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avevale_intelligencer"Which [Tony] Blair do you remember?" says the telly at me.
I remember the sneaking filthy turncoat who pretended to be a socialist till the second he won the election.
One of the characters in The West Wing makes an interesting suggestion to Josh Lyman. If so many people really don't like guns, why don't they all join the National Rifle Association, secure a majority of the membership, and then vote to support a ban on guns?
This makes an awful lot of sense to me. Given that most members of any organisation are passive, you wouldn't even need to get an overall majority; just enough to drown out the activists, while not alarming the others till it was too late. I really think it could work.
Plus, of course, it's already happened to the British Labour Party.
I remember the sneaking filthy turncoat who pretended to be a socialist till the second he won the election.
One of the characters in The West Wing makes an interesting suggestion to Josh Lyman. If so many people really don't like guns, why don't they all join the National Rifle Association, secure a majority of the membership, and then vote to support a ban on guns?
This makes an awful lot of sense to me. Given that most members of any organisation are passive, you wouldn't even need to get an overall majority; just enough to drown out the activists, while not alarming the others till it was too late. I really think it could work.
Plus, of course, it's already happened to the British Labour Party.