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The late late London shift

  
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
23:33 / 02.05.08
Would the last non-Tory to leave please extinguish the nightlight?
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
23:37 / 02.05.08
Late, as in the late Ken Livingstone, late of City Hall, SE1.

Was it his fault, or Gordon's, or indeed Tony's?

Or is it merely a blip in the essential chaotic flow of Londonness?

(for those of you outside this particular metropolis who aren't affected, or don't care, please look way now. It's not that important in the greater scheme of things.)
 
 
Hallo, Paper Spaceboy
23:40 / 02.05.08
Can I astral project to London for the sake of the Lith?
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
23:41 / 02.05.08
Will that help? I hope it does. We need all the astral help we can get.
 
 
Saint Keggers
23:51 / 02.05.08
sigh, havent you people any ice-flows to stick your problems on?
 
 
ghadis
23:54 / 02.05.08
Well, i really enjoyed the voting experience.

It's all so cute. That little cardboard box and all.

But i still think i might leave the country though soon.
 
 
Mon Oncle Ignatius
23:56 / 02.05.08
I failed to register, to my shame.

Still, emigration looks attractive.

And booze. Booze always looms good.

Can we send a floe up the Thames, just for Boris?
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:19 / 03.05.08
It's all so cute. That little cardboard box and all.

Did you drop your strides while you were casting your vote?

I wouldn't ask, but today I went in there semi-sky clad from the waist down, and I felt so much more, I don't know, in touch with the whole process.
 
 
ghadis
00:22 / 03.05.08
Ah, well. Not voting but then moaning about the result.

Maybe you could have swung it!??

Like a lot of my mates who have been banging on about how shit Boris will be!

None of them actually voted. Wankers!
 
 
Alex's Grandma
00:37 / 03.05.08
Maybe you could have swung it!??

I did do my best!

Though it took some explaining, later, at the police station.
 
 
ghadis
00:47 / 03.05.08
That explained the cornered off area and the kid carried off with a bookies biro in his leg. 'Nasty' i believe the copper called it.
 
 
Saint Keggers
00:49 / 03.05.08
Having no real idea who the heck Boris Johnson (BoJo) was, I wikkied him. How evil is your govt. when you have a position called "Shadow Minister"?? That just reeks of sci-fi levels of scary.
 
 
ghadis
00:54 / 03.05.08
He's a very good TV presenter and bike person. Very good on a bike our Boris.

He's our, no, MY Boris now!!!

He's my winnie the poo mayor!!
 
 
ghadis
00:55 / 03.05.08
because he's funny
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
01:02 / 03.05.08
I'm even more annoyed because I took an hour out of my GTA4-playing time to go and vote, and it STILL didn't matter. Fucking Tories ruin everything.
 
 
Alex's Grandma
01:35 / 03.05.08
I took an hour out of my GTA4-playing time to go and vote

You should never do that.

I'm dying to hear though; how's it going?
 
 
Feverfew
07:59 / 03.05.08
Don't just blame the Tories.
 
 
ONLY NICE THINGS
12:23 / 03.05.08
How evil is your govt. when you have a position called "Shadow Minister"??

Pedant's corner: a shadow minister is by definition not in the government - the shadow ministers are the shadows of the government ministers.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
12:59 / 03.05.08
Fuck Boris, seriously. Fuck the thing.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:11 / 03.05.08
On... a certain other message board... there's an argument raging. It contains people claiming they voted BNP for the GLA because they were concerned about immigration. Which, obviously, the GLA has knack all to do with.

If people don't even know WHAT they're voting for, perhaps it's too much to expect them to bother to find out WHO they're voting for.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:14 / 03.05.08
Sangria, chums?
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:18 / 03.05.08
It's starting to sound tempting.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:21 / 03.05.08
The Shadow Ministers sit in the benches behind the government, wearing hooded robes in sombre hues, adorned with darkly-gleaming gems of fabulous antiquity and dubious provenance, aping their assigned Minister's every move, mimicking what they say in a sepulchrous whisper that duplicates the Minister's words but with a sinister twist, creating a tenebrouous mockery that hints at some unimagined doom. Each Minister dreads the day when he or she is divested of power, and must don an ashen shroud and join the eerie, muttering throng themselves.
 
 
All Acting Regiment
13:23 / 03.05.08
Someone somewhere else was suggesting the training up of urban foxes to maul boris voters.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:31 / 03.05.08
Seriously, I'm going to be back in Blighty over the summer--who wants to help me raise a nithing-pole against the BNP? That would so rock.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:31 / 03.05.08
I'm totally in earnest btw.
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:33 / 03.05.08
Yeah, alright. The irony would be awesome. "How'd'ya like Nordic culture NOW???"

Also funny in that most of Northern Europe itself got kind of prickly last time fascism got anywhere...

...there should be some sort of exemption clause in Godwin's Law which covers talking about the BNP.
 
 
Less searchable M0rd4nt
13:35 / 03.05.08
We could do it on Brighton beach! We could have a picnic! With mead! LET'S DO THIS!!!!
 
 
STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK
13:39 / 03.05.08
 
  
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