Quote Originally Posted by Harry68 View Post
If you have a better political system than a democratic one I’d be interested in hearing it Tony. I’ve worked on 3 continents in countries with no meaningful democracy, due process or rule of law and people sometimes literally disappeared and there was no recourse. Flawed as things are here it is much better and there are significant differences between parties although the center left / Center right ones of FF/FG are in optics mainly in my view.

On the thread at hand disgusting doesn’t go anywhere near far enough in describing these scum. Thugs , bullies and cowards. We’ve no shortage of those. Most home grown.
Democracy is an absolute joke. It's great in theory. In practice, it becomes corrupt because there's not a politician alive that isn't themselves corrupt. It is simply the best of a bad lot.