Like many of you, I have been watching the public outrage manifest itself in massive street demonstrations following the hotly disputed elections in Iran.
If you believe the propaganda in the British Press, Iran is supposed to be a violently suppressed society hell bent on supporting terrorism. Having been fortunate enough to visit Tehran during the Rafsanjani Government some years ago, I know that this impression is misguided and the current demonstrations give lie to the western generated media.
Hence, they have a President who the people believe was returned to office as a result of electoral fraud and are not having any of it. They are taking to the street and challenging the establishment.
We have a Prime Minister who has never been elected, presided over the biggest scandal involving this country’s Parliament. and brought us to the brink of economic disaster. And what are we doing about it???
A simple question, who lives in a democracy and who has a greater interest in their political future? Makes you think doesn’t it…..
If you believe the propaganda in the British Press, Iran is supposed to be a violently suppressed society hell bent on supporting terrorism. Having been fortunate enough to visit Tehran during the Rafsanjani Government some years ago, I know that this impression is misguided and the current demonstrations give lie to the western generated media.
Hence, they have a President who the people believe was returned to office as a result of electoral fraud and are not having any of it. They are taking to the street and challenging the establishment.
We have a Prime Minister who has never been elected, presided over the biggest scandal involving this country’s Parliament. and brought us to the brink of economic disaster. And what are we doing about it???
A simple question, who lives in a democracy and who has a greater interest in their political future? Makes you think doesn’t it…..
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Idiot. We don't elect a prime minister, he / she is appointed by the political party with the largest number of MP's and then goes to the Queen (Gawd bless her) and asks permission to form a government.
ReplyDeleteDo you not understand the difference? Thought so.
Precisely
ReplyDeleteThe leader of the party stands for election based on a series of policies in their manifesto. As leader of that party they become Prime Minister.
When the said political party elect a leader they do so with the intention of proposing to the electorate that this person will become Prime Minister.
In both cases a democratic transparent electoral process takes place.
The present incumbent of Number 10 has never been subject to either of the foregoing, which as my posting suggests begs the question as to our own democracy.
The fact that we as a people seem happy to put up with it, where as the Iranian people will take to the streets forms, the second part of my observation.