I heard a Lib dem candidate on the radio the other day saying that if they won the election they would scrap the present law that bans live music being performed anywhere unless the venue has a licence. This law has had the effect of closing down all those impromptu sessions in pubs and small halls, as they are against the law. It was bad enough when you couldn't have more than two people playing at the same time. We fell foul of that one once in a pub in Dalton when we had to send our drummer home.
Anyway the Lib-dems would scrap the existing law so I thought that's a good bit of common sense, maybe I'll vote for them. Then I saw the BIG debate the other night and I thought Nick was doing good until he said that they would scrap Trident. Now as far as this area is concerned that's got to be a bad move as lots of people round here would lose their jobs. So maybe I won't vote Lib dem. although I must say I'm of a mind that having nuclear weapons is not my cup of tea, and I really can't see us ever using them, so why are we spending money on them. If it's just to keep people in Barrow in work maybe I need to rethink that. It's a tough call, but if I'm honest I think I agree with Nick. So that's two reasons to vote Lib dem, and I'm a Labour man so what's going on here.
I suppose what is going on is that I want to see proportional representation brought in so that all our votes count. They keep banging on about a hung parliament being a bad thing. I honestly don't know, is it?
I think that Gordon has got his head around the economy and Thomas could always rely on the Big engine to get him out of trouble, so that's good enough for me. I think he could do with a bit of help from Vince though, as he seems to be a bit of a clever clogs with sums so together they could make a great team. Anything to stop the nasty party has got to be good. I know they're pretending to be less nasty these days but please don't be fooled, all they've changed is their suits.
I took out some Labour leaflets today, a sort of paper called Furness voice, and I was delivering in Baycliff. I popped into the local pub, The Farmers Arms at lunch time and handed one to the lady behind the bar. There were two other people sat at the bar. I handed it to her, she glanced at it and before I turned to go she ripped it in two and said I've never voted labour in my life. I said maybe somebody may have wanted to read it. She could have waited till I had left the pub couldn't she. Such arrogance is how I see the conservatives, it summed it up for me.
Politics, it's become a strange beast in these times, this beauty contest between the leaders instead of the policies turns me off, and I'm actively involved. So it will come as no shock if this election turns in the lowest poll we've ever had. Although the problem is that the woman from the Farmers arms will definitely vote and millions like her will. I just fear that the ordinary men and women won't and we'll end up with all those weak chins running my country. I just hope I'm wrong.
4.17.2010
4.10.2010
Election thoughts 2010
This election gets me thinking that it's time for something radical to be laid out before the electorate. We don't seem to have any choice, except some kind of beauty contest where we're expected to choose on the basis of who we fancy, like a miss world contest. The prospective politicians just slag off each others policies, but in the final analysis you can't get a Rizla between them.
We seemingly owe about £50,000 each to somebody or other but then I hear that we've been owing money to whoever since about five hundred years ago, so what's new, and anyway it's only money, and money's only a concept isn't it? I honestly don't understand how the world economy works, and to consider it just makes my head hurt. Fiddling around the edges, cutting a bit here and a bit there is not going to make a bit of difference.
Some say we should scrap Trident, but living round here that sounds like a bad idea because we build the bloody things and it provides work and therefore income into our area.
But then again we're probably never going to use them so it's a pointless waste of money, but do we care, if it means we can use the money to put on a nice conservatory or buy a new car made by workers at the Nissan factory in Gateshead. That means that the people of Gateshead can also buy a new conservatory, which keeps the conservatory workers employed so they can afford to have us build a Trident sub. to protect them from some future threat, from Al Qaeda who may have a dirty bomb. At least our bombs are clean, now that's a reason for Trident don't you think, our Barrow bombs are clean.
The way I see it is we should have a choice between a communist style party, a dictatorship, or maybe a radical green party state. Give me a real choice because this present state of politics is no choice at all. So I will be voting for Gordan the big engine because I think he's cuddly and misunderstood, and a man with an eye to the future, although only one eye so they say. I think he's had a bad press and I don't like the idea of a Prime minister called Dave, it's not British, too familiar.
I wouldn't be surprised if no one voted at this election, and that we ended up with no one in parliament, or in Downing street and the country was run by bureaucrats. The civil service could quite easily cope without all that interference from politicians. It would be like when all the traffic lights go out and the traffic flows more smoothly than it did when the lights were working, know what I mean?
No I don't know what I mean, but quite honestly the machine has taken over, I realise this from being a humble town councillor. I thought I could make a difference but in six years all I've managed to do is get half a dozen lamp posts painted grey in the centre of town. Not exactly a radical shift in community well being.
I only hope that somehow the new electronic media, like this can throw up some radical way of making our communities work more effectively because quite honestly what I'm hearing on the radio and TV from our incumbent representatives is in all honesty a load of bollocks.
We seemingly owe about £50,000 each to somebody or other but then I hear that we've been owing money to whoever since about five hundred years ago, so what's new, and anyway it's only money, and money's only a concept isn't it? I honestly don't understand how the world economy works, and to consider it just makes my head hurt. Fiddling around the edges, cutting a bit here and a bit there is not going to make a bit of difference.
Some say we should scrap Trident, but living round here that sounds like a bad idea because we build the bloody things and it provides work and therefore income into our area.
But then again we're probably never going to use them so it's a pointless waste of money, but do we care, if it means we can use the money to put on a nice conservatory or buy a new car made by workers at the Nissan factory in Gateshead. That means that the people of Gateshead can also buy a new conservatory, which keeps the conservatory workers employed so they can afford to have us build a Trident sub. to protect them from some future threat, from Al Qaeda who may have a dirty bomb. At least our bombs are clean, now that's a reason for Trident don't you think, our Barrow bombs are clean.
The way I see it is we should have a choice between a communist style party, a dictatorship, or maybe a radical green party state. Give me a real choice because this present state of politics is no choice at all. So I will be voting for Gordan the big engine because I think he's cuddly and misunderstood, and a man with an eye to the future, although only one eye so they say. I think he's had a bad press and I don't like the idea of a Prime minister called Dave, it's not British, too familiar.
I wouldn't be surprised if no one voted at this election, and that we ended up with no one in parliament, or in Downing street and the country was run by bureaucrats. The civil service could quite easily cope without all that interference from politicians. It would be like when all the traffic lights go out and the traffic flows more smoothly than it did when the lights were working, know what I mean?
No I don't know what I mean, but quite honestly the machine has taken over, I realise this from being a humble town councillor. I thought I could make a difference but in six years all I've managed to do is get half a dozen lamp posts painted grey in the centre of town. Not exactly a radical shift in community well being.
I only hope that somehow the new electronic media, like this can throw up some radical way of making our communities work more effectively because quite honestly what I'm hearing on the radio and TV from our incumbent representatives is in all honesty a load of bollocks.
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