Swan Song
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I've always voted Tory mostly because they used to be pro forces, however, I am in a real quandry about how to show my utter contempt of the way MP's have handled this issue over the past few years.
Continue to live a life better than theirs.
That’s the best way I know of showing contempt for the fools.
To not vote goes against everything I have been tought about the sacrifice others have made, to scrawl "Cnuts" all over the ballot paper whilst satisfying won't achieve anything and to actualy vote would appear to be a waste of time as it will just start another round of delay and provarications etc.
Yes, well, on any vote I would love there to be a ‘None of the Above’ box, but until that happens, in this democracy, you only have two choices to object: withhold your vote or spoil your ballot paper.
It’s poor, but it’s what we’ve got.
That said, there are no elections or referendums in our immediate future, so this is all somewhat academic, no?
The people that want the self-styled ‘people’s referendum’ have a number of difficult hoops that have to be jumped through before it can happen, and a general election isn’t going to happen anytime soon, ‘cos of the turkeys/Christmas thing, so I wouldn’t get too concerned just yet.
Clearly the establishment won't let the UK leave so it all seems pretty pointless.
Highlighting concerns or objections is never pointless!
NB: that that does not include our Russian trolls.
Also, we are the establishment.
Of those that voted in the last referendum, while more voted to leave than voted remain, some took the result badly.
And some of those are actively trying to undermine or reverse the result.
Of those, some are in positions of power; in parliament even.
That doesn’t make them ‘the establishment’, it just makes them bitter.
To keep highlighting hypocrisy and humbug, particularly by those elected servants who pay lip-service to the term ‘democracy’, I would suggest is no bad thing.
And they only win if you let them win (glib, but true).
Unless i get any better ideas i have decided to take the next election day off, and sit in the house drinking single malt and watching "They shall not grow old" thanking those that went before and apologizing for what we have become.
There were social concerns and conflicts before, during and after then, but you’re right about raising a glass.
They didn’t get the option of saying yea or nay, voting or spoiling their ballot, and raising a glass of the best you can afford is no bad thing at any time.
That said, I wouldn’t apologise to the past for the intelligence-vacuum that is our current parliament.
I’m reminded of an interview where a young Robin Day asked a question that the PM Harold Wilson didn’t like and was told ‘not to be so impertinent’.
Can you imagine that occurring now?
Elected MPs (sorry, ‘legislators’) are still ****’s, who start as humans desiring to help, but soon become creatures of politics where ‘economic with the truth’ becomes normality and where evasiveness, selected facts, tribalism and one-upmanship becomes the desired outcome.
That said, it’s still better than what came before, and so long as we (the people, the media and other non-governmental institutions) are able to function relatively unhindered, I’d say we are in a good place.
I don’t know about tomorrow, but today is okay.