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The Art of Photography => User Critiques => Topic started by: Ivo_B on May 26, 2019, 10:15:21 am

Title: Election Day
Post by: Ivo_B on May 26, 2019, 10:15:21 am
Belgian National Circus

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Title: Re: Election Day
Post by: 32BT on May 26, 2019, 10:54:45 am
Yes, that's a good one. Wish it had a wee bit more dof for the sign in the back, although I can certainly appreciate the "faceless" rendering, since they are mere clowns anyway...

Title: Re: Election Day
Post by: Rob C on May 26, 2019, 02:04:55 pm
And we are about to have another election (without having any say at all), for functionaries of the Tory party to replace the suicidal, deaf May.

Think of it: we might get one who's even more of a lemming than the rest! Heysoos, help us all.
Title: Re: Election Day
Post by: Jeremy Roussak on May 26, 2019, 05:28:33 pm
And we are about to have another election (without having any say at all), for functionaries of the Tory party to replace the suicidal, deaf May.

That's not new. This will be the fifth time in the last 50 years that a new leader has been chosen by the party at the time forming the government and hence become PM: the others have been Callaghan, Major, Brown and May herself (nicely symmetrically, two from each party).

Jeremy
Title: Re: Election Day
Post by: Rob C on May 27, 2019, 04:02:34 am
That's not new. This will be the fifth time in the last 50 years that a new leader has been chosen by the party at the time forming the government and hence become PM: the others have been Callaghan, Major, Brown and May herself (nicely symmetrically, two from each party).

Jeremy

But it's different this time: we are inevitably about elect a suicide jockey who will, for dogmatic party purposes, attempt to lead the country over the cliff. It is only due to Parliament, as a whole, having had - so far - enough intelligence to agree to disagree on anything but leading the country into the the worst deal possible: no deal. Why? Because they know the reality as distinct from the lies. I voted Tory every time I had the opportunity; never again. From the way they treated Thatcher onwards they have shown themselves as ruthless political careerists with not a saving grace in sight.

Sadly, the rest of the breed appears to be no better.

Perhaps we do end up having the politicians we deserve.
Title: Re: Election Day
Post by: Slobodan Blagojevic on June 15, 2019, 01:45:23 pm
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Title: Re: Election Day
Post by: RSL on June 15, 2019, 02:43:53 pm
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Title: Re: Election Day
Post by: Ivo_B on June 15, 2019, 05:17:45 pm
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