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1. I was right and Redphoenixxx was wrong.
It's a great feeling, isn't it? Apart from Cameron and his minions being in power, that is.
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2. Our egalitarian Prime Minister has as many men called David in the cabinet as there are women.
It's pretty bad. Only a sixth of all MPs are women. Probably because, for some reason, their parties seem to put them in no chance seats. I wonder why that could be?
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4. It sticks in my socialist throat, but this coalition might just work.
If we only had the Labour Pary in charge, eh? They're socialist through and through.
Apart from, you know, raising university fees, privatising schools, PPPing on the tube, deregulating the city, increasing military spending, granting and tolerating unlawful and repressive police powers, effectively removing the right to protest and so on and so on. And it's not as if they needed to do these things to get into power or anything, seeing as NL's manifesto actually promised not to do several of them.
Don't get me wrong, the coalition will probably be worse, unless it's paralysed by indecision, but you know that pain in your hands when you put a cross in the labour box? That's not arthritis, man - well, not
just arthritis - it's the feeling of it sticking in your socialist joints.
Let's face it, there's been a drift from left to right in Britain for some time now.
Now, I can guess your response is going to be something like:
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Kavek, you Cnut, that's very fucking tangential to what I just said.
Yeah? I don't care. I don't play by your
rules, old man!
Edited, May 14th 2010 2:25am by Kavekk