Views from our website 25/03/10

Mar 25 2010 by Graham Brown, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

WELL it was the Budget yesterday so the election can’t be far away.

Most people seem to suggest they are sick of politics so what we need is someone who can offer them something new, someone untainted by expenses and sleaze.

Step forward www.examiner.co.uk forum user TommyDGNR8: “I don’t claim to have all the answers but that’s not my job.

“I’m only commenting; asking questions and offering opinions. Here are some of the ideas which have occurred to me over the last 12 months or so posting here and elsewhere.

“This is blue-sky thinking; I think everything on this list is ‘do-able’; I don’t think it would break any international law or breach any treaties.

“I’ve largely left foreign policy alone; global issues need global solutions and I don’t want to bog everything down with Israel/Palestine or the ECHR.

“Every action has a consequence; every right has a responsibility. You have the right to do anything you like as long as it does not adversely impact someone else.

“I remind the reader that lowering the voting age to 18, all-day pub opening and pet passports were all originally proposed by the Monster Raving Loonies (who also, incidentally, proposed scrapping MPs’ expenses and “letting the poor waste them instead” five years ago).”

In a long ‘manifesto’ Tommy proposes: “Enforce existing laws. Tolerance of ‘low-level’ disorder leads to more serious crime becoming normalised. If a law isn’t worth enforcing then repeal it.

“Cancel all national ID card plans (or at least stop pretending they’ll do anything to reduce terrorism).

“EITHER remove all innocent persons from the national DNA database and, in future, do not add people to the database until they have been convicted. OR put absolutely everyone onto the database, including all visitors, tourists, foreign forces stationed here etc.

“Guarantee in perpetuum “no commercial access” to the database.

“Disband the House of Lords immediately.”

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