The Canadian Tory government has just abolished the policy whereby the flag was lowered on the Peace Tower to mark the deaths of Canadian soldiers overseas.

They appear to have done this solely to differentiate themselves from the previous Liberal government.

I’m not exactly sure what specific language is permissible on the site, so I am just going to confine my remarks here to those above. I have been wordier elsewhere.

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Look! More Narnia Raps!

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Not that the subject has ever deterred us anyway.

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This is interesting ; not so much for what it says ; rather for what it does not say.
The people about whom this was written went to work in cars, and bought petroleum products with which to power them. Not the description of the layabout parasites about which, almost daily , there are horror stories in the press.

The ones in the quote, exhorted to stay at home for the sake of the planet, would, in this electronic age, more than likely be able to work from home , especially since the decline of the British manufacturing industries.

If not , from which fabled source are the trillions of dollars to be garnered? I stopped believing in the money tree at the same time as I stopped believing in the tooth fairy and Santa Claus.

Like someone said; the inevitables of this world are death and taxes.

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You and the Ancient Submariner are clearly of one mind on this. Set them to work!!! Make them Do Something!!

I’d like to put in a good word for the scroungers and slackers of the world. They at least are the minimal contributors to the global warming which is, in part, due to our feverishly hyper-active society, in which everybody must work 8 hours a day, 5 days a week, doing some pointless job simply to justify their existence.

I leave you with this quote:

We find all the no-life-support-wealth-producing people going to their 1980s jobs in their cars and buses, spending trillions of dollars’ worth of petroleum daily to get to their no-wealth-producing jobs. It doesn’t take a computer to tell you that it will save both Universe and humanity trillions of dollars a day to pay them handsomely to stay at home.
(Buckminster Fuller. Critical Path 1982)

If I read that right, it’s a call to pay people to stay at home, which is all that these scroungers and slackers are doing.

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Have linked you up with great pleasure and with great reference too! Let me know how it goes

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Back in the sixties the French government commissioned a study. They were worried that having an extremely educated, yet under- or un-employed class would cause instability. What they found, instead, was that the state of unemployment itself caused apathy and depression so that the unemployed could not be effectively mobilized.

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I define “lefty-ism” as socialism and this should not be confused with the tree-hugging community.

[Aside:
I heard someone comment the other day that "Not all Moslems are terrorists, but all terrorists are Moslem." I would say, not all lefties are tree-huggers but all tree-huggers are lefties. By the way, before I am corrected, Prince Charles doesn't hug trees he talks to them.]

All governments are, by their very nature, parasitic; a necessary evil until humanity at large grows up and stops subcontracting its responsibilities to vague metaphysical forces. I don’t associate “living off the people” as a unique characteristic of left-wing governments, they all do it to a greater or lesser extent (I’m intrigued to know why “living off the people” is in quotes, by the way, because I didn’t say it).

What I do associate with left wing governments is a weakness in dealing with (dare I say it) the scummier exponents of our society (the scroungers and the indolent) because, it appears, that it’s this group that provides the backbone of Labour’s support. Heaven forefend that they tell these scamps to get off their ring-pieces and get on with some honest toil, they might not get elected again!

I’m not as right wing as Boris. I believe that making everything based on supply and demand is ultimately dangerous because of criminal psychopaths such as Milken and other piranhas of his ilk. I do believe commerce, industry and entrepreneurs deserve as much support as the government can reasonably give because these institutions create wealth and (for better or worse) money is the only tool by which one can build schools, hospitals, public transport systems and utilities.

As I hope I’ve made abundantly clear, I firmly believe that there is an obligation to assist people who are out of work. This shouldn’t ever be confused with people who do not want to work. I also believe that the future of Britain lies with well educated (and well disciplined) school children. Whilst I’m not an advocate of bringing back the birch, I don’t think there is anything wrong at all with corporal punishment in schools (providing it isn’t administered by the same set of sadists who set about me on a number of occasions). Labour, it seems, has done everything in its power to create a generation of the most unruly thugs since the last Viking incursions into East Anglia.

I don’t have a problem with immigrants, they add life, interest and colour to a bland society. I have an enormous problem with multi-culturalism because it leads to a ghetto mentality which invariably engenders fear and distrust in the rest of the community. Again, Labour seems to wholeheartedly support this blight.

These are the problems I associate with ‘lefties’. One of the fundamental things the Conservative Party needs to address in forthcoming elections in this country is the eradication of the concept that Labour represents a caring society and Conservatives are a bunch of money grabbing, self-centred elitists.

It’s the other way around.

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