louise wrote:I wouldnt have a former heroin addict babysitting my children, nursing a sick parent, or acting as my accountant. Why would i welcome their influence on law and politics in the country i live in? Good for him for sorting his life out but that doesnt automatically make him someone whos opinion i value.
when put on the spot he cant really give a good supporting argument for his views can he? If you cant support your own argument properly again why would i take you seriously?
Your question is what do i think of his views? I dont think he is right or wrong, i think hes a tool. His views arent worth my time of day.
I dont agree with extremists because they dont consider anything other than their own voices.
That is a personal preference (albeit a really sad and demonising one) and not something which can be necessarily applied in a civic situation, surely of all the people in the world someone with an experience of something such as that would be a valuable asset to a democratic society as opposed to someone preaching from a moral pedestal. I would argue that his opinion is perhaps more valuable than the many currently in Westminster who have absolutely no experience of the reality of Britain. Are you saying because he has been a drug user you can dismiss his political views? If so then you can pretty much write off a vast majority of the British population.
He can't back up his views because what he is preaching is a Utopian social democracy, which would require much more than a snappy anecdote in an interview set up to disparage his agenda (its no secret the BBC/ITV love the establishment)
I think what he is positing is radical, but not ridiculous: a radical shake up of capitalist society, and redistribution of wealth, more democratic government with less vested interest in multinational conglomerates. These are all things which I think are inevitably going to happen to be honest, as the rate of consumption and disparity between classes is so great that something has got to give.
I think he's pretty spot on with his views, but he just goes about it in a really clumsy and irritating way.
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