Reply to: Gordo vows to help find Madeleine

[Lambros]

What does Drongo mean? It's an anagram of Gordon.

His complete anagram sounds like his life story: Born, do wrong.

In Australian slang, the word drongo is a synonym for a total loser or idiot.
- how absolutely appropriate!

[Lucifer Box]

True, but the Tories did the same thing with Howard.

Thing is, Michael Howard didn't become PM and as far as I know the Tory's webtulipe wasn't saying "send us £25 and get to choose the next PM".

[loadofkods]

Wrong! He's not a dictator, he still has to get laws voted through. And it's known to Aristotle as a Polity (where elected representatives govern), as against a Democracy (where the people themselves turn up in person and govern).

Good god man! I was being flippant...

[Euro-commuter]

Quite right, the Westminster Model is also known as an Electoral Dictatorship.
Every five years the populous vote for their next dictator.

Wrong! He's not a dictator, he still has to get laws voted through. And it's known to Aristotle as a Polity (where elected representatives govern), as against a Democracy (where the people themselves turn up in person and govern).

[Euro-commuter]

Quite right, the Westminster Model is also known as an Electoral Dictatorship.
Every five years the populous vote for their next dictator.

populus

[Euro-commuter]

Fantastic, elections Soviet-style. You can either vote for the party selected candidate or... not vote. Splendid stuff!

Oh, try a better target, for goodness' sake, there are plenty. Nobody is stopping other candidates from standing, except the knowledge on their part that they wouldn't win.

[loadofkods]

Britain is not a democracy.

Quite right, the Westminster Model is also known as an Electoral Dictatorship.
Every five years the populous vote for their next dictator.

[Numptycorner]

Public sector workers and those on benefits.

Next!!

Labour got into power by courting middle england, the notion that people on benefits make any difference is pretty ludicrous. Can't be bother to get out of bed to work, but somehow they are interested enough to vote, I doubt most people on benefits know which party is which, let alone go out and vote for one, moreover when they were claiming their Giros under Major were they then conservative voters?

[Churchill]

Thank god!

What bothers me though, is who keeps voting the socialists into power?

It's not that the Socialists are being voted in to power per se.

It's the fact that there isn't enough of a concerted effort to vote them out.

[wendigo100]

cunning plan for World Domination #437...

HTH.

P.S. It's not working too well at the moment.

Ahhh! I might have known!

[ratewhore]

Thank god!

What bothers me though, is who keeps voting the socialists into power?

Public sector workers and those on benefits.

Next!!

[wendigo100]

Britain is not a democracy.

Thank god!

What bothers me though, is who keeps voting the socialists into power?

[Churchill]

Democracy in action!

Britain is not a democracy.

[threaded]

Democracy in action!

[wendigo100]

Fantastic, elections Soviet-style. You can either vote for the party selected candidate or... not vote. Splendid stuff!

True, but the Tories did the same thing with Howard.