Friday, May 06, 2005
So the election is over and there's good and bad for everyone. The good for Labour is a third term and, though the majority is down, sixty is still more than enough for bLiar to finish stripping us of our rights and he's got Shiteyes back in the Cabinet. The bad news is that though turnout was slightly up on last time Labour won with the lowest share of the vote ever. The really bad news is that Labour won, so what does it matter if no-one likes bLiar? The Tories get to feel warm and tingly because their number of seats were up, so the bad news for us is that they get to think 'aaah, our plans to send anyone who's not white to another country, far, far away and to shut down the public services and give the money to the rich is obviously the right way to go. Next time we say we'll extradite black people to Mars and pass a law making bank accounts for everyone who has less than a billion pounds illegal'. And Michael Howard has already said he'll be returning to Transylvania soon. Sadly for the Lib Dems they didn't get the Tory seats they were after, they got a bigger share of the vote but not to the point of sweeping to second place.
However, there were some good news stories that lack a dark side. The BNP failed to get a seat, UKIP were similarly ineffective, as was Kilroy who vowed that if he didn't win the election he'd leave the country. And as Fridgemagnet's been keeping an eye out, ex-Sun columnist shitbag Garry Bushell not only failed to win the seat of Greenwich and Woolwich but also lost his deposit. Titter.
Irritating but mostly right about the war despot-licker George Galloway wins Bethnal Green and Bow and then turns the old charm on towards Jeremy Paxman.
Finally, on a personal level, it was gratifying to see that two out of the three homophobic Tories didn't win the seats they were standing for. Sayeeda Warsi and Ken Andrew's dreams of a bluer future with absolutely no pink in it were dashed. Michael Gove did make it, so if you're in the constituency of Surrey Heath maybe you'd like to Fax Your new MP and ask him to explain and reconcile
You can no more “promote” the idea of becoming gay to a testosterone-fuelled, Key Stage 4-taking, FHM-reading, Jordan-ogling male teenager than you could have persuaded the young Graham Norton to make an honest woman of Ann Widdecombe... [Y]our sexuality is not a simple matter of free will. It is something beyond your power to effect. Like the operation of divine grace.
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Michael Gove... [told] the Conservative Way Forward group that he supported a county-by-county introduction of the policy. "Those of us who want a more traditional sex education for our children should be able to choose schools that reflect our values," he said earlier this week.
However, there were some good news stories that lack a dark side. The BNP failed to get a seat, UKIP were similarly ineffective, as was Kilroy who vowed that if he didn't win the election he'd leave the country. And as Fridgemagnet's been keeping an eye out, ex-Sun columnist shitbag Garry Bushell not only failed to win the seat of Greenwich and Woolwich but also lost his deposit. Titter.
Irritating but mostly right about the war despot-licker George Galloway wins Bethnal Green and Bow and then turns the old charm on towards Jeremy Paxman.
Finally, on a personal level, it was gratifying to see that two out of the three homophobic Tories didn't win the seats they were standing for. Sayeeda Warsi and Ken Andrew's dreams of a bluer future with absolutely no pink in it were dashed. Michael Gove did make it, so if you're in the constituency of Surrey Heath maybe you'd like to Fax Your new MP and ask him to explain and reconcile
You can no more “promote” the idea of becoming gay to a testosterone-fuelled, Key Stage 4-taking, FHM-reading, Jordan-ogling male teenager than you could have persuaded the young Graham Norton to make an honest woman of Ann Widdecombe... [Y]our sexuality is not a simple matter of free will. It is something beyond your power to effect. Like the operation of divine grace.
and
Michael Gove... [told] the Conservative Way Forward group that he supported a county-by-county introduction of the policy. "Those of us who want a more traditional sex education for our children should be able to choose schools that reflect our values," he said earlier this week.
