Turkeys in Politics

It was only a matter of time before it was going to surface. If ever anyone needed proof that David Camera was a pro-European droid, then that proof has been spelt out in the last 24 hours. Don't expect any European referendum in your lifetime. Turkey has had the benefit of a visit from our glorious leader, who has ingratiated himself with their elites by telling them that he is enthusiastically supporting their application to join the European Soviet Union. We have the prospect of hordes of Anatolian goat herders pacing our streets, looking shifty.

For those who fervently believed that Cameroid and Clegg were the panacea of all our Labour-inherited evils, it's time to face the facts. Listen. The Tory-Dem coalition is every bit as much a part of our inherited social and political problems as Labour was. When the old Labour regime packed their bags and left the town, all we had was a change of window-dressing. Some new dummies were put in the window, and they wear different clothes. The old drab red has been removed; the color theme du jour is a mixture of blue and yellow. But the business in the shop continues exactly as before. Our politicians don't represent our interests - and they never did. They are the marionettes of the Righteous and the Mighty.

Government

At the bottom of Old Holborn's blog site are the following words - I hope he doesn't mind if I quote them here:

To be governed is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.