It's almost as if, when it comes right down to it, the Tories can't help revealing they are bastards and the voters know they really would be a disaster for ordinary people. En un viejo país ineficiente, algo así como España entre dos guerras civiles, poseer una casa y poca hacienda y memoria ninguna. -- Gil de Biedma
why, oh why is the brit electorate so hooked on the tory/lab binary?
when i think of how hard it is in america to fly a decent, electorally credible third party, and i see in the UK the work has been done, why don't more vote more for it, if for no other reason than it's not the tweedle dyad.
it's not like they don't have better ideas, they just have a 'fail' aura about them, like it's a foregone conclusion they'll always be stuck at the symbolic, politically powerless level. ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Because the Brits haven't got a proportional system. Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
The original Libs were the party of Jeremy Thorpe, who remains the only significant British pol in recent history to be put on trial for attempting to murder a lover. (Did he also fiddle his expenses?)
So the fail is strong with them.
It's not that they're disreputable - it's that currently they're not nearly disreputable enough.
