Vote for me or the puppy gets it
From The Independent –
Lord Oakeshott of Seagrove Bay, the [Lib Dem] party’s Treasury spokesman, said:
“The numbers show that half the country cannot stand Gordon Brown and that the other half can’t stand David Cameron. [...]
[...] In 90 minutes in the first debate, Nick Clegg tore open the two-party straitjacket which has stifled British politics for the last 80 years. Now, at last, people can vote for what they want, not against what they fear.”
Wait, what? Didn’t you just point out that voters were turning to the Lib Dems because every single one of them hates either Brown or Cameron? Which would mean that voting against what they hate/fear would be precisely what they’d be doing if they voted for Clegg’s lot. At least, this was the conclusion toward which your argument was inexorably heading until that last minute swerve, when you belatedly realized that ‘The Party That Fewer People Hate (Because They Don’t Know Who We Are)’ probably isn’t a very good slogan.
Oh well, never mind. It’s not as though it makes any fucking difference anyway.
Tags: 2010, Brown, bullshit, Cameron, Clegg, contradiction, Dave, democracy, lib dems, logic, Lord Oakeshott, MSM, narrative, politics, The Who, UK election
April 25, 2010 at 7:10 am |
Aaaah! Politics! The same the world over.
April 25, 2010 at 7:25 am |
Yes indeedy. Bogus choices with tribal voters and swing voters all dancing to an artificial tune produced by a manufactured narrative.
As the man said: don’t vote, it only encourages them.
April 26, 2010 at 4:54 pm |
Brian Clough told me I must vote Labour. What should I do?
April 27, 2010 at 5:09 am |
I understand your dilemma. Brian Clough is the man.
But the important question is this: is Brian Clough still alive? If he is, then I think you can safely ignore him. However, if he’s speaking to you from beyond the grave, then he probably knows all kinds of stuff that we don’t, and you might be well advised to do as he says.
April 27, 2010 at 5:29 pm
The alternative is that I invent a deceased vote which is visible beyond the grave but doesn’t play into the hands of “The Man” down here. Hmm – that’s set me thinkin’ some.
April 26, 2010 at 5:06 pm |
p.s. The reply to nannyflee was almost a verse from a track “War Dance” on XTC’s Nonsuch, or indeed many of the tracks therein. (Provided of course that such spurious metrics as letter sequence, scansion are discounted).