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Amazing Trevor, all those freedoms, thoughts and opinions with the view to take the trade forward but it never really happens. I wonder why that is. Could it be that as a taxi driver you simply don't matter and you lack the intelligence to know any better? I know from personal experience you don't have any rights or proper representation, only a bunch of Uncle Tom's/committeemen wallowing in their own self- importance while lining their pockets.

It's actually strange to watch people actively working against their own interests, trying to drag each other down but failing to realise they are only dragging themselves down.

You made the smart move Trevor. You were a mechanic, and they needed your services, and then you played them to your advantage. I take my hat off to you.

If you don't vote, nobody really notices or gives a sh*t. It may keep you warm at night but it's a pointless gesture.



Aren't you contradicting yourself here? According to your previous statement, social upheaval and disorder doesn't seem to have done much for the Arab Spring protesters.
Maybe they should have just sat at home, refusing to vote and taking it up the jacksy?



Like I said, pointless tokenism.
If you're waiting for the Great British public to wake up and do a Brit Spring, your going to be waiting a long long time.
Even then you're likely to be disappointed.



So long as they come to the same conclusion as you? Otherwise they are just sheeple eh?

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Gusmac writes:


Nonsense, you give your endorsement to the political system. I choose not to as I see no point in voting for no change. The only real way to force change is by informing oneself and educating others and taking direct action, if necessary. I agree. It might have a long way to go but the collapse of the monetary system, and the Internet could change things very quickly indeed.





No. The Arab spring gives them a chance to put in a system that actually delivers democracy and not the pale imitation we operate. It's really down to the people educating themselves as to what a real democracy should mean, and putting in the political mechanism to deliver it.




So the above, is your reason to remain ignorant of why the system fails to act in the public interest, and to vote for it anyway. It seems like you have no clue as to why you vote. It's a bit like being shaken out of your slumber and then going back to sleep.

You might see it as tokenism, but at least it's not, ignorant tokenism. I know why I don't vote, but you vote for a political system that means it's business as usual for your owners.

Okay Gusmac, as a voter you'll be able to tell my why the political class, or the system as a whole, will never allow direct accountability to the electorate they are supposed to represent?

Bottom up public accountability to top-down political power structures, exactly how a democracy should work.

I vote for change.
You just don't vote and nobody bar you even notices.



Yeah, and I might get elected Pope.


Independence offers the same to the people of Scotland. Whether they take the opportunity or sit at home doing nothing is up to them.



I know why I vote skull and it's not just to prop up an ailing system.
I also know that it would be easier to get 5 million of my fellow Scots to change the system than to wait for 60 million Brits to do it for us.


It is ignorant tokenism skull. A token gesture which you seem to think counts for something. In reality, it means zilch.
The system just ignores you and moves on.



It's your opinion, skull. You tell me.

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Direct accountability would mean the political class being forced to act in the interests of their electorate and if that happened, their big-business buddies would disown them. As our interest would come first before theirs.

Power of the people by the people...

And that's no opinion Gusmac. It's a fact.

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Direct accountability would mean the political class being forced to act in the interests of their electorate and if that happened, their big-business buddies would disown them. As our interest would come first before theirs.

Power of the people by the people...

And that's no opinion Gusmac. It's a fact. [/quote]


That one is hard not to agree with tbh.

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Independence offers the same to the people of Scotland as the Arab Spring. Are you on drugs? Independence means same old [edited by admin] different day, the new boss same as the old boss but with a Scottish accent.

You don't really believe that Alec Salmond or any of the rest of the SNP, are going to put your interests before their own and that of big business. Alec Salmond knows where his interests are best served, and it has nothing to do with the man in the street.


No one's changing any system Gusmac, as I told you before, it's not in their interests. Their big-business buddies would disown them. Wee Eck would be replaced pretty sharpish.


Is that right, well the way I see it, is you can wake-up to how the system really works, or go back to sleep with the rest of the little tartan people?

Then when nothing changes or things get even worse, at least you'll know why your dream of independence has turned into a nightmare, and you heard it here first.

The only thing you vote will achieve is Alec Salmond's promotion to the premier league of British politics. He might not represent your interests but Alec, and his big-business chums will be eternally grateful for your support.

Direct accountability would mean the political class being forced to act in the interests of their electorate and if that happened, their big-business buddies would disown them. As our interest would come first before theirs.

Power of the people by the people...

And that's no opinion Gusmac. It's a fact. [/quote]

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That one is hard not to agree with tbh.[/quote]



Do you think Gusmac, will accept the above as fact, or is it only my opinion?

If it happened, then I'd say you're probably right.
But that's a big IF. It's not going to happen anytime soon, no matter how much you want it to.

In fact I'd be hard pressed to think of anywhere it ever has.

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Do you suppose for one second that the people in Downing Street or Holyrood lie awake at nights bricking it because the skull didn't vote?
Your non vote means bugger all. Nothing, zilch, zip, big fat zero. Nobody gives a flying fkuk. Get it?


You're the one on drugs, methinks. What have these arab countries actually achieved? Swapped one tinpot dictator for a another or a council of tinpot dictators or a bunch of religous cranks? At best they will get a democracy like ours, and I think you've made it pretty clear what you think of that.



Why the Alec Salmond hang up? The gospel according to skull states that all politicians are scum. What makes him so threatening to you?



Your opinion, not mine.


Left to you and your anarchist mates, fek all will ever change skull. You'll always be the victim, because that's the way you like it. And you heard that here first.


Likewise Cameron and Milliband will thank you for not voting to change their happy playground.

Now take a hint, i'm done listening to your OTT, biased, inaccurate and contradictory crap.
You lost your badge and you didn't get a plate. You blame the SNP for that, the rest is just bullshit.
You are a bitter and twisted man with an axe to grind. Get over it and get a job.

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Since skull seems unable to tell us, maybe you know of a goverment like this anywhere?

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A bit sooner than I though

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-1844 ... in-content

I suppose by now everyone knows where this QE, money is coming from.

I don't particularly like this guy, wise after the fact, so to speak, but I have a sneaking suspicion he has a point.

The Euro Titanic Has Hit The Iceberg!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRp7FSJVw4w


We are going down boys and new QE. Measures aren't going to help. It's only money out of your pocket anyway.

May you live in interesting times:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN3tn8rO ... re=related

Skull you get nothing better ta dee than sit on your backside and go through you-tube. You need ta get a life

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