The day politics stopped working?
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place. John Harris asks if this was the day that politics stopped working.
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richjm
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It certainly raises questions when the biggest known protest in Britain's history is basically ineffectual. Does democracy only have a place at the polling station and nowhere else?
The Lib Dems opposition to the war saw their popularity rise in the polls but inner-party conflict and leadership woes saw them lose any advantage they were building up.
- 4 years ago
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richjm
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sunnydickson
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At my very first protest march at 66 years old, I was out there waving my hands about with the rest of the protestors.
In hindsight did I really think I could change things "No not a chance"?
Blair who up to that point had kidnapped the Labour Party and stolen the Conservitives clothes, had far to much firepower & deviousness. So a few million people waving placards about on the street was not much of a problem
However the good news is that it took me from Denial believing that most of the politicos were OK to... all politicians are a disgusting lot of shifty devious Ba***ards.
I now thrown radios across the room and kicked in TV sets on a regular basis especially at question time.The down side is I have had to stop reading and listening about most things as I now have a world class
disbelief and conspiracy theory on everything.Victor Meldrew move over there is not room for two of us on the planet.
Bill
- 4 years ago
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sunnydickson
