The Judge RANTS!
Date: 26/05/14
Kippered
- Your party can win an election too if the State Broadcaster whores itself out to you gratis as your PR company for months beforehand.
- If you can't be bothered getting off your arse for half an hour and putting an 'X' on a piece of paper, you deserve all the disillusionment and alienation you get. The trouble is that those who do prize the right to vote get hit with the shit, too.
- The Liberal Democrats should find someone named Breville to lead them, because they're toast.
- If Labour can only just hold off the Tories a year short of a Westminster election at the end of a parliament which saw the imposition of policies so extreme that even Keith Joseph would have blenched at them, then they too are on the way to qualifying for the Two-tined Fork Of Fate.
- What the fuck happened to my country? The KIPpers nearly beating Labour? Here? I hold not even the skimpiest of briefs for Labour, but when their downfall finally came, I'd hoped it would have been at the hands of a party which was remotely progressive. Or at least remotely sane. The fact that I now live in a council area where a full third of those who could be arsed voted for the Tribe Of Enoch is even more unsettling than having had a Tory councillor for the last seven years. But then, it seems that generally the UKIP vote in Wales was at its strongest where I would have expected it to be: the border areas and the north and south coasts. These are the places where certain types of English immigrant have come to dominate: the Good Life 'downsizing' rural-idyll fantasists; people taking advantage of the lower property prices to commute to and from the cities of the western half of England; and the retirees from those same cities and suburbs with no prior connection to the country, who nonetheless come here in order to (as they would now be more willing to admit than previously) 'escape the wogs'.
- And finally, Esther: if you send a coach-load of clowns to a carnival, don't act all offended when people laugh at them - and at you.
