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[Varche]

Have to smile.

In Britain we are debating what kind of vote we want and being forced to give the vote to prisoners.

In Australia they can get sent to prison for not voting 

[Dishevelled Den]

I have to agree.

The general standard of competence, displayed by those elected to the Westminster Parliament, has done nothing but confirm to me that most of those sitting there at the moment are about as useful to the voters of this country as teats are on a bull.

Rather than getting down to practical business in an effort to actually govern this country with some degree of authority and professionalism, they seem to be totally engaged in finding ways to make their stay there longer, more financially rewarding and less liable to disruption from an increasingly baffled, ambivalent and disconnected electorate by employing wide-boy tactics, dissemination and questionable ethics in this campaign for the AV system.

Yet another cluster opps on the road to national oblivion.  [smiley=thumbdown.gif] [smiley=thumbdown.gif]

[aaronjb]

I have to agree.

The general standard of competence, displayed by those elected to the Westminster Parliament, has done nothing but confirm to me that most of those sitting there at the moment are about as useful to the voters of this country as teats are on a bull.

Rather than getting down to practical business in an effort to actually govern this country with some degree of authority and professionalism, they seem to be totally engaged in finding ways to make their stay there longer, more financially rewarding and less liable to disruption from an increasingly baffled, ambivalent and disconnected electorate by employing wide-boy tactics, dissemination and questionable ethics in this campaign for the AV system.

Yet another cluster blank on the road to national oblivion.  [smiley=thumbdown.gif] [smiley=thumbdown.gif]

Isn't the highlighted part the only thing any politician ever does? They're all about as useful as a chocolate fireguard and as bent as a nine bob note.

[Dishevelled Den]

I have to agree.

The general standard of competence, displayed by those elected to the Westminster Parliament, has done nothing but confirm to me that most of those sitting there at the moment are about as useful to the voters of this country as teats are on a bull.

Rather than getting down to practical business in an effort to actually govern this country with some degree of authority and professionalism, they seem to be totally engaged in finding ways to make their stay there longer, more financially rewarding and less liable to disruption from an increasingly baffled, ambivalent and disconnected electorate by employing wide-boy tactics, dissemination and questionable ethics in this campaign for the AV system.

Yet another cluster blank on the road to national oblivion.  [smiley=thumbdown.gif] [smiley=thumbdown.gif]

Isn't the highlighted part the only thing any politician ever does? They're all about as useful as a chocolate fireguard and as bent as a nine bob note.

I think that's a fair enough comment Aaron and by virtue, it's a bloody disgrace.

Yes, fair reward for a job done in a professional and capable manner by all means but for those in this current parliament - more especially those in the previous three - it's an affront to common decency to expect many of the citizens of this nation to face a less than rosy financial future whilst those who have trod the portals of power remain well placed by way of salary, allowances and generous pension, to face their own future being largely free from these concerns.