The Election

I like how we still don't know who the next government is going to be. Is it wrong to hope for Prime Minster Balls just for Cheap Laughs? (Actually though, I would probably vote Labour in a General Election if Harman was in charge.)

Very glad I didn't vote Lib Dem though cause a vote for them would Really Very Much Not have meant a vote to prop up a Tory government. I like how the third and fourth least popular (the SNP, despite winning less seats than the Lib Dems were second in the popular vote) parties in Scotland are going to be in charge probably. Thank you Middle England! I'm not even being entirely sarcastic: the lack of a Scottish mandate for any Tory government will, I suspect, increase nationalist sentiment and should help secure the SNP a second term in Holyrood.

Mostly it's not as bad as I thought it'd be: I was perfectly terrified of a Tory majority but even with the Major Fuck-Ups of Labour in the past few years plus the ridiculous expenses scandal (which I couldn't care less about unless they've actually done something illegal, and think they should be paid a lot more anyway) the Tories are still almost entirely out of Scotland and couldn't win enough support from the rest of the country to secure a majority, so hurrah for that.

Also, many hurrahs for Brighton Pavilion and Barking and Caroline Lucas and Margaret Hodge. It wasn't exactly the funnest election night ever, but those were two most cheering results.

I want voting reform. It really is appalling looking at the results and seeing just how incredibly inequitable the system is. The Tory's won 10.7 million votes and got 306 seats, Labour 8.6 million and 258 seats, while the Lib Dem's won 6.8 million and only got 57. It's a horrid 18th century relic of a system and I want it to go away almost as much as the phrases "public interest" and "stable and secure government."

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WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE. We have a Tory PM. He might very well be made of plastic. He might very well by an android constructed in Murdoch's secret volcano lair. He might very well be Thatcher in a brand new body come back to kill us all for chucking her out. WHO KNOWS.

Anyway, I've been watching 30 Rock to cheer myself up because I discovered it two days ago and there are no spaceships or swords and yet I love anyway. Obviously the addition of spaceships and/or swords would make it even better but I do not see that happening.

Here is a lovely meme about telly that I can inflict daily For Ages, thus it is great:

Day 01 - A show that should never have been canceled

Rome. Oh, I love it madly and although it would no longer have had Mark Anthony in it which is tragic obv, if they hadn't gone and bloody cancelled it it would have taken more than eight episodes to finish off Octavion's rise to Emperor so he'd probably have made it to the third season. Um, I also have other, slightly less shallow reasons, like all the shiny politicking, the awesomeness of virtually all the actors, the gorgeous sets and costumes, and the epicness of Team!LuciusVorenus&TitusPullo.

( a handy list of other days )