British turkeys vote for Christmas (with more stuffing, please)
The saddest thing about yesterday’s local elections, and that for London Mayor, is that most people voted, somewhat predictably, from an utterly myopic perspective we could term the Dodo Mentality. Did people vote against Labour on the basis of how the party has eroded our civil liberties? No. Phoney war on terror? No. Licking Dubya’s arse? No. Attacking and occupying Iraq? No.
They voted against Labour only for the things that it is arguable Labour can’t be solely blamed for, if at all: the credit crunch, the food crisis pushing up the price of basic foodstuffs, the unaffordability and current unavailability of mortgages. I have many reasons not to vote Labour. Most of them are in the first paragraph above; none are in this one.
tags: blacks, Boris Johnson, Chelsea, clown, congestion charge, Conservatives, democracy, elections, environment, gays, General Election, global warming, greed, Ken Livingstone, Labour, local elections, political correctness, politics, poor, rich, sheep, SUVsSir Paul McCartney advocating green makes carnivores see red
Apparently rabid carnivores are out in force over at the Sky News website, leaving the most ignorant missives in the comments section beneath an article about Sir Paul McCartney, who advocates turning vegetarian as a means of helping the environment. Negative nonsense ranges from talk of vegetarians barely existing on a diet of pizza and lentils, through to statements that because Sir Paul is famous, he should keep his mouth shut (I’ve never figured out the why of that one).
tags: animals, celebrity, environment, food crisis, PETA, Sir Paul McCartney, vegetarianism
