Reply to: LibDems hold Eastleigh, Tories in Third Place after UKIP

[formant]

I think you'll find that they and their peers already run the country via lobbyists and other nefarious means...

No doubt. And it's many of their peers for whom that worries me more than it does for those two.

[The Spartan]

Have you ever flown a Tornado, with or without pasta?

RAF?

[darmstadt]

Do I want Branson or Gates as PM? Uhm, no. As much as I respect their work and applaud their success.

I think you'll find that they and their peers already run the country via lobbyists and other nefarious means...

[SupremeSpod]

yeah sure thing sas that's what I need to do place myself under the command of a fresh RMAS one pip wonder. No thanks I've lost a few friends to such incompetence and heard even more horror stories from those who have returned from ops

Have you ever flown a Tornado, with or without pasta?

[The Spartan]

Unlike the great warrior that is you eh?
Why not fark orf to Afghanistan and show your immense soldierly leadership skills?

yeah sure thing sas that's what I need to do place myself under the command of a fresh RMAS one pip wonder. No thanks I've lost a few friends to such incompetence and heard even more horror stories from those who have returned from ops

[Mich the Tester]

fair enough. What about a TV program?

An American gentleman has already cornered the market;

[doodab]

You can't please all of the people all of the time.

[DodgyAgent]

I'm here on CUK; isn't that enough?

fair enough. What about a TV program?

[d000hg]

Yep and the majority of them are morons who have no real world experience and make stupid decisions on a regular basis.

Who, the electorate?

[Mich the Tester]

Mitch have you ever thought of setting up a political commentry program "for the average simple cretin"?

I'm here on CUK; isn't that enough?

[DodgyAgent]

There is no evidence that they do and plenty of evidence to the contrary. See the procession of liars, buffoons and other mediocre people that have found their way into high office since Britain introduced universal suffrage.

Voters want people who reflect their own prejudices. Just occasionally, and possibly by accident, they elect someone with a brain and who either has the prejudices that work OK in the time or is less prejudiced than the public thought.

So, Anti-Europe, blame it all on Jonny Foreigner? Vote UKIP
Lazy git, want to breed 11 kids and get a new council house? Vote Labour.
Hoping for something better but likely to be disappointed? Vote Tory.
Kind of liberal-ish, easy going and fairly sensible, but sadly gullible? Vote Liberal Demoprat.
Chav scum? Vote BNP.

Mitch have you ever thought of setting up a political commentry program "for the average simple cretin"?

[sasguru]

Yep and the majority of them are morons who have no real world experience and make stupid decisions on a regular basis.

Unlike the great warrior that is you eh?
Why not fark orf to Afghanistan and show your immense soldierly leadership skills?

[The Spartan]

These days 80% of officer cadets at Sandhurst are university graduates. I think it's safe to call Sandhurst post-18 education, placing it a level above just high school education.

Yep and the majority of them are morons who have no real world experience and make stupid decisions on a regular basis.

[formant]

There is no evidence that they do and plenty of evidence to the contrary. See the procession of liars, buffoons and other mediocre people that have found their way into high office since Britain introduced universal suffrage.

Voters want people who reflect their own prejudices. Just occasionally, and possibly by accident, they elect someone with a brain and who either has the prejudices that work OK in the time or is less prejudiced than the public thought.

I don't think what voters perceive as credibility and representative value is in any way, shape, or form linked to a candidate's actual integrity and leadership skills. But the latter don't normally become too apparent until it's already too late.

Except for some extreme cases of course. Which is why Farage doesn't make a great candidate. He already fails on all four points.

[Mich the Tester]

But rightly or wrongly, voters want overall credibility and representative value in a leader, and someone who brings one or more degrees (alongside their real world experience) is always likely to do better in an election.

There is no evidence that they do and plenty of evidence to the contrary. See the procession of liars, buffoons and other mediocre people that have found their way into high office since Britain introduced universal suffrage.

Voters want people who reflect their own prejudices. Just occasionally, and possibly by accident, they elect someone with a brain and who either has the prejudices that work OK in the time or is less prejudiced than the public thought.

So, Anti-Europe, blame it all on Jonny Foreigner? Vote UKIP
Lazy git, want to breed 11 kids and get a new council house? Vote Labour.
Hoping for something better but likely to be disappointed? Vote Tory.
Kind of liberal-ish, easy going and fairly sensible, but sadly gullible? Vote Liberal Demoprat.
Chav scum? Vote BNP.