*crashes transport train into Auschwitz complex with hand-painted SS guards*

anyhoo, i never intended to get into a discussion about Lab vs Con since i think they’re both terrible: more that i was bemoaning what feels like a shift to the right in general public mood / discourse. it feels like the foreigner hating, tax resenting, “it’s political correctness gone maaaad” brigade have managed to move all conversation entirely onto their terms. as a card-carrying liberal i feel boxed in, cornered, threatened, miserable, let down.

if you want to connect with the modern Tory party’s core vote, chat to the lovely folks over here for a few days. just don’t mention the gays, the muslims, women, the disabled, the unemployed, foreigners, the welfare state, the NHS, the idea that one should pay one’s way in society, et-bloody-cetera. (i really need to wean myself off that particular corner of the internet but it might entertain some of you folks.)

Shouldn’t you lot be doing somthing useful like watching TV?

You’ll also find that a lot of voters over 45 would rather eat their own legs than vote Labour in again after the 70s – which is as absurd as thinking the Conservatives are the same beasts they were in 1987. And lest we forget that the resurgence in interest in the Tories is not the exclusive realm of the under-25s who ‘know no better’. People of all ages are turning away from Labour because they’ve realised they’re incapable of doing anything other than over-spending and over-controlling. The last ten years have seen law after law after law that has infringed on our civil liberties – laws that go way above and beyond the stupid Criminal Justice Act (a desperate, knee-jerk piece of legislation of a moribund party that should not have been re-elected in 1992).

Pretending that we’ve been living in a golden age that will be reversed if a different party comes to power is revisionist and dumb, frankly. Do you want Labour to go on for so long that they are as despised as the Major government was?

> The fascists set out to control all aspects of people’s lives. That has never been a Tory policy.

the criminal justice act? they tried to ban a whole style of music, for fuck’s sake.

And as for fascist comparisons, get a fucking grip. The fascists set out to control all aspects of people’s lives. That has never been a Tory policy. In fact, I think you’ll find that a government thinking it knows what’s best for its population is a Labour speciality. But hey, you keep believing they’re great whilst painting the right-wing as cartoonish Hitlers. And then go and have a fag on the pavement and read about who’s dead in Iraq this morning. Idiot.

The lurch to the right of which you speak is them trying to look like they have been listening to people, which they haven’t, because they just realised the masses won’t vote for them unless they (the govt) DO AS THEY’RE FUCKING WELL TOLD by the man in the street.

Arrogant bunch of godless whoremongers the lot of ‘em.

In conversation yesterday I made the same point about piss pots draining cans at busstops, outside tube stations (I predict litter) and being twice as intoxication on public transport. I myself carried out an act of wilful vandalism on a tube train last week (it was mentioned) and I wasn’t in charge of any booze, merely full of it…

I blame a lot of this right wing-ness on those free papers circulating round London by the way. I’m sure Boris wouldn’t have got in if it wasn’t for their perpetual Ken bashing and bigging up the blonde bastard, worryingly this attitude is filtering down to the future electorate.

More on the DOR tomorrow…

all this means is, the bad drunks will carry on the way they always have on the underground, but me and the wife can no longer drink a cheeky beer on the Picadilly line on the rare occasions we get babysitters and venture out into town.

i’m getting really, really depressed about all these empty gestures being passed off as politics. Labour have pissed away a decade of opportunity, pandering to the worst elements of small-minded illiberalism, now their Daily Express reading chums have turned around and bitten them on the arse, leaving a disillusioned and alienated left and a hyper-sensitive, overly demanding right wing lunatic mainstream that’s used to getting pretty much whatever it wants by threatening to bring the Tories back in. i thought the UK’s flirtation with fascist fuckwittery reached its high-tide with the (thankfully temporary) rise to fame of UKIP and that glowing clown penis Kilroy, but now it feels like that was just the warm up for something longer-lasting and far worse.

sorry to post a rant but i no longer maintain my own weblog…no idea what the “day of reckoning” is all about as i’m just an internet person, but good luck whatever it is…