A Man in a Dinner Jacket Wins Iranian Election!

Yes you've guessed it, our favourite ultra conservative Iranian has been re-elected as President again!



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8098305.stm

Strange! According the "the opposition" it's a flawed election, and results indicate that Ahmadinejad picked up votes from Mousavi's supporters and that people who voted for reformist candidates 4 years ago have also switched to vote for him!

Me thinks that this election was rigged.

This post has been edited by eazbak: Jun 13 2009, 10:44 AM

Show me a single person that voted for Gordon Brown as prime minister.

Well of course that is a fact Foggy ol' pal... but the elections in the UK are for the party whereas in Iran they vote for the person (as far as I'm aware), so as much as I stand behind you with regards the sour faced Scot I believe your point is invalid in this instance.

I'm pretty sure Gordon Brown hasn't shut any opposition newspapers down or surrounded David Cameron's party headquarters with armed police. Yet.

I'm-a-dinner-jacket is just making sure that the opposition can't object until it's too late to change anything. His bid to stay in power becomes a fait accompli. Well played, that madman!

Right well, my point as I'm sure you can see, is that sometimes in the west too, our leaders are unelected or leastways unelected by the popular vote. What Gordon Brown has or hasn't stopped from being printed in the newspapers will never be known to us because of d-notices and so on.

I would suggest that the reason that no one in this country behaves openly in the way the Ahmadinejad does is because the gravy train is so neatly designed that the same people will enjoy very big dinners regardless of the party in power. The differences between the three major parties are at this point so small that they amount to quibbles about methodology rather than aims.

I was having dinner with a mate last week and he was saying to me it seemed incredible that on the day that the press were slagging off Kim Jong-Il for naming his son as a successor the same journo scum were discussing Gordons possible succession to Mlliband or Johnson as if it were the most natural thing in the world.

I would lke to remind you that both Heath and Callaghan were forced out of government at this point in their careers, for similar mismanagement issues.

Meanwhile in Iran......

OK what do you want to make of it? A case for regime change perhaps?

Don't the clerics run that country? I believe they have full veto power over everything, so it doesn't matter what dinner jacket gets elected.

now we're getting somewhere.....Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it. AH

That's what I was thinking. Who gives a monkeys toss if they elect Barney the Dinosaur as their President as long as the bearded freaks are pulling the strings!

It's true. The president has influence, but doesn't set policy. And the opposition guy was only a liberal-of-convenience as a platform to get elected. He used to be a hard-liner, but that was never going to wash against that bloke with the donkey jacket. In any case, he was still in favor of nuclear enrichment - that's too entrenched in the Iranian psyche. Whoever wins, it's still the mad mullahs in charge.

Who was that comedienne on "Have I Got News" the other night who said they needed to replace the mad mullahs with a mullah-light?

NM, it was Shappi Khorsandi

Actually, there was a mullah-light running as a candidate - a reformist. He didn't do too well (0.85%). Frankly, I for one don't think there's a hidden groundswell of desire for reform in Iran. The wealthy want reform, the poor don't. Poor people like their religious dictatorships, because it makes sure everybody's having as bad a time as they are.

That's the problem with poor people voting en masses for somebody on the basis of self-interest - that person has a vested interest in keeping them poor henceforth. Amedinejad needs the empoverished and ignorant to stay that way.

Re-count!

After 3 days of bloody violence... Just have to wait and see what happens next.



http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/8102400.stm

Piffle, recount to placate.