UK uprising next?

[karenoliver]

All these different countries and their people are getting the courage to rise up and make themselves known. Are we next? So many cuts are going to come into place and there are lots of Brits at the moment up in arms over one thing or another. Does anyone think we could end up like Egypt, Bahrain, Tunisia etc...

I am so mad about some of the things this government will bring in and can't even watch Cameron without wanting to give him a shake, and I never usually feel this way about politics. And don't mention Clegg!!

Karen

[swan lover]

What we need is another Oliver Crommwell, if only to clear the riff raff out of the Houses of Parliment like he did before, then maybe we can start again with a clean sheet of decent MP's who will serve the peole and the country, not themselves.

[silversnapper1]

Ok, where and when do we meet?

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by swan lover

What we need is another Oliver Crommwell, if only to clear the riff raff out of the Houses of Parliment like he did before, then maybe we can start again with a clean sheet of decent MP's who will serve the peole and the country, not themselves.

Agree, Swanlover :-)

But does such an MP really exist?

Karen

[karenoliver]

Originally Posted by silversnapper1

Ok, where and when do we meet?

1st August, outside the Houses of Parliment at 10am lol

I'll bring the banners, you bring a camera ;-)

Karen

[silversnapper1]

Originally Posted by karenoliver

1st August, outside the Houses of Parliment at 10am lol

I'll bring the banners, you bring a camera ;-)

Karen

I'll check my diary. lol

[HinFrance]

Originally Posted by swan lover

What we need is another Oliver Crommwell, if only to clear the riff raff out of the Houses of Parliment like he did before, then maybe we can start again with a clean sheet of decent MP's who will serve the peole and the country, not themselves.

I do hope you are joking. Do you actually know anything about what a total disaster Cromwell was?

First in a long line: Lenin, Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Franco, Mao, Pol Pot, Kim, to name but a few.

Good luck with that . .

Pertinent quotation from one of my favourite writers: "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it"

[nick_gray]

Originally Posted by karenoliver

1st August, outside the Houses of Parliment at 10am lol

I'll bring the banners, you bring a camera ;-)

Karen

Parliament will be in recess on 1st August, so there'll be plenty of parking available :-)

[Stormsong]

'The peasants are revolting' . . .

Actually, it's happening on 29 April in London. This is the rumoured date of whatever - general strikes are planned on the same day that Willy and Kate walk down the aisle; anarchists have vowed to disrupt said wedding and are going to descend on Westminster a month prior to the big day to start practising their chaos theories; because it is a public holiday and a long weekend too (the Monday is the May Bank holiday which the government is proposing to move to August) goodness knows how many students and others like civil servants/police/hospital staff/Army/RAF staff etc facing redundancies as well as those 2.5 million currently unemployed will also decide to protest that day and join whatever march they can.

But you see, the problem is the British really are so incredibly polite - they give the politicians warning of what they are planning to do well in advance of doing it. So no chance of a revolution. The most positive thing is that Britain doesn't have fighter planes or tanks to take out the protesters, as these have been decommissioned or are not being manufactured anymore or are being used in Afghanistan and/or Iraq.

Of course, I am being satirical. But the thing that people should be most worried about is that the 'revolution' in Egypt is not the end. It is the beginning of the problems in the middle East. 'People power' never looked that determined nor that angry. Egypt was relatively peaceful; it won't be the same in Bahrain, Tunisia, Libya, Algeria, Yemen, etc.

I don't think this will ever happen in Britain, because there is no real sense of national pride and identity and the majority of the nation's people will not stand up and be counted.

Regards,
Denise

[DavidVenables]

A tea party in Boston (UK of course) anyone?
May be, as we are already a democracy held up to the world as best practice, we could demand a change to benign dictatorship. I can't see much mileage, presently, in becoming the 51st state.
Yes lets bring back the Divine Right of Kings. At least you'd definitely know who to remove in the following revolution.
Whats the french saying the more things change the more the remain the same.
'Won't get fooled again' is now not only one of the greatest ever rock songs but is more relevant than ever.