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Originally Posted by Shurm
I disagree, an MP paying for something that can't be right I bet he blagged it off Steve Bramwell is it ? 
Everyone's fed up Guinness and have their own troubles at the moment whether it be money, jobs, bills etc people have realised it doesn't matter who is in power things are just getting tougher. Most people just don't have any interest in politics and although I agree with your examples of injustice there is nothing ordinary folk can do about it.
When you say pacify the plebs who do you mean ordinary folk ? Not you then ?  I think you will find the 'plebs' see through it as well they just don't start a thread on here about it. |
It's an obvious 'kissing babies' photo, I have no doubt that Graham paid for his fish but that is hardly the point I was making. I should have likened the tweet to Nero putting on a concert and wondering how he could heat the theatre.
I'm a pleb and proud of it. As for not having an interest in politics and starting threads, I'll let another pleb called Plato answer that...
'The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men'.
Do you really believe that if everyone had stayed quiet and not posted on local forums, newspaper forums and twitter, Cameron would have done anything else other than say he was 'disappointed' by British Gas??
There are hundreds of examples of 'ordinary folk' saying 'enough is enough' and doing something about it...Tolpuddle, Peterloo, Jarrow, Ghandi, Rosa Parks etc..etc..
It only takes a single act to light the blue touchpaper, I don't have the intelligence, skill or bravery to strike the match, I'm no Plato. But by posting, offering debate and constantly highlighting the injustice and failure of our current system... maybe, just maybe....it will reach someone with a viable alternative and a Zippo.
Gotta be better than just sitting around, saying nothing and abject resignation to the whims of the mandarins of westminster