Rick's b.log - entry 2010/05/07

The British General Election

The reason is simple, there's nothing to report.
The only things I can think of to say are:

• the Conservatives, without a majority, will need to rely on cross-party support which may not be forthcoming... so at least they'll have an excuse for not keeping election promises (if there's anybody left that still believes them)
• and foolish me, I thought this was a perfect world where the guy with the most votes wins, but no, this is a world where the winner can be rendered impotent, and where the Liberal Democrats garner something like 23% percent of the vote, yet get a 9% say in matters.

But come on, you're now being led by the blues!

My final thought, as anybody who remembers kindergarten art will recall, is that all the colours, all the reds and blues and yellows and greens, when mixed together, make brown. A sort of shit brown. That's the colour of the British government right now. Shit brown.

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Robin, 10th May 2010, 08:36

Can't agree with you more. Just a broken system. The allocation of power doesn't represent the majority at all. Plus there were far more deserving candidates even in the minority parties than Labour(at least they still have their founding principles), but they still managed to gather 1000x more votes by insulting voters and farting in our face. There were 2, 3 at a stretch, choices we really had, and had we one party we could trust, we probably wouldn't have ended up with a hung parliament because people would have been more united against the hidden underground race of blind, morbidly-gullible and mentally-challenged British mole people that I always thought were myth, but apparently DO exist since they all voted Labour.

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