Re: [ST] How to start a flamewar in one easy step...

[Andrew Tait <antait@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yello!

aronnmail-list@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

> God, becoming politically aware was probably a bad
> decision.

Not a bad decision.  Knowing what affects you, your family and your 
country is no bad thing, but it's not something which I am particularly 
interested in, mostly because of my tiny influence on the whole outcome.

I have a colleague who is extremely anti-Tory from the Thatcher days, 
and he organised protests including peaceful demonstrations in local 
courts and council offices against the Poll Tax in the 80s.  His 
influence is high, so he (IMO) can rant about it all he wants.  I could 
sit and rant all day about what I think the Labour party is doing wrong, 
but (a) I don't know enough to make informed rants, and (b) it would not 
change one tiny thing.  I get one vote, and I have never missed the 
chance to use it, but I also realise that THAT VOTE is my only influence 
on how my country is governed.

Anything else is a waste of breath.

All I mean is that I think we should exercise an amount of control in 
how we expend our efforts and expound our opinions consumate to the 
influence we can have on other people and events.

> On a happier note, shall I assume that we are throwing
> *mint* jelly at the sheep?

Jelly??  JAM!!!  You guys, eh?  I'd go for raspberry jam personally.

> I'll share in the ignorance...y'all still have Tories
> and Whigs over there? ;-)

Until 18 seconds ago I didn't realise what a Whig was!  There ya go. 
What we would now call a Liberal Democrat, I suppose.  Increasing in 
strength greatly in the UK, although still to throw off the "third 
party" shackles in a country which has bobbed from Labour to 
Conservative more or less exclusively for 100 years.

Right, that's it.  Go away and vote.  It'll all be over soon.

Andrew

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