Talking CCTV cameras and the chances of dumping this crap

[matgb]

In response to the stupid CCTV with recorded kids voices stunt that our Glorious Leaders are planning, james_nicoll asks:

Is there any hope that the Tories will be any better than Labour or that the LibDems can win enough seats to form a government?

I tried to reply that the Tories would be better in that they'd be a bit less authoritarian, but less does not mean good, just less bad in this case, and I trust them not one jot.

The Lib Dems haven't a snowballs chance in hell of winning the next General Election, what they have got is the chance to get 100+ seats and dictate a few basic terms to the coalition partner. More Liberalism, less Laws would be a good one to start with. 100+ seats in a hung parliament is what we have to work for anyway.

And yes, this would've been a comment, but LJ wouldn't let me post it, all I get is:

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Anyone else had a similar issue or is it just me?
It's not just me, and my comment there wouldn't go through but a comment I made at davidnm's did. Go figure. From the number of open support requests, it's a site issue and they'll be on it. Whether they fix it is another thing...

Comments

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

[matgb]

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

[matgb]

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

I know how you feel.

[matgb]

It appears to be letting me comment again, maybe they fixed the database; I'll try again at yours.

Just, so annoying Ah well. Did you get notifications of my empty comments? Id didn't for yours.

[rho]

I'd almost be tempted to find one and drop litter around it, just to hear it talk. Not tempted enough to actually go to Blackpool or Salford, mind.

[matgb]

OK, how come you can manage to comment?

But yeah, I suspect winding the camera opps up and getting them to set things off might become the sport of choice wherever they're introduced...

[rho]

Mad hax.

Or possibly just blind luck.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

Hahahahaha, Tories, less authoritarian, HAHAHAHAHA! The party of the Daily Mail reader will not be any less authoritarian - unless you happen to be a businessman.

CJB, stop and search, hell Blair's modelled himself on Thatcher's presidential style of government.

I'm hoping for a hung parliament, with - hopefully - a Lib/Lab alliance and a push for PR.

[matgb]

Oh, I agree, the Tories always were authoritarian in style, but the basic reading of Cameron's plans (and the analysis I've been planning to write up for over 6 months now) is that he's moving them towards the liberal wing; they've always had libertarians and liberals like Boris, Shagger Noris and Alan Clark.

They don't need to actually be liberal,but they are posturing as a lot more liberal than Blair, which admittedly isn't hard, but better than nothing.

And yes, hung Parliament with LibDems in an alliance with preferably a less insane Labour party would be a good thing. Or a ministry if all talents led by Ming.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

I've lost faith in the Libs TBH, they're now just the lesser of three evils. I just always vote 'Not Tory' in any case.

Libertarian is worse, anarchism without the social conscience.

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

You know your policies are flawed when they were satiried fifteen years before you instigated them: "Simon Phoenix, you are fined one credit for a breach of the verbal morality statute."

[matgb]

You'd have thought with all the signs, they'd get the message, but no. I mean, if you and I agree on something, then the world must be freezing over or something, right?

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

I could swear I'd seen something like this- the Eye? The Finger? Which one was it?

Seriously, I went through an "Alan Moore is a paranoid dirty old man," phase recently and felt all smug I'd managed to pull myself out of fangirlishness. Damn you, current events!

[matgb]

He is a paranoid dirty old man. Unfortunately, our current govt is out to prove him right.

The tin hat brigade think we're a testbed for the stuff they couldn't get away with in the US without an Amendment, sometimes I wonder if they might possibly have a point.

No idea what you might have seen, could've been anything.

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

The Eye, Finger, Ear, etc were the government thought/action/etc police in V for Vendetta.

[matgb]

Ah yeah, meory didn't switch on there.

But then, the film version was specifically written as a satire on Blair so, y'know, it sort of makes sense.

Probably ought to get around to reading the comics at some point...