British political question
May. 13th, 2010 09:52 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
woolymonkeyI'd been planning to go on the electoral reform demo in London this Saturday, but...
Now that the Lib-Con coalition is real and setting out policies, it looks to me as though they're already promising all we could reasonably expect re voting reform. So if they're already saying the right things, and it's too early to judge them on what they do, then what would the demo be meant to achieve?
Does this mean I can stay at home after all? Or am I just finding excuses because I could really, really use a quiet weekend?
Thoughts please!
But just on pointfulness or otherwise of the demo, please, and whether you're going. I don't have the time or energy to get into what we all think about the not-so-shiny new government today.)
Added at 11.00
The school phoned at 10.15. Spider has come down with a stomach lurgy. He's at home now, looking pale and feeling terrible. Quiet weekend it is, then. But I'd still like to hear what others are thinking/doing.
Now that the Lib-Con coalition is real and setting out policies, it looks to me as though they're already promising all we could reasonably expect re voting reform. So if they're already saying the right things, and it's too early to judge them on what they do, then what would the demo be meant to achieve?
Does this mean I can stay at home after all? Or am I just finding excuses because I could really, really use a quiet weekend?
Thoughts please!
But just on pointfulness or otherwise of the demo, please, and whether you're going. I don't have the time or energy to get into what we all think about the not-so-shiny new government today.)
Added at 11.00
The school phoned at 10.15. Spider has come down with a stomach lurgy. He's at home now, looking pale and feeling terrible. Quiet weekend it is, then. But I'd still like to hear what others are thinking/doing.
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Date: 2010-05-13 10:15 am (UTC)Since I posted, Spider has been sent home with a nasty sick bug, so that settles it for staying here. I know I could leave the 3 boys and just head to London on my own (maybe with squirrel), but I don't think I can cope with taking a day out from Stuff That Needs Doing Before June, not if we're in for a round of monkey lurgies. Also, this one comes on really fast. Spider was fine at breakfast. Wouldn't fancy one of us being hit with it on the way to the demo...
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