All Hale our new Tory-lite overlords... and other rant's.

Well okay, not MY overlords, but you get the idea.


I couldn't avoid the election. I've been at home, well i've been at home in some sense or another since last May. But for the most part i've been stuck with election coverage for 2 months or so. So i almost have been living and breathing it. For the most part on my own. So despite not wanting to, it's a big wealth of knowledge that i have amassed recently that i can't avoid.

I'm actually an election nerd! DEAR GOD HELP ME!

This is NOT a good thing!

I understood the numbers. I knew most of the political views, i even knew key regions and a few key seats.

I recognised every Political commentator. I knew most of the important Mp's on all side's. Well in England anyway.... Since that's what this election really was about.

Think i'm kidding? It was! It's a fucking joke to say it's a United Kingdom election. Most of this is about Britain.

And now with the Con-Lib Dem government, most of the seat's in power, are IN England.

I do pitty the rest of the dominions for having to suffer that insult. But now that both MP's, Cabinet members and Journo's are laughing with each other in relief that a Government has been formed, it must all be over now right?

I can get back to watching day time tv. I can get rid of this mass of boring complicated information in my head? Nope not really, not so fast. Just because there's a government it doesn't stop the fact that i now know all this shit, and can form an opinion! Wo is me!

I long for the day's i could recite the Order and significance of which System Lords were killed off on Stargate SG-1. That's the kind of politics i can back. But no, i now know a lot about Britain. My neighbouring country.

A country, by birth i'm not really supposed to like if some people are to be believed.

But i can't help it. Anglo-Celtic(UK) Culture far outweigh's the influence of Hibernian(Irish) culture on me.

It's the only tv i watch. I rarely catch whats going on at home. And this distresses me slightly.

I laugh at Joe Duffy, IT'S A DISGRACE JOE!, is pretty much all i seem to think of Irish media. We bitch and complain, but we do nothing about it.

I can't feel much democratic fervour for this little island. It's dark, it's wet, it's expensive, we're all grumpy, and everything just HAS to be complained about.

What i see in Britain is a far larger country, and i care more about the state of it's existence on many levels than i do about my HOME.

When i heard the news of protesters storming the gate's of the Daíl last night i was a bit bemused. So many other protests had gone without incident. We as a people bitch and moan, but we don't really act anymore.

After all, our land owners, and leaders are now our own. How can we rebel against our "own" people? Madness.

I see a general failure of the Irish people to hold The Irish in contempt. To see ourselves of capable of any wrong doing. This country is FAR from perfect. If anything i can't seem to think of any example of the Irish State doing anything GOOD for itself or for the people.

Okay so things weren't hunky dory, when we were British subjects, but they're no better now that we're Irish.

I see myself as not being Republican, or Nationalist, but i do feel that we have a warped sense of what it is to be Irish. The time's have changed. Should we not hold the bad people among us as bad people?

Should we not call for change by democratic and social means?

If Joe Duffy's audience can somehow eradicate an entire class of drugs and type of store with their opinion, it begs the question how we can't legislate for other things here?

Why is Alcoholism so bad? Why is obesity a growing problem? Why are certain price's so high? Why are clampers such pricks? How is the government surviving scandal after scandal without an election?

Want to know why the Anti-Head shop law passed so easily? Because no tax was collected on the activities, and no corporations were involved.

An un-regulated and dangerous enterprise involving small independent stores, is a threat to The State's ability to gather taxes, to the Legal addictions such as Smoking and Alcohol, to the Health and Science industries who are slower than Backyard Chemists in creating and understanding such Drugs, and even a threat to established hierarchies of money surrounding well established Illegal Drug trade.

MONEY.

Citizens looking to escape the doom and gloom of life, were seeking "High's" to get away from it all. These unproven and so called Legal high's are VERY DANGEROUS. But they are cheap, they are damn effective and there is a demand for them. But the state can't stop them, they can't tax them. The Health Service's and experts can't understand them fast enough to cope with unknown side effects. And the criminals in all level's of society can't compete.

I doubt all of the Head Shop Arson attacks were concerned Joe Duffy listeners.

Considering how Deep Cocaine and Heroin is in Irish society i doubt it's suppliers liked the idea of these drugs.

Drinks and Cigerrete's companies are suffering as well. They are a vice of many. A knew one was a threat to Tradition, and a threat to sanctioned business.

Enterprise and Industry is meant to be protected in A free democracy. But this Enterprise just had to go....

It got people killed.

Oh wait, cars, alcohol, food, cigarette, life in general, they do that?

They were unregulated and unchecked.

So are Cocaine and Heroin, but somehow no wide sweeping law tries to stop these threats?



This Country is awash with Hypocrisy and complaint, and yet there is little voice for reason or an answer to what change we really need.


How we're going to survive is a bleak and scary mystery in my eyes.