The Official Nonsense Thread

[Minty]

Yesterday was nice. A decent slap up meal with those members of my family I like & the televised debate for the general election turned out to be better than I thought. I'd visions of it being "The Weakest Link" from the way it was set up & the ginger dominatrix wannabe in charge.

Sturgeon & Farage looked the only two who looked comfortable & believed what they were talking about (although Farage's tendency to stand still staring at the audience with a Mr Bean face when others were speaking was bizarre). Clegg swung from being painfully bad to scoring more than a few hits. The rest though were varying shades of awful.

Cameron's mouth opened, he made noises, but said nothing and Milliband dripped insincerity with every word. Even when they only had a minute to speak, all those two did was serve up more waffle than a Sim with Level 1 cooking. The Plaid Cymru leader sounded like she was reading train announcements, but the Greens must have wanted to curl up & die watching Bennett mess up again. 24 hours before, the Scottish Greens leader Patrick Harvie tore Labour and the Tories to shreds in a TV debate up here - for all the good it will do them because no one votes Green outside of Holyrood elections up here.

This election ought to be the Greens breakthrough moment, taking at least another two seats. All the preparation over the last ten years & taking the Euro Seats to boost the coffers have been thrown away by having a lame duck leader without a clue how to deal with the PR side of leadership. Lucas was a natural, Bennett however is a natural disaster. They really need to merge the four separate Green Parties in the UK into one & get Harvie in charge or they'll end up back to square one all over again.

My hope was at this GE, the SNP, Plaid, the Greens & UKIP would do enough damage on the mainland to ensure no Lab/Tory coalition with the LibDems & NI parties would be enough. The SNP look like mission accomplished, UKIP are wait & see, but Plaid & the Greens will be lucky to hold what they have now. All this talk about "the new rainbow politics" drives me nuts - if Cameron or Milliband get in to do whatever they like unchecked yet again, it'll only resemble rainbow from being full of Bungle!

Was so tempted to get Cities, but resisted.