Re: Galunggung Gliding Club.

Rusty Hinge <rusty.hinge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Richard Bos wrote:

(At times, it's almost funny how the idiocy in UK politics is very near
the opposite of NL political idiocy. Almost.)

You ought not to criticise our idiocies, we hold them very dear. It's
just the price of them we don't want to pay.

So, you want New ConservaLabour, but you don't want New ConservaLabour?

Anyway, it's not your idiosyncracies I criticise. Well, maybe I do; but
I criticise _those_ with a smile. It's your not entirely honest
inconsistencies that I am a bit more acerbic about. You _can't_ vote
with your yellow liver without paying the price, and don't tell me that
you insist that you want to. You may want to all you want, but unless
the British learn to vote with their hearts and minds rather than with
their tabloid-induced fear of anything Not New ConservaLabour, you
_will_ pay the price, want it or not. And you know it.

It's your government; you may elect Prime Minister Griffin, if you want
to. Or even re-elect CameroBroon. Just don't come complaining to me when
the corruption stays in place, as well. _You_ voted for it. This is your
one chance to make sure that it really _is_ the politicians who are to
blame, and not the voters. Because when ConservaLabour gets voted in
_again_ on Thursday, that's exactly who will be to blame: you, the
voters.

(Oh, and one more thing, lest this be unclear: I'm not hammering on
about this because I like to dislike you Brits. I'm doing so because I
_like_ you. If you'd been the Treznaf, I would not have given a
fliegender Fick whether you voted in Merkel, Steinmeier, or Kunast. If
Orytvnaf, well... to be honest, you'd be up a creek without a paddle
anyway, and the only solution would seem a complete revamp of their
state betnavfngvba.
But you're British, and I like the British, and therefore, want them to
be happy. And what, over the last oh so many years, has made Britons not
happy but furious? Corrupt politics. About which you, collectively,
heartily, and justifiedly, have been complaining. And when you get the
chance to vote for someone else, you collectively, heartily and not so
justifiedly claim that doing so would waste your vote, and proceed to
_actually_ waste your vote by voting the Old Lot back in.
Now, when someone you like is unhappy with a situation, but his own
behavious perpetuates that situation, what should you do? Say "Yes, yes,
very nice, very well done, sad about the situation, isn't it"? Or point
out that he could have helped himself, had he but had the guts, and in
doing so perhaps help him help himself ameliorate the situation in the
future? I prefer to choose the latter.)

Richard
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