Beginners guide to politics-by a fluffy toy

[matgb]

Those enlightened among you who are already subscribe to The Very Fluffy Diary of Millenium Dome, Elephant (elephantfeed)^[1] may be interested to know that he has written a beginners guide to British Politics over at libdemvoice_fd, and rather amusing it is to, here's an exerpt:

Mr Lord Deputy Stephen has asked me to explain to him about POLITICS, and I can understand why he is confused! It is VERY complicated!

There are THREE HUNDRED and EIGHTY-FIVE political parties in Great Britain (at least according to the list at the Electoral Commission) but thanks to the way that the voting system works, there are only THREE that really stand a chance of having enough votes to make a difference.

It's perhaps not as incisive as some of his Doctor Who articles but is still fun. Actually, on the subject of Lib Dem Voice, the members forum is a little busier of late than it has been, might have something to do with the new moderator who volunteered to help out in a moment of insanity, can't think why anyone would want to do that sort of thing. You need to be a party member to register, but once you are, nice little gated forum.

---

[1] And if not, why not, damnit! I've met him donchaknow, and got a congrats message from him on last weeks news...

Comments

[liadnan]

I'm afraid I always find his stuff sickeningly twee, rather than remotely amusing. But at least it reminds me why I don't vote LD.

[matgb]

Fair enough; I find the OTT silliness amusing, but my taste in humour is always a little weird; I'm never sure what I'll find funny. Alex's blog, the other 'daddy', is much more down to earth, I find it very well written for the most part—I rejoined because they're the closest to me, and they're moving closer, which is nice, but I remain semi-detached in terms of partizanship. Leat worst is the best you get in the current system.

[caramel-betty.livejournal.com]

Is the quality of that article representative of any of his other writing?

If so, I'd rather not encounter any of it ever again - the article is vapid, smarmy, intellectually lazy, and badly written, with childish name-calling to boot. I'm frankly stunned that anyone could even possibly think publishing an article like that is a good idea.

[matgb]

Honestly? That was my initial reaction the very first time, but it grew on me a great deal. I now really like the style—it's so obviouslly OTT tongue in cheek.

The thing that is missing fro it is the text colour changes; works well on his blog (I usually hate text colour changes), and adds to the "I'm a child's toy" persona a bit. It doesn't suit everyone, but fans significantly outnuber detractors.