Can't wait for the local labour party to call asking for my vote. I will be surprised if they can get anyone with enough front to represent them.
In 1997, people were desperate to get rid of the Tories.
If you're desperate, and sign up to anything without thinking it through, then you shouldn't be surprised at what happens next.
I swore I would never vote labour after bearing witness to the corrupt machinations of Blair and Prescott, didn't think it could get any worse........ bogger me I was wrong!
The tendency to use individual politicians' surnames when critisising party policy is commonplace, but it still amuses me that the people doing so seem to be unaware of the glaringly twisted thinking that underpins it.
"Blair", "Prescott", and "Gordon" (
I suppose that "Brown" is too ambiguous...) are members of an elected government. They're not killing people (
possibly with the exception of Robin Cook, but a national referendum would have ratified that decision anyway). This isn't Zimbabwe, or 1980s Romania, or 1930s Germany. Our government ministers aren't evil people; they're merely superb and faithful manifestations of the majority desire; they're barely-credible Krell-like creations of the collective subconscious need to have a global market economy, in which people who can't read and write have the right to 'borrow' someone else's copper cable and lease it to their neighbours via Chinese sweat-shops.
If you want someone to blame for the state of this country, have a go at the people who think it's OK to throw away a consumer appliance every week, and buy a new one resourced from the veins, arteries and blood being plundered from the planet's torso, assembled by labourers that we're now supreme at exploiting but even better at ignoring.
