Friday, April 22, 2011

Two bald men fighting over a comb, Jorge Luís Borgés' opinion of the Falklands "war". A handy metaphor, I think, for the current fakery over alternative voting. Apart from giving Clegg the opportunity to act as if he isn't Cameron's fag (by kind permission of Cameron)it's all sound and fury signifying sod-all. Nothing is to be gained by the ballot box fodder known as the electorate; no increase in their control over the democratic process. The big fish will swallow up the minnows and the the global capitalism party will form a government.
The majority of the electorate will continue to resist participation in the pantomime. The thimble riggers of parliamentary pseudo-democracy and their media cheerleaders will continue to ignore them, apart from expressions of bewilderment at voter apathy.

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