Re: @Bill re: VOTE!
@ Anomalous Cowturd
"The BIG problem is not the voters, it's the choices."
Somewhat but lets think it through. Every time we get a leader who wants to lead we dont want them. We want them to bend to our will all the time and through voting we get to choose until they are as malleable as we dont want. Blair got power through the gift of lying with a smile, which just so happens to be what we have as the main 3 parties now. We did have a decision maker who was strong and made tough choices but she is practically regarded as the devil in this country so nobody wants to be like Thatcher. However her kind of leadership at the top of each party but with their own views of how to proceed is what we need to make the tough choices instead of lies on one hand and a slap with the other.
For 13 years people voted for a hateful little man who conned the country and has now won awards regardless of the wars and death he caused through his lies. A man who introduced uni fees and did much harm to the country was voted and loved.
So do our politicians want to accept they will upset some but do what they believe is right for the country, or do they lie, cheat and steal but you will support them? The choice is obvious and they dont pretend to be saints.
So now the public mood slowly shifts from boy band looks where everyone is plastic (Blair, Cameron, Clegg, Millitwit) to toying with the idea of the oddball. So we have Farrage vs Boris but Boris has the benefit of already being part of a 'standard' party that people already know and hate so will happily vote for. How UKIP have done so well I have no idea but they offer enough of a threat that the main parties bend to whatever policy UKIP shout about. We have the politics we want. The one we voted for and the one we fear to change.
We have people who vote for their 'team' red. blue or yellow. We have extremists who vote BNP, green, etc. We have rogues who vote smaller parties because they will never get in. We have the uncaring who spoil their ballot but then complain anyway because a celebrity did it (ha). And then we have people who accept the perfect party cannot exist because it is different for everyone and instead vote for what they feel is right for the country regardless of everyone elses belief.
If we want someone worth voting for maybe we need voters worth the effort.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
