Things can only get better?

I have finally succeeded in seeing Elephant and Castle in the sun. It looks marginally better. Marginally.

I have been intrigued by politics this week. It seems they have been dominated by Charles "when I was at school I used to nick other kids' dinner money" Clarke and Gerry "not head of the IRA, honest" Adams. So now we live in a country where you can be arrested without being told what you've done, and while you're under house arrest David Blunkett with sleep with your wife and if you feel anyone has wronged you, it's ok because the IRA will offer to shoot them for you. Welcome to the civilised surroundings of the fourth largest economy in the Western World. Now, I can't think of any circumstance in which I might find myself voting Tory, but in the grand scheme of things I was comparatively impressed by Michael Howard's party conference speech. At least it was an improvement on the quiet man who turned up the volume shortly before someone else turned it off altogether.

So in case you haven't been paying much attention (heaven forbid) to the upcoming election, here's a quick run-down of your choices:
Labour (or "New Tories", as I like to call them, also a faction of the American Republicans and of late Opus Dei.)
Conservatives (read "10 Things I Hate" post)
Lib Dems (the political equivalent of the Church of England whose policies are restricted to "er..." and "vote for us, we're nice. Please?")
Green Party (They seem ok, and contraty to popular opinion don't all look like Swampy)
UKIP (a cross between the Daily Mail and Paul's letter to the Romans)
Veritas (the anti-European party who chose a Latin name meaning "truth". Yes, that's LATIN, the language of the greatest European colonisers that ever lived.)
The BNP (I am not even going to grace them with a comment)
The Natural Law Party (they're the guys who reckoned they could bring about world peace through yogic flying. Unfortunately they don't seem to exist any more. I wonder why not.)

This all makes Students' Union politics look quite intellectually challenging. To hell with anti-terror laws, what this country really needs is more Snakebite, an annual Freshers Ball for all new immigrants to the country, and maybe an annual leavers' ball for when UKIP gets into power and sends them all away again.

Have a good day