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MALLIA wrote: The Sea Cat wrote: Unfortunately, here in England, specifically, there is too much complacency in a large section of society that holds things back. An inherent fear of 'socialism' is a very southern middle class attitude, and this is the section that is pandered to and catered for by all 3 main parties. As a nation, the English don't generally 'do' protests. It's down to centuries of indoctrination. Challenging the system is unpatriotic and not the English way.
It's an increasingly South East/London-centric game these days, and there's no real opposition. The Lib Dems have sold their soul and are enabling the Tories to wreak ideological and gleefully vengeful havoc based on economic smokescreens and misconceptions. The Labour Party are a parody, led by a weakling, out of his depth and without an agenda. They are all basically just slight variations of the same ethos, anyway. The money stays at the top, offshore, and in the hands of the few, whilst the politicians and their financial fat cat and media masters distract the general population with arranged Royal marriages, and insulting rhetoric invoking the spirit of the Blitz, whilst the country is dismantled, privatised, and sold off to the highest bidders, who are all members of the very same exclusive club. Very neat. Very profitable. A job well done, old boy.
That sounds very familiar, same story different faces. The media seem to run the country here and they're all a bunch of red necks disguised as journalists. There are a few with a soul like the ABC/Four Corners program who initially viewed the horrific images of the abattoirs in Indonesia, however they are in the minority. The ABC took a lot of guts to view that stuff. It has however had a huge impact on Australian consumers of meat products.
The Greens Party hold the balance of power here between Lib and Labour who are both moronic. Labour perhaps has a little more soul than the Liberals who are all made up of red necks from Queensland. The Australian public hasn't much faith in Julia Gillard (PM)(laughable) proposing a carbon tax. We've had catastrophic floods in Qld so now we're all paying for it in one way or another.
I'm sure the UK has it a lot tougher than us lot though as we haven't been impacted terribly much by the economic blow out of 2007. I lived in the UK then and then returned home to Australia. I haven't gone back as I didn't think I'd have any chance of getting a job. Anyway thanks for your enlightening comments.
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