Reply to: An excellent rant

[Peoplesoft bloke]

You can read all sorts of things into it I suppose. You could assume I think the lorry drivers were evil anarchists. You could assume I was trapped in the city overnight and hugely inconvenienced and this has clouded my view. You could assume I am a rampant Blairite who resented any form of disruption to his wondrous leadership. You could assume I am advocating a religious revolution, the overthrow of the secret Catholic Bliar, and in favour of a liberal Buddhist monarchy.

But it might be easier - and less surreal - to apply Occam's Razor and just go with the statement I used to conclude the post and assume that was the point I was trying to make:

Fair enough, good point, well made.

[BrilloPad]

Interesting... not the only place recently where there's been talk of a bloody revolution. Is there another way out? Perhaps not any more.

Ive met someone who had enough info to bring the government down. You might be suprised at the lengths they went to to get him to retract.

If anyone tries to start the revolution they will find out soon enough.

I just hope we all use our vote wisely in the next election. Im not voting Labour or Tory.

[RichardCranium]

I thought you were implying that Blair's claim they were not democracy was incorrect.

You can read all sorts of things into it I suppose. You could assume I think the lorry drivers were evil anarchists. You could assume I was trapped in the city overnight and hugely inconvenienced and this has clouded my view. You could assume I am a rampant Blairite who resented any form of disruption to his wondrous leadership. You could assume I am advocating a religious revolution, the overthrow of the secret Catholic Bliar, and in favour of a liberal Buddhist monarchy.

But it might be easier - and less surreal - to apply Occam's Razor and just go with the statement I used to conclude the post and assume that was the point I was trying to make:

Protests of that nature are just ignored by this government.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

The government ignoring such protests is in itself anti-democratic, and one of the things that will trigger a mass bloodshed.

Bollocks. All goverments ignore protests when it suits them.

[threaded]

Eh? What? When did I get nominated apologist for the lorry drivers?

I was just making the point that such protests seem to ignored by the government and so they are probably futile.

The government ignoring such protests is in itself anti-democratic, and one of the things that will trigger a mass bloodshed.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Eh? What? When did I get nominated apologist for the lorry drivers?

I was just making the point that such protests seem to ignored by the government and so they are probably futile.

I thought you were implying that Blair's claim they were not democracy was incorrect.

[threaded]

Aye. I do believe its going to result in at some point in the not too distant future.

For people who bother to remember such things I said that it was inevitable as soon as Tony Bliar first got elected.

One of the reasons I moved to another country.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Ooooh its coming I can feel it in my bones.

Aye. I do believe its going to result in at some point in the not too distant future.

[original PM]

The probem is as more and more people get bumped below the poverty line due to increased taxes to cover government spending then the crime rate will rise.

And as the ineffectual policing which is bought in to combat this rise in crime simple continues to target the middle classes the divide between rich and poor will grow.

And as the the divide between the haves and havenots becomes more marked the country will be torn apart by those who wish to live on the 'safe' side and so become slaves of the government and those who refuse to toe the line become classed as criminals the criminal population will rise.

In order to combat the increase in criminal activity the police will be given more military powers.

And then the bloody revolution starts.

Ooooh its coming I can feel it in my bones.

[RichardCranium]

In what way do Lorry drivers holding up the rest of us represent democracy? They don't speak for me.

Eh? What? When did I get nominated apologist for the lorry drivers?

I was just making the point that such protests seem to ignored by the government and so they are probably futile.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Remember when the HGV drivers did the same in London a few years ago over fuel taxes? They also drove around really slowly and closed some of the bridges in London by blocking them. I remember 'cos I was in London at the time.

It made f all difference. Blair just said "It's not democracy" and ignored it.

Protests of that nature are just ignored by this government.

Sorry.

In what way do Lorry drivers holding up the rest of us represent democracy? They don't speak for me.

[suityou01]

Remember when the HGV drivers did the same in London a few years ago over fuel taxes? They also drove around really slowly and closed some of the bridges in London by blocking them. I remember 'cos I was in London at the time.

It made f all difference. Blair just said "It's not democracy" and ignored it.

Protests of that nature are just ignored by this government.

Sorry.

So what (if anything) can be done? Beeping car horns too extreme (and as BGG pointed out all 60 million of us would be nicked on the spot)

Bloody revolutions too extreme. Ponders.

[Drewster]

Everyone is ignored by this government.

FTFY

[Doggy Styles]

2) When will the masses wake up to the scale of the damage that's been done to the economy and the length of time/amount of pain that will need to be suffered in order to repair it?

When they can't borrow money to live on any more.

[RichardCranium]

I shall be organising a facebook group where people are encouraged to honk their car horns for 10 seconds all at the same time nationwide.

Remember when the HGV drivers did the same in London a few years ago over fuel taxes? They also drove around really slowly and closed some of the bridges in London by blocking them. I remember 'cos I was in London at the time.

It made f all difference. Blair just said "It's not democracy" and ignored it.

Protests of that nature are just ignored by this government.

Sorry.