I have slightly less reading to do than I anticipated, so I am having a tea-newspaper-and-sarky-protest-slogans break. CURRENT FORERUNNER:


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Where the devil have I been? I'll tell you where I've been. I've been dividing my time neatly between the beach, uk_lolitics and rewatching all of Derren Brown's available back catalogue on 4OD. With some ineffectual job hunting on the side.

• THE BEACH: it is very very pretty. Cornwall is basically one of the most beautiful places in the world, imo, albeit ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt I was Nick Clegg. More importantly, in my dream David Cameron had decided to cut back on the Parliamentary carbon footprint by decreeing that all MPs etc would travel by PEDALO AND PEDALO ALONE. (I guess that in my dream London all members of the Houses lived conveniently next to the river or something.) The media thought it was ( Read more... )

I am deleting my LJ on Monday! I'll be gone for at least a week and possibly all the way up to the 26th (my final deadline.) I might pop back up at some point to post fic on treeshouse, because I'm bound to end up doing SOME procrastination from my essays. As ever, if you need to contact me it's gimmeleaves at gmail dot com ( Read more... )

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

DAVID CAMERON IS THE RULER OF MY COUNTRY

SOBS

POLITICS ARE EXCITING!!!!

OH I AM EXCITE, today I went to see my Official! Future! Landlady! for a kind of pre-lease signing 'going over the legalese and fees and whatnot' talk and I got to see a bit more of the house and also the garden AND HOLY SHIT. The house is a listed property and it is so big and ridiculously pretty and the garden is HUGE and flowery and whatnot *_* ( Read more... )

ARRRRGH my home constituency went Tory AND my uni constituency went Tory. I AM SO FUCKING DISAPPOINT. Although holy shit in Truro/Fal the Tories one by less than 1% over Lib Dems. THAT'D BE ALL THEM THERE STUDENTS I GUESS ( Read more... )

APPARENTLY THIS IS WHAT ELECTION NIGHT DOES TO ME.


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Hello internet friends, tomorrow is the UK election and people are getting very nervous/excited/angry/strangely aroused about it all and what it might mean for the future of our politics. For which the perfect antidote is ABSURD LULZ:

uk_loliticsJoin! Bring your friends! If you're not in the UK, all you really need is an interest in UK politics. If you don't ( Read more... )