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Apparently, there's going to be a General Election quite soon. I've just been looking at the BBC's summaries of the three main partys' manifestos. Labour are full of slick promises they can't deliver on, the Conservatives are doing their usual barking let's pretend it's 1950 and hope all the badness goes away thing, and the Lib. Dems. are full of high minded rhetoric that's completely impractical.
Gotta love politics. Once every five years I get to have a negligable say in which bunch of power-crazed lunatics get to screw things up for the next five. And the shaved monkeys get more of a say than I do, because there's more of them. There may be a difference between this and living in an actual monarchy or dictatorship, but it's very hard to see what it is in practice. Mostly I think it's that bribery doesn't work quite as well, which I suppose is something to be grateful for.
Gotta love politics. Once every five years I get to have a negligable say in which bunch of power-crazed lunatics get to screw things up for the next five. And the shaved monkeys get more of a say than I do, because there's more of them. There may be a difference between this and living in an actual monarchy or dictatorship, but it's very hard to see what it is in practice. Mostly I think it's that bribery doesn't work quite as well, which I suppose is something to be grateful for.
