Richard Hawley wrote:
The Liberals will dither and fuck about but will probably grind the machine to a halt with their Mavis like politics....."ooo I dooooon't realllllyyy knooowwwww"
Like that. Mavis Clegg, but probably gives him a bit more of a personality than he really has. People been talking about it at work all day – I work for a solidly Labour council, in fact Labour increased its share of the vote here and the Liberals lost seats. One of my workmates said that her and her other half were talking and they thought the silver lining of the situation is that at least our kids will grow up in a more political world and I think she's got a good point. We've had this New Labour blandness for years, doing some things to make people's lives better but not changing anything fundamental, just tinkering around the edges. The politics of consensus but with most of the population not consenting at all. Maybe this will see a bit of a rebirth of opinions and ideology and belief, which I think is no bad thing. Maybe it will help our kids reject this bland, consumerist blob that's foisted on them and make decisions about right and wrong.