Monday, March 14, 2005

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

8 Comments:

Blogger Rachel said...

Yeah - it's gonna be tricky. There's no way I'm going with Labour this time - at the end of the day I may as well vote Conservative, cause at least they're being honest about being conservative unlike Blair scum! Ahem.

The Tory policies are certainly seeming more appealing - getting rid of student fees, lowering the abortion rate (I am not scarily pro-life or anything, but if a baby can actually survive outside the womb (which at 24 weeks is possible (wow brackets within brackets)) then it shouldn't be allowed), and a so far a refreshing honesty about what the party can and cannot do. Still sceptical of course - you never can trust any politicians.

1:10 pm  
Blogger RLS said...

I agree with the abortion thing, I don't believe them about fees, and giving council tax discounts to elderly people seems to make sense, but they haven't said much else. Every now and then Boris Johnson or Oliver Letwin says something daft like, hey, I know, we'll put asylum seekers on an island while we decide what to do with them! (an island, guys? You mean like, er, Britain?)
I wish you could actively register "No Vote" in this country, that would separate people who don't care from people like me who just don't like anything that's on offer.
Px

3:51 pm  
Blogger RLS said...

Rach - what party is your MP from? Must be Tory in Twickenham...
We've got no chance of getting rid of Labour, our MP is Frank Dobson. He recently voted to let gay people adopt, but I can't find out how he voted on parents tracing their children, and he never replied to my email asking him (even though I'm a constituent. Bastard.)

2:27 pm  
Blogger Rachel said...

We're actually Lib Dem here in Twickenham. And since this place has been run pretty well the last number of years I'll probably stick with them for the local stuff. Conservative are a close second though, with Labour straggling behind.

3:27 pm  
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5 dimensional reasoning - I just mean thinking in that direction, as in how it works, how we might be able to best concieve of a fifth dimension...

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