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Breaking news from TehranBureau

For the Lancashire County Council elections, in South Ribble, there were only two parties on the ballot, the Tories and the Idle Toads - and the Idle Toads won! by a substantial margin.

Fan bloody tastic!

They have a website.
Oh, and in Hansard! 
I rather like the cut of their gib, but the Militant Elvises? Now they're the guys for me!

It's another gorgeous, sunny day, schools are closed yet it's unusually quiet and still out there. One might even say, ominous...

*g*

Lawdy law, that European ballot! Was everyone else's as HUGE as ours? Do that many parties even exist? Wow. It was rather refreshing, exciting even. I'm liking this air of Revolution, like it a lot. Which is to say, at least I didn't have to spoil my ballot this time. :o)

has inspired me to try the politics meme.

( So I'm a... )

Not terribly surprising really, I suppose. I know you get more right-wing as you get older but I still know all the words to the Red Flag. Vive la chardonnay revolution, say I ::waves fist in air in a rather half-hearted, embarrassed and English fashion:: Has anyone seen my copy of The New Statesman? I'm sure I left it lying around here somewhere. Under this plate of olives and the Pie D'Anglois perhaps...

The massive potential for disaster is happening even faster than I imagined.

Massacres and Paramilitary Land Seizures Behind the Biofuel Revolution

Not only have the Dermocrats triumphed in the US elections, but Daniel Ortega is back as President of Nicaragua. Call me stunned! When did the world suddenly get so sensible? (o:

::Is very, very pleased::