I don't think I can remember an election being so exhausting. Social networking has a lot to answer for but it afforded the opportunity to see the unvarnished side of politics. It was occasionally vicious but always real; that's not to say it was true. I'm still amazed at the idiocy of many on the left who continued to plough the 'Michael Moore' approach – a charitable comparison – in slandering the Tories at every opportunity. There were some on the right too and I have to remind myself that Twitter is as much a tool for expression as it is discussion, though surely some must realise how counter-productive such malicious nonsense is? Tomorrow if the result has gone the right way I'll have to read more of it, and if it doesn't it'll be the same; funny how so many preach tolerance without any understanding.
Turn up the volume and drown them all out. My music of the moment is an album by The National - Boxer. This is an album that brings it all back and I'd not even heard of them until last week – it turns out Twitter can be a positive force too.
Nativity of Thomas Hardy (1840)
19 hours ago
What's the right way for the result to go?
ReplyDelete(I posted on blue collar lit today (May 6) mentioning what I'd seen on C-Span about your election. From your point of view I'm probably beyond naive -- I only know a tiny little bit about England's political landscape and current election. Ignorant as I am, Curious to Know More.)