Simon Jenkins' Rabbit Stew

This is a response to the Simon Jenkins' article in the Guardian of Saturday 8th May 2010.

A 53% [ actually a 64% ] vote against Cameron and Tories is considered to be a kiss of life? Well if you are a 'fluffy bunny' it might be.
I am sure I am not alone in thinking that nobody who supports PR thought it was going to be Teletubbies [ except the Solihull woman who said she didn't mind  who was in charge as long as they 'stopped bickering' ]

Politics is 90% ' heated discussions' in 'smoke filled rooms' [and ffs let's change that cliche to 'butt strewn draughty doorways'  Hasn't anybody noticed where smokers congregate? ] The other 10% is like an old whore's 'slap' of makeup to convince the punters she's still got what it takes. The voters stuck with the ones they know. Less likely to pick something nasty.

Time for all us bunnies to understand that our present system is as outmoded as the 'Empire' and that it is as curious a British eccentricity as £sd. As an' electoral college' Parliament is efficient. Separation of a 'presidential ballot' from the representatives leads to pork barrel politics and wrangling between the executive and the legislature . It's the bias of FPTP that is most egregious.
PR at least makes every vote count. [ Perhaps the constituency problem could be overcome by each MP being selected from caucuses or ' appointed' after election to an area on the same basis that priests are sent to minister to flocks. Couple it with the Lords being told to take up their beds and get out into the constituency  and us coneys may be drooling. Make it interesting at least ] Whatever the pros and cons they were all dealt with by the Jenkins' commission in 1998. Going back over the same ground just to get a better pupil/teacher ratio would be lunatic and a total betrayal of the Lib Dems raison d'etre. Even bunnies don't vote for Christmas.

Shackle himself to a guy who has 'lost' a 20 point lead for a mess of potage? No-one can trust Cameron because the Tories will never allow PR. The electorate will never forgive him or the Lib Dems for not giving us a 21st century constitution. Brown may be unattractive but 52% of this country think Cameron and Osborne are  dangerous tossers  forever in hock to Tories who are further to the right of Attila the Hun let alone Thatcher.


Cameron cannot command an overall majority in Parliament. He has only 306 seats out of 649. Could he become PM as a minority with a 'confidence and supply' arrangement? Only if Brown/ or AN.Other and Clegg sat on their hands whilst waiting to slip a rabbit trap noose around Dave's neck and by bribing NI to share the burrow. May be sooner or later but 64% think Tory policies stink. Plus knowing the Tories delightful ability to eat their own children if they thought it would bring them power, Dave's already being seasoned for the Hassenpfeiffer.

Delicious irony.


PS On my previous posts I alluded to the  loss of my iTunes due to my computer crashing. I explained the situation to Apple iTunes and they allowed my to download all 784 in my account again. Why I bought Apple  25 years back.