The Chicken Yoghurt 3,066th Post Special
So, apparently I’ve been doing this cack for five years this week. Go me.
All told, and without going into detail, 2009 was downright crappy for me and mine hence the large quiet periods on the blog. You quickly realise what a shallow and bathetic spectacle British politics is when reality decides to bite you on the bum.
The likes of Nick Robinson might as well be commenting on the goings-on inside the World of Warcraft for all the relevance the cloth-eared gobshite from Brown, Cameron, Clegg and the rest has when you’re up against it. No wonder millions of people don’t vote; if they’re not soldiers dying in vain in the desert, or not kids losing their minds in government detention centres, or not too close to the sharp end, they’re bumping along without politics and politicians. I imagine they’re quite happy. Or at least no more miserable.
So what’s next? Well, an interminable, unedifying and dirty-as-never-before general election campaign stretches out before us like a skidmark on the underpants of a morbidly obese incontinent. And nobody, as far as I can see, is offering to put a wash on. Mind you, the speeches we’ve heard so far have all the rhetorical heft of detergent commercials.
Judging by some of the bloggers the mainstream media have recruited so far to fill its hours of dead air and yards of fish and chip paper on the cheap, the general election is looking like one that will be won less by the Internet and more by the twin howitzers of glad, self-congratulatory anti-intellectualism and spitefully stubborn moral cowardice.
You think people are brassed off with mainstream politics now. What’s it going to be like in five months after all this?
Posted on January 5th, 2010 at 1:50pm under 2010 General Election, A few administrative notices
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Congratulations on five years. Sorry it’s been a crappy year for you. I’ve had plenty of them myself so I can sympathise – although for once things turned out OK for us last year. (It won’t last!). Fingers crossed that things improve for you in 2010.
Missed your blogging. Hope this flurry of posts heralds a return. We need you more than ever over the next few months.
Cheers, Mike. I hope I haven’t peaked too early. There’s precious little red meat around right now.
Thank Dog I’m not the only one who thinks that next election is already as decorous as a Jeremy Clarkson Fan Club meeting.
And congratulations on getting to five years.
And there won’t be this side of the election unless we have a.nother financial crunch we can’t possibly hide
http://ow.ly/SYyp
Good to have you back and posting.
Wecome back!
Cheer up, we also have the grim certainty of sock-puppet war to look forward to.
wot mike said.
What Tim, Mike and Sim-O said.
Do what you can when you can Justin.
Peace.
Sorry about your crap year. Mine wasn’t too clever either. Hoping things pick up in 2010. I think they will.
Regarding the election, I hope you will remember that many of the disillusioned have decided to get off their whinging apathetic spoiled arses (I know readers, I was one of them) and join the Green Party to raise their visibility in this stupid first-past-the-post system we continue to labour under (no pun intended). Lucky for me that I live in Brighton and have a candidate standing who is apparently in the lead (ICM Poll Dec 18) in Brighton Pavilion : Caroline Lucas, eight points ahead of Con, 10 points up on Lab. But even in “no hope” areas (ie of unseating the main parties) a Green vote will still send a powerful message. And the Greens aren’t just about the environment – they’re a proper left-of-centre Social Justice party that wants to end the war in Afghanistan, re-nationalise the railways and protect the NHS. Better to do something than nothing methinks ?
Do they still also have that bonkers policy on homeopathy…? I’ll be spoiling my ballot paper, thanks.
Justin: Great to see you back, and like everyone said, sorry to hear about your bad year…
Sorry to hear things haven’t been so good for you lately, I hope they pick up soon. Its funny, but I stumbled across your blog about five years ago, and the way you skewer the madness and hypocrisy out there without fear or favour helped keep me sane during my own crappy rut. Its good to see you back.
Wow. Thanks for that, Chris.
I was hoping you’d had a rather good year … didn’t you get hitched or something …. ? or am I thinking of another blogger entirely ?
Possibly
Cheers all.
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Sorry to hear about your year. Very glad that you’re back.