Re: but I've always find [found] that a Greek bloke thought it about 3,000 years ago. Archived Message
Posted by johnlilburne on October 15, 2019, 1:33 am, in reply to "but I've always find [found] that a Greek bloke thought it about 3,000 years ago."
There's a big difference between direct democracy in small Greek city-states where the few allowed to participate had to take direct responsibility for the consequences of their decisions and modern referendums where voters can cast their vote and then just walk away.
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- It's beeen like that since 1948 and much worse since 1967 - Keith-264 October 14, 2019, 7:04 pm
- My nephew has to suffer, for your moral purity? Wow. Nm - Gio74 October 14, 2019, 7:07 pm
- I wrote the opposite - Keith-264 October 14, 2019, 7:11 pm
- PIP assessment under current govt is punishing him. Labour policy would change that. Plus better NHS - Gio74 October 14, 2019, 7:25 pm
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- You are right. But the manifesto is qualitatively different to previous. Detail is life and death nm - Gio74 October 14, 2019, 7:37 pm
- Now that Corbyn is finished, loading the manifesto is to bury it with him....nm - Keith-264 October 14, 2019, 7:39 pm
- He will be if everyone is smashing him, his party, the left, the right. He's buggered alright nm - Gio74 October 14, 2019, 7:43 pm
- Re: Now that Corbyn is finished, loading the manifesto is to bury it with him....nm - walter October 14, 2019, 9:59 pm
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