Remember that date. It will live in infamy.
Just eighteen months ago, brave men and women across the United Kingdom raised their hands in defiance, and said: "No. This shall not be." In doing so they saved the lives of 17,984 seriously ill babies, 9,254 heroic British soldiers, and 24,897 very cute kittens. My Auntie Doris was able to have a hip replacement, my cousin Julia kept her job as a nurse, and my mate Charlie is still able to educate the young.
How crazy must we have been to think for even a moment that a preferential voting system was more important than all THAT?
And yet the noble actions of the British people have been in vain. Yet again, we've been betrayed by the political class. The very same politicians who earned our respect and gratitude by leading the charge against the Alternative Vote system have shamelessly introduced a near-identical system for today's Police Commissioner elections in England and Wales - and there isn't a damn thing you or I can do about it. We shall just have to watch in despair as our economy collapses under the weight of the extra pencils required for electors to cast a pointless second preference vote for John Prescott. The public transport system will collapse. Food supplies will run short. Sanitation will be but a fond memory. Many cute kittens will die today.
There is a word for what these politicians have done. That word is 'evil'.
I'm not sure I've ever felt more ashamed to be British than I do right now. It's sad to say it, but independence may be the only answer here - if we can't protect the babies of England and Wales from the insanity of preferential voting, perhaps we can at least protect our own babies.
Do you actually think there will be enough votes for first preferences, never mind second ones?
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I'll bid you farewell. I'm off to England to save kittens (if there is still any transport running).
No. Seriously. I'm not. I've sent my assistant to do that.
But yes, it is very strange that this system which was so incredibly flawed when it seemed that it might have interfered with THEIR entitlement to well paid jobs for life secured with a minority of votes, and yet so admirable when it involves someone else's.
Funny old world.