Reflections on a Republican Future

Time to move on as the Julibumpics draw to a close.
To paraphrase:-

If I were the President of this Land
I would declare total war on the Snollygoster Man

What is a Snollygoster I hear you ask?
Mark Forsyth supplies the answer in a TedX talk at the House of Commons.
Some wry thoughts on the origins of the use of the title President. (POTUS to West Wing fans).
I suspect everyone will be wanting a 'fleet of drones' now. Such a seductive little phrase, such horror now and misery to come!

Be Very Afraid.

Just when you thought it was safe to talk to old men with grey beards Dobbo appears on the air waves.

You remember Dobbo. He was the hapless .uc. who was persuaded to stand against the People's Ken.

Now, as if by some miracle of cryogenics, Dobbo appears before us; the champion of Life , Liberty and the ....

I don't think I heard him say

Not a penny off the hour; not a minute on the pay!

but I couldn't be sure.

As fat Tony would say:-

How come Dobbo if you got dis hard on for democracy and liberty an' all that shit you never gave a fuck in public about de liddle guys in Iran or was it Iraq? Who knows?

There May Be No St David's Day Holiday

The count I recorded at the site below on the 24/1/07 @ 15:04 was 9061. This, as you may remember, is the petition that there should be no replacement for Trident. The graphic above indicates how the those dedicated to eliminating weapons of mass destruction enjoyed themselves over the Xmas period! Not quite the exponential growth I would have liked to see.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/trident/

Our little band of brothers and sisters against nasty weapons were being led by a petition to make St David's Day a public holiday - count at roughly the same time 9153.
So get to the petition and sign you beggars or there may be no national holidays for any of us, except possibly the ants! I wonder who their patron is?

We have to the 17 Feb. A few hundred thousand would be a nice poke in the eye for a retiring politician and his replacement!

Politics 2.0

I was interested in this on line petition. An attempt to join the race after the favourite has romped home? I know the interweb and the e-waves are a great way to do nothing! However, we live in hope after having lived in Hackney for over 20 years. You have until Feb. 2007 to make your voices heard and of course the real purpose is to allow the usual suspects to collect your emails and addresses; as if they didn't have them already.

I am also interested in the growth of the number of e-signatures and may, in between mince pies and sherry, try to plot the plot, as it were, over the holiday period.

So click on the link and drive those figures, exponentially!

Enough!