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Nov. 10th, 2005 02:37 pm( made up name meme )
In news, I had a good cry last night, and finally seem to be cheering up. Parrots have colonised Surrey, and Tony Blair seems to be disappearing up his long dark tunnel. I rarely comment on anything political, as I'm of the opinion that politics are about doing rather than discussing, but what's he on here?
He got beaten. MPs, in general disagreed with him. That's democracy, so quit bitching like a little whiny schoolkid.
I'm not really going to comment on whether or not they're out of touch with the public. My opinion is that the public is divided on this issue; to draw two extremes, some want everyone brown kicked out of the country, some people want everyone who ever remotely agreed with anything Bush ever said or did kicked out of the country.
I couldn't even guess the proportions, and I personally sit somewhere between the two, more towards the second. And I don't like hysterical knee-jerk reactions. Maybe the new anti-terror law isn't such a thing, but there's no harm in taking a bit of time to check that it's not, and to justify what we're about to do.
Maybe if we'd done that a few years ago, history might not have been different, but at least it would have been justifiable that it's the same.
Like I said, I don't know much about politics. But I do know parrots are forming viable colonies in Surrey, and that makes me happy.
In news, I had a good cry last night, and finally seem to be cheering up. Parrots have colonised Surrey, and Tony Blair seems to be disappearing up his long dark tunnel. I rarely comment on anything political, as I'm of the opinion that politics are about doing rather than discussing, but what's he on here?
He got beaten. MPs, in general disagreed with him. That's democracy, so quit bitching like a little whiny schoolkid.
I'm not really going to comment on whether or not they're out of touch with the public. My opinion is that the public is divided on this issue; to draw two extremes, some want everyone brown kicked out of the country, some people want everyone who ever remotely agreed with anything Bush ever said or did kicked out of the country.
I couldn't even guess the proportions, and I personally sit somewhere between the two, more towards the second. And I don't like hysterical knee-jerk reactions. Maybe the new anti-terror law isn't such a thing, but there's no harm in taking a bit of time to check that it's not, and to justify what we're about to do.
Maybe if we'd done that a few years ago, history might not have been different, but at least it would have been justifiable that it's the same.
Like I said, I don't know much about politics. But I do know parrots are forming viable colonies in Surrey, and that makes me happy.
