Cajunboy wrote:Yes, I think we all know what a cold fish you are.
You even chided Wessy for being emotional, as though it was a weakness or an illness.
If I 'chided' Wessy at all, it was to point out that 'emotional' thoughts (and actions) aren't always the most rational ones that could have been taken.
Indeed, Kipling even put that exact point as the first line of his most famous poem...
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs...
Why do you think the Labour Party, the unions, the papers, etc, etc, made such an issue of the 45% tax cut - was it because -
A) It was the key part of the mini budget - wrong
B) Because it was the largest (or one of the largest) costs of the mini budget - nope at £3 billion out of £45 billion it was probably the smallest single individual item!
C) Because if effected the most people - wrong again - the percentage of who would have gained from the UK working population was less than 1%
or
D) Because it was the most ENOTIONAL item and the one that nearly everybody could grasp and understand!!! (Can any of you really say the fully understand what the remaining fourteen fifteenth's (94%) of the mini budgets cost involved are and if so how theyt will affect them???
No me neither!
Politics is all a big game really.
The vast majority of people don't realise that they are 'played'/unduly influenced/led/manipulated or whatever name you want to call it - and all done to secure their votes - look what happened in the opinion polls, directly after the mini budget - which don't forget - all revolved about the 45% tax cut - and that was insignificant and incidental to the main thrust of having this mini budget it the first place.
Being emotional in business and power - which politics basically IS - is certainty not a strength - otherwise parties such as the environmentally friendly Green Party, or the social equality parties such as the Social Democrats /Liberals, or the workers' rights parties such as Labour party would be in power all over the world - and they are not!
However, USING emotional power - in a deliberate and targeted way in which this was - has a very. very strong outcome - remember what happened in the opinion polls since!
Do I care if you. Wessy, Wanderlust or anybody else are emotional - not in the least. Do I think you maybe be weak or ill to be emotional - I could care less about it. it's up to you what you are. However, if I was a Labour Party candidate seeking your vote, I definitely play to your emotions and definitely be certain of your votes.
That's how the game works,
And that's why we've had Truss, Johnson, May, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Major and Thatcher as our Prime Ministers for the last 40 odd years - any of them emotional characters...?
The game is about power and cynically using others' emotions as a means to an end.