I am reading an interview that Iain Dale has conducted with Matthew Parris, the radio broadcaster and former Conservative MP. It is brilliant, and I urge you to read the entire thing, but there are two paragraph that are really good.
The first one talks about political lobbying:
(Iain Dale:) Lobbying is a perfectly legitimate activity, if you want legal advice you go to a lawyer, why shouldn
I never knew there were so many varied lobbys for so many interests in government. I have in the last year heard of lobbyist for burger restaurant franchises in Texas, a lobbyist that works on getting tanning salons and local whole foods stores in neighborhoods and one for what soda machines go into schools. Its just mind boggling that we in all of these civilized countries spend so much time and money trying to control things such as that rather than basic human rights.
I will be looking up stuff about Mr Brown soon I guess. I am fascinated in the apparently evils and ills of society they go on so long but are hushes while they happen. I have been talking with people recently about healthcare and the economy and how the blame is shifted to who is currently in “charge” but there were no dissenting voices half as loud while it was being done to us.