Showbiz for ugly people.

So, the Scottish National Party and Plaid Cymru are launching a legal action over the Beeb's decision to exclude them from the televised Leadership debate... Hmm, I'm sure they'd both have more of a case if they put candidates up for election in the rest of the country and had received more than a combined 2.1% of the total UK vote in the 2005 election, then they might have have more of a case for getting on national TV. I'm sure they'd get more support for independence if they did give the majority of voters in the UK a chance to say what they feel about the issue as lets face it, most people are sick and fed up of people like Alex Salmond preaching to people who think that the events depicted in a certain Mel Gibson film are an accurate representation of history and a representation of the state of play in modern Britain... Seriously, appealing to people who think Braveheart is real is like using Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome as the basis of a case for Australia to become a republic. Damn you Queen Tina Turner, damn you to heck! Thinking about it, I think I'd prefer Tina Turner as our head of state, if only to get 'What's Love Got to Do With it?' as our national anthem... I'm sure 'Simply The Best' would be considered, but that's more of an America type of song, you know... We're far too self deprecating and slightly cynical.

On the subject of voting, the Lib Dems want electoral reform as a precondition if they're to form part of a coalition, a switch to Proportional Representation which the European Elections have shown is an absolutely dreadful idea. Seriously, the system we have right now is poor, but PR will bring all the screaming nutjobs a step closer to actual power as it has in the European elections. I know parties I lean toward like the Greens would benefit greatly from that system, but it would mean we get UKIP loons and god forbid, the BNP reaching parliament which is nightmare fuel. I don't want those nutjobs anywhere near power, it'd be an embarrassment to the country and to my species, I want to vote Lib Dem, but as long as proportional representation remains such a big priority for them, I'm not sure I will. Seriously, if a political party makes me seem sane, they shouldn't be allowed near power, ever... Then, that would disallow 99.9% of all political parties everywhere... Which probably wouldn't be a bad thing.

-Ryco.