tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post111461232812862903..comments2023-10-18T16:25:13.593+01:00Comments on Famous for 15 megapixels: White Riot - I wanna riot ...Stefhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1114952302083273742005-05-01T13:58:00.000+01:002005-05-01T13:58:00.000+01:00Yup, my council tax bill tripled as well. I wouldn...Yup, my council tax bill tripled as well. I wouldn't have minded if it had any connection with my ability to pay. As it happens, for most of the 90s I benefitted from this unfairness. Currently I'm losing out. But sod whether I'm personally a winner or not, is the current system fair? And where are all the arses who made so much fuss about the Poll Tax now that the Government really is doing some truly scary things?<BR/><BR/>Re. the bright controlling democracy. Sorry to say, this is not true. A subset of the bright DO control democracy - the bright and ruthless. You're just pissed off because you're not in on the action. So am I.Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1114909819242198542005-05-01T02:10:00.000+01:002005-05-01T02:10:00.000+01:00Like many others, I paid about a third as much in ...Like many others, I paid about a third as much in poll tax as council tax, and the innumerate idiots who blindly criticised it (mainly as an anti-Thatcher/Conservative protest) were the same pratts who voted Ken back so they could piss more of their money down the drain on the congestion charge. Unfortunately we have to accept that (this is official) half the world have two-digit IQs. The bright can never win in a democracy as they are so few they'll never outvote the masses. I don't know an alternative, admittedly, but it does explain why we get people voting for clearly dubious policies.Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16062717140344359936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1114617164054538042005-04-27T16:52:00.000+01:002005-04-27T16:52:00.000+01:00Promotional openings of new IKEA stores - that's w...Promotional openings of new IKEA stores - that's where the action is these days my old china ...Stefhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01467757421113856218noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8225855.post-1114613728136769872005-04-27T15:55:00.000+01:002005-04-27T15:55:00.000+01:00I would welcome the prospect of 200,000 people run...I would welcome the prospect of 200,000 people running around complaining on the streets of London - it would lead to good photographic possibilities. I often look at people's 'riot' photographs / pictures of police beating striking miners with trunchoens and think 'I wish I had taken that photograph'<BR/>However, what with all the tourists around now as well, a 200,000 strong crowd in the centre of London would mean the likelihood of getting a seat on the tube home would be much reduced, as people return to their post-riot middle class lives in Clapham, Balham and Brixton, in time for tea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com