@ Poirot,

<<SPQR,…Reading your prose just makes me boreder and boreder.>>

Was your "boreder" a miss spelling of bawdier?

Look, now you’ve gone and given Mac your lurgy:
"We can’t do this ...And we shouldn't do that".
Next thing you know he’ll be channelling Naomi Klein too!

Gee-whiz, what a right pair of Baudelaires.

At least the Government is doing one thing right they are going to cut foreign aid by $375 million to pay for the welfare for lifers, now all they have to do is cut it from Indonesia and Malaysia because they are they ones who let them in knowing they are going to Australia.

SPQR,

It's a very contagious lurgy and one of the side effects is that people leave the Dark Side and become Social Democrats, some of the most severely afflicted even become Multiculturalists.

Mac,

<<It's a very contagious lurgy and one of the side effects is that people leave the Dark Side and become Social Democrats, some of the most severely afflicted even become Multiculturalists>>

The symptom’s you described above occur during the early stages. Usually, exhibiting within 24 hours on contact with a carrier. When the disease progresses to the terminal stage the victim finds it impossible to mouth any criticism of Islamacists –though they are inclined to rant about the slightest indiscretion from any other group , cannot recognise racism except where it comes in a white colour and has a tendency to fly off the handle at the mere mention of the name “George Bush” --all of which are very much apparent in classic case study of patient P (full name withheld)–can you believe we even had to employ a quite unorthodox therapy to help her cope with the latter!

But look Mac, fear not, you're only in the early stages yet, so there is still hope for a remission. Well over 90% of those who come down with the lurgy exhibit a full recovery -- as evidenced by the huge numbers of former social democrats who now vote conservative.

PS here’s a little something to speed you on your way to recover:
http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Popular-Delusions-Madness-Crowds/dp/160459441

Yours sincerely
Sigmund

We already hold what they call 'war games' so why not hold them in these waters. At the very least, that amou t of activity would be some what intimidating, don't you think.

As for cutting foriegn aid, hurrah, it's about time.

However, at the end of the day, we, the tax paying VOTERS need more say in what elected, or non elected governments do with our taxes.

The present system sees our democratic rights taken away from us once we exit the polling booth, and that is something that needs to be changed.

There needs to be a mechanism that allows us, the voting public to call for a change if and when governments loose the plot, as we have sat back, powerless, for too long now while this debarcle has unfolded.

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