the problem is (because I tried an online version of this)
that the policies of the major parties are more or less in distinguishable on most issues.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Thu 18 Jul 2013, 12:21, 1 reply, 12 years ago)

Well - that's not a problem of the system we're developing. That's actually a good result - that it's been highlighted.
"My party thinks this!"

"My party also thinks this, but their party is stewpid!"

"My party agrees with the above, but, er ... we're a bit more whiny!"

&c.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 12:22, Reply)

Our 'choice' in the last election?
Between three guys with varying levels of independant wealth, none of whom had ever had a job outside politics.
The only difference was the colour of their ties.
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 12:25, Reply)

Indeed. We're clearly in quite a pleasant hegemony at the moment.
The past 30 years has been only conservative governments - we've just changed the colour of the backdrop against which they speak a couple of times (well - once).

Public schoolboy career politicians. As much to do with the real world as Justin Beiber does with music.

It also gives rise to the argument that politicians shouldn't earn a wage from it - but the counter to that is it being swamped only by those who can afford the time and the money, ie, the landed gentry.

Oh - wait ...
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 12:29, Reply)

I had a very saddening experience at the weekend*
A good mate of mine's son is in Uni studying politics. He's already done unpaid internships, he's networking the shit out of every politico he can find and all he wants to do is politics. It's disheartening to listen to him, the rhetoric, the single-minded approach to getting in parliament at all costs and the cocky belief that, once he's there, the directorships and backhanders will just flow in.
Sadly, the little twat's right.

*other than seeing my own cock in the mirror and crying at the lack of size - again
(Captain Placid 24/7 ball gags, brownie mix and clown porn, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 12:51, Reply)

You could try repeatedly punching him in the face until both of you are crying?

( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 18 Jul 2013, 12:59, Reply)