UK Revolution!?

Question

I have had enough of the government and the way in which they have let this country go down the drain. I see no alternative government of any worth so I intend to march on parliament! I will show these morons that the good people have had enough and demand change! I will plant my flag on Parliament Green and then prepare for war! - trouble is, I need an army. Anyone fancy it?

Mick the Gooner, I can understand your uneasiness of wanting to join in. However look at some of the others. It was a light hearted question for people to grind their axe. You don't need a whole charter of reasons, you may just have one!

Answer 1

What would you like to change exactly, before i march with any one i like to know what they are fighting for.

Are you against the economic figures which are the best in the history of british govt, or is it the increased spending in our schools and hospitals you are against. Please tell us so we know what we are marching for.

Too many people say they want change, but few say what they want it changed to!

No such thing as light heartedness when it comes to politics, and whats all this about you not liking Indians in london shops? Very curious, where would i get my Lamb boona from?

Answer 2

Excuse me, but hasn't all this been tried before, back in.. er.. 1642 or thereabouts?

You know, the King had alienated just about everyone by behaving as if he were accountable to no-one but God, ignoring the advice of Parliament, taxing people to the hilt, interfering in how people worshipped and generally ran their lives (sounds familiar, doesn't it!).

However something tells me that fighting a war, while it may have been the answer then, might not be the answer now (and even then, once the King had been done away with and been replaced by the Lord Protector, people began to have their doubts)...

How about a velvet revolution of the kind that recently took place in Eastern Europe?

Answer 3

No matter what government is in power the people will not be happy. All the parties promise this that and the other, and in the end the only ones who benefit are the polititians. Thats why they stand for electtion in the first place, because they know they will get a great big fat salary for doing it.

Go for it kid if you think it will help, but you are just a voice in the wilderness to them.Others have tried, but look at us now.

The only way you personally will win is to stand for Parliament yourself.

Answer 4

I am 194, I will come, when?

Mick the Gooner must be living in a diffrent land to us being so misinformed or brainwashed but I cant seem to figure this out because Arsenal are the best team in the world.

Answer 5

I am with you all the way.

Busliy making barrels-full of gunpowder.

How do we get them past security, because it's no use relying on Group 4 is it?

Even with Sat/Nav, they'd probably misplace the barrels, and we don't want to blow Westminster Cathedral up, do we?

Please send me a pattern for the flag, and I'll have a few hundred thousand made up in China at 2p each.

Answer 6

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have gone to war to impose freedom around the world. But if you step back and look at what freedom actually means for us today, it's a strange and limited kind of freedom.

Politicians promised to liberate us from the old dead hand of bureaucracy, but they have created an evermore controlling system of social management, driven by targets and numbers. Governments committed to freedom of choice have presided over a rise in inequality and a dramatic collapse in social mobility. And abroad, in Iraq and Afghanistan, the attempt to enforce freedom has led to bloody mayhem and the rise of an authoritarian anti-democratic Islamism. This, in turn, has helped inspire terrorist attacks in Britain. In response, the Government has dismantled long-standing laws designed to protect our freedom.
The origins of our contemporary, narrow idea of freedom.
shows how a simplistic model of human beings as self-seeking, almost robotic, creatures led to today's idea of freedom. This model was derived from ideas and techniques developed by nuclear strategists during the Cold War to control the behaviour of the Soviet enemy.

Mathematicians such as John Nash developed paranoid game theories whose equations required people to be seen as selfish and isolated creatures, constantly monitoring each other suspiciously – always intent on their own advantage.

This model was then developed by genetic biologists, anthropologists, radical psychiatrists and free market economists, and has come to dominate both political thinking since the Seventies and the way people think about themselves as human beings.

However, within this simplistic idea lay the seeds of new forms of control. And what people have forgotten is that there are other ideas of freedom. We are, in a trap of our own making that controls us, deprives us of meaning and causes death and chaos abroad.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctwo/noise/?id=trap

Answer 7

Ah! Citizen Smith.

Answer 8

blair will be out in a few months

i personally see to set up a royalist party - until suitable choices arise, abolish parliament and democracy and stick with the queen.

Answer 9

Count me in. Name the time and place.

Answer 10

The people of this country and other western countries are too 'civilized' to do anything. The only thing that might kick off a revolution is for everyone to refuse to take part in the oncoming War, but people in this country are too 'brainwashed' into paying ever increasing taxes without complaining. Do what you usually do, BLAME IMMIGRANTS!