Thursday 4 October 2007

Dave still don't got no clue

I watched a bit more of his speech last night, and frankly I was appalled.

The phrase "we will give people more power over their own lives" makes me sick. The f***ing government shouldn't have taken it away in the first place. Why do these weasels have so much power over us in the first place?

I'm waiting for a politician to stand up and reel of a long list of laws that he or she will repeal. Starting off with smoking ban, hunting ban, EC Act 1972, Human Rights Act 1998 and so on. And whatever laws there are that make drugs or certain aspects of prostitution illegal. And suggesting some modifications to the Highway Code, like scrapping traffic lights and scrapping speed limit on motorways, while bringing it down to 20mph for residential areas*.

A politician who ain't prepared to do all this is not one who wants to give us "power over our own lives".

* Apart from violent crime and theft and so on, the only thing that ought to be illegal is people playing loud music in their homes or in their cars. I bloody hate that.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Tom Milner reckons that there has been a shift of vocabulary and if you listen very closely you might find that 'vouchers' are now called 'per capita funding'.

http://ablockhead.blogspot.com/

It's not much, but its a start.

Henry North London 2.0 said...

I want the national speed limit back to 70mph on A and B roads

December 1973 due to the sodding Oil crisis the speeds were lowered and have they been put back have they hell

Mark Wadsworth said...

WOAR, the Tories are heading in every different direction at the same time on education and rapidly sinking in their own wake, AFAIAC.

The issue is pretty topical chez Wadsworth at the mo' because our local primary is fast going down the tubes and Her Indoors is determined to send them both private. So vouchers hits the spot with me.

Call it naked self-interest? I pay the taxes, I want value for money.

Mark Wadsworth said...

HNL, remember our cretinous licensing laws? Shut for two hours in the afternoon? Chucking out time at 10.30?.

They came in during WW1. IIRC, it was 80 years until Major put the clock back. And the Nulab had to copmpletely fuck it up with this 24 hour nonsense.

CatWoman said...

There are ridiculous bans here too. Each state has it's own writs and laws and I hear they want to ban people from smoking on their own balcony's. RIDICULOUS SHIT.
Yup need politicians who don't tap dance around with their words to tactifully appease all the people. Aint gonna happen. We agree we both need someone with cajones.
Hopefully not Hillary's over here. LOL

Mark Wadsworth said...

I was on a No Smoking balcony yesterday evening, as it happens.

You can't smoke in pubs in England any more, this one had a little balcony at the back, so we all charged out, but there was a sign saying "You can't smoke here becuase it's quite near a No Smoking area"

Penny Pincher said...

The local youths now smash out the glass screens on bus shelters thus opening them up to the elements then they are able to 'smoke' in them lawfully ....

Dave Cameron was quite impressive in his speech - was almost carried away by it - till you begin to think back on the bits i heard.He has loads of goals but didn't tell us how we [or he] will get there.

They're unlikely to repeal any laws - never known them to do so - it's said that it's still 'illegal' to eat christmas pudding at christmas (Cromwell)