Prue
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Post by Prue on May 9, 2015 21:18:44 GMT
This story's just starting to come through here www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-10/riots-erupt-in-london-against-re-election-of-david-cameron/6458098I find it extraordinary. I support people protesting against policies they think unfair, or governments not keeping election promises, though I've never protested myself, but riots in London because of the election result? Surely free and fair elections are one of the things that's so much better about democracy than other political systems. It seems strange. I also wonder, since you guys don't have compulsory voting, whether any of the protestors bothered to vote themselves. But that's just the cynical bit of me  While we're on UK politics: Arena, why are all Scottish politicians named after sea creatures? They had the Salmon guy*; now a Sturgeon. All looks a bit fishy to me. *all right, I know it was really Salmond, but bear with me for the sake of the joke  |
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Post by goldelox on May 10, 2015 9:55:33 GMT
They were standing against the 'kippers'.
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Post by Deleted on May 11, 2015 11:36:07 GMT
I too found it sickening that a hard-of-thinking mob should behave like that, and deface a war memorial.
They are too stupid to realise that for all the faults our system is probably as fair and untainted as any in the world. In some places they would not even have the right to vote, and if they dared protest would be slung in some crap cell for as long as the authorities, or the army decided to keep them there. Those that were not shot on the streets.
As said above, how many bothered to vote, and of those how many were passionate enough about their particular cause to go and campaign on behalf of that party?
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