Open Mic WEDNESDAY 26th AUGUST + Political Caption Competition

POLITICAL FACT OF THE DAY: “Bludgeon men” were once paid by political factions to intimidate opposing voters at open polls.

POLITICAL QUOTE OF THE DAY:“I am not a ‘democrat’ only because ‘humility’ and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power–and then we get and are getting slavery.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien

POLITICAL HAIKU OF THE DAY:
No new taxes, they vow
Councils watch the bed tax die
Rates pick up the bill

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