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		<title>By: Stewart Cowan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stewart Cowan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:19:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>John,

I have been contemplating where we go from here. I&#039;m sure they&#039;d love us to start going mental so they could invoke the Civil Contingencies Act and make Gordon dictator for life.

We have to be smarter than they think we are!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>John,</p>
<p>I have been contemplating where we go from here. I&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d love us to start going mental so they could invoke the Civil Contingencies Act and make Gordon dictator for life.</p>
<p>We have to be smarter than they think we are!</p>
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		<title>By: Stewart Cowan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stewart Cowan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 23:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Dan,

We can understand the importance of dumbing down the masses - the proles actually vote in assorted Communists and traitors and they can still call it &#039;democracy&#039;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Dan,</p>
<p>We can understand the importance of dumbing down the masses &#8211; the proles actually vote in assorted Communists and traitors and they can still call it &#8216;democracy&#8217;.</p>
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		<title>By: John Pickworth</title>
		<link>http://www.realstreet.co.uk/2010/02/broken-britain-or-bonkers-britain/comment-page-1/#comment-4352</link>
		<dc:creator>John Pickworth</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:32:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If we had any bloody sense we&#039;d stop pussy-footing around playing the politician&#039;s game and take to the streets.

We need to start taking responsibility for our own affairs because quite clearly we cannot trust the fools at Westminster or the idiots who send them there. In a similar vein and on a smaller scale we need to start saying no. No to bin taxes! No to the flippin&#039; victims surcharge! No to parking/speeding taxes! No to sky-high green inflated fuel bills! And no to practically everything Labour has introduced and everything the Tories plan to introduce!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If we had any bloody sense we&#8217;d stop pussy-footing around playing the politician&#8217;s game and take to the streets.</p>
<p>We need to start taking responsibility for our own affairs because quite clearly we cannot trust the fools at Westminster or the idiots who send them there. In a similar vein and on a smaller scale we need to start saying no. No to bin taxes! No to the flippin&#8217; victims surcharge! No to parking/speeding taxes! No to sky-high green inflated fuel bills! And no to practically everything Labour has introduced and everything the Tories plan to introduce!</p>
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		<title>By: Dan H.</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dan H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:07:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I reckon that the electoral rot set in when the requirement for a person to hold property was dropped from the electoral system. That acted as a couple of things: it ensured that only people who were smart enough to cope with basic finance could vote, and it ensured that only asset-holders voted.

The thing here is this: if you give everyone a vote, then everyone includes people too stupid to understand how money works, how government works, and how to survive other than on a drip-feed of charity from the State. If a man is too idiotic, too pig-ignorant or too lazy to fend for himself, then you really shouldn&#039;t be trusting him to make grown-up decisions regarding how his country is governed since he is demonstrably incapable of making similar decisions even on the scale of himself.

Quite how you&#039;d work some sort of selection here I don&#039;t know; maybe only permit taxpayers to vote or something. However the fact remains, you need to exclude morons from decision making processes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I reckon that the electoral rot set in when the requirement for a person to hold property was dropped from the electoral system. That acted as a couple of things: it ensured that only people who were smart enough to cope with basic finance could vote, and it ensured that only asset-holders voted.</p>
<p>The thing here is this: if you give everyone a vote, then everyone includes people too stupid to understand how money works, how government works, and how to survive other than on a drip-feed of charity from the State. If a man is too idiotic, too pig-ignorant or too lazy to fend for himself, then you really shouldn&#8217;t be trusting him to make grown-up decisions regarding how his country is governed since he is demonstrably incapable of making similar decisions even on the scale of himself.</p>
<p>Quite how you&#8217;d work some sort of selection here I don&#8217;t know; maybe only permit taxpayers to vote or something. However the fact remains, you need to exclude morons from decision making processes.</p>
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		<title>By: First Class posts on Tuesday &#124; Letters From A Tory</title>
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		<dc:creator>First Class posts on Tuesday &#124; Letters From A Tory</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] Real Street thinks &#8216;Broken Britain&#8217; and &#8216;Bonkers Britain&#8217; are not really that far [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] Real Street thinks &#8216;Broken Britain&#8217; and &#8216;Bonkers Britain&#8217; are not really that far [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Jim Baxter</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Baxter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Always pleasnt to find common ground with you chaps. I say you chaps - I never disgaree with Subrosa.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Always pleasnt to find common ground with you chaps. I say you chaps &#8211; I never disgaree with Subrosa.</p>
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		<title>By: English Viking</title>
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		<dc:creator>English Viking</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:27:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stewart,

I see your point.

Some places are not yet as bad as others, although I suspect it will not be long.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stewart,</p>
<p>I see your point.</p>
<p>Some places are not yet as bad as others, although I suspect it will not be long.</p>
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		<title>By: Stewart Cowan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stewart Cowan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 18:17:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The corruption is global though, English. Where could you go to?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The corruption is global though, English. Where could you go to?</p>
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		<title>By: English Viking</title>
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		<dc:creator>English Viking</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:57:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Stewart,

Running away might be more appropriate. He that fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Stewart,</p>
<p>Running away might be more appropriate. He that fights and runs away, lives to fight another day.</p>
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		<title>By: Stewart Cowan</title>
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		<dc:creator>Stewart Cowan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:54:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>English,



&lt;blockquote&gt;It’s over.&lt;/blockquote&gt;



Could be. 

Could well be.

We fight on regardless...</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>English,</p>
<blockquote><p>It’s over.</p></blockquote>
<p>Could be. </p>
<p>Could well be.</p>
<p>We fight on regardless&#8230;</p>
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