BarneyRubble
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Wu-Tangled":x7euxyft said:BarneyRubble":x7euxyft said:I'm with you!
We joke, but i have been talking with a fairly well connected person in my train gang about the likelyhood of starting our own political party.
i mean how hard can it be? You keep all the hundreds of policies that work fine and don't cause anyone any bother and keep things ticking over fine and the cash rolling in without taking the p*ss (take note of that last part mr chancellor), and you ditch (very publicly) the silly rules that seem to ever more put the British public over the proverbial barrell. Like hmm, let me think....
*inheritance tax
*illegal wars
*building contracts for countries destroyed by above mentioned illegal wars that line the pockets of the few and starve the needy of everything else.
*the tax you pay upon your Tax, that you paid on your tax, that you paid on your tax, that you paid on your tax.....
*Cutting back police and employing PTMP (Part Time Monkey Plod) with little or no juristiction while the country's morals and law abidance slides...*****
*there are so many more I can't be arsed to go on. But you get the drift. - think up your own. submit them to me one day and i'll put them into place.
I seriously think that anyone prepared to back my 'Common Sense Party' would see a return in the election after this one. I am sure that we would get into power in 2014. Sure of it.
Question is, would you want to? Has top be said, there are no perks left are there? Maybe it would be better to invent a religion. Much more money in that.
*****no brainer this one surely. Guaranteed vote winner putting proper coppers back on the streets and actually allowing them to collar people and actually know that their collars will go to court and not get kicked out by the CPS due to a lack of places in prisons and or rehabilitation programmes.
I like your style, although the approach mooted in our local watering hole goes more like this:
The country is actually run by civil servants, so if at election time the majority of the voters tick a box titled "none of the above" then parliment is booted out for 12 months and the Civil servants are left to get on with it. There are no new rules or laws, no initiatives, no messing, just things ticking over.
Then after a year, the political types can return with a new set of policies and we vote again; if they have actually come up with policies the public wants, they get elected, if not they go away again and we get another year of things ticking over.
The money saved in a single year by not having any MP's wages, expenses, staff etc, combined with the money saved by scrapping any quangos, think tanks or other Government funded "studies" could be ploughed back into frontline services.
For too long Governments have been elected on the basis of about 20% of the population's votes, this system would encourage people to listen to policies and vote for a particular candidate for a reason - not just because their Mum or Dad did. You would also get a proper majority decision.
Incidentally I would make it compulsary to vote and fine those that didn't - in this system there would be no excuses for not voting as an option would exist to suit everyone's tastes!
I know there are flaws that would need to be ironed out, but it's a start.