joe bageant : staring down the jackals

lance broughton, politicians as superior human beings.



here it is again, with a few names changed. sound familiar, you uk readers (if i have any)?

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"I chatter, chatter as I flow, to join the brimming river. For men may come and men may go, but I go on forever." -- Lord Tennyson.

The United Kingdom is in the poo. The credibility of our politicians has dropped below used car and insurance salesmen. All three try and sell you something overpriced and inappropriate for your needs. Then they have the cheek to describe themselves as knowledgeable.



UK is run by the Labour Party. The only real opposition is the Tory Party led by its new leader, Michael Howard. He's a former Home Secretary, he’s a firm believer that the world revolves around money and his actions have shown his total disregard for people. All he can see are pound signs. It’s business, business and more business. People are a cost to business and costs must be reduced in the name of profit. He’s a typical politician and I wouldn’t trust him as far as I could throw him.

Tony Bliar is the Prime Minister and is running second to Howard in the polls. He’s an ex-political activist from his university days and has developed political spin into an art form. How he seriously believes the people will continue to back him is beyond belief.

The main trouble with our politicians is that they seriously believe that they are superior human beings with the god-given right to interfere in our private lives. If you bother complaining about something, all you get is a load of political waffle that means absolutely nothing. You’re treated with contempt and made to feel you’re a complete nincompoop for challenging their authoritative agenda. How dare you complain? We know what’s best, so mind your own business and give us your money or we’ll hound you into bankruptcy. One way or another, UK is one of the highest taxed nations on earth. Yet government services aren’t worth 10% of anybody’s income or expenditure.

The government forget that the money raised from taxation belongs to the people. It’s not money created by government. They did nothing to earn a single cent. It’s money stolen by overcharging for largely unwanted services. Yet health care is pathetic, education is a laugh and corruption is emerging in high places. The lies politicians tell are so blatant. It makes one want to spew. Talented Brits are moving offshore in droves. Certain politicians have decided they don’t like immigrants, thus causing the economy to slow. There’s virtually no manufacturing to employ the common herd and the only jobs available for the young are McJobs. Statistics are manipulated to make employment look better. Males more than forty are virtually unemployable and you have to be as thick as two short planks to work for government or local council.

The ability to think and exercise commonsense used to be considered an asset. But not today. The politicians require total compliance of an unthinking population. Stick your head up and there’s thousands of rules and regulations to behead you. The tall poppy syndrome is alive and well in Britain. With the system bulldozing personal initiative into the dust, future generations will be little more than mindless zombies. But I guess that’s exactly what the politicians want. How they justify their behavior is unfathomable.

israeli = nazi.



sounds over the top, i know, but here's another example of israel's palestinian holocaust.



i'll not buy any good or service which benefits israel, and now i'm going to start a sticker campaign against israeli businesses and stick something pro-palestinian on every one of their fucking windows.



how else, short of viloence, am i to make my views known? i've written to my m.p. and received platitudes in reply, i've written to the prime minister and received no reply.



a palestinian flag sticker on my car is another thing i'll get - as well as a cuban flag to show solidarity with another nation oppressed by the mother-fucking u.s.-israel fascist axis.

ways of the world elude hicksville

right-wing fucking morons are pretending that the way to prevent teenage pregnancy and infection by sexually-transmitted diseases is to encourage abstention.



complete and utter bollocks.



as george monbiot points out (waging war with the virgin soldiers), the real answer is good education, not allowing twattish religious fanatics to pollute our childrens' minds.



the first jerk who tries to foist this nonsense on my child is on the way to a fucking good kicking. no-one's going to damage my kid's self-esteem and self-confidence by telling them they have to take this crap.

when i saw the title of this article : too easy to blame bush, i thought freedland had gone a bit bonkers, but the text is an indictmnt of british brutality in iraq, something for which bliar and goon need to be brought to book.

had a wonderful holiday in cuba with my beautiful wife.



you must visit this country. it is beautiful, hot, mostly not rainy and is populated by the most pleasant of people.



i would recommend it to everyone as a holiday destination, but make sure you visit havana - many of the resorts are isolated from the real life of cuba and you must see that as well as enjoying the sun, booze and cigars.



more later.