« Liverpool 1-0 Chelsea | Main | Michal Howard »
May 06, 2005
Election
It seems appropriate to at least mention the British General Election, and the third term of power won by Tony Blair and the Labour Party last night.
The whole experience has been pretty boring, with the result pretty much a foregone conclusion. I would like to think that the reduced majority might help scupper the ID Card bill, but this is probably only a pipe dream. Nothing about the scheme will make an improvement to our security. The man in the street will pay for it, suffer it's inevitable restrictive consequences, and the terrorists will just get fake ones anyway. but that's a rant for another time.
I cycled down to the polling station in my village last night, and it really is the only time of the year where I really do feel that we are all part of the same country. It was 9pm, and people were coming in from all directions, some alone, some in groups, all playing their small part in the democratic process. Democracy may suck in many ways, but until something else comes along, it's better than the other options.
I think that rightly or wrongly the public vote for a leader who they like at a national level, much more than they vote for a local candidate. Michael Howard pulled off a remarkable turnaround, I would never have expected him to appear so electable. He gained a large number of seats for the Conservatives. Now it's time for the party to really sit down, spend two years consolidating public opinion of the party. Then they should elect a really charismatic, young leader, with nice hair, who would then stand a real chance in five years time. And yes, I did say nice hair! Like the American Presidential election, the winner here usually has better hair. Howard played a bad hand also when he mentioned being a grandfather, a candidate in their 40s would be ideal.
Hmm, nice hair, 40s, charismatic - well two out of three ain't bad :-)
Posted by se71 at May 6, 2005 10:10 AM
Trackback Pings
TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://se71.org/cgi-bin/suid/~shiels/mt-tb.cgi/56
Comments
Post a comment
Thanks for signing in, . Now you can comment. (sign out)
(If you haven't left a comment here before, you may need to be approved by the site owner before your comment will appear. Until then, it won't appear on the entry. Thanks for waiting.)