On Aug 27, 8:35*pm, Paul Corfield wrote:
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I might not like the Daily Mail "view" of life (or even views more
extreme than that) but I have to recognise a lot of people think that
way and you won't shift them from that position. It's why we regularly
elect Conservative governments in this country. Boltar is just one of
many who holds such views.
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Paul C

We don't regularly elect Conservative governments any more, they've
not won a majority in nearly 20 years and the current House, at a
particularly low ebb for Labour, has clear majorities in favour of,
for example, keeping the present human rights legislation and abortion
limits. There's a graph around the net of the Tory share of the vote
since the war and it's clearly declining, which possible explains why
they're so keen on eroding democracy.

It's also possible to over-estimate the prevalance of this brand of
mouthbreathing Mail-reader idiocy based on how often one comes across
it on the Internet, where I suspect it's found in the older, more time-
rich user (who's also more likely to have had a secure job and a
decent retirement income, I'd point out, in contrast to today's
generation who they so often decry as not having it tough enough).
Furthermore, concentrating on this masks a newer and more worrying
political trend of libertarian-derived selfishness amongst younger
people which is more of a worry, to be honest, and stems from failing
to realise that things like local democracy, planning laws, the NHS,
the welfare state and state education (and rail subsidies, to move
back on topic) are not permanent features of British life but
political constructs. I blame the teachers.

(Also, I'm not entirely sure anyone who, apparently straight faced,
suggests the UK will be like Bosnia in the future has any tangible
connection between brain and keyboard whatsoever - what's going to
happen, ethnically cleansing the Welsh?).

Tom