Voting woes.
Apr. 14th, 2005 09:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hathycolI was bored this afternoon, so I spent much of it snuffling around the internet to try and find out who the options actually were in my constituency. After it all, it doesn't matter what party you support on general terms. In theory, you vote for an independent candidate to get the issues of your constituency across in Parliament and the party tag is just a big of an aside. All bollocks of course, like most political theory.
Anyhoo, I had a nose-around. Oh, god. We don't have a Green Party candidate being fielded around here. We have Labour (she's a big liar! She used to be a Lib Dem and now she's swapped because she had no chance of getting a seat as a Lib Dem! Gah), Tory (some bloke called Alf, no idea), a Lib Dem (shock to all of us, let me tell you) and someone for UKIP. OH NOES.
Seriously, that just annoyed me on so many levels. How the fuck does my local area have someone for the United Kingdom Independence Party (read: OMG THE FRENCH ARE TAKING OVER party) and not for the Greens? Good lord.
Bread is really, really nice. *munches* That makes no sense, I appreciate.
I've spent a lot of today (when not snuffling around the internet) generally Chilling Out and reading. I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which was just absolutely superb. I was so sad when it ended, not because of the ending, but just because I kept on wanting to read and find out MORE. It was so glorious, for lack of a better term. I'm now reading The Dragon-Charmer which is the sequal to a book I got free from SFX ages ago called Prospero's Children. I quite like it, to be honest, but it's all a bit overblown and dramatic. I also have a bad!fantasy novel to read later on. I like bad!fantasy, with its sprinkling of random names and capitalisations that sometimes ends up making a really good book. I think it was Iona that pointed out that Sabriel veered on the edge of bad fantasy. One of my favourite boks from early teenagehood, Beyond The Hanging Wall is a bit like that. I'm actually googling it now. Dammit, LOTR fandom has spoilt me. It used to be one of my favourite pleasures in life just to wander around and find bad!fantasy that the younger me used to love with no complaint and just liked for a few hours with kings and queens and hidden magic... Anyway, I'm planning on reading this bad!fantasy book next which may in fact surpise me. It looks as though it may contain genderfuck. (Brought up as a boy! In fact wearing the skin of HER brother to save her from her evil uncle... blah blah prophecy, blah, blah, made up country...)
All in all, I think my day of has done the power of good. Let's see how tomorrow goes, eh?
~Hathy_Col~
Anyhoo, I had a nose-around. Oh, god. We don't have a Green Party candidate being fielded around here. We have Labour (she's a big liar! She used to be a Lib Dem and now she's swapped because she had no chance of getting a seat as a Lib Dem! Gah), Tory (some bloke called Alf, no idea), a Lib Dem (shock to all of us, let me tell you) and someone for UKIP. OH NOES.
Seriously, that just annoyed me on so many levels. How the fuck does my local area have someone for the United Kingdom Independence Party (read: OMG THE FRENCH ARE TAKING OVER party) and not for the Greens? Good lord.
Bread is really, really nice. *munches* That makes no sense, I appreciate.
I've spent a lot of today (when not snuffling around the internet) generally Chilling Out and reading. I finished Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell which was just absolutely superb. I was so sad when it ended, not because of the ending, but just because I kept on wanting to read and find out MORE. It was so glorious, for lack of a better term. I'm now reading The Dragon-Charmer which is the sequal to a book I got free from SFX ages ago called Prospero's Children. I quite like it, to be honest, but it's all a bit overblown and dramatic. I also have a bad!fantasy novel to read later on. I like bad!fantasy, with its sprinkling of random names and capitalisations that sometimes ends up making a really good book. I think it was Iona that pointed out that Sabriel veered on the edge of bad fantasy. One of my favourite boks from early teenagehood, Beyond The Hanging Wall is a bit like that. I'm actually googling it now. Dammit, LOTR fandom has spoilt me. It used to be one of my favourite pleasures in life just to wander around and find bad!fantasy that the younger me used to love with no complaint and just liked for a few hours with kings and queens and hidden magic... Anyway, I'm planning on reading this bad!fantasy book next which may in fact surpise me. It looks as though it may contain genderfuck. (Brought up as a boy! In fact wearing the skin of HER brother to save her from her evil uncle... blah blah prophecy, blah, blah, made up country...)
All in all, I think my day of has done the power of good. Let's see how tomorrow goes, eh?
~Hathy_Col~
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Date: 2005-04-14 09:52 pm (UTC)http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/vote2005/issues/html/grid.stm?s1=CON_UK&s2=LAB_UK&s3=LD_UK&x=9&y=11
Andrewx
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Date: 2005-04-14 10:25 pm (UTC)xx
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