Observer - worse case scenarios

dervish

amcluesent wrote: »

>I'm getting disenchanted with this board. I post an article about economics and it rapidly turns into racism and religious intolerence<

The would-be dhimmis(*) choose to take 1 of the 4 additional scenarios I added and use that as the basis to shout-down any further discussion. Well 'racist' is flung about as an accusation so frequently, it's really ceased to have any meaning.

(*) "the people of the dhimma"

it seems ANY comment whatsoever about foreigners or people of different races you make gets you labelled as racist no matter how innocent innocuous or wise those comments are...

Cleaver

dervish wrote: »

it seems ANY comment whatsoever about foreigners or people of different races you make gets you labelled as racist no matter how innocent innocuous or wise those comments are...

Actually Derv I think it's more your overtly racist comments that tend to get you labelled as a racist on here.

dervish

Cleaver wrote: »

Actually Derv I think it's more your overtly racist comments that tend to get you labelled as a racist on here.

:rolleyes:

you insult me and you are WRONG.

I have nenevr made any such comments.

Generali

mewbie wrote: »

Can I add another worst case scenario? BNP start to gain electoral seats as disenfranchised white working / middle classes see no response from traditional parties.

Cameron/Brown/Clegg ought to stop playing pointless politics and start thinking of ways to address some of the electorates fears and problems.

btw I am not a BNP supporter.

A big part of the problem is that there is no 'working class' party any more in the UK, nobody for the ordinary working guy who's struggling a bit to vote for.

It seems to me that the kids of the Labour cabinet all go to private school and Brown is hardly a class warrior. Blair before him was a public school educated barrister! How can they possibly claim to have any insight into the life of a bloke who has lost his job working in a car plant or isn't getting any overtime any more? Blair would just sell one of the BTL flats! Half the cabinet would ditch the flat in London to stay with a sibling and claim it on expenses.

That's the gap that the BNP will fill if they have any sense. Let's hope they don't.

Cleaver

dervish wrote: »

I have nenevr made any such comments.

Apologies. I will nenevr say that about you again.

Cleaver

Generali wrote: »

A big part of the problem is that there is no 'working class' party any more in the UK, nobody for the ordinary working guy who's struggling a bit to vote for.

It seems to me that the kids of the Labour cabinet all go to private school and Brown is hardly a class warrior. Blair before him was a public school educated barrister! How can they possibly claim to have any insight into the life of a bloke who has lost his job working in a car plant or isn't getting any overtime any more? Blair would just sell one of the BTL flats! Half the cabinet would ditch the flat in London to stay with a sibling and claim it on expenses.

That's the gap that the BNP will fill if they have any sense. Let's hope they don't.

Completely agree. You basically have three main parties pretty much spouting the same policies but in a slightly different flavour and then a massive void until you get down to single issue parties such as the Greens, BNP, UKIP, that scoop up the voters who are a bit blinkered and tend to focus on one issue that they think is the key to solving everything.

On a related note I have no idea why, in 2009, we still haven't seen three celebrities form a party, get funding from Tesco and take over British politics. Seems like a no brainer to me.

Generali

Cleaver wrote: »

Completely agree. You basically have three main parties pretty much spouting the same policies but in a slightly different flavour and then a massive void until you get down to single issue parties such as the Greens, BNP, UKIP, that scoop up the voters who are a bit blinkered and tend to focus on one issue that they think is the key to solving everything.

I guess it would be relatively simple for a populist party to scoop up a lot of votes with a mix of anti-immigrant rhetoric and a soft left protectionist agenda.

Cleaver wrote: »

On a related note I have no idea why, in 2009, we still haven't seen three celebrities form a party, get funding from Tesco and take over British politics. Seems like a no brainer to me.

There was Robert Killroy-Silk. Oh and don't forget David Icke.

dervish

Cleaver wrote: »

Apologies. I will nenevr say that about you again.

Thankyou

vivatifosi

Most prescient guys... Did you hear about the former Tory big-wig who's planning to bring X-Factor style politics to the UK?

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article5864530.ece

piggeh

I'm going to start a myfootballclub style politics website. Just give me £50 a year and you can decide what the government policy will be (once you've voted in our party obviously).

It's democracy in action, but you pay me for the privilege