Posted in Political, UK politics, democracy, tagged Labour, David Davis, DUP, 42 days, Conservative on June 14, 2008 | No Comments »
David Davis’ resignation of his parliamentary seat in protest of the government’s success in the first stage of getting the 42 day holding limit passed is as far as I can see a display of principle in a world of smoke, mirrors and timidity. Davis is not a man I agree with on many points of view but [...]
Posted in China, Civil Liberties, Economy, Events, Free Market, Freedom of Speech, Government, Human Rights, Political, UK politics, democracy, rant, tagged Beijing Olympics on April 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I wanted to write a post about the protests that have taken place around the world as the olympic torch has been carried from nation to nation in a badly judged public relations exercise by the Chinese Administration.
When I got plane to return to the UK I saw the scenes that greeted the Olympic relay [...]
Posted in Missile Defence, Nuclear Disarmament, Nuclear Weapons, Political, UK politics, democracy on January 17, 2008 | No Comments »
My latest communication with the Government wasn’t actually with the Government it was with a Member of Parliament who doesn’t actually form part of the Government; one Michael Mates the MP for East Hampshire.
Actually if I wanted to be pedantic I would say that my last communication with the Government was at 1.35 post meridiem [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Freedom, Government, Human Rights, Labour, Police, Political, UK politics, democracy, tagged ID cards, Labour Party on January 9, 2008 | No Comments »
The decision to introduce a National Identity Scheme was announced in the Queen’s Speech on 17 May 2005. The Identity Cards Act received royal assent, becoming law, on 30 March 2006. The introduction of biometric residence permits for foreign nationals in 2008 and the first ID cards to be issued to British citizens in will [...]
Posted in Non-Violence, Political, Violence, World, democracy, tagged Bhutto, Election, Pakistan on January 2, 2008 | No Comments »
Of course it won’t, an abitrary deadline which should in some strange and indefinable way make everything new and cause the world to change certainly wouldn’t be one in which people drink themselves stupid and act like petulant children.
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto on the 27th of December was what I had always viewed as [...]
Posted in Anti-War, Disillusion, Government, Iraq, PNAC, Patriotism, Political, Society, Terrorism, UK politics, US Politics, Violence, War, World, democracy on December 12, 2007 | No Comments »
My feelings on those who direct the armed forces into situations in which their lives are at risk are mixed but always strong, that President Bush has the guts to face the people that his war has maimed is something I guess.
These pictures are from President Bush’s visit to Brooke army medical centre in San [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Freedom, Government, Labour, UK politics, democracy, tagged Gordon Brown, UK Constitution on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Gordon Brown has announced the beginning of a national consultation in view of setting up a written British constitution.
His speech makes particular reference to the following
• Respecting and extending freedom of assembly, new rights for the public expression of dissent;
• Respecting freedom to organise and petition, new freedoms that guarantee the independence of non-governmental organisations;
• [...]
Posted in Discussion, Philosophy, democracy on September 19, 2007 | No Comments »
According to the ethos behind Platos’ republic, goodness and reality are timeless, the best state will naturally be one which most closely resemble the heavenly model or ideal, it must do this by a minimum of change and by static perfection, perfect obviously being complete, a perfect state will cease to progress or regress merely [...]
Posted in Anarchism, Disillusion, Frustration, Idiocy, Personal, Political, Royal Mail, democracy on August 24, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I had an experience which made me truly question Democracy, in the tearoom my colleague Keith came up with the premise of all Arabs being Bastards.
I challenged him by asking him why he thought that they were, his reply was ‘because they were’ again I asked him why and he said ‘because they were Arab [...]
Posted in British Rail, Economy, Education, Free Market, Government, Industry, NHS, Police, Privatisation, Public Services, Renationalisation, Royal Mail, Social, Socialism, Society, UK politics, Utopia, democracy on July 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I am and always have been firmly against the privatisation of state owned industries, this position does not blind me however to the faults of nationalised industries nor to the benefits of privatisation.
I’ve been thinking about restructuring existing goverment industries and doing the same with present private sector industries and services after first renationalising them.
To [...]
