Thursday, March 15, 2007
"If you want democracy, you have to pay for it"
This is the crap coming out of New Labour. Now we have to shell out huge sums of money on political parties only to be regaled with boring Party Political Broadcasts on the telly, terrible poster campaigns, megaphone vans booming out up and down the high street.
Time was Labour activists used to knock on my door, not any more - who the fuck in their right mind would go around canvassing as a New Labour Activist - it's a bit like saying "Good morning, I have tuberculosis, do you mind if I come in and infect your home". No, New Labour now have to use financial means to canvas. The Conservatives are just as bad, never had them canvassing on my door.
So what does this all mean, my theory is that the mainstream political parties will outsource their campaigning to private companies, who will recruit paid activists who will be trained to knock on your door, tolerate the usual "fuck off" and hard sell you party line - short of throwing the contents of your dustbin on them, you won't be able to get rid of the buggers. My guess is that these paid activist will not be dissimilar, if not the same, to the type of individual in a dayglo tabard who accosts you in the street asking for direct debit donations to various charities - a political form of chugger.
If these bozos want to bestow their crappy version of democracy on us, then they will have to get off their arse and work for it...bloody state scroungers!
Time was Labour activists used to knock on my door, not any more - who the fuck in their right mind would go around canvassing as a New Labour Activist - it's a bit like saying "Good morning, I have tuberculosis, do you mind if I come in and infect your home". No, New Labour now have to use financial means to canvas. The Conservatives are just as bad, never had them canvassing on my door.
So what does this all mean, my theory is that the mainstream political parties will outsource their campaigning to private companies, who will recruit paid activists who will be trained to knock on your door, tolerate the usual "fuck off" and hard sell you party line - short of throwing the contents of your dustbin on them, you won't be able to get rid of the buggers. My guess is that these paid activist will not be dissimilar, if not the same, to the type of individual in a dayglo tabard who accosts you in the street asking for direct debit donations to various charities - a political form of chugger.
If these bozos want to bestow their crappy version of democracy on us, then they will have to get off their arse and work for it...bloody state scroungers!
Labels: BBC, Blair, Britain, democracy, politics, Television
