Ugh. I am so utterly depressed by every single thing at the moment. I am currently swearing off Twitter and the actual news because everything about this fucking referendum has got me so angry and sad and helpless that I can hardly breathe from it, which is both a massive overreaction and extremely unproductive. So, no more news, at least until ( Read more... )

Jizzy fucking Chrizzy, will someone please just shoot Osborne. He’s such a fucking tosspot. Please explain to me, Georgie, what the fuck is the point of forcing a whole load of people to go to a Jobcentre every single day. Oh no, wait, there is no point, plus I find it hard to imagine that Jobcentres these days are actually staffed to be able to ( Read more... )

What ho, chaps! Summer, I can now report, is definitely icumen in: the first Pimms of 2010 has been spotted at Fangirl Towers. Naturally, being England, this will be the brief eye in the drizzly, grey-skied really-not-even-one-interesting-storm that is the British summer, but tant pis. For now, I will enjoy the (mild) sunshine. Actually, for the ( Read more... )

"In an interview with Jeremy Paxman tonight, David Cameron indicated that a Conservative government would target the north-east of England and Northern Ireland for public spending cuts." [sourceYes. God damn those people in the north east. What with their thriving industries and the massive socio-economic advantage they have over poor southerners, ( Read more... )

So, I am back in sunny Barlborough for the second time in a week (ah, the M1, my dear old chum), this time for Grandpa's funeral (he died at the beginning of last week). It feels a bit weird to have gone from having all my grandparents less than two years ago, to having just one clinging still to the vine. Anyway, another outing of the funeral ( Read more... )

1. I want a government that is not beholden to trade unions, businesses or the press (see data on party donations: http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=tMKCTfCkE02GL0qqp0Rh3LgRead more... )

Oh, David Cameron, you mentalist: "I think the Conservative party is quite anti establishment..." [source]

Fuck you, Nick Griffin. Fuck you, and your ideas, and the horse you came in on.

"That was not a genuine Question Time; that was a lynch mob," [Nick Griffin] told Sky News ( Read more... )

(No. No, they didn't ( Read more... )

You know what? You'd think people would get tired of having such asinine headlines. But no.

A clueless BBC is giving the BNP the legitimacy it craves* (sourceNo. Just no. I think you'll find, regrettably, that it is the British electorate that is giving the BNP the legitimacy it craves by, y'know, electing them to stuff. Yes, they're shit. Yes, ( Read more... )