Archive for May 5th, 2005

May 5th, 2005
What next for the Right?
by Andrew

The polls are open, the people are voting, and, barring some form of catastrophic disaster removing the top half of the United Kingdom, it’s all really over. Tony is about to romp home to a 3rd successive, historic victory. The opinion polls are probably wrong (they historically tend to overstate Labour slightly), but there is [...]


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May 5th, 2005
It’s up to you, shiraz quaffer
by Jamie K

Good afternoon, campers. It’s Jamie off Blood & Treasure here, posting at the kind invitation of the management who would additionally like to inform you that there’s dirt for dinner and you’re not invited. Anyway, here’s a little adress dedicated to all you pseuds out there.
Reasons for Shiraz quaffers to vote against Labour: one and [...]


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May 5th, 2005
Electoral Reform
by Nosemonkey

I’m pissed off at how few people who vote today will actually see their vote achieve anything. I’m pissed off at how alienated the population has become with the political process. I’m pissed off at the fact that so many people rightly believe that their vote won’t change anything.


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May 5th, 2005
Ricin and open government
by Justin

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece about the Ricin terrorist plot in Britain that turned out to be cobblers. In the piece I linked to an article in the Guardian by Duncan Campbell that took the case to pieces and showed it for the horseshit it was. That piece has now been [...]


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May 5th, 2005
UK Blogging: officially a pointless waste of everyone’s time
by Nosemonkey

A couple of months back, over at The Yorkshire Ranter, there was a piece about how Americans seem to think the British bloggosphere is effectively nonexistent. It was a prescient post, it seems…


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