tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post1262140095091621917..comments2023-07-04T16:57:28.929+01:00Comments on Where's the Benefit?: Democracy, but only if you pay for itLisahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16714918894319998184noreply@blogger.comBlogger13125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-21217844838287932012011-05-14T20:21:06.051+01:002011-05-14T20:21:06.051+01:00If your on this site then you should vote labour i...If your on this site then you should vote labour in 2015. I know that's a while away but its the only feasible party that can stop this rubbishAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-31867662872464283432011-05-06T23:59:35.924+01:002011-05-06T23:59:35.924+01:00@Jan your post was catharthic for me too lol.@Jan your post was catharthic for me too lol.nanobotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-8099478309348898862011-05-06T15:27:14.245+01:002011-05-06T15:27:14.245+01:00>> there isn't some kind of low scum of ...>> there isn't some kind of low scum of non-workers out there who are fundamentally "not like you" <<<br /><br />We tend not to vote Tory, I think that's all the 'not like you' that matters to him.<br /><br />Mim mentioned Alan B'stard, who of course was a caricature of a Tory, but I was thinking about this last night, and people like Cowie, IDS, Freud, and Cameron actually are behaving like caricatures of Tories. Conservatism has never been a touchy-feely kind of movement, but the current crop seem to have more in common with B'Stard and Loadsamoney than with traditional grass roots conservatism. The Essex Boy market traders screwed up badly and nearly brought the banking system to a collapse, but it _can't_ be their fault, therefore it must be ours and we must be punished....DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-10405048777435165852011-05-06T09:48:38.372+01:002011-05-06T09:48:38.372+01:00Sadly this stuff doesn't even surprise me anym...Sadly this stuff doesn't even surprise me anymore.nanobotnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-45934404143216168832011-05-06T01:48:16.857+01:002011-05-06T01:48:16.857+01:00Alan B'Stard suggested something very similar ...Alan B'Stard suggested something very similar in the Eighties.Mimnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-42654195070785277092011-05-05T22:03:06.518+01:002011-05-05T22:03:06.518+01:00I wrote quite a long post in a friend's blog t...I wrote quite a long post in a friend's blog this afternoon noting how repellent I found the parliamentary system in a series of SFnal novels, because it's deliberately set up to mirror the British parliament of 1800, including the tax requirement in the franchise. Turns out truth is stranger than fiction. If Ian Cowie wants to drag this aspect of the franchise back to 1800, then presumably he also wants to strip it from women, under 21s, and Catholics.<br /><br />>> That’s how non-contributory democracy led to the credit crisis in a nutshell. <<<br /><br />You would have thought having some vague concept of how the market works would be a necessary prerequisite to being finance editor of a broadsheet, apparently not.<br /><br />I'm normally loathe to throw 'fascist' around lightly, but it seems all too appropriate in this case!DavidGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11734028655032503805noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-82163482818428910112011-05-05T19:33:52.432+01:002011-05-05T19:33:52.432+01:00There's the small matter of the universal suff...There's the small matter of the universal suffrage being a fundamental human right, too. I believe it is protected in law.Timhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06323704027686670553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-59754534615642307742011-05-05T18:52:30.467+01:002011-05-05T18:52:30.467+01:00@Anon:
No, he wants to allow pensioners the vote ...@Anon:<br /><br />No, he wants to allow pensioners the vote "because of the fiscal contributions to society they are likely to have paid earlier".Lisahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16714918894319998184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-60813847774937539152011-05-05T18:47:59.861+01:002011-05-05T18:47:59.861+01:00Completely and totally stark raving bonkers. So, t...Completely and totally stark raving bonkers. So, the proposal is that nobody on a basic state pension is allowed to vote?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-78722738429134744862011-05-05T18:40:31.342+01:002011-05-05T18:40:31.342+01:00Arbeit Macht Frei, and all that, eh?
This article...Arbeit Macht Frei, and all that, eh?<br /><br />This article's got me in tears. Some of my family were killed in the Holcaust, but I'm so glad my grandad (who escaped from the camp he was in) died last year, because something like this would've killed him. <br /><br /> I hope this evil fascist also proposes taking the vote from bastards like Phillip Green et al., who squirrel their money away in offshore accounts.Burtienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-52134729096331632442011-05-05T18:25:43.974+01:002011-05-05T18:25:43.974+01:00I realise he's using a poker analogy of some k...I realise he's using a poker analogy of some kind, but it seems a bit ironic when you consider that people with money are the ones whose skin ISN'T in the game. Their income, on which they pay tax, insulates them from bad luck or the effects of a disability and can be staked. People, including disabled people and carers, on low or no income are the ones whose only stake IS their skin. Whose skin is really 'in the game' here?DeusExMacintoshhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02728119585120029111noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-56121733472875349002011-05-05T18:13:01.874+01:002011-05-05T18:13:01.874+01:00I rather regard my skin, together with what it con...I rather regard my skin, together with what it contains, as *being* the game... to borrow from Bladerunner, "I *am* the business". Many of us make contributions to society which cannot be measured in purely financial terms - should our voices not be heard?.<br /><br />BBBill Krusehttp://www.economania.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7999633524276247455.post-89586539694514423222011-05-05T17:45:11.671+01:002011-05-05T17:45:11.671+01:00Mod me if you want guys, I have to get this off my...Mod me if you want guys, I have to get this off my chest. Hopefully clicking "Post Comment" will be cathartic. I won't be offended if you can't post this.<br /><br />Ian Cowie, you are every bit as bad as the BNP leaders, who want to lock us all up in institutions away from "normal people". By voicing these beliefs you show that you want to make me invisible, to take away my humanity, my life. I don't want to know what you look like, because if I knew, and then I saw you in the street, I would probably kill you. Those who deny the humanity of others lose right to their own.Jannoreply@blogger.com