Democracy yes a boring Malcolm post

Been bumbling around ranting since last Thursday and its getting worse.

We live in a democracy in this country so I am told. Little sign of it since and including last Thursday as far as I can see.

Police Commisioner voting, yes that, I voted so I can moan and will do so there.

Turnout appalling, information delivered to your door about each candidate appalling, comments from our government the next day when the laughably low turn out was announced included; We expected a low turnout for the first one, its the media they didnt publicise the candidates as much as they should.

A farce sums it up especially when the first announced commisioner a conservative magistrate made comments like, lessons need to be learnt.

People were going into polling stations saying I only got material from one candidate so I will vote for him. and does anyone know who the candidates are and who I should be voting for.

How is it democratic that a commissioner is apointed after getting 50 percent of the votes which in themselves represented only 10 percent of eligable voters.

And now we hear that surprise surprise big business could be corrupting government. We also hear that we should not resist developments because we need to do all we can to rebuild the country out of the recession. Doesnt that just prove the first sentence of this paragraph. So HS2 sounds like a done deal.

that nice mr o'leary

Well I am speechless, I never ever ever thought I would agree with anything that Michael O'leary of Ryanair said.

So what did he say, well a paragraph from The Gaurdian 19/11/2012 is coming up below;

Asked what he thought of proposals for a new hub, which the mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has backed in the Thames estuary, O'Leary replied: "In parliamentary language it would be unprintable. Insane, stupid, harebrained." He said the need for new surrounding infrastructure alone made it all but unworkable.