From: "matthew.wright7", [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I understand your points Steve and in many ways we are agreeing on strategy.
Lets not sully the airwaves with the foul word Mellor who I wouldn't trust
to sit the right way round on the toilet. Yes in theory we should "grill"
all the candidates and some of us have been doing this and more will do so
with others as we approach this election. You rightly say the Tories
introduced a number of restrictions on shooting and it sticks in our
throats. Two points about this, firstly the tories have been in power in
long cycles which included tragedies - I dread to think what firearms would
be left to debate about if Labour had been in power 18 years. Secondly after
the ridiculous restrictions brought in on SLR's and pistols I didn't notice
that many join the parties, become active branch workers or candidates
despite some of us advocating this. The whole point I am making is that a
political strategy breaks into two stages, a long term one of engaging and
influencing (this has not been done properly by us, although BTW has been
done by antis) and secondly a short term one which is not ideal and is more
about booting the ass of those in power while making it known to the
opposition who gave them a chance. I stress I'm not trying to advocate just
voting Tory, if the main opposition in a constituency was Plaid for example
I would have no problem with that. Yet many of the Lab and Lib Dem lot are
antis and they work together. Given that a proper strategy has not happened
the approach has to be more bangs for your bucks in nature. Time is limited,
some of us (and correctly you Steve) were pushing things months ago knowing
that an election was on the way. We're now going into Feb and In May this
Govt aims to become a serial Govt and is changing the rules stealthily to
keep it in power. Its that simple and I often wish we Brits cut the crap and
were a bit more simplistic, definate and focused like our friends over the
pond. Yet again I say get out there, join parties, get involved, link with
other concerned groups and as Steve says grill 'em proper and vote
accordingly.
Matthew
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