Keep on Running

5 odd days without a blip... To be honest, I've not really been doing that much and certainly not been taking any great photos. Ah well, I had to get on today for a David Cameron moan.

It's not about the very blindingly obvious ploys by the right wing press to try to avoid a hung parliament (including dragging up articles written by Nick Clegg 8 years ago, misrepresenting it as a 'Nazi slur', and completely forgetting your own Nazi-supporting past in the process; or deleting a vote on who won the 2nd leadership debate, and restarting it so you can claim Cameron won; and a myriad other simply misleading nonsense). No, it's about Cameron seeing himself as a President.

Tonight on the radio I heard him say (and it was him, so there's not chance of it being misreported) that proportional representation effectively disenfranchises people because we don't get to choose the person we want as PM.

Two things here for (call-me) Dave. Firstly, PR does the exact OPPOSITE of disenfranchising - it gives a voice to a much wider range of the voting public. Secondly, we are not a republic (that would mean getting rid of the Queen Dave, something I'm fairly certain the Tories are against...) which means that we don't vote for the legislature and the executive in separate polls. Technically we are not voting according to who we want as PM. We shouldn't even really be choosing on the basis of the particular party, though even that would be better than voting based on one single personality.

Dave seems to have turned himself all Obama - well if he's trying to suggest we vote entirely on a single person, rather than a local candidate or the party policies, then he's lagging behind by being an airbrushed toff-trying-too-hard-to-be-ordinary (I'd much rather people simply acted themselves - oh, brings up another Daily Wail point, they were having a go at Clegg because he comes from a privileged background (which he's never really denied or tried to cover up as far as I'm aware), forgetting entirely that Dave went to Eton and is married to the daughter of a Lord... People in glass houses. Throwing stones therein. Don't.

Right, I promise to try and be more interesting over the next few days.

Swanfight!
Watchful Moorhen
Swimming Coot
Cormorant

And yesterday...

Bedraggled Blue Tit