So I voted after all, but clearly as tonight’s events are showing, it didn’t quite go the way I’d have liked. That aside, I wanted to write something about sharing and give & take.
Throughout life, from our early childhood, through the school system and then in a work environment we’re told, taught and instinctively know that we have to make allowances and concessions in order to reaching our goals at least some of the way.
Clearly this isn’t the case if you are a Political party in the UK, there is very little room for maneuver. It’s almost always a simplistic Black or White, no in-between. In the days since the Election delivered a hung Parliament the idea that members of political parties, be it the grassroots or at the top, are vehemently opposed to team work. It’s only through gritted teeth that the Conservatives and the Lib Dem’s have agreed to form a coalition government.
The Media have certainly had their role to play in this too, each publication or outlet picking their side and sticking with it no matter what (unless you’re the Guardian, in which case you sort of float around like journalistic flotsam), demanding that all sides make a decision NOW because apparently the country cannot cope without a Prime Minister for more than 5 days.
I know I’m being very idealistic and probably naive but humour me; wouldn’t it be great if all political parties could regularly make concessions and use a bit of give & take, like the rest of us have to every day of our lives. Sure, things might take a little while longer to get done but there’d be a lot less hatred in the political spectrum.
On that note, I’d like to wish our new Prime Minister absolutely no luck whatsoever and can’t wait for the moment you fail, you smug, expectant prick the best of luck for the next Parliamentary term.
Merk
You just wait for the Labour Party leadership battle, that’s going to be like summat out of The Sopranos. I can just see Ed Balls as Bobby Baccalieri all shot up falling onto the miniature guage train set.