Of course there is an implication associated with it:
Looking at the people who now describe themselves as politicians, it’s reasonable to ask why they are pursuing that vocation because they don’t seem to have a conviction of consequence between the lot of them. Could it be that they’re a bunch of dopamine junkies, in it for the short-term fixes politics gives them?
So why would we want to give more control over our lives, more power to, the addicts?
Spud’s just given us the argument for minarchy….
Like Communism, it’d be different this time if an all knowing Potato was in charge.
Maybe he ought to ask himself why he writes his blog. And answer honestly.
“Looking at the people who now describe themselves as politicians, it’s reasonable to ask why they are pursuing that vocation…”
Because it’s a great way to fill your pockets if you are so dumb & unemployable you need a tape loop to remind you to breath in and out. Taxpayer filled trough for starters, and endless opportunities to sell favours and get freebies.
Aint that right, Freestuff Keir?
And now Angela Rayner will be issuing planning ‘consent’ by decree (oh the irony is rich on that #metoo).
That turns low-priced greenbelt land into very high value building plots.
Would be fascinating to do a forensic audit of her family accounts in a year or two.
At least Westminster is sometimes funny, like last week when the NHS said maybe people should stop having sex with first cousins (because of all the retard babies), and immediately a Muslim MP jumped up to say incest brings families together.
@ Steve
I know somethings are best kept in the family but some people take it a step too far.
A family that lays together stays together.
@Rowdy…
or “rolling your own” as it was called many years ago when I was a law student…
Some towns are renowned for “that sort of thing ain’t allowed……Well, it’s incense Rodney”.
Harwich* in Essex, March in Cambridgeshire. Only three names in the phone book and even pets have a lisp or a hare lip…..
Young couple in Harwich get married. No dosh, so no honeymoon and spending their first night living with the grooms mum and dad. Both go up to bed. Five minutes late, hubby comes downstairs and says, “You’ll never believe it ….she’s only a virgin”. Dad explodes with anger – “Marriage is off….if she isn’t good enough for her own family she ain’t good enough for mine”.
Sorry.
* I know three blokes, all born in the town, all with the same surname, but none of them related.
To be fair, incest is aproved for humanity in the Bible.
Adam and Eve.
So who fathered the 3rd generation?
“Incest is aproved for humanity in the Bible. Adam and Eve. So who fathered the 3rd generation?”
I remember as a kid asking my staunchly Christian parents about that, and quite enjoyed the coughing and spluttering that ensued……
So who fathered the 3rd generation?
*Begotted
NB that incest is also implied by Darwin’s creation parable.
Idk, people still shouldn’t fuck their cousins.
His arguments always come back to ‘if only the right people were in charge’ and he never understands that if your system requires ‘the right people’ to work – then it never will.
Why We Get the Wrong Politicians (2018) by Isabel Hardman makes some good points.
Agammamon said:
“His arguments always come back to ‘if only the right people were in charge’ and he never understands that if your system requires ‘the right people’ to work – then it never will.”
And that, with the possible exceptions of Callaghan and Brown, I expect he has hated every government in his lifetime. You’d have thought that would make him wary of a “Courageous State”.
Note that neither of them won an election, for all his talk of democracy.