http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/now-the-grownups-have-gone/ never starts to amaze Tue, 21 May 2013 15:38:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/now-the-grownups-have-gone/#comment-14289 Sun, 04 Jul 2010 07:30:22 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/?p=707#comment-14289 Am a bit confused by the end of your post. The RCP(M-L) is a completely different organisation to the lot that published the next step. They’re still marching with the same beards and banner I think, except beards are much greyer.

]]> http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/now-the-grownups-have-gone/#comment-14266 Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:45:22 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/?p=707#comment-14266 Good point. I was vaguely bracketing the Osborne petition with stories of people writing to *Richard Branson personally* to complain about Virgin Trains, not to mention the ghastly petitioning stories Jamie runs from time to time. But you’re right, of course, numbers make a difference.

]]> http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/2010/06/10/now-the-grownups-have-gone/#comment-14264 Mon, 14 Jun 2010 09:53:45 +0000 http://gapingsilence.wordpress.com/?p=707#comment-14264 As far as petitioning and democracy are concerned, I think that there’s a distinction between individual and mass petitioning. The latter is very much part of democratic life, the former strikes me as connected with monarchial and bureaucratic systems. Also see

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