"The people have spoken, the bastards"

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Not the original Mo Udall quote, but the new one from Stephen Pound after a "make up a law" poll on BBC Radio 4's leftie Today program ended up favouring a "Tony Martin" defense-in-the-home bill over organ transplants, smoking bans, PM term restrictions and xmas ads bans.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/today/reports/misc/law_result_20040101.shtml

I can't think of a decent question here.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:44 (twenty-two years ago)

If you click on the link of ones that didn't get shortlisted, someone has suggested that baseball caps should be illegal as people who wear them are invariably criminals.

!!! *words are failing me*

― ailsa (ailsa), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i am in favour of Laws 3, 4 and possibly 2

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, that's got a really good chance of becoming law, hasn't it? Fuckwits.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Pound is a disgusting Blairite arse-licker. What a fascist lot R4 listeners are.

5th place:
Law 4: Ban all Christmas advertising and the erection of municipal street decorations before 1st December :
5% of the vote

Oliver Cromwell, get back.

It's so twee I can hardly believe it. You know that 'ban hip-hop' would be at number 15. Jesus.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

If you click on the link of ones that didn't get shortlisted, someone has suggested that baseball caps should be illegal as people who wear them are invariably criminals.
!!! *words are failing me*

Crime against style, innit.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Remember, people who vote on InterWeb polls aren't representative of the whole population.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

That is, certain polls attract certain types of voters.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Or of Today listeners, most of whom prolly dunno what the net is.

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

The baseball cap thing is ridiculous. They should jail people who wear a baseball cap under a hood as they deffo are all crims.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Dizzee would look better in a pirate hat

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn right.

― Nick Southall (Nick Southall), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the Soviet propaganda poster style Today logo.

I'd like to extend the scope of the advertising ban so that Cadbury's could only advertise the Creme Egg during the fortnight around Easter. Oh, and no more Linda Barker.

― Alfie (Alfie), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd ban

1) men discussing how they got to parties
2) marriage
3) nuclear weapons

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

* 2nd place:
Law 3: A Bill to allow the use of all organs for transplant after death unless the individual has "opted out" and recorded that opt out on an organ transplant register :
30% of the vote.

THIS is an interesting one... presumably it was an entirely different part of the R4 demographic voting.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 13:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Its one that the medical profession has been callign out for but most governments see as politically sensitive (balance the good it will do against the screaming mother moaning thatthey chopped her son up for spare parts).

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 14:50 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the Soviet propaganda poster style Today logo
how about a law making piss-poor attempts at russian constructivism mandatory in all logo design¿

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 15:54 (twenty-two years ago)

how about a law making piss-poor attempts at russian constructivism mandatory in all logo design¿

Done and dusted, ever since the Berlin Wall fell on its face. The Russian logo is seen as hip and happening on everything from thermos, hats and the odd branded cow.

― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

yes - but was it law or just an epidemic of poor taste¿

― dyson (dyson), Wednesday, 7 January 2004 16:36 (twenty-two years ago)

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