Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
Today is the day that the British media went into enthusiastic overdrive with reporters and anchors frothing at their mouths and going completely insane over the many countless revelations in the mess that is the General Election. That was mouth full, now breathe.
David Cameron swooped in to claim victory as the new Prime Minister, whilst Gordon Brown earlier made a dignified resignation. One lesson we learned is that the conservative media still decided to ruthlessly rip right into Gordon, even when he was giving them what they wanted by resigning.
Let’s not forget the metaphorical pillow in the form of Nick Clegg, who is cushioning the blow of Cameron as PM. Cameron bizarrely announced that Clegg would be also acting as a leader, with both parties in power in the interest of the nation (putting aside differences).
I’m sure a lot more will happen tonight, but the big inditement on this country is that most people were more bothered about Eastenders being pushed to a later time due to the news.
Tags: Conservatives, Election, Election 2010, Government, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Politics
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Thursday, April 8th, 2010
Astonishingly, the Digital Economy Bill passed and it is a heavy punch to the face for democracy. I’ve touched on the bill before (Dan Bull notably made fun of it when it was first proposed) and I don’t feel the need to go over everything again.
How things have changed… Even on the 2nd of April, my MP, Mark Todd (a notable opponent of the bill) was sure that it wouldn’t go through immediately and doing so would be undemocratic and pretty much bat-shit insane.
Peter Mandelson has the music industry’s cock swirling around in his mouth and I hope the music and movie industry are very happy.
Tags: Britain, Digital Economy Bill, Fascist, Freedom, Labour, News, Politics
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Thursday, December 31st, 2009
Despite the fact that we supposedly live in a free democracy and that a large portion of people have angrily opposed this law coming into effect, it seems that every phone call, email and web search you make will be monitored.
This data will be stored for a year and available to 653 public bodies and they will be able to do so very easily, without requiring a judge.
In case you have become numb to the growing lack of civil liberties in Britain, this is a disgusting abuse of power and it is both undemocratic and representative of the failing nanny state we live in.
The source is from November, but read anyway.
Tags: Britain, Government, Labour, Nanny State, Politics
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Tuesday, September 29th, 2009
Gordon Brown said that Labour will “change the world again”. When I first glanced at the news article, I thought that maybe the ruthless and powerful British empire was going to make a swift, sweeping and dominant return. Whilst that is impossible, it seems as though our arguably fearless leader, Gordo’ of the Brits, is under the belief that we (Britain) are still a powerful world leader.
An appetising thought, I think you’ll all agree, that this hugely criticised and deteriorating government could have any kind of positive influence on the world. But alas, that notion is nothing more than a dreary farce, it looks feasible in words or on paper, but in practicality, it simply won’t happen. Unless we finally get the EU referendum that is; though I think we are destined to be a member in the EU’s collection of pawns for some time to come. We, as an island, have the political influence of a rotting vegetable.
I’ll try and cease the pessimism for now, however. Maybe Labour are genuine and the policies they are seemingly scrambling to come up with now may actually be put into action (permitting they get into power again)?
In 1997, Labour were the revolutionaries of the time, I’ll agree with Gordon that we “changed the world before”, albeit a bit of a stretch to say that. Brave-faced Tony Blair and his physically deformed wife were ready to take on the world and make some real positive changes at home and even internationally. We all know the Iraq war was an unregrettable triumph.
However, near the end, Labour seemed to become rather conservative and with David Cameron putting on this ridiculous façade of being the peoples man, it seemed as if the parties had switched places.
So, here we are, in the modern day. Gordon Brown and his party put on a good and convincing show, Gordon was practically seeping with self-induced optimism and patriotism seems to be oozing from his every pore. But whilst optimism and patriotism are commendable attributes, it doesn’t compare to actually doing something. We have a little longer to decide anyway.
Tags: Gordon Brown, Labour, Politics
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