Just a simple question.

I think a lot has to do with “them in charge” being totally incapable of believing that we might be able to think for ourselves, so they have to continually meddle, because it’s “in our best interests.”
We had school playing fields sold off, because losing wasn’t good for the little dears’ psyche, so sport should be banned; we’ve had spelling decreed as passé, so some school-leavers can’t construct a job application letter to save their lives.
Now that the public has got into the habit of waiting for “them” to do something, they’ve forgotten how to run their own lives.

I refer the gentleman to the ‘PS’ on post #29

Why are people today so sodding gullible?

I have lost count of the conspiracies that seemingly rational acquaintances believe in.

Of the ‘anti-vaxxers’

Of the ‘Monsanto is the devil incarnate’

Of the ‘Cameron is a toff, so I’d rather let Milliband and Balls wreck the economy than vote for him”

I’m sure you can all add more.

Is nobody teaching people to critically examine anything? Or is “It’s on the interweb, it must be true” all anyone bothers with today?

Moggy

“This is not a political thread”

?

It is fairly obvious that the result will be a total mess.

There certainly won’t be a clear majority for either of the serious parties, so we will end up with either Milliband or Cameron propped up by one or more of: Lib Dems, SNP, Ukip, Greens, Ulster Unionists, Sinn Fein, Plaid Cymru.

I can’t see any good coming of it.

But this is not a political thread, so be off and chat about elections elsewhere.

Moggy

………..That was a Party Political Broadcast on behalf of the Moggy party……………..

I am staggered that so early in the hustings Cameron and the Conservatives seem to be so “panicky”. Paxman had Cameron all over the ropes on C4 last week and I was truly surprised.
The article regarding the “100 business leaders” in the Torygraph…the kind of thing you normally save for the last few days before the poll!

Is it because he expects to win or cannot believe he might loose against Milliband and Balls ? Bearing in mind the Conservatives did not manage an outright win the last election which means that
last time they won a general election out-right was 1994. Something that the old RAF & BOAC pilot and former party chairman was scathing about.

DC should just be thankful Ed’s brother was not Labour leader…..He would be 15 points ahead in the polls…and game over !

I guess this Post, YOUNG moggs, was a pre determined April the 1st Joke. If so, well done.
Jim.
Lincoln.7

Although this assumption was not borne out, when a mock election was held at a Norfolk school recently.
UKIP came out on top.

Actually it was in Suffolk if it was this one:
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/story/2014-12-31/election-2015-school-debate/

Clearly in this one case, all those EU colouring in books didn’t sway the electorate, although the result was pretty close between parties generally positive towards the EU (55%) and those against (45%)

😀

Sorry, I’ll regard my botty as well-and-truly spanked!!!

I am, of course, perfectly able to keep this thread non-political 😡

Those that want votes for younger people will be certain that having the voting-age lowered will aid their particular cause. Not sure what that says about Labour, UKIP or the SNP, for example?

I am quite happy for 16 year olds to vote……….. only one proviso, they are in employment and contributing to the tax burden. If not then they should have no say on how that tax is spent.

General Discussion usually boils-down to talking about:

a) Politics

b) Religion

c) Jeremy Clarkson

PS: This wasn’t really meant to be a political thread. .

No, I thought not but almost any thread seems likely to swing that way for the next few weeks……!:stupid: Lots of good stuff in Historic at the moment!!:eagerness:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/survey-shows-support-ukip-lacking-among-young-people-1481121
This lack of support amongst the young may be why I have just heard a UKIP spokesman on the radio saying that the age of voting in any referendum on EU should not include 16-18 year olds.

Although this assumption was not borne out, when a mock election was held at a Norfolk school recently.
UKIP came out on top.

The ‘kids these days’ rhetoric on this forum gets rather dull after…

Be quiet…..the grown-ups are talking now! :dev2:

I thought this thread prompted by the post on here about Russia starting WW3 by downing US jets… because some nutter in his bedroom made a Youtube video.

looks like the Referendum has gone off the boil hen ?

Geoff.

As far as I know a referendum after renegotiation is still in the Conservative manifesto

A referendum regardless is in the UKIP manifesto.

So how has this ‘gone off the boil’? Are our attention spans so poor we need something to be mentioned every day, or we assume it has gone away?

Moggy

PS: This wasn’t really meant to be a political thread. The Cameron mention was prompted by a bit of Internet woo that a dear friend shared saying it was now “Illegal” to post the Bullingdon Club photograph from twenty or thirty years back, so she was posting it.

Is nobody teaching people to critically examine anything? Or is “It’s on the interweb, it must be true” all anyone bothers with today?

If that were the case then the elderly would not be falling victim to Internet scams all the time. The worst ‘its on the Internet’ offenders are the old people wound up by spurious round-robin emails and the idiots that give a small fortune to Nigerian Princes. Furthermore, the elderly are always letting bogus gas inspectors and other crooks into their houses and getting robbed. I suppose they are too trusting because the world they grew up in was a much nicer place and virtually free of crime, and not because old people lack the skills to critically examine the world around them. Preying on the elderly is a terrible crime, but if you are scammed and happen to be below 65 then it is your own stupid fault for being gullible. 😎

The ‘kids these days’ rhetoric on this forum gets rather dull after a whole. :sleeping:

When men can get pregnant then maybe Millipede will get his wish for a 50/50 mix in his cabinet….

Simple biology would give him the answer if he tried to actually think it out…