Michael Percy wrote in message
...
Jim Webster wrote:

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.

Does the level of brutality and corruptness of the english people
concern
you?

No

the last thing you want is a population that trusts its politicians. We
had one in 1914 and lost more men in one day that the US lost in the
entire vietnam war. Trusting politicians is like believing in Father
Christmas. It is OK for Kids, adults can pay lip service to it, but no
rational person factors it into their budget.

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.

Do you feel a part of it?

not especially.


--
Jim Webster

"The pasture of stupidity is unwholesome to mankind"

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