Bye, Election
October 6th, 2007 at 23:36
I’m really annoyed that there’s not going to be an election. Not because I want to exercise my democratic right, or because it now means that Gordon Brown, who I was warming to, has had his first (obvious) fuck-up (Simon Howard explains succinctly here), but because I was really looking forward to having an election night party.
I had a grand plan. I’d somehow acquire a projector as a massive TV, I’d buy some Pringles and party hats, and then I’d get my friends to come round and cheer with me every time the Tories lose a seat. It’d have been brilliant – we could have all wore the colours of the team we support. But, alas, Brown is a massive chicken – roughly about the size of Big Bird from Sesame Street.
Presumably someone’s already invented drinking games to play whilst watching the election programme too.
So by not calling an election, and ruling one out for the next couple of years, Gordon Brown has annoyed me. I’d lament by saying “he’s lost my vote!”, but unfortunately, there’s not actually going to be an election.
I’ve been trying to console myself by thinking through why democracy doesn’t work – if I can lose faith in the political system then the lack of election won’t bother me so much. I pondered the electoral system and considered the democratic deficit, tyranny of the majority, and the lack of representation for minority interests.
Not being able to find any answers to these big questions myself, and not wanting to turn to God (he wouldn’t like my atheism), I decided to text into one of the ridiculous channels on Sky where you can chat to the vacuous presenter, and ask her what she thought of proportional representation:
(Skip to about 46 seconds if you don’t want any exposition or context – I’m ‘3161′)
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