9 May 2015

UK election & cognitive dissonance














Whilst the rest of Europe has been confronting the consequences of the 1939-45 world war with varying degrees of insight and self-awareness, Britain has been more focussed on its own current internal conflict, in a general election which has led to (at least) another 5 years of capitalist conservatism for the UK as a whole and, conversely, a massive victory for the progressive Scottish National Party. There are now more Trident nuclear submarines (4) based in Scotland than there are MPs who want them (3). And the same number of polar bears (3).


Cameron and his band of elitist greed-monkeys shouldn't feel too smug about their mandate though. Whilst 37% of voters (who were 65% of the electorate) did vote for them, that leaves 76% of the electorate who didn't. And just maybe maybe maybe, the forthcoming referendum about EU membership will lead to a similar political re-awakening in the rest of the UK as is happening in Scotland. 

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