot. Trying to educate the population to think about stiff would assist, but that is hard to do.
Arguably there is too much stiff for the population to handle, judging by popular internet searches...

In my view it all comes back to education (in the wider sense). Too much and you question everything without actually doing much, too little...well, there's plenty of that too.

On my local TV the other week they showed a local council initiative for 'unblocking' larger LA homes so families could move into houses suited to their needs, and single elderly residents be encouraged to downsize. All very reasonable. Except at no point did anyone ask the (many) young family makers why they had chosen to procreate without already having adequate shelter. But they were sure they needed help however.

Common sense - as previously used decades ago - would point voters towards parties with a broader picture, a vision for the future, probably based on a guiding philosophy (capitalism / marxism / communism / biroid lifestyle). Today we want soundbites and reality TV. Even if our Gov't goes to war it is far away and not relevant.

anonymous-user

53 months

Monday 8th October 2012
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Sorry for the typo! Persuading the populace to think about stiffies is not hard.