A referendum is not democracy as it is generally understood in the UK either; there is as much distance between the UK version of representative democracy and these grubby little plebiscites as there… (View Post)

They might be; I don't know, nor do you. I am suspicious of the speed with which we have all gone from knowing bugger all about it to 100% expertise and 100% outrage in about 24 hours. And I think Ma… (View Post)

An extraordinarily patronising neo colonial mindset. Like all that rubber was a global asset thaty happened to be based largely in the Congo. (View Post)

Unadulterated nonsense. Are you just unaware that you live under a socking enormous great compromise on democracy where the right to make decisions has been watered down to the right to choose, every… (View Post)

Or does he regard a year at the end of which prices are lower than they were at the beginning as, on the whole, a Goodyear? (View Post)