Post by QPR Report on Nov 19, 2008 15:33:47 GMT
Bernie Ecclestone's Perspective.
It's not re QPR; and to each their own, I guess
(From The Mail February, 2008).
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-514808/Why-I-detest-democracy-I-gave-Labour-1m--wife-said-I-asked-mistress-Bernie-Ecclestone.html
I must have missed it at the time, but thanks to having it pointed out.
Excerpt:
"...He sighs theatrically. "In the old days it was easier to be dictatorial. But now in Formula One we have more of a democracy" - the word is expectorated like chewing tobacco.
Then he gives me a sly, sidelong look, which seems to imply that other people's opinions are something of which he takes scant notice.
"I hate democracy as a political system," Ecclestone continues. "It stops you getting things done. I think people should have decisions made for them."
As for some of the less palatable aspects of dictatorship, he remarks casually that "torture is just an old-fashioned way of getting things done"....
A good dictator is better for a country than a democracy. Democracy in Britain leads to confusion and bad compromises. In a democracy, the Prime Minister is always influenced by someone or some group or the Press. I myself have never voted. What's the point..
It's not re QPR; and to each their own, I guess
(From The Mail February, 2008).
www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-514808/Why-I-detest-democracy-I-gave-Labour-1m--wife-said-I-asked-mistress-Bernie-Ecclestone.html
I must have missed it at the time, but thanks to having it pointed out.
Excerpt:
"...He sighs theatrically. "In the old days it was easier to be dictatorial. But now in Formula One we have more of a democracy" - the word is expectorated like chewing tobacco.
Then he gives me a sly, sidelong look, which seems to imply that other people's opinions are something of which he takes scant notice.
"I hate democracy as a political system," Ecclestone continues. "It stops you getting things done. I think people should have decisions made for them."
As for some of the less palatable aspects of dictatorship, he remarks casually that "torture is just an old-fashioned way of getting things done"....
A good dictator is better for a country than a democracy. Democracy in Britain leads to confusion and bad compromises. In a democracy, the Prime Minister is always influenced by someone or some group or the Press. I myself have never voted. What's the point..
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