Kerrrrrrrrrrrrrrchinnnnnnngggggggggg!

[hyperD]

Already done this but thought I'd check again, just to make sure:

Economic Left/Right: 7.50
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.15

Libertarian free marketeer, me! Phew!

It's interesting how our views have been slowly coerced with the constant stream of authoritarian "big state knows best" messages from education all the way to state broadcast adverts.

The statement:

"from each according to his ability, to each according to his need" is a fundamentally good idea.

had me reaching for the Ayn Rand's bottle of emergency vodka to settle the nerves.

[RichardCranium]

Good to see him getting £2m consultancy fees from the bank that directly profited from his illegal war in Iraq. The lying c***.

It says something about how Bliar is viewed that the above is the only post expressing any kind of surprise or outrage that the illegal war-for-oil was initiated by bribery.

And I bet if Bliar suddenly returned as Labour leader the bastards would win the general election.

[Moscow Mule]

This worries me most...

Voter turnout is highest when ideological differences are most significant. This helps explain why the voter turnout is lower in the US than in all other western democracies , most of which have a multiplicity of parties and proportional representation. In the UK, voter turnout may continue to fall to US levels. Lowering the voting age isn't likely to excite participation in elections when the choice is less and less to do with a clash of visions than mere managerial competence. And without those traditionally big choices, one might well wonder where this is going to ultimately leave democracy.