Saturday 23 February 2013

Quote Of The Day

In an article in the Spectator regarding the Eastleigh by-election I was drawn towards this point...
On a big post-it note in Lib Dem HQ, volunteers write why they have come down to help out. One message stands out, ‘Because Eastleigh is ours’.
Not the voter's constituency, not the people's constituency but apparently it belongs to the Lib Dems. One is reminded of Republican Scott Brown's retort that "it's not Ted Kennedy's seat".

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  1. When you add this to Cameron's comments to the BBC that the most important people in this by-election are the candidates, you see a genuine pattern of contempt for voters across the political class.

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    1. Do they think about us to the extent that they hold us in contempt? I think they see us much as we see sheep when we drive past them on a motorway. We know that they provide us with wool, milk and meat, and other things, however, they exist for our benefit and we aren't concerned about them to the extent that we are prepared to do without the things they provide. We notice them as we pass and soon forget them, only really bothering with them if they escape and impede our onward progress. We don't hold them in high regard but our feelings for them aren't really contempt; they are just a resource.

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  2. Yes AM, quite right. I'm currently reading Martin Bell's "An Accidental MP". On the night he beat Neil Hamilton, Hamilton said in his speech "it was a sad day for the people of Tatton".

    Bell's response in his book "I thought that offensive and graceless...[it wasn't] something done to the people but something done by the people of Tatton" i.e democracy.

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  3. They couldn't possibly hold me in a higher contempt than I hold them.

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  4. See the scare tactics are going out about UKIP.

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    1. That's strangely encouraging...shows they're posing a threat

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  5. When I stood for UKIP in the 1999 EU parliament election,one of the Tory candidates, Heaton Harris, took me aside and gave me a lecture. He was indignant because UKIP's intervention "could cost us a seat". I said that was the intention but, if he would come out in favour of EU withdrawal we would all campaign for him. He didn't take up the offer.

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  6. sadly that is the sad state of the current system. The politicians think they have a divine right to certain seats. They think they have the right to take our money without asking, and expect us to be grateful as they allowed us to keep some it.

    The current system is broken, the state has somehow moved itself to "master of" rather than "servant of" the people. Its one of the reasons I like the self regulatory free market, and the self regulatory gold standard so much, the one thing the politicians can not stand to be is Irrelevant.

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  7. Quite sickening, but really, that much pretty much encapsulates the attitudes of most of the politicians.

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