Who The Hell Do I Vote For Now?
Well, that was fun. The whole London election has basically been like watching your football team have all the possession, all the skill and all the experience yet go down 1-0 in the first minute to a lucky deflection off the opposing striker's arse. I'm an Arsenal fan. We know how this feels, it just usually lasts 90 minutes, not two months. All of which leaves me feeling more than usually disillusioned and for the first time totally unsure of where my next vote is going.
In the rest of the country, Gordon Brown's tactic of screwing the poor while displaying all the talent, charisma and judgement of an unlanced boil and the political dynamism of a decaying halibut has naturally resulted in the worst results for Labour since before I was born. As Jamie Kenny put it so eloquently, the man's a wanker, in the truest sense of the word. Not getting my vote back like that, Gordon. Pull your socks up, man.
What about the Tories? Well, they're obviously doing well, given that they've made gains in places they hadn't made gains for a while and did better than in 2004, when Blair was still grinning that punchable grin and Iraq was still fresh in the mind. However, they needed the most partisan, one-sided and unpleasant newspaper campaign in memory plus the services of Lynton 'I Never Saw A Bastard I Didn't Want To Help Elect' Crosby to be in with a shout in London, plus foisting a completely unsuitable candidate on us, muzzling him, not telling us what he'd do or who he'd employ and then having deeply unpleasant Thatcherite turds welling up out of the sewers to tell us what a great job Boris would do without the slightest evidence to support it. It's all left a seriously foul taste in my mouth and a desire to kick things. I can only assume Tory strategy once elected is to pander first to the Evening Standard (they definitely owe them one, so that's the Metro contract extended then) and then the suburban middle class, leaving the real city rudderless and unloved. Great. Just when we were starting to have a decent place to live in, we shit all over it. Still, there should be plenty of material for bilious ranting, particularly given that the inbuilt Tory majority on the GLA is going to be even more toothless than it is now. Look for reviews of TfL Board minutes on here, as we try and work out which way the wind's blowing. So not the Tories then.
What about the Lib Dems? Well, the experiment of moving economically right as the country moved left (defined here as wanting the government to look after them instead of screwing them over - note that recent Tory messages have been soothing ones about putting Britons first and seeing you right about tax and immigration rather than 'On Your Bike' Tebbitisms) always looked badly timed, and electing Nick Clegg as leader is in my view disastrous, since the Lib Dems need a big, recognisable personality at the top, not a boring man whose only memorable attributes are shagging a few women and not believing in God. Hell, at that rate I qualify on both counts. Stressing economic liberty instead of personal liberty also sticks in the throat - one thing we've learnt about free market, flexible labour economies is that people feel enslaved by them, what with job insecurity, spending your life searching out cheaper deals on things to avoid being ripped off, it's a treadmill, not a path to riches and enlightenment. Look at how happy we are as a nation. Not the Lib Dems, then, unless they too pull their socks up and remember what they stood for under Charles Kennedy. Unlike Paul Staines, they only started veering all over the road after ditching the drunk driver. Clever stuff.
I'm obviously not voting for the fascists and the hard left doesn't usually stand round here, so that leaves the Greens, who got my London-wide PR keep-the-BNP-out vote yesterday. Now I like a lot of their policies, particularly on transport and energy, and it's clearly the right time for them (actually, it's well overdue, we should be), but unfortunately it's not the right time politically - in economic downturns people are going to be looking at their shopping bill and going 'oh shit', rather than 'hey, let's go organic'. I certainly am. The ray of hope is that high fuel prices should start doing their work for them, as people are forced to downsize cars to more efficient models, pay attention to domestic consumption and reduce the number of flights they take. I expect the airlines to have severe difficulties, since their much-cherished lack of fuel tax hides a nasty gotcha that this ensures they receive the full whack of fuel price rises when they have to renegotiate their deals. That has to get passed on, and with rail finally waking up to the fact that it should be greener (this month's Modern Railways contains a long environmental section sponsored by Siemens) the airlines should start losing big time to greener alternatives. The Greens ought to take advantage of this and attempt to work out which policies will appeal in a £1.50/litre petrol world. They should also realise that the solutions to the issues they campaign on are technological as well as societal, so they need to get up to speed on engineering and physics. If they do that, they'll be odds on for my vote.
HaHAhahahahahahahahahaaaaa
HaHAhahahahahahahahahaaaaa Wankered!
Incidentally we should have no reason to be living in a £1.50 per litre petrol world. We (motorists) already pay tax rates FAR higher than the external costs of motoring, including the lefts beloved carbon footprint, which in a few years will turn out to be the biggest load of cobblers since, well I can't remember since what.
Hence if petrol does start to approach that point, any sensible govt would start to cut taxes on petrol products to try to save the economy. Obviously Brown would not do this, nor would the greens.
Do you really want to vote for a party who's defense policy involves building a slightly prickly hedge around the country? ;)
So if I were you I just wouldn't bother voting next time, your beloved left wing parties are officially WANKERED!
I think Zorro's reply ("HAHA
I think Zorro's reply ("HAHA LOL ROFL BORIS IS ACE LOL!!") inadvertantly sums up the state of the country at the moment - too many idiots.
 "BritSwedeguy"  The
"BritSwedeguy"
The problem you fail to mention is that it's those fucking idiots who've been in charge of our country for 11 years. They have managed to fuck pretty much everything up, and you fucking idiots have kept on voting for them. They are spending TWICE as much on the NHS as in 1997, Is the NHS twice as good as it was then? Is it even AS good? Not in my experience. Exactly the same story on education. An Extra 23 Billion pounds but where the fuck has it gone? Results better than ever? Yes but not one person in the country believes that standards have not gone down. (And if you do then you're even more of a witless cunt than I previously imagined, and realising you are a labour supporter believe me I didn't think much of you before!!).
