Britian, bastion of democracy!

[ink_splotch]

Sometimes it just sort of creeps up on me, the hatred that I have for Gordon Brown. And then, occasionally, it flares like a fucking rocket, like when I suddenly find a Tory more sympathetic. You think it sucks to be American? At least the Democrats appear to be a different party than Republicans. With Labour and Conservative, it really is the "lesser of who gives a crap", to paraphrase Leo McGarry.

Also of note, the suspected terrorist clause of the above legislation means fuck all. That law has been used to jail G8 and environmental protesters and now they can hold them for 42 days. Hurrah for human rights and individual liberties!

Comments

[lattara.livejournal.com]

Fucking politics.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Right now Brown makes Pia Kjærsgaard look like a militant defender of human rights. Just. WHAT ARE YOU THINKING, GORDON? 1984 IS NOT A HOW-TO BOOK, TWAT MAN!

[lattara.livejournal.com]

It's just, what the fuck is wrong with people?

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Brown also wants to install bugging devices in lampposts. Bearing in mind we already live in the most watched country in the world, WHY DOES THIS NOT RING FUCKING ALARM BELLS?

[lattara.livejournal.com]

I don't fucking know.

[marcella-riddle.livejournal.com]

I don't think Cameron actually believes what he says, merely that he's parroting what he thinks people want to hear, in the hope that we'll forget the fact he's a conservative and vote for him. Big hell no from me.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Oh, don't get me wrong. Cameron can still bite me - even if he does a complete 180 and starting making out with men, cuddling immigrants and handing out bags of money to the poor, I wouldn't trust him enough to vote for him. But David Davis is really impressing me; I saw him on Andrew Marr this morning and he seems incredibly upright and decent.

I wouldn't vote for Labour or Conservative, which sadly means my vote means nothing.

[phoenixwish.livejournal.com]

I've heard that Margaret Thatcher was once asked what she considered her greatest political victory, and she replied: "New Labour".

*sighs*

Politics will turn me into a bitter woman.

[vampirespider.livejournal.com]

Sounds about right. Right now, they make Margaret Thatcher look like an ardent Democrat.

*hates* It's sad that I'm more hopeful about the American political scene than the English.