Cue The Imperial March
Was it just me, or when Michael Howard was launching the conservative manifesto did he sound an awful lot like Senator Palpatine in Attack of the Clones? I'm particularly thinking of the "I love my country"/"I love the Republic, I love democracy" parallel. I mean even down to the creepy voice! I've no love for the Conservative party, I really don't, but if the job of the opposition is to keep the elected government honest then these guys are no good at all. I mean, they don't provide a credible alternative, all they've done in opposition is say "No, we wouldn't do THAT". And to paraphrase a Monty Python sketch, thats not an argument, thats just contradiction... And if they've failed as an effective opposition, and I think most people would agree that they have, then why on earth would we let them be in power!I find it hard to believe that anyone can honestly be taking Howard seriously as a caring, sharing kinda guy. We were all there the first time round, we've seen what he does when given power, we all know what he's capable of, why on earth would we think he's changed? My favourite bit of the whole press conference was his blazing row with ITN correspondent Peter Snow. Howard really lost it there, that was no reasoned argument, he was just shouting! It was great. Then he said he wasn't gonna have 'interruptions from the floor' and just carried on.
I suppose in the interest of political balance I should pick on the other ones a bit too, so here we go; Tony Blair is...y'know I don't really agree with the whole 'Tony Blair is untrustworthy' thing. I don't always agree with him, but I also think he does he what he believes to be for the greatest good, given the information available to him. Did the Iraq War thing blow up in his face? Yes it did. But I think the documents now available to us show that he was as much rail-roaded into it as anyone else, he just thought he could provide a more rational balance to the neo-cons war mongering. Sadly he was mistaken. I also think he's easily the best public speaker of the three. As for Charles Kennedy... well he's affable, thoughtful, refuses the dogmatism of party politics, is inclined to tell the truth even when its complex, and has absolutely no chance of ever becoming Prime Minister of anything.
There, thats done that. Michael Howard is the Devil!
For some reason I don't fully understand I bought flapjacks today. I just had one, it wasn't all tha yummy. I have lots of them too, cos it was buy one, get one free, and they came in packs of four...
I have this whole rant about last weekends royal wedding, or more specifically the monarchy in general and why Britain is too fucking lazy to have a revolution. I've already ranted loads so I'll just let it lie. For now!
posted by BadMonkey @ 8:07 PM
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For having "The Importance of Being Idle" and the word "queue," which could be taken off of the same album that you got the site title, you get several billion coolness points from the other side of the pond. Rant on.
Thanks. I did indeed steal the title from the upcoming Oasis album cos it seems so incredibly apt. Also when I typed 'queue' I really meant 'cue' didn't I? I didn't really expect anybody to be reading this, so its nice to see comments!
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