May 2011 Archives

A consequence of getting older is that you no longer accept things at face value. Where once you may have blindly believed everything you read, experience of life now leads you to question everything instead.

An example of this was the recent headline I read (over someone's shoulder) in a reactionary newspaper. It claimed that there would now be on-the-spot £100 fines for idiot drivers, that people would now be penalised for bad driving. This is all well and good, were it not clearly a headline-grabbing-stunt with no real merit.

The police clearly find it hard enough to enforce the powers they already have with regard to driving offences without the option of being able to punish, surely speculative, bad driving.

We all know that it's currently illegal to drive whilst using a hand-held telephone but we all do it or at least know people that do. I suspect we know very few who've actually been punished for doing so yet we could all randomly walk the street and spot many offenders every single day. It's a worthwhile law but it's almost impossible to enforce, particularly with the Government cutting police budgets and workforce accordingly.

The only thing you need to know about politicians is that they love power, they want you to vote in order to give them power but don't imagine that voting gives you any power at all; they want it all for themselves.

They really love power, like a smoker and the first fag of the day, an addict and the scratch of the needle, premiership footballers and escort girls or pigs wallowing in their own shit. Nothing motivates a politician more than power. They'll do whatever they can to get it, even more to keep it and more still to get more and more of that ego-fulfilling-power.

I thought I'd calmed down after the AV referendum, the vote that never was, but it appears not. Too many rational, intelligent people voted 'no' because the argument was never fairly presented. The people with power and money shouted down the 'yes' campaign and a vote for a fairer system became another fight between them and us with politicians, and the powerful, trying to bend your minds into thinking they were with us and AV would give you a solution you really didn't want.