[LINK] British Election Notes

[rfmcdonald]

imomus isn't fond of Britain.

Whatever history it might celebrate is wrong: I can never forgive it for failing to have an eighteenth century bourgeois revolution like the French one, or for failing to have a constitution, or failing to become a republic. Britain is just horribly wrong in so many ways that choosing a red, yellow or blue way of being wrong is pointless. Britain, as far as I'm concerned, is wrong in its attitude to the intellect, to sex, to art, to class, to the body, to the relationship between money and quality of life, to the relationship between work and play, to the relationship between itself and the US, or the relationship between peace and war, or between British people and foreigners, or between sunny days and cloudy days, or...

On a rather different and more functional note, charlemagne77 has a poll up asking her readers woh they think should win the British elections. Myself, I think that Prime Minister Julie Burchill would be interesting. Alas, aisb23's more sober predictions seem more realistic. Certainly, it's more realistic than this scenario from the worldmaking community, although the idea of replacing the current world population with the populations of dozens of other Britains taken from other Earths is interesting.