Why the election result might - just might - work out okay in the long run

I wanted to share with you an email I received from my friend Guy in response to my vitriolic outburst on the blog the other day. This is why I love this man:

Cheer up... just a bit.
Here are 17 reasons, and at least number 17 is good. And I have number 18, which IMHO is way way better than any of them.

This week was an amazing deja vu for me. Not for 2000 Gore/Bush, but for 1992 Kinnock/Major. When I saw Kerry punching the air earlier in the week I just thought "oooooohhh no..... sheffield arena a week before the election... Kinnock going "alllllriiiighht!!!" over and over again like a lunatic... oooohhh NOOOOOOO!!!!!" everything was heading their way and the result was a horrible nightmarish surprise.

And I think the reason is the same then as now - fear. In 1992 people read the Sun that morning, and were told how much they'd lose under Labour, depending on their income. We're selfish bastards, were afraid we wouldn't get our new tellys and voted Tory, even though we knew they were a bunch of bastards. This time, same thing except they are afraid of getting attacked again. This is stupid and wrong, but we know it. Even they know that Bush is a twat (well, not all of them know this but probably around half who voted Bush do), but in the words of their placard he "makes them feel safe". Poor deluded idiots, but there we are.

Why is this good news? Because of one glorious number...1997. Let's just forget for a moment the whole ugly Blair/War thing. That victory was so cataclysmic that the Tories are still totally unelectable, all these years later. And there are 2 reasons - 1, Labour got their act together, and 2, the Tories were in power at the wrong time. All their policies for the previous 14 years came home to roost, the NHS started to fall apart etc, and finally people noticed. Hell, we EVEN stopped thinking about new tellys, even though it has taken Labour another 5 years to realise this.

Now, we all have to hope and pray that the Democracts can now get their act together. But meanwhile number 2 is a dead cert. Their economy is utterly fucked. Have you seen their deficeit figures? There is no way that they can carry on as they are for four more years, and even republicans will begin to notice eventually. And here's the really great bit... this would have been KERRY's fault! Now there is nowhere to run. And though its a horrible thought, it seems inevitable that someone else will attack America directly, and Bush voters claimed that the fact they HADN'T been attacked since 9/11 was a reason to say Bush knew what he was doing.

So it comes to this - four more years. And they will be AWFUL. Maybe he'll attack North Korea and we're all gonners, in which case we need to have somemore discussions on what faith used to be before the fundmentalists fucked it over, because natually I'm not that pessimistic even then. But believe it or not, there is actually quite a good chance that we'll all survive. And in four years time, there is every chance that the republicans will not be allowed back in the White House for the next 20 years, they will have corrupted it so much.

And another cheery thought on all this... remember the teleevangelist mania of the early 80's? It seemed unstoppable. Until they were all caught embezzoling funds and shagging each other. Any group that sets themselves up as being holy holy has been ultimately shown to be the hypocritical lying bastards that they are in the end, in this case the results will be devastating. You just know that killing 100,000 Iraqis is not perceived as immoral, but getting a blow job from a secretary is, and with "moral issues" scoring higher than even security in this election, this is where it will really hurt.

Now, meanwhile we really must do something about Tony Blair. Channel that anger and point it here

Download and read their report. It is excellent. They have 25 MPs at the moment, it is time to really start lobbying. Half of us in this country agree with this report - if we all get on our MPs backs, we could really get somewhere.

And reason 19, we will always ALWAYS have chocolate...

Guy xx