Another way.. [The Hardcore Party?]

While Ravi's post may be all eloquent and humourous, its also the collected musings of the Eastbourne W.I., the Stafford Ladies' whist drive team and his own wishy-washy, pansy, nancy boy, softly-softly views.

Yes, Im a big fan of Sweden, but lest we forget sir, that I fucking hate the Daily Mail and am a great big lefty at heart. However, we have clearly gone too far the other way at this stage. Its a difficult balancing act between social responsibility, and freedoms and liberties. Sure its ok to write an anti-war poem and start a drum circle Mr. Spider, but its is not fucking ok to invite people to behead soldiers.

Yes, its daft giving a knife mugger one million years in jail, but its also daft to blame it on his father and send him to Alton Towers. Both sides of the coin are wrong in their own special ways. When people speak of Labour they throw around horrible and dated terms that conjure up negative images of the party, words like Communism, Socialist and cockbadger.

Communism, as long as you don't confuse it with Stalinism, works.. simple as that. There has only ever been one truly communist state, Chile. It worked so fucking well that all the greedy fatcats from here and the US arranged for the CIA to clear it all up behind closed doors. Fact is that a person only needs so much, Why does a footballer get to earn upwards of £50,000 a week, while I have to manage on £12,000 a year? Why do nurses get a pittance and "outreach advisors" get 45k a year?

Communism isn't exactly based on the principle that everyone should have the same, end of. It basically is a concept whereby people are not restricted by the circumstances into which they were born, as it stands now rich people have kids, who inherit their cash by doing precisely fuck all, people like me and you have to work ourselves into the grave for nearly nothing, because they hoard more than they can ever spend. Every communist knows that a rocket scientist or a doctor deserves more cash than a road sweeper or a tea lady, what they say however is that the tea lady should be given an equal chance from birth, to become a rocket scientist.

We could happily redistribute the wealth in this country and all live in pretty luxurious conditions, and a quality of living increase for about 80% of the country, maybe more after all there is a fucking lot of money in football.

Now the flipside, are the conservatives, or a bit further on to the right, facists. Facism (and being a conservative) works on the tenet that;
a) ALL poor people are lazy and don't want to work
b) ALL poor people are theiving criminals
c) The less of said poor people that get rich and successful, the more money we have to hoard amongst us

in contrast with the labour view;
a) ALL poor people are virtuous and oppressed by the upper classes
b) ALL criminals are fundamentally good people, born into bad circumstances
c) The more of us that get rich, the less leverage those bastards have over us

Now the reality is more like this;
a) SOME poor people are lazy and no good, the majority are hard working and honest
b) SOME criminals are unfortunate and deserve the chance to sort themselves out, but shouldnt be allowed to abuse this leniency
c) It doesn't really matter who has the most money because tax should be relative

So, why do we settle for a bunch of parties that are too blind and arrogant to see they've gone too far to one side that they have effectively merged into one party with the same goals, but violently opposing hidden agendas?

In the style of those nice banking people, we are here to show you, there IS another way.
Communism? No ta, Facism? not for us thanks.

We need to simply take the best parts from both the left and the right, judge each situation on individual merit and just damn well get things sorted.

Lets be honest, democracy is fucking stupid, it will be on my eventual list of "Things with a stupid design flaw", average everyday people from across the country all vote one way or the other to select a winner, who basically tells them whatever they want to hear to secure their vote, then systematically sets about doing the exact opposite of what they promised purely because it was never thier intention in the first place. You'd think the majority would have figured this out and relised that if they voted for a new party, other people might just do it too. You'd think they'd be able to spot some bullshit a mile away.

The problem with allowing anyone over 18 to vote is that the vast majority of them are fucking stupid, people who believe that by emptying an entire fridge of milk in the supermarket they'll find a magic pint that lasts three months, people who believe our saviour is the son of dead carpenter, people who say "sumfink" instead of "something", people who let Jade Goody get famous and read about Kerry Katona's new loft extension and believe its perfectly acceptable to park in a disabled bay despite not being disabled.

Its madness, worse than madness. It sets the whole of humanity back because of a collected minority's old fashioned or intolerant views. It results in a whole church going against its own teachings of love and acceptance purely because one of its preachers likes touching other men's bottoms, and its just not acceptable. As for a fair alternative? I'm stumped.

Dictatorships are so 1980's.