The “dividing line”

Pro-tip: if the best you can do to distinguish yourself from a party of sociopaths who make alliances with European Nazis is a relatively obscure taxation debate, you’re fucked.

On the other hand, this bout of implicit honesty is refreshing.  Now it is almost impossible for anyone, except party hacks like Martin Kettle, naturally, to argue about the wide gulf of differences that seperate our two major parties from each other. You have the vaugely authoritarian state capitalists who don’t want to cut national insurance, and the vaugely authoritarian state capitalists who do.  Change!

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Anarchy in the UK, or, how I intend to spend the next month dead drunk

So, the scowling Scot finally did it.  A month of full out idiocy, nonstop media hysteria and hyperbolic nonsense is due to begin.

On the whole, there are worse ways to spend the next four weeks, I guess.  At least now, if I’m bored, I can go rile some easily upset Labour or Tory supporters ie; the vast majority of them.

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Every vote counts!

I got a letter through my door today informing me that if I vote for the same MP who has represented this area for the past 13 years, then I will be voting for “change”.

I can only assume this is some strange definition of the word “change” that only occurs in politics, since every other definition of the word would seem to clash with voting someone into their fourth term in public office.

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