tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post3416741955078654869..comments2024-03-19T15:01:34.152+00:00Comments on what a wonderful life...: Bully for you...akhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-50710775738623820832015-12-05T07:34:37.673+00:002015-12-05T07:34:37.673+00:00Similar Brothers on FB
Andrew firstly before I say...Similar Brothers on FB<br />Andrew firstly before I say I am not totaly in agreement with you, at last I have some one on face book that has something to say with conviction. Thankyou in bringing my faith back in FB. (Also always enjoy your Tommy Cooper style Jokes reffering as if they are mine over the course of the day.... keep them coming)<br />However I consider myself a pacifist and pretty central politically with slight leanings to left. Until recently I too would have had strong views about conflict for the sake of showing power over countries and regions that we have no right to involve ourselves as a nation. But at this moment in history we do face a threat, as Hillary Ben so eloquently reffered on the closing speach from a faciest regime. No greater bullies are those history can teach us. Democracy has no place in their idiology. I have no beef with different religions, race. Difference is what makes us great and interesting as people even Lady C ( had a mad old trout relation like her ). But what I dont want is to be bullied by those who do not and will never give a voice to those who they suppress. We are lucky we live in a country that in many ways is forwad thinking. That has been built on years of conflict but we do have a voice. Its not perfect and hopefully each year/century will get more progresive, as long as we have conviction in what we believe, protest against what we don't either by our feet or shouting over the heads of those to be heard. Agree or disagree with the impending bombing lets agree that we are allowed to moot/debate these matters in a country that has held and evolved these principles. <br />Btw on the matter of 80% thing 93% of all statistics are lies the other 56% are true.<br />(Reply written waiting for client to arrive court6 Birmingham crown courts which if he doesnt will have no liberty to debate shit!)<br /><br />Andrew Height<br />I agree with you Similar. It isn't taking action I am uneasy with it's the bombing which will lead to increased attacks and cause Isis to grow. I would flood the place with a multinational task force on the ground and take them out, hopefully this is being worked on as I speak. It'll all be different when the revolution comes, there will be lemonade for the masses and the populace will unite in a rounding chorus of on mother Kelly's doorstep. Meanwhile in a small coppice in Rutland...<br /><br />Similar Brothers <br />Fair point well made. But as long as we have diet lemonade for the likes of me who have put on a couple of pounds waiting then you"ll hear me singing with the best of them.<br /><br />Andrew Height <br />As the great Andrew Lloyd Webfoot one penned: Liberte, fraternete, insanete.akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-52453111326232503542015-12-04T07:16:37.924+00:002015-12-04T07:16:37.924+00:00Andrew Height
I hope you won Kevin. It was report...Andrew Height <br />I hope you won Kevin. It was reported on the 10 o'clock news last night that 80% of the public was against the bombing. I don't know where that figure came from but that was what was said.akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-68845052656757439412015-12-04T07:16:17.751+00:002015-12-04T07:16:17.751+00:00Kevin Parrott
I'm off to the pub quiz and a f...<br />Kevin Parrott <br />I'm off to the pub quiz and a few pints of Stella...... catch you later.<br />akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-8050652557131147632015-12-04T07:15:54.398+00:002015-12-04T07:15:54.398+00:00Andrew Height
I don't know for sure Kevin, bu...Andrew Height <br />I don't know for sure Kevin, but there are surveys out there. My point about being voiceless is just that; we will never know. How hard would it be to measure public opinion in this technological world? Not very, but instead we leave it in the hands of our elected representatives who at best are driven by career and reelection concerns. Other countries have a mechanism for this Kevin, so could we. But we don't we are just blindly led.<br />akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-77562723067668465852015-12-04T07:13:11.862+00:002015-12-04T07:13:11.862+00:00Kevin Parrott
But.... is 'public opinion'...Kevin Parrott <br />But.... is 'public opinion' not to bomb?<br />Who says so, how do you know this?<br />akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-60806562125690313172015-12-04T07:12:48.716+00:002015-12-04T07:12:48.716+00:00Andrew Height
my view Kevin is that this needed a...Andrew Height <br />my view Kevin is that this needed a speedy referendum of some kind. You know the issues with elected representatives, whipped into towing the party line. No, we can't have it all ways because our system doesn't allow it. Public opinion is not to bonb, our politicians just want a good scrap regardless - bloody fools.<br />akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-65672774165651161142015-12-04T07:12:12.150+00:002015-12-04T07:12:12.150+00:00Kevin Parrott on FB
Andy, I've already mention...Kevin Parrott on FB<br />Andy, I've already mentioned to you that I'm not happy about the bombing.... however, I have to accept the decision.<br />I'm quoting you here from your blog above:<br />..."best that the public are voiceless, better still if they were silent".<br />We live in a democracy. <br />The Conservatives won the election.<br />I know you and others aren't happy with that, and there's all the argument about PR and all that stuff.<br />If Labour had won under the same system, they wouldn't be moaning about it.<br />The government were supported on this vote by a majority of elected MPs from opposition parties, including your own.<br />So, it is wrong for you to say that the public have been 'voiceless".<br />You can't have it all ways.<br />xx<br />akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-57858727928568593452015-12-04T07:11:07.372+00:002015-12-04T07:11:07.372+00:00Ian Maclachlan on FB
Well said
Ian Maclachlan on FB<br />Well said<br />akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6391010622090130583.post-46624860904107070472015-12-04T07:09:49.109+00:002015-12-04T07:09:49.109+00:00Unknown left a comment on your post "Bully fo...Unknown left a comment on your post "Bully for you...": <br /><br />Don't often feel the desire to comment but the vitriol and posturing around this from politicians makes me feel physically sick...this is all about vengeance (which might be a valid reason if only they'd be honest and admit it) but it certainly isn't about making us 'safer'....the people we should be targeting, if any, aren't in Iraq...or Syria, they're in Bradford, Manchester, London, Birmingham...and every other area of the Country...and there'll be a few more of them after this vote akhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16744011665584141409noreply@blogger.com