@BovrilG Alternative: she just likes bitching with her besties so much she deliberately (if unconsciously) sacrifices some of her decisions so she can enjoy a good bitching sesh. Let people enjoy things.
@5saeternitatis@SAshworthHayes Problem of democracy. People don't have time to sit down and read 100 page reports every day. Politics just is emotional reactions.
@BovrilG I was in Portswood yesterday. Didn't notice any difference. Just what it's like there. The other month there was a guy called Edward Scissorhands whom locals were called to lock their doors for because he was running around breaking into houses slashing people with paper scissors
@bnzchr And unlike those wets who throw out 'the rule of law' as an empty rhetorical filler, it quite literally is anti rule of law. Which, is against the British Values TM
@crankynotions The right to free speech always belonged to British protestants of good breeding: didn't really need to try and extend it to everyone else
I already thought democracy as "will of the people" was bad. Now they're saying democracy is "open discussion among equals under judicial review". Why would liberals move from one bad theory to an even worse one? Memetic evolution surely disproved, @RichardDawkins?