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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: BuckinghamshireBoy
Date: January 24, 2022, 12:51 pm
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Looks like PartyGate just got another event to scrutinise ...
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: January 24, 2022, 12:52 pm
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And now it seems that he had a birthday party for himself at No
10 during lockdown in 2020?
If true, how is it even possible for someone to be this stupid?
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: January 24, 2022, 12:52 pm
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Snap!
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: BuckinghamshireBoy
Date: January 24, 2022, 1:00 pm
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Re your previous post concerning stupidity, what does that say
about the people who voted for "a stupid person"?
Are they putting something in the water?
And I don't mean the untreated sewage in the Thames (and
elsewhere).
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: January 24, 2022, 1:18 pm
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> Re your previous post concerning stupidity, what does that say
about the people who voted for "a stupid person"?
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> Are they putting something in the water?
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> And I don't mean the untreated sewage in the Thames (and
elsewhere).
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Well yes, I mean whenever I hear "I know Johnson is
corrupt/dishonest/incompetent/deceitful but I'm going to vote
for him in the next election" is does make me want to bang
heads, but surely this is due in part to increasing lack of
representative democracy to the point where people see this
stuff as simply irrelevant.
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: BuckinghamshireBoy
Date: January 24, 2022, 1:31 pm
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> Well yes, I mean whenever I hear "I know Johnson is
corrupt/dishonest/incompetent/deceitful but I'm going to vote
for him in the next election" is does make me want to bang
heads, but surely this is due in part to increasing lack of
representative democracy to the point where people see this
stuff as simply irrelevant.
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I would have used "definitely" in place of "surely".
No-one's going to bring about any kind of much-needed electoral
reform, so it's doomed in perpetuity I reckon.
"Fighting in the streets" etc
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: January 24, 2022, 1:40 pm
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> "Fighting in the streets" etc
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[puts hand up]
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Siouxie
Date: January 24, 2022, 1:47 pm
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Given free choice, who would you have take his place?
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Lion in Winter
Date: January 24, 2022, 1:55 pm
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> Given free choice, who would you have take his place?
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IMO, it isn't "who", but "what". Ie a different system of
representative government that better reflects people and
communities. For example, in 2019, more people voted for
something other than the Tories than who voted for the Tories -
but we got the Tories anyway, with a sweeping majority of seats
(but not of the vote) and no way at all to represent other views
in any even vaguely meaningful way. Winner takes all is not
representative, promotes the politics of conflict and tribal
behaviour, and disconnects people from participation.
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Re: Surely Johnson will have to go?
DIR By: Siouxie
Date: January 24, 2022, 2:10 pm
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--- Quote from: Lion in Winter link ---
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> IMO, it isn't "who", but "what". Ie a different system of
representative government that better reflects people and
communities. For example, in 2019, more people voted for
something other than the Tories than who voted for the Tories -
but we got the Tories anyway, with a sweeping majority of seats
(but not of the vote) and no way at all to represent other views
in any even vaguely meaningful way. Winner takes all is not
representative, promotes the politics of conflict and tribal
behaviour, and disconnects people from participation.
>
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That's not going to happen, so you are making noise for no
purpose... that's the law of the land (England), it's not
America.
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