Gordon Couger wrote in message
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We do get more mileage out of our politicians. Jessie Helms is in his
90's
and hanging it up this year replace magnificent PITA for the whole
world but
he remembers going through the depression. Bob Dole's wife who is
replacing
him is no spring chicken. I don't know her age but her husband was a
pilot
in WWII.

ours rarely cling to the greasy pole so long. It is most unlikely that a
politician who gets to the top will still be in a position of power 20
years later. They are either knifed in the back by those coming up from
below or broken by the public and media who have discovered something in
their past.
We do get some who hang on, like Ted Heath who was still in the House of
Commons in his 80s but he hadn't had any real office for nearly 30
years.


I expect due to the two wars the UK and EU demographics are different
than
US and the teeny boppers are a much larger part of the voting
population. I
never considered that. That would explain a lot, an awful lot.

God help you.

Actually world wars give you a population with a high proportion of
single women in their fifties. Our population in Europe is aging
rapidly, one of our more serious problems.
But saying that the second world war did have a very serious effect in
Europe. What Americans do not realise is tha WW2 was also a European
civil war between socialism and fascism and socialism won.
We ended up with a population that believe they have a right to be fed,
that water is free, (and god help anyone who is trying to make a profit
out of it) and that all the utilities are rights.


--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

'Abd-ar-Rahman b. Muhammad b. Khaldun al-Hadrami'


Gordon