(not satire – it’s the UK today!)
I think MPs might have just shot themselves in the foot.
Because they’ve decided that Sodexo – the private French company which supervises 150,000 medium and low-risk offenders on probation each year – can make nearly 34% of probation officers redundant and replace them with ATM-style electronic kiosks.
Surely if important jobs like keeping track of offenders can be done by machine – people who just turn up occasionally and mindlessly vote in parliament exactly how they’re told to vote by their party bosses can be replaced by machine too?
And just think. It’ll save the taxpayer £498.4m a year in running costs for parliament, not to mention the £98.1 million MPs cost us in expenses every year, plus the massive costs of their salaries and pensions.
And while we’re at it, we could also replace peers in the House of Lords with machines.
After all, it can’t be that hard to make a machine which can turn up for a few hours a week, do nothing but drink wine all day and fall asleep.
Can it?
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A brilliant idea. We just pop along to our local voting machine (lobby) insert our card( how we qualify for a card is an interesting one) and Aye or Nay accordingly – power to the people and Rousseau’s general will takes a step closer.
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Why not complete the cycle by having voters cast their vote using a machine like that.
Voters using machine to vote to politicians who use machines
Or perhaps scrap the MPs and have electorate vote on all topics
The flog off house of Parliament to a corporation like tesco and use it like a store
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Election 2015: Joey Essex talks about interviewing Nick Clegg – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32127044
JOEY ESSEX UNDERSTANDS NICK LEG
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NO NEED OF HOUSE OF LORDS AT ALL
The House of Lords was abolished by Cromwell back on 16 March 1649.
So that saves expenses on over 900 peers about to grow to 2000 with a champagne budget.
The parties of the poor on the left offer to do the job of MPs for just the average wage.
VOTING IS GONE
As so few people votes, the parties of the poor have never had more chance of bringing in MPs to UK parliament.
This is the sole way that we get a majority anti-austerity UK government in this Vote or Starve election.
HOW POOR COULD UNSEAT TORY AND LIB DEM MPs
The poor vastly outnumber all other voters, especially in England.
The poor could unseat a great many sitting Tory and Lib Dem MPs in the hundreds of marginal seats throughout the country.
LABOUR ALONE CANNOT WIN
SECOND GENERAL ELECTION BRINGS IN TORY / LABOUR COALITION
Experts predict most severe hung parliament.
Then a second general election this year that brings a single UK government of TORY / LABOUR COALITION.
PARITES OF THE POOR ON THE LEFT
NOW NO SUCH THING AS A SMALL PARTY
Only way to utterly change Labour back to an anti-austerity party and bring in a majority government, is to gain MPs from the parties of the poor.
Only way to gain an anti-starvation UK government, is by multi party coalition of a group of parties to reach behind to 323-326 MPs threshold to get a government that can rule. This is the norm throughout Europe for many years.
WHO ARE THE PARTIES OF THE POOR?
HOW ENSURE YOU ARE REGISTERED TO VOTE
Please see my personal website:
http://www.anastasia-england.me.uk
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Why bother with MPs at all? If the country was actually run by robots, they wouldn’t have homes to go to, so no travel expenses, they wouldn’t need to eat & drink ( the wine would cause a short circuit). Best of all, how would you be able to bribe or corrupt a robot?
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chris
labour lost ‘the party of the working classes’ plot, around the events of and prior to 1979, it is a party beyond redemption… http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/still-irresistible-a-workingclass-heros-finest-speech-2051285.html alienation jimmy reid…
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…or we could cut out these expensive, useless and corrupt middlemen completely and allow everybody vote on every issue via an ‘ATM-style machine’. Why do we need either House of Parliament at all? Surely democracy is all about trusting the electorate to decide the future of society. Why shouldn’t we do what Switzerland does, plus a bit more?
Can anybody see any problem with this?
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I would move in favour of all the Lords and Ladies in the House being replaced by ageing cows instead of the cows being sent to the knackers’…..
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@tony only after they have passed a driving test
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cows driving: https://youtu.be/liG7RBv9OWc
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Cows With Guns: https://youtu.be/a5s5qGg01nE
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Yes people would not vote ” correctly ” and you would have the ” wrong people ” voting
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http://m.huffpost.com/uk/entry/4265985
Ukrap BAN UNEMPLOYED FROM VOTING
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OBD, jaypot and red – If there was an online vote about whether to drop a nuclear device on ‘ISIS’, what do you think the result from our adult and responsible electorate would be? How would YOU vote?
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Using such a voting machine it would be possible to establish the kind of society the electorate wants and not one which a political party that has gained power thinks they should have. All we need do then is appoint or elect people to ensure the wishes of the electorate are implemented – more like civil servants than politicians. At a stroke we will have done away with political parties, lobby groups and all other factions that distort the democratic process.
Those who have power set the agenda therefore policies they don’t like do not get discussed or actioned. This is why, whilst most people would wish to see bankers brought to book, the railways and utilities re-nationalised and the NHS protected from privatisation, this coalition government will not even talk about it never mind actually do anything about it.
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UKIP history: From Sked to Kilroy-Silk and Farage – http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-31923185
SKED FOUNDER MEMBER OF UKRAP
BUT WHATS WITH THAT HAIR?
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Smashing ideas there. If everyone voted on everything then the thought of having no politicians, no PM, no pimped up thieving members of parliament, and getting rid of the HoL all sound great to me.
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Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This is clearly satire, but it does point out a real problem. A friend of mine, who takes an interest in these issues, told me that the old assumption that the numbers made unemployed through mechanisation, who find alternative employment through jobs created by mechanisation, was now being seriously called into question by scientists and sociologists specialising in the issue of technology and society. And the unskilled jobs, like shops clerks, are being automated out of existence by devices like ATM machines and self-service tills. The result is that we are going to have a society very much like 2000 AD’s Megacity 1, where only the luckiest 5 per cent of the population actually has a job. Scientists like Kevin Warwick make no secret of the purpose behind much robotics research: to cut down on labour costs.
I think it would therefore be an entirely salutary experience if some of the same people intent on depriving people of work suddenly found themselves unemployed through the same processes themselves. Perhaps then they might take the issue a bit more seriously.
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Given that Isis move about a lot and risk killing others
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Bob – Exactly. So do you think it’s a good idea to let people like readers of the Daily Mail make a decision like that? Just read their comments about ISIS on the DM web site!
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bob chewie: You have some great ideas there: I have always believed that a Toyota saloon would be the car of choice for all Friesian heifers, and as you say, as long as they have passed their driving test…. but even if they haven’t, they could be sent to Northern Syria to deal with this ISIS bunch of renegades….. hmmm, those young ISIS recruits would absolutely sh*t themselves if they saw a Toyota coming straight at them being driven by a cow on speed with Jeremy Clarkson in the passenger seat…. 🙂
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@tony even more scary is cows in cars but with guns too
Hoped you liked those two videos
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By the way, the NRA…. the National Rifle Association of America…. now has 5 million members, 400,000 of whom are paid-up rifle-owning bulls and cows, who are fully trained and can hit a bulls’ eye on any given target, as soon as they hear the command to fire: “MOOOOOVE-!!-” 🙂
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That’s udderly terrifying
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Beastrabban, yes it has been logically questionable for a long time. We need basic income and more part-time working as standard, maybe a standard 3 day week. If the powers that be would admit the problem we could start to publicly debate the solutions, but they’re not interested in that are they. The entire benefit system punishing those who cannot obtain the few remaining jobs is ridiculous and incredibly spiteful in this light.
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Don’t have to. Some comments on daily hate are too bizarre. EG someone on the Dole is more serious offence than a child abuser
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