election, election

This British General election campaign has been as interesting as a bunch of KenCom bus stop lunchtime preachers. To cut a long story short everyone will vote for Blair and Labour because there is no one else to vote for. Mshairi calls it, through gritted teeth. Blogjam couldn’t be bothered with policies and focused instead on whether the party websites validated.

The reason this election has been so boring is because of Iraq. Everywhere Blair goes its Iraq, Iraq, Iraq. This is a man who can talk himself out of anything. Yet everyone thinks that they can ask him the same question everyone has been asking for the last four and get a different answer. Like they think he’ll stand up and say, “mea culpa. mea culpa. I am not worthy of life.”

Hopefully this will be known as “The election immigration died”. The Torys have put all their cards into scaring people with stories of being flooded with immigrants and refugees to the point that person on the street feels that 25% of all asylum seekers and refugees come to the UK. The true figure is around 1%. The good news is that despite this racist sensationalist campaign it looks like the Torys are going to be given another spanking at the polls. This, hopeful, will lead them to dropping immigration as their scare tactic once and for all. As an aside isn’t it interesting that the further away people live from immigrants the more anti immigration they are. Fredrick Forsythe, the author, lives miles away from anywhere on cold, wet, mushy farm. Yet he did a piece for BBC about asylum seekers, “stealing our jobs, swamping our land.” While people who live in East London or South Manchester which both have large migrant populations don’t really give a toss.

All Blair has to say to get elected is, “you need to make a decision either me or Michael Howard.”
“You lied on Iraq, Blair” = “Either me or Michael Howard”
“You lied on fees Blair” = “Either me or Michael Howard”
“You lied on the House of Lords Blair” = “Either me or Michael Howard”