I will be filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed and numbered. My life is not my own.

[cappuccino_kid]

As a 28-year-old who quite frankly is starting to look his age, I cannot fathom why supermarkets expect me to bring my f*cking passport with me if I choose to pop a bottle of prosecco in with the spinach, goat's cheese, wholewheat pasta &c that constitute my innocuous middle-class weekly shop. Our society has become very sick. I think we badly need

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[beingjdc]

They're busy debating how to save society from sodomy. It must be where you shop, I haven't been IDed for alcohol in a shop (as opposed to entry to a club) since I was, erm. Well, possibly 17, actually.

The Tory Government is going to be fascinating, I think - once they've dismantled a chunk of the public sector there is pretty much no further middle ground between the libertarian wing and the, er, Conservative wing.

[barrysarll]

The guy's from Belper. If the local Labour politicos feel any different...well, they possibly made the mistake of saying so, and that's why they don't have the seat. Hell, it's the sort of town where they're a bit suspicious of any relationship outside the immediate family. I mean, the kids might only have ten fingers and no webbing!

[beingjdc]

I more meant the commenters than the dude himself.

[barrysarll]

I only skimmed the first ten or so; the balance of sensible comments to abhorrent ones to the frankly baffling is if anything slightly better than on Have Your Say or Comment Is Free, let alone on the more specialist sites I follow.

Multiple Choice

[stephens]

"if they have any sense/conscience, the Conservatives"...

a) Would kill themselves

b) Would kill themselves and their immediate relatives

c) will probably make things even worse

Re: Multiple Choice

[barrysarll]

I think the dying days of the Brown regime are reaching that point where it's questionable how exactly an incoming government could be worse.
Of course, we all thought that about John Major too.

Re: Multiple Choice

[stephens]

The thing that bothers me is the horrible hypocrisy of it all, Labour bring in lots of right-wing policies then the Tories have the gall to criticise them for it.

Re: Multiple Choice

[barrysarll]

Surely the hypocrisy lies at least as much with Labour for bringing in policies so right-wing that even the Tories didn't want to/were scared to introduce when they had the reins?

[willjsm]

Whilst i disagree with most of this post, can I say you looked very fetching in that brown jacket. Where did you get it?

[cappuccino_kid]

Zara, last month so they should still have some!

[willjsm]

now that makes me all happy :)

[class_worrier]

And when was 'society healthy', under the Tories?
They've spent most of New Labour's reign shouting, you are stealing our ideas! It wasn't until the last few unpopular years the have suddenly changed to, down with this sort of thing!
Good luck with expecting any less nannying from the party who have a track record of telling us who we can fuck.

[cappuccino_kid]

What I expect is for them to promise less nannying and then do the exact opposite; they're politicians after all. It's probably something that goes deeper than whichever bland party is in. I've already calmed down about my little incident tonight, but it felt symptomatic of something.

[strange_powers]

It's symptomatic of you being a youthful looking sonofagun.

[robbananafish]

I've found politics incredibly depressing for nearly all of my life. It is quite frightening how little power you have and how little the major parties differ, yet any party I might support can theoretically get 10% of the vote in every constituancy and not win a single seat. Even in 1997 when people were celebrating Labour winning as if it was some enormous event, when in fact most had voted blindly purely because they WEREN'T the Tories. It was obvious what was going to happen and no one seemed to see it.

I find taking an interest in local government quite satisfying because you actually DO have a voice and your local backbencher or councillor actually cares what you think.

Anyway I quite like getting IDed for things. It makes me feel less old.