Lee, I can see I'm going to have a problem at the crack of dawn. A formidable opponent!
Fortunately I'll have no problem at all with your usual ill-thought argument.
Lack of objectivity, plenty of words, but little real substance.
Subjective argument always leads to unsound reasoning and I'll be happy to point out just a few of your misconceptions.
First and foremost, you do your fellow citizens an injustice to suggest they are victims of deliberate dumbing-down policy.
The small minority affected this way are perfectly capable of doing it to themselves! Politicians have no need to bother.
Secondly, if you take F/M forums as a microcosmm of society you will find that the majority are erudite, perceptive, and perfectly capable of distiguishing conspiracy from bullshit, when they hear or see it.
The BNP? Surely you are not a supporter of those mindless thugs? I credit you with more intelligence than that. And thus, I consider you far more dangerous to harmonious society than they are!
As for the 'lots of people' who are sick of the state of the country, I suggest both you and they put aside your political glaucoma and recognise that our current society is more equably well off than we have ever been. And for proof of that look no further than the rate of inflation and the price of housing!
Huntley, true is a vile criminal and I hope and trust he dies of old age in prison much as Hindley did.
But State murder is no more ethical than ordinary murder, regardless of public opinion.
Martin's burglar should certainly forfeit his rights, but the arbiter of punishment should be the law, not Martin. That way lies anarchy!
I'm not particularly for or against a Federal State. but I do consider sovereignty on a par with patriotism as a breeding ground for insularity, xenophobia, and Little England syndrome.
I am a citizen of the world and will live where best suits me.
If you dont vote, you are expressing indifference, not preference. Of those that took the trouble to exercise their rights, the Right was out-voted and I trust will be again this time. And if not, well, I'll probably be a wine-soaked bum after our dawn tryst and it wont matter.
I dont know the 'epoisse' but I was brought up on lancashire and I delight in dolcelata.