New general election petition

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, Mark Bolam said:

Aye, the government always gets in.

No no. Don’t be so conciliatory. A minute ago I deserved all the boot on the face I got because I didn’t want to pick the boot colour.

Let’s go the other way. I consider voters to be acting aggressively towards me. They’re going to a tyrant shop, picking the one they recognise from the adverts and saying, “I want you to put the boot on my face and on AHPP’s too.”

 

So no voting please.

[tree-fancier123]

[GarethM]

Welcome to the human zoo, the hotel California 

[AHPP]

1 hour ago, Mesterh said:

Would you really want to live in a society without any rules though? 

 

No but you don’t need an all-encompassing state to have rules (that cover the people they need to cover in the places they need to cover).

[AHPP]

3 hours ago, Squaredy said:

Public opinion brought down in my lifetime:  Thatcher, Blair, May, Johnson and Truss.  

Only in the same way that public opinion turned Stone Cold Steve Austin from a heel into a face. It’s a soap opera.

 

How about a list of what public opinion hasn’t brought down? It’ll be long…

Edited November 25 by AHPP

[Stere]

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No but you don’t need an all-encompassing state to have rules

 

So who would enforce the rules....

 

Would end up like Mogadishu?

[GarethM]

3 minutes ago, Stere said:

So who would enforce the rules....

 

Would end up like Mogadishu?

Those were self elected war lords tho, it's just a messy version of a military takeover like Burma, Pinochet, Stalin, Hitler etc.

 

It's just the political version of a cop out, democracy is the worst option except all the others.

 

It's a bit like saying slavery or the poor house wasn't all bad, they got a bed and meals.

[Stere]

Just fould this interesting idea counter to the mainstream view...

 

Better off stateless:
Somalia before and after government collapse
Peter T. Leeson

 

https://www.peterleeson.com/better_off_stateless.pdf

 

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Somalia therefore provides an
interesting natural experiment to explore the hypothesis that if government is predatory enough,
anarchy may actually prove superior in terms of economic development.

 

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Although a properly constrained government may be superior to statelessness, it may not be
true that any government is superior to no government all.

 

 

 

 

So anarchy is  better than a terrible "communist" state not really a big surpise but its still pretty bad....

 

Think the  UK has a way to go yet until the goverment gets bad enough  anarchy is better.

 

 

[Squaredy]

10 hours ago, AHPP said:

How about a list of what public opinion hasn’t brought down? It’ll be long…

The petition has just topped two million.  It has slowed down - currently about 40,000 per hour are signing.

[MattyF]

Put a link up 😂