Mat Bowles

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...