The Eric Morecambe lookalike runner-up who now runs France has been derided as a hater of the rich and as an idiot. Sorry, lost the link for now. It’s true though, he is.
Well, is that not what he was elected for? Was that not the platform he ran with? Just like Socialists everywhere he went for ‘I am rich and want more of your money but those who actually worked for their money must be despised and hated and give their money to me – I mean, us.’ Labour voters vote for this every election. Now Lib Dem and Tory voters vote for it too.
There is a saying that you get the government you deserve. No you don’t. You get the one the drones deserve. The zombies have more votes than the awake.
The drones in France wanted a country free of employers and they will soon achieve that.
Isn’t democracy wonderful?
“The zombies have more votes than the awake.”
Democracy can’t ever produce a good result, for that reason.
The only good thing about it, is that no particular bunch of scoundrels can stay in indefinitely; they have to take it in turns. One lot has a go at the controls, while the other lot does the back-seat-driving.
Arguably, the opposition has a more important job than the Government? But their heckling is not very convincing, as we all remember that they’re no better.
Perhaps the job of Opposition should not be given to the losers. It’s so important, that we should have a seperate election for official hecklers?
Maybe even daily elections? One could vote by buying their “Newspaper”? Perhaps we already do? But it doesn’t work so well, now that they just regurgitate contrived press releases instead of employing journalists.
Zaphod
“Isn’t democracy wonderful?”
I really don’t know. Perhaps we ought to give it a chance and see.
Unfortunately we allow dimbos to vote. Remember the average IQ is 100 and it’s always 100 because it’s set up that way. Therefore half the population are at 100 or below and they can all vote. Oily Al wants Scottish kids to vote at 16, in time for his referendum, because they’ll have had a few years of school indoctrination by then.
Democracy is what we have, but the politicians have worked out that they can use it against us. Unfortunately it’s still the best system available.
There’s only really a couple of ways to solve this one. Firstly, limit voting to those people who have either by dint of their own work or by being married to someone else who works managed to pay at least £1000 in tax in the last financial year. This puts a parasitism block on the system, so that votes cannot easily be bought save by being efficient and reducing levels of tax.
Secondly, much, much more power of an effective nature needs to be devolved down to lower levels of control, including (and this is the crucial bit) the power to make a complete cock of things. So, remove national minimum wages, and permit these to be set (or left unset) at a local level. Remove nationally-set levels of benefits and remove the national-level taxation needed to pay these, and allow local authorities to set and impose taxes to pay for them.
These changes have the power to be a force for a great deal of learning and good in the country, since they permit local people to really and truly dig themselves into a deep, smelly pit through their own actions of electing Socialist morons. Allowing local-level morons the power to really and truly fuck things up for everyone is the only way that the electorate can be taught that their vote counts, and that reflexively voting for anything wearing a rosette of a particular colour is foolish in the extreme.
What I expect and hope to happen following such a devolution of power is that somewhere where the local population are in the main cretinous, lazy morons will elect the normal Socialist knuckle-draggers to power, then insist upon featherbedded levels of benefits, sky-high minimum wages and the like, then be very surprised when their Socialist paradise goes messily bust. A few times round the block on this one ought to convince most of the country that yes, your vote does count and no, electing politicians on the basis of promised bribes is not a sensible way to vote.
It sounds good, but the currently-dangerous places would become extremely-dangerous places. You would need a very effective police force in place from the start. Not necessarily in the dangerous places, but in the better-run places next door.
Hollande is spectacularly stupid and I am told by a French colleague that he only got the job because the Socialists knew that they couldn’t win the previous election so fielded an expendable moron as a damage limitation exercise. He was apparently supposed to be replaced by Dominique Strauss-Kahn who is quite bright but these days has a bit of an image problem. Before we gloat too much about the French, we should perhaps consider our own situation.
You’re absolutely right, of course, Ivan. Our lot – both the present incumbents and the so-called “opposition” – are no better. In fact, apart from the EU’s old thorn in the side, Vaclav Klaus, I can’t think of a single European leader who doesn’t display the same faults – out of touch, unconvincing, uncaring, self-interested, self-aggrandising, self-satisfied and arrogant – as Hollande. In fact, it’s the very “sameness” of them all which convinces me more and more each day that all national European leaders are, in effect, simply puppet leaders installed at the behest of the EU to give a veneer of independence and freedom to EU national governments.
Unfortunately, it’s a veneer which the majority of the gullible public are still fooled by. I hear many people moaning and groaning about this Government, or the last one, or the one before that, but rarely do I hear anyone who’s put two and two together and realised that they’ve all actually been working for the same entity all along – the EU – and that ultimately it’s they who call the shots, not the spokesmen they appoint to push their aims to fruition in the form of national Prime Ministers, Presidents, Members of Parliament etc.
There are still Scots who don’t believe me when I tell them that independence from England means nothing. They’ll still be a region of the EU in the end, and whether they are linked to England or not will make no difference to the final outcome at all.
Maybe when their cash machines hand out Euros and tobacco and booze is banned, maybe then they’ll listen. It’ll be too late.
I’m not gloating. Our leaders are all as dim as an energy-saving bulb too.