Now it's finally dawning on you cunts that you've been voting for a bunch of cunts with no interest in you, just lining their own pockets and staying in power. You've finally realised what everyone else born before 1965 already knew. Socialists bankrupt the country every time they get in power. EVERY TIME. Sure this time it's taken three terms but they've finally managed it. Normally only takes them one term.
What exactly do you think Gordon cunt Brown's raison d'etre is now? Feeding the poor or clinging into power no matter what? (So who's the fucking idiot eh?)
Now the conservatives may be just more of the same but history shows us that they govern more efficiently. They spend less. That is after all the problem with this country at the moment, Gordon the monocular cunt that he is has spent neary TWO TRILLION pounds in the last 11 years. No matter who wins the next election this country is going to be completely fucking broke for about the next 20 years to pay for what Gordon has spent.
Pray tell me what has he done with it, what is better now than it was 11 years ago?
At the same time everything the labour party has done has been about controlling people, authoritiarianism gone mad. No one except the Labour party thinks 1984 was an instruction manual, everyone else correctly took it as a warning.
Ban smoking, ban what businesses allow people to do IN THEIR OWN premesis. Reclassify cannabis against the recommendation of your scientific advisory board, ban protests within earshot of parliament, ban people from driving in cities, ban this, ban that, ban 'extreme' pornography. FUCK YOU BROWN and fuck you anyone who voted for him or BLAIR. You are all cunts for who'm frankly a bullet is too good. Ban reading material, information likely to be useful to a terrorist. Give it a couple of months and you'll be able to be locked up for looking at a pornographic picture of two consenting adults endulging in perfectly legal activity.
 "BritSwedeguy"  The
"BritSwedeguy"
The problem you fail to mention is that it's those fucking idiots who've been in charge of our country for 11 years. They have managed to fuck pretty much everything up, and you fucking idiots have kept on voting for them. They are spending TWICE as much on the NHS as in 1997, Is the NHS twice as good as it was then? Is it even AS good? Not in my experience. Exactly the same story on education. An Extra 23 Billion pounds but where the fuck has it gone? Results better than ever? Yes but not one person in the country believes that standards have not gone down. (And if you do then you're even more of a witless cunt than I previously imagined, and realising you are a labour supporter believe me I didn't think much of you before!!).
Now it's finally dawning on you cunts that you've been voting for a bunch of cunts with no interest in you, just lining their own pockets and staying in power. You've finally realised what everyone else born before 1965 already knew. Socialists bankrupt the country every time they get in power. EVERY TIME. Sure this time it's taken three terms but they've finally managed it. Normally only takes them one term.
What exactly do you think Gordon cunt Brown's raison d'etre is now? Feeding the poor or clinging into power no matter what? (So who's the fucking idiot eh?)
Now the conservatives may be just more of the same but history shows us that they govern more efficiently. They spend less. That is after all the problem with this country at the moment, Gordon the monocular cunt that he is has spent neary TWO TRILLION pounds in the last 11 years. No matter who wins the next election this country is going to be completely fucking broke for about the next 20 years to pay for what Gordon has spent.
Pray tell me what has he done with it, what is better now than it was 11 years ago?
At the same time everything the labour party has done has been about controlling people, authoritiarianism gone mad. No one except the Labour party thinks 1984 was an instruction manual, everyone else correctly took it as a warning.
Ban smoking, ban what businesses allow people to do IN THEIR OWN premesis. Reclassify cannabis against the recommendation of your scientific advisory board, ban protests within earshot of parliament, ban people from driving in cities, ban this, ban that, ban 'extreme' pornography. FUCK YOU BROWN and fuck you anyone who voted for him or BLAIR. You are all cunts for who'm frankly a bullet is too good. Ban reading material, information likely to be useful to a terrorist. Give it a couple of months and you'll be able to be locked up for looking at a pornographic picture of two consenting adults endulging in perfectly legal activity.
Bravo zorro, although i
Bravo zorro, although i could have done without the C-bombs every second sentance.
In my experience, in any
In my experience, in any debate, those that shout the loudest and use the most profanity, are usually those with the least reason or logic to their argument.
True redadare However in
True redadare
However in this case everything the bloke says happens to be a stone cold truth.
Zorro - ease off the
Zorro - ease off the caffeine and cigarettes, you over-excitable t'nuc.
What makes you think I voted Labour? If I wanted to elect a bunch of small-minded nepotistic zealots I'd at least have had the honesty to vote Tory.
Now the conservatives may be
Now the conservatives may be just more of the same but history shows us that they govern more efficiently.
Suez, Black Wednesday, The Great Depression, Munich Conference...
Which begs the question, have you actually read a history book? Ever.
Too true, social
Too true, social authoritarianism, repressive legislation, cuts in corporation tax and tax hikes for the poorest; a centralised, repressive state, colonial wars on behalf of big business. The Labour Party has been imitating Thatcher for the last decade and the country is indeed thouroughly screwed.
But this is jut the beginning. The people who run Britian's boardrooms and political establishment are not about to concede defeat to physics after defeating 'socialism.' So expect an environmental disaster near you shortly, and expect the lucrative denial of global warming, pollution, junger and injustice to continue unabated - under any government.