Lies, Damn Lies

Voting in a weeks time!

Yup, its coming up. Its the first election I will have the opportunity to vote in (apart from local elections. And EU. The first general election). I will exercise it most happily. And so should you.

Ideally, everyone apart from people who disagree with me should vote, leading to the perfect world. Or at least, a slightly better world. Some might claim that this amounts to virtual dictatorship, but, to be fair, they would be put in camps so I wouldn't have to listen to them anymore.

At each election, of course, no party gets 50% of the votes. In other words, the majority of people will dislike the current government, as the most anyone has got in the last hundred years or so is just under 50. This presents a curious form of rulership, certainly, but I suppose at least we know that most people are unsatisfied with the current governments decision, rather than in dictatorships where, in a similar situation to above (but not quite, because my system is of course a democratic one), those who don't agree with the government either shut up or put up.

Which makes one wonder exactly what kind of government mr Bush felt he was ruling when he made his rather famous proclamation "you are either with us or against us". It seems to imply a slightly less concensual way of thinking than one would imagine a democracy is meant to be. This is not to be confused when he REALLY doesn't mean to say what hes saying. Like, for example, with weapons of mass destruction, where he claimed that Iraq had some and posed an immediate threat, while what he REALLY meant was they didn't have any and we were just trying to liberate the people. Its hard to count the amount of times I've made that mistake.

Tony made a similar mistake, but in a more well spoken manner, proving that one can mispeak even when one has mastered public speaking as mr Blair has. At one point, apparently, Jack Straw discovered that the 45 minutes weapon claim was blatantly untrue, but didn't tell him because he thought Tony already knew. Hmm. That last one is true, I think, although unfortunately I did not save the article at the time.....

Also another mistake mr Blair made when writing the manifesto. See, he promised not to create top up fees, and then he did. Bit of a mistype there really- someone should be editing those manifestos of his.....

But then of course we have Mr Howard, who has made some very odd promises on asylum seekers which I can only assume are a mistype. See, he's promised to only allow a limited number of people escaping war and torture every year, sending the rest home. To help him do this, he is going to get another country to process these claims for him. No country has yet stepped forward yet, but don't worry, they will....

If you can't guess who I am going to vote for by now, then you probably haven't read much of this post. In a surprisingly biased turn from the usual impartial me, I still urge to keep the conservatives out of power. Their horrific focus on disgusting asylum policies are clearly designed to appeal to racists, and if they get in with such dirty tactics, then it will really be a sign that our country has gone to the dogs.

Which, considering it, is a VERY odd saying. Go to the dogs? Gotten gnawed and chewed on so its all covered in slobber and has got toothmarks? Hmm, I have no idea how to spell gnawed. And I have no intention of using that spell checker thing at the top. Curse it!

posted by Mr K @ 3:17 pm