cybercarl wrote:Mmmm I have now just been told that it was on facepoop so may be total rubbish but apparently the source is from someone very much into politics. Early days, I shall wait for the BBC or somone to confirm it.
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From what I have read it's total baldrocks from someone that doesn't understand how the votes are counted.
If there was any whiff of rigging, then fatty Salmond wouldn't have resigned. Good riddance to him.
I have just been reading about how 2 telegraph, 1 scottish daily mail and one Express journalists were banned from an SNP press conference, a further Guardian journalist boycotted it too.
The SNP had hand picked the journalists they wanted there and banned anyone that opposed them.
Where the crouton do we live? The USSR? North Korea?
This will turn into an anti socialist rant, but why is it that these things always seem to happen in socialist countries?
Could it be that eventually people realise socialism doesn't work and so to stop open revolt, they have to control the media?
Socialism (and the extreme of Communism) is a lovely theory. Sounds wonderful that all are equal and all get the same opportunities and resources....however it ignores one major factor that will always ruin it. Human nature.
Humans are lazy fkers if given the chance. Why work if there's no gain?
If you're given everything by handout and never have to work and provide for yourself, you will become lazy.
If you do work and they take everything from you to give to everyone else that doesn't, you will soon enough stop making the effort, or just avoid the taxes by moving abroad to a country where hard work is rewarded.
Socialism completely ignores this side of human nature, but because it gives no incentive to work hard and better yourself and your country, it will always fail.
Don't get me wrong though - capitalism in its extreme, with no protection for those that are actually unable to work is just as bad. Take the American health care system, they have one of the lowest life expectancy rates of any developed country. Shameful.