Megaupload now conspires against me. This is getting particularly farcical.
Also… I have nothing much to say.
Though Mark Oaten’s statement at the Lib Dem party conference at LSE:
"The future of this party isn't about moving to the left or the right - that is the political language of the past."did make me snigger for a little while. Because political affiliations can pretty much be marked on a circle or at least an almost circle because there is always going to be a gap between the extreme Right and the extreme Left that can’t be breached. It’s not much of a gap and you could probably put some anarchists in there if you really wanted to but it's usually a non-marked space.
As for party affiliation moving in any direction, the Tories are split between trying to march as far right as they can but then remembering that they’re not all that Right anyway so they sort of shuffle around a bit and boo each other’s speeches, then congratulate themselves on not being those Lefty Socialists and go home.
New Labour are too busy competing over sending their children to the most expensive public schools they can find and trying to outdo all the old Tory scandals while trying to work out further ways to stay as far over on the right as they already are so that they can boo at the nasty old socialist Labour lot who are still firmly Left.
The real Labour MPs are all still on the Left wondering how on earth they're going to wrestle control of their party back from King Blair and occasionally ducking the odd cabbage head or piece of celery that New Labour keep throwing at them.
The old Tories are mostly sitting round and having a pleasant tête-à-tête with these new chaps who strangely enough seem to be sporting red ties, not realising that they’re actually sharing their patch with New Labour these days.
And the Lib Dems… are trying to not elect another ginger leader because research has shown that the public seems to have a strange aversion to them.
I suspect that I want Sir Menzies Campbell to win the Lib Dem leadership election. He’s the only one who’s said something reasonably concrete rather than bashing on about Lefty pinko taxes or generally waffling. And because anyone with the balls to say that they want
a radical, democratic revolution and then not mince about and look guilty over what they’ve said sounds like a good bet.
Disclaimer: opinion subject to change if he turns out to be a prat though.(
BBC News article: The contenders to replace Kennedy)
Oh, that was it. Have a random DDR
track that always confuses me.
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