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04:53 pm: Why We Need Government
From Log of Smallship One - Passionate and Confused, via lexin:

We need some sort of central organisation whose job is to spend the money we pay to it on the things that we need. Not to make money, not to be profitable, not to be competitive in the fucking free market. We need a fucking government. And it needs to be responsible for the post office, and the maintenance of the water supply, and the same for gas, and electricity, and the fucking railways and the fucking roads and the provision of houses for people to fucking well live in. All the rest we can work out for ourselves. I'll even let them off the telephones, since that seems to be working all right at the moment, but for the things I have listed we need a body that will provide them because it has NO FUCKING CHOICE but to provide them. Because that is what it's FOR.

Yes.

I don't want an independent Scotland, as I said here, because basically I like being part of the union - but I am glad we have the Scottish Parliament to be a devolutionary bulwark against some of the madder floods of the bloody Thatcherite philosophy that's been bleeding acid over UK government since 1979.

Tags: evil british politics, powerful speech vs. powerless silence, scottish politics