Webforum: Iran and our own parties

Jun 18 2009 by Andrew Jackson, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

MILLIONS of people have spontaneously taken to the streets in Iran to campaign for a change of government after the recent elections.

Can you imagine that here?

No, me neither.

And that seems to be the reason why Otis is so sick of it all.

He wrote: “I have watched the news tonight and seen the situation in Iran.

“Following this item there was a report about the enquiry into our involvement in the Iraq war, a long promised event.

“Gordon Brown has decided that we cannot be allowed to know all the facts, it is to be held in private not public.

“Yet again Gordon Mc'Jimmijad turns away from the democratic route, just as he did when he denied us the promised vote on the European treaty.

“There are two things Parliament in this country is scared stiff of; one is the BNP the other is democracy. Oh sorry, three things, how could I forget their expenses scandal.

“What are they frightened of?

“The same thing they were frightened of in relation to their expenses. What they did in our name, how they ignored the wishes of the people, what they did and said at the time becoming public.

“Or maybe it’s just that they have all claimed the cost of the war on their expenses.

“I don’t think Gordon and his groupies are fit to rule this country, unfortunately I cannot see anyone else in the Palace of Westminster fit to rule either.”

StephB can’t find fault with Otis’s argument: “I am in complete agreement.

“What they abhor most, like things to be found beneath stones, is the good honest light of day being shone upon them and their doings.

“Even Cameron is no better.”

Dave50 had a question on a different tack: “Why is it when children are put on the ‘at risk’ register when living at home, they are still allowed to remain living at home?

“If they are at risk then they should be removed immediately. It’s like leaving a child on the central reservation of a motorway, at risk but leave it there for now.”

Despondent believed the solution was simple: “The present system can only work if the ‘element’ causing the ‘at risk’ scenario is removed, otherwise someone from Social Services needs to move in as a 24/7 guard.”