Posted on 07/09/2004 5:05:53 PM PDT by NZerFromHK
My problem now is having to learn about English politics - it's really frustrating, coming from a country where i have been immersed in politics since i was small, to somewhere where, although i know the basics, i don't feel that i can participate properly in debate because i haven't been there through it all and i don't understand all the subtleties. it's fun to Blair bash though!
,,, how long do you think you'll be there?
god knows - my mum hopes forever, so she has a bond fide excuse to come over once a year. i'm sure i can find myself a nice english boy and settle down!
if labour stays in at the next election, there's certainly no reason for me to be itching to get back home - Blair is better than Clark!
,,, barring Mugabe and Castro, anyone's better than Klark.
I beg to differ - i would rate Clark above any of the members of the green party! Plus, if Winston ever got into the hot seat, i don't think i'd even venture home on holiday!!
,,, Klark would be with the GREENs like a shot but she knows it's too fringe for most voters. She has to stay in what most centre left voters perceive to be the mainstream option to keep power, which is all she's there for. Sitting where he is, with the GREENs, Keith Locke has more credibilty. At least he's not masquerading.
<< My problem now is having to learn about English politics - it's really frustrating, coming from a country where i have been immersed in politics since i was small, to somewhere where, although i know the basics, i don't feel that i can participate properly in debate because i haven't been there through it all and i don't understand all the subtleties. it's fun to Blair bash though! >>
Good luck. With politics and with ridding world politics of the multiplicious fascissocialist, Blair. [And his gang]
British politics, sadly, has no conservatives in the American sense of what one of those is and has pretty-much degenerated to a bun-fight among woosses and ponces [Not including the beautiful Boris] as to how to squander the loot piled high by the obscene confiscation of the wealth of Britain's few remaining [And very seriously work-ethic-challenged] industrious and productive -- its creative and innovative having long ago become Americans.
Perhaps you might introduce them to libertarianism and start an ACT-styled party of your own?
Beware of muggers and robbers who seem to have no fear and to get very little visible police attention.
My son lives in Bristol and I visit quite often. Although Bristol is still quite delightful, the continuing deterioration of London's standard of living is palpable on every visit -- and since my first [1962!] visit: unbelievable!
And, it goes without saying, beware of them-thar FR-abusing virtual "romeos!"
Kia Ora and Blessings -- Brian
[G'Day, shaggs, how's it going in the Windy Capital? P says, G'Day, too -- and to H. -- Love and fellowship -- B A]
I still have vestigal fears that Labour will use scare tactics (as did the Liberals in Canada recently) coying people into voting them once more. We still have to wait and see if Don Brash could win next year.
Love and best to P & you too.
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