h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

This comes direct from topic straying on another conversation.
We have our own elections coming up in about five months and I wonder what we can learn from what has just happened in America.

Whats right with him?
Seems to me both Britain and the US have at least 1 problem in common
The 2 main parties are both conservative and FPTP voting systems means there isn't much point in voting for anyone else so we are left with a choice between the nasty party and the even nastier party
So what do we do about it?

He wears fairly nice suits, hasn't had a sexual fling attributed to him, hmm what else?
I think the only way is to get the labour party to ditch him themselves and this will be difficult because most against him have resigned. The UK has shown in smaller elections that they have a complaint and used their vote to register lack of support for the government, whether they'll also do that in a main election I don't know. I can't vote for a Blair run government in all good conscious, because I believe that he has lied once (at least) to the country and if it's done once then I can't believe anything else he might say. I cannot forget that he committed this country to war on the day of 911, without any apparent consultation with his own government , let alone the people. People say that Thatcher was worse, but I'm looking at students in heavy debt when they leave university, the stupifying cost of housing in the UK which puts home ownership (with no decent rental contracts to replace ownership) out of the reach of all but the very rich young people,(While the Blairs indulge in propety investments) A continual state of being at war. Warnings of terrorist attacks without the backup and support services should this happen. The British army sent into combat with inadequate weaponry and supplies. The execution of hostages. The undermining and killing off of our traditional farming communities. Mandelson, a government minister found disgraced on two occasions still being provided with a job. Lies about WMD. Education education education floundering in continual 'experimental' changes.
Mishandling immigration. Encouraging a system of full time work for men and woman that excludes child rearing, most woman do not have the choice to stay at home and provide child care, because of the cost of those super high mortgages. Dirty hospitals that habour viruses. The cost of food. The cost of shabby rail services.
Too much spin and not enough action. The ongoing fox hunting ban . Banning smoking but opening cassinos. The millennium dome!. and that's only todays thoughts.

MPs call for Blair's impeachment

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4037375.stm

I want to solve the Iraq issue via the United Nations
Saturday 15 February 2003 tony Blair.

"Dr Blix reported to the UN yesterday and there will be more time given to inspections. He will report again on 28 February. But let no one forget two things. To anyone familiar with Saddam's tactics of deception and evasion, there is a weary sense of déjà vu. As ever, at the last minute, concessions are made. And as ever, it is the long finger that is directing them. The concessions are suspect. Unfortunately the weapons are real."

The reason that the West believed that Iraq had WMD was because WE sold them to them and not only that WE gave Iraq the money to buy them.





http://www.labour.org.uk/news/tbglasgow

sadly I don't think it will get anywhere but hopefully he will get some negative publicity
don't forget Blunkett eroding our freedoms
more surveillance, ID cards, imprisonment without trial, a war on drugs that a No 10 policy report has said isn't working
I still think Howard would be worse but he hasn't a hope of winning the next election

This is bound to be fun. In the future you'll be able to spot a Brit by that attractive green glow they give off.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/nuclear/article/0,2763,1373964,00.html
Thank you government for making us the toxic dumping ground of the world.

Vote labour to ensure the following;

House arrest without charge.(On the theory that a person 'may' be about to commit a criminal offence)
(NB. there have been no al quada attacks in Britain as I write, although there were several terrorists attacks from the IRA in the past, these were not considered sufficiently hazardous enough to demand the introduction of identity cards and changes in the law regarding arrest procedure)
Higher housing costs hence more homeless.
Pre-emptive strikes on nations deemed to be run by despots (where oil is present)
Students begining their working life in debt.
(NB higher fee charges mean less English students means more openings for foreign students who are charged much higher fees)
Waiting lists to go on the waiting lists in the NHS (this way real waiting figures are massaged)
The continued crumbling of our manufacturing industry and our farming industry.
Less pilfering, speeding and illegal parking - more violent crime.

The BBC has uncovered evidence that the police and security services have compiled lists - some containing names of innocent people - to show to suspected al-Qaeda terrorists when interrogating them.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4485701.stm