On May 3, 7:28=A0pm, tvaerska...@aol.com wrote:
> On 3 May, 13:31, Mel Rowing wrote:
>
> > And are you suggesting that bread and butter issues like:
>
> > Food inflation. fuel/energy =A0inflation, mortgages, 10% tax band
> > abolition, fear of crime, immigration somehow featured =A0secondary in
> > Londoners' coonsiderations when compared with the availability of
> > drugs?
>
> I would never, ever, vote for any party or any person who says that I
> should be arrested and jailed for five years for doing something
> rather innocuous and that is no business of theirs.
>
> Perhaps it doesn't matter to you, but I wouldn't vote for an ignorant
> and malicious idiot who intends to do me harm. It would be a matter of
> great concern to me and would definitly determine my vote
As you say, I couldn't care less if cannabis were placed in catagory
A, B, C or Z. It couldn't affect me in any event. I strongly suggest
that this would be the position of the vast majority of the
population.
However, they do care and would care more about their living costs,
crime, jobs, the NHS, schools, welfare, the treatment of the armed
services and so on.
Unfortunately none of these (including drug catagorisation) has
nothing to do with local government and so should not feature at all
in local government elections. However, now that local government has
been all but emasculated and operates almost entirely as an agency of
central government then politicians should not be too surprised is the
few that bother to vote at all use the occasion to pass judgement on
the incumbant government of the day. |