This country is being run by Muppets!!

[carolegif]

Earlier today we had fishermen having to dump cod into the sea because we are not allowed to land them - stocks have to be preserved!!
Later today, once again our Chancellor is having to "apologise" for an idiot in the Inland Revenue who has lost computer disks with the personal details of 15 million people who get Child Benefit (all of them presumably).
Yesterday we had Mr Darling explaining it was all the press's fault for the problems at Northern Rock (no, it was because they borrowed money they couldn't pay back!). Now we have Paragon in trouble with the same thing.
Now down in the South West, we have the local water authority going into the timeshare business by building lots of timeshare flats by a reservoir in an area of outstanding national beauty.

All this and Gordon Brown fell asleep during the Remembrance Day service!

You couldn't make it up!

carolegif

[Emu2005]

Hmm well obviously I really care about this as I felt the need to post 3 times somehow!

[mrs_overall]

Oooh, we've got identical triplets on AB now!

[sp1814]

Reverandfunk

Oh thank you

I'd successfully forgotten about John Major having sexual intercourse with Edwina Currie, and now thanks to you, I have that image slap bang in my head again.

But seriously - the last Tory government was about as effective as Heather Mills trying to play 'Twister'.

[Reverandfunk]

SP on this rare occassion I will agree with you lol.

The labour party today is the tory party of 20 years ago. For example until this govt when was the labour party ever known for prudence?

I onced asked a lecturer at university what he thought about politics and he said it was: "All a load of bo***cks"

More and more people are getting wise to it hence at every local and general election voting levels reach a new low because of voter apathy.

personally Im right wing on some things and left on others but will never vote (I haven't since I was 18) because what will change?

Nothing.

[vehelpfulguy]

>More and more people are getting wise to it hence at >every local and general election voting levels reach a new >low because of voter apathy.

MPs and councillers aren't some mythical species, they are just ordinairy people.

There is nothing to stop you or anyone else standing for election or forming a political party.

If we all sit back and say I am not going to bother to vote then the inept MPs have won.

If you are not happy join a political party, or form one.

[Reverandfunk]

Let the inept MP's win. We already have because they are already elected. I dont agree with a lot of labour policies and the same can be said of the conservatives so I don't vote.

I dont want to join a political party or form one I just keep my head down and get on with things and let it blow over my head because i can do nothing about it.

[Skreecheeboy]

There's no excuse for voter apathy rev, it's your democratic duty to vote in an election. A non-vote isn't a protest vote, it means nothing, if you want your voice heard vote for one of the smaller partys, at least choose one whose policies are the closest to how you think the country should be run.

[Reverandfunk]

So skreech if I voted for a small party what would I be achieving? They aint going to be in a position to put forward their policies. Protest vote doesn't wash either because the parties don't care.

I couldn't give a monkeys chuff about voting because the majority of people are under the misapprehension that political parties are actually bothered about the voter. get in power and do what we want, we did say we were going to do that but we've changed our minds.

[Reverandfunk]

Lets not forget old lamont who when he was chancellor didnt pay his credit card bills

Lord Archer Chairman of the party jailed

Jonathan Aitken jailed


Carole they are all the same.

[sp1814]

Dame Shirley Porter too. Remember her? Should've been jailed, but fled the country.

[Reverandfunk]

I rest my case Carole lol

By all means run down labour but as shown the conservatives are just as bad ;-)

[ludwig]

Come off it Rev, your moral indignation at the corrupt and inneffectual nature of politics fools no-one. We all know you just can't be @rsed to walk up to the polling station.

[Skreecheeboy]

Yeah but there are more than 2 parties! If a significant amount of people vote for one of the smaller parties and there ends up being no overall majority in government, then the parties all need to come to agreements on policies. Look what's happening with the hung parliament in Scotland, the parties all get the opportunity to put forward ideas and negotiate outcomes and vote on policies, even though there's one party with more seats, they don't have a clear majority so they aren't able to do what they like, which is what always happens at westminster because too many people think there are only 2 parties!

[Goodsoulette]

I'm not going to add to the moans but I do think that we shouldn't be intensively fishing for cod. Too right they should put them back. Nothing wrong with pollock for your fish and chips instead of cod.

[carolegif]

We should all form our own Answer Bank party. I bet we could put the world to rights within a year!

On second thoughts, perhaps within six months we would all be as out of touch and corrupt as the rest of them!!

carolegif

[Full Tilt]

After reading all the postings do you not now wish and hope that Scotland and Wales will split away from England and pay their own way instead of sponging off us and at the same time take that one eyed scotch pillock with them. FT

[sp1814]

carolegif

Speak for yourself...I'm already out of touch and corrupt.

Actually, think about it...wouldn't it be brilliant to for a political party who's slogan was:

OUT OF TOUCH AND CORRUPT

There's something subverse about that...you would certainly get a proportion of people voting for them ("Well, at least they're honest"...that kind of thing).

[jno]

if you don't preserve cod stocks, they vanish. They're an endangered species. Rather than fishermen dumping them, they shouldn't be catching them in the first place. What kind of idiot species destroys the food it lives on? And what exactly has Gordon Brown got to do with overfishing?