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[davywavy]

David's first law of political engagement: The influence of your political movement is inversely proportional to the number of jugglers, digeridoos, friendship bracelets and enormous felt jester hats amongst your membership.

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[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

I've got an enormous felt jester hat, I try not to wear it to work though

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Your ownership is why the LibDems lost the last election.

[tooth-fairy.livejournal.com]

I bought it at Ludlow castle, it has no political affiliations

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but David's first law is absolute.

Dude, I was totally lied to by Iain M Banks

[(Anonymous)]

But.. but ... that means the Culture isn't going to happen!

H

[mrmmarc.livejournal.com]

Question:

Does that mean that the Conservatives are going to hire thousands ofn street entertainers to follow around Labour Party Candidates next election?

Maybe they could win that way?

Or because THEY hired them, do they get effected?

Put simply- the use of mercenary street entertainers- is the victim or the hire person who gets the negative effect?

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

It depends if you get caught. I would say it's better to freelance, in order to avoid your real affiliations being traceable.

[rhythmaning.livejournal.com]

There must be a movement somewhere. "Didgeridoos for Freedom"? Or, in the interests of balance, "Didgeridoos against Freedom"?

[hiromasaki.livejournal.com]

What about "Freedom from Digeridoos"?

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

The fatal flaw in the monster raving loony party?

[gwaunquest.livejournal.com]

They did manage to lower the voting age to 18 - whatever your views on that it was an effective use of silly attire.

[robinbloke.livejournal.com]

Horah for silly hats then :)

[applez.livejournal.com]

Define influence...

Arguably, it was the jester-hatted masses that brought down Communism. :-)

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

Arguably, yes, but it wouldn't be a very good argument, would it? ;p

[applez.livejournal.com]

Well, it's like this ... one can't really expect to have one's dramatists, poets, and expressive dancers shoveling coal and mining uranium indefinitely - there are consequences, and far better to have a public demonstration that no one takes seriously, than to face the folding of one's entire political system. ;-)

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On a more serious note: unprecedented numbers of global street protests may have failed to prevent the Iraq war, but have effectively generated the vehicle by which the administration's incompetence is so publically viewed, and have moved it well on the path of political isolation...shockingly quickly, in political terms. Vietnam took a decade for public distrust to build to a change of policy...Iraq is well on its way to halving that time.

I concur

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

The presence of so many activists in my political neck-of-the-woods who believe that 'playing the bongos' carries some meaningful political influence is enough to drive me to tears.

Re: I concur

[davywavy.livejournal.com]

I'm always reminded of the Hippies in DR & Quinch get drafted.

Re: I concur

[http://users.livejournal.com/_grimtales_/]

*goes to dig out comics*