Joe's Jottings

Tagged: general-election

Demonising Tories...or anyone...is so last century...

· civil-disobedience, general-election, politics, personal-stuff, philosophy

Now that the smoke of battle (and confusion) of General Election 2010 has cleared and we have a Coalition Government that hasn't yet been proven to be the spawn of Beelzebub, can I make a suggestion t…

The farce of the 2010 General Election

· general-election, politics, personal-stuff

Less than 2 hours after the closing of the Polls in the UK's General Election, it's clear that there have been some cock-ups in the logistical management of the election that makes most developing wor…

When slogans are not enough

· civil-liberties, general-election, politics, personal-stuff

I was 18 years old in 1979; people of a certain age will remember that year as being the start of the 'Thatcher Years' - the start of 11 years of Tory Government that was characterised by radical righ…

The obligatory General Election Post

· civil-liberties, general-election, personal-stuff, politics

Some years ago, a joke did the rounds about the first Albanian astronaut.  The main thing you need to know is that at the time the joke was told Albania was a head-bangingly totalitarian Marxist state…