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On Wed, 6 May 2015 21:43:54 +0100, "Ian Field"
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You have lost your mind. Politics does that.

"Politics is the competition of half-truths."

We'd like to replace the just plain nasty with some that aren't half
sharp -
but it would be a start.

OK, another quote. This one is mine:

"Liberalism is the practise of unintended consequences."

Funny thing though - its our liberal democrats party that's propping
up
the
nasty party in coalition.

The nasty party makes American Republicans look like a bunch of raving
lefties!

You can sum up coalition with the following: "we couldn't keep our
electioneering 'promises' because we weren't elected".

We're heading in the same direction as 30s Germany, with a long list
of
insignificant parties that serve no other purpose than split the vote
and
introduce the chaos of endless coalitions.

Hitler promised to sort all that out, and the German people shouted;
"wunderbar" - and look how that turned out!



I wonder how much public "denialism" affected the election.

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2015/05/0...t-in-election/

The Lib-Dems were widely seen as selling their supporters up the river.
In
the last election, a lot of people voted LD because they didn't want the
Tories (but not badly enough to vote Labour).

LD claimed they would be the conscience of the Tory party, instead they
supported the Tories in pretty much everything.

Pretty much all their electioneering 'promises' went out the window.
They
just trotted out the excuse; "we couldn't keep our electioneering
promises
because we weren't elected".

There was a running joke; "the Lib-Dems don't have enough MPs to fill a
taxi
cab" - if the taxi cab is a "people carrier" type car - that is now
actually
true.

There seems to lately be a worldwide swing towards conservatism and
nationalism.

Our Tories - who's name is derived from the Gaellic word for bandit
(Toraidhe -pr Too-ray-he) simply use the name "Conservative" because it
appeals to the genteel folk.

The nearest we had to nationalists in the position of a legitimate
contender
(UKIP) got about a million votes but only about 1 seat in parliament.

This sounds a little nationalist to me:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32686955

The real issue is EU rules that mandate free movement of people in Europe -
they all seem to want to flood Britain.

When I go shopping, I overhear less conversations in English from people
walking past - now far more often its some East European language.

Another issue is the staggering amount we pay for membership.

This government has promised an in/out referendum on Europe, I may not be
able to decide which way to vote.

If we leave, we cut ourselves off from important trading partners - and we'd
still have to comply with a maze of ****wit EU directives on any export
orders we did manage to secure.

AFAIK: both America and Asia have to comply with directives like RoHS in
order to export to Europe - all I can see is that the only changes from
leaving would be bad ones.