04 May 2005
politics
Yes, it's true. Diane Abbot's Campaign Office is being run from an Estate Agents in Stoke Newington. So you could both sell your home and re-elect a self-confessed hypocrite for less than two grand. How very Nu-Labour...how very now!
And really, when will we have proportional representation? Of course, the dogmatic orthodox labour party lapdogs claim all will go to hell if results actually corresponded in any way to people's votes, claiming things like 'well, most of Britain would vote in favour of the death penalty, and do we really want that?'. I doubt the majority would go righteous if it came to it (in the words of my students: 'death's too good for 'em! Let 'em live! Let 'em suffer!'), but either way, you have to stop pretending the priorities and privileges of an elite and corrupt minority are in any way the result of a properly democratic mandate. If actual correspondence (i.e. PR) democracy looks like a raging abyss of confused and angry ideas, then so be it - it would at least be more representative of the actual state of people's political motivations than this current dictat-lite cover-up centralisation. (This rampant pluralism alternative is provisional until such time as organisation and economic conditions permit world-wide popular revolution, of course.)
The scare-mongering of the final few days: if a grandmother in Margate gets confused and votes for an independent candidate, the Tories will get in! Vote Labour or your house will rot and turn rusty! Vote Labour or people might start thinking of their own alternatives, in colours above and beyond yellow or blue! Puce even! Violet! or Magenta!
Voting is not politics - and people have died for all kinds of stupid things over the centuries. It does not morally oblige you to follow their example. There is more to bios politikos than this.
