04-11-2014, 12:25 PM
Indeed. In fact, only yesterday on twitter I described Tories as people that would remove one of your kidneys, sell it for their personal profit and then convince you that you're better off with one anyway.
How Iain Duncan Smith was never prosecuted for fraud, I have no idea.
It's probably worth another thread to describe the twisted logic in this situation: a legal trade union holds a legal vote for strike action, and the Tories complain it's not valid because the turnout was only 40%.
Meanwhile, the Police and Crime Commissioners which had turnouts in the region of 14% (in other words, the "winner" only needed 7% of the total vote) are perfectly valid expressions of democracy. The turnout for the South Yorkshire PCC election (following the resignation of the incumbent after the Rotherham child abuse scandal) actually went down from 2012. IIRC the election last week was about 0.5% down on the poll in 2012.
In another parallel universe, the people of Manchester - who voted against having a directly elected Mayor - have been told by Osborne that they are getting one anyway, and somehow this is a "win" for Democracy.
Increasingly, the concept formally known as Democracy is becoming "whatever the ruling party tell you it is"
How Iain Duncan Smith was never prosecuted for fraud, I have no idea.
It's probably worth another thread to describe the twisted logic in this situation: a legal trade union holds a legal vote for strike action, and the Tories complain it's not valid because the turnout was only 40%.
Meanwhile, the Police and Crime Commissioners which had turnouts in the region of 14% (in other words, the "winner" only needed 7% of the total vote) are perfectly valid expressions of democracy. The turnout for the South Yorkshire PCC election (following the resignation of the incumbent after the Rotherham child abuse scandal) actually went down from 2012. IIRC the election last week was about 0.5% down on the poll in 2012.
In another parallel universe, the people of Manchester - who voted against having a directly elected Mayor - have been told by Osborne that they are getting one anyway, and somehow this is a "win" for Democracy.
Increasingly, the concept formally known as Democracy is becoming "whatever the ruling party tell you it is"