Posts tagged 'Election'
Uninformed
Only three days to go until the big day.
And only after midday today did we find out about the following, via a friend who emailed me today after himself finding out about it only a few hours beforehand.
Of course, by then it was too late to re-jig my evening and far too late to submit any questions:
Of the people we've talked to about this, nobody noticed anything about it in the local free magazines and papers, nobody noticed any posters around the village, nor around the town (nor in the pub loos), and nobody received any flyers through the door.
Just goes to show how much they really want to engage with us.
Situation Normal.
Dealt a Yarborough
Only a week to go until the big day.
When it comes to General Elections I've never had any problems choosing which candidate got my vote... until this one.
We have only four parties vying for the top spot here:
and I have misgivings about all of them.
LibDems: They've had my vote before, and their candidate stands the best chance of ousting our current absentee-landlord, but after Clegg broke his tuition fees pledge while polishing Cameron's buttocks I don't think that I can bring myself to trust the LibDems again.
Labour: Well, when your head honcho has played poker with his cards face-up by ruling out ever using Britain’s nuclear deterrent (thus making it no deterrent whatsoever) and whose credibility on defence is in tatters, who's going to keep the flag flying if Johnny Foreigner decides to take a pop at us? Moreover, there's NATO's Article 5 which say something like "an armed attack against one NATO member shall be considered an attack against them all". In that circumstance what's the top man going to deploy? Sharp sticks? Harsh words? Economic-migrant car-washers armed with wet sponges?
Conservatives: As a party they seem to have it in the bag already, but there's no way that our current candidate will get my vote even if his gaffer was [insert your preferred benevolent deity here]. My views on our current candidate's 30 years as Our Man In Havana At The Conning Towers are well-documented on this blog and don't need repeating here.
So that leaves the Greens. The party that favours ungreen* wind-farms here, there and everywhere. No thanks.
I think it may well be a case of "None of the above".
But I'll still go to the Polling Station even if it's only to bait the tellers.
* Probably not a real word but it seems to fit.
Oh FFS! He’s standing again! (Version 2, with added YT clip)
This is a re-hash of my post of 7th May 2010. Not much has changed, so for obvious reasons it's a copy/paste job with only minor edits and additions...
For 30 years we've had the same MP, and in all that time we've only ever seen him once, when he was in Hinckley town centre drumming up support for his re-election in 2015. Hardly surprising, really, as he still lives nowhere near his Bosworth constituency, he still lives 140 miles away in Sussex, which is still even further away from Bosworth than Westminster is. He's tried to claim expenses for astrology software and for an intimate relationships course, and was guilty of accepting cash-for-questions. He believes that homeopathy can fix the NHS. He's still never responded directly to any of the questions that I've put to him, preferring to "sub out" the job to somebody else. We had high hopes that he'd be ousted in 2010, and even higher hopes in 2015, but, despite calls for him to stand down he's going to be campaigning for yet another term.
His obsession with using his parliamentary position to campaign for homeopathy is, to me, just plain wrong. He's paid to represent his constituents, not to pursue his own personal agenda.
Don't get me wrong - I'm not anti-homeopathy, I'm not anti-Tory, I don't much mind which party ends up in government and if the Tories had decided to adopt a different candidate here I would have given him/her due consideration for my vote. No, I just want to see the back of this self-serving fool. Actually, seeing ANY part of this fool is unlikely. He's like the absentee landlord, happy to accept the rent-money but never there when you need him to fix the property. It's not what's expected of a public servant, and certainly not what I expect of my representative in Parliament.
We're going to be screwed. Again.
I think he gets through the candidate adoption process using homeopathic methods like this:
Energy Independence Day?
From the election results declared so far, it looks like change is a comin'...
There'll be more windfarms and less wild land, I'll wager.
Con-Dem Nation?
It's got a sinister ring to it, no?
Here's the would-be gaffer:
Mr. Clameron.
Looks familiar, no?
🙂
