Talking CCTV cameras and the chances of dumping this crap

[matgb]

In response to the stupid CCTV with recorded kids voices stunt that our Glorious Leaders are planning, james_nicoll asks:

Is there any hope that the Tories will be any better than Labour or that the LibDems can win enough seats to form a government?

I tried to reply that the Tories would be better in that they'd be a bit less authoritarian, but less does not mean good, just less bad in this case, and I trust them not one jot.

The Lib Dems haven't a snowballs chance in hell of winning the next General Election, what they have got is the chance to get 100+ seats and dictate a few basic terms to the coalition partner. More Liberalism, less Laws would be a good one to start with. 100+ seats in a hung parliament is what we have to work for anyway.

And yes, this would've been a comment, but LJ wouldn't let me post it, all I get is:

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Anyone else had a similar issue or is it just me?
It's not just me, and my comment there wouldn't go through but a comment I made at davidnm's did. Go figure. From the number of open support requests, it's a site issue and they'll be on it. Whether they fix it is another thing...

Comments

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

I could swear I'd seen something like this- the Eye? The Finger? Which one was it?

Seriously, I went through an "Alan Moore is a paranoid dirty old man," phase recently and felt all smug I'd managed to pull myself out of fangirlishness. Damn you, current events!

[matgb]

He is a paranoid dirty old man. Unfortunately, our current govt is out to prove him right.

The tin hat brigade think we're a testbed for the stuff they couldn't get away with in the US without an Amendment, sometimes I wonder if they might possibly have a point.

No idea what you might have seen, could've been anything.

[shaysdays.livejournal.com]

The Eye, Finger, Ear, etc were the government thought/action/etc police in V for Vendetta.

[matgb]

Ah yeah, meory didn't switch on there.

But then, the film version was specifically written as a satire on Blair so, y'know, it sort of makes sense.

Probably ought to get around to reading the comics at some point...