<rant>A quick note to all the Labour politicians I keep hearing and seeing on the radio and the TV, who are quick to explain in advance their party’s upcoming shockingly bad performance in the local and European elections as the result of a ‘global economic crisis which began in America’: stop treating the electorate as if we are stupid. If Labour gets a thumping tomorrow it’s not because the voters can’t tell the difference between problems which are the government’s fault and those which aren’t. It’s because the public is fed up with ZaNu Labour in charge. In my case, it’s partly because I’m fed up with being patronised.
To Harriet Harman in particular, whose performance on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme this lunchtime was particularly irritating: the expenses scandal has not made me lose my faith in democracy (as if anyone thought a totalitarian regime would be less corrupt); rather, it has made me lose any last shred of faith in the people we have elected. Praising to the skies people who are about to resign because of the scandal, and blaming the media for their treatment, is sadly just what I have learned to expect from a government that has completely forgotten (if they every knew) that they work for us. Get ‘em out.</rant>
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I pray that God moves in your nation, just as I pray that he does in mine.
Thanks, Ilíon. Ditto.
There are some few Americans who seem sometimes almost to be gloating about how the European nations appear to be circling the drain and oblivious to the fact that we're but a few laps behind.
But, even if we weren't on the same path, it takes a special kind of ignorance to imagine that we could long survive as ourselves without the European nations as themselves.
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