Fatuous man discusses forthcoming elections in typically inane fashion.

[wardytron]

I don't know about you, but I'm so excited about this week's European elections I'm even considering voting in them. Imagine that! Of course, participating in an election is a serious business, and one should never do so without making a careful assessment of the various candidates and their policies. Personally I was planning to vote for the

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[burkesworks]

The existence of a Scargillite cadre in deepest Holderness comes as a surprise; Thorngumbald is the kind of place where the workers' soviet would vote Conservative even if the Great People's Revolution came to the East Riding. I guess that's why the Muirs are on the London slate.

[wardytron]

Well they get around, do the Muirs. Between them they've stood in Glasgow North West, Leeds North East, Hull East, South of Scotland and Highlands & Islands. Linda once got 2.7% of the vote in Hull East, although Colin tends to score under 1%. I don't know if this is down to the nature of their respective would-be constituencies, or whether Linda is simply a vastly superior orator.

[smogo]

You should go to one of their hustings meetings and ask Colin how his wife's oral skills are.

[smogo]

Congratulations on not reusing your old "not enough Just Juice in the world" joke. It must have been a struggle.

[wardytron]

Well I've got a reputation to protect, haven't I. The last thing I want is for people to start thinking I'm stale, tired or repetitive.

[oldbloke]

"People will freely take the things they need."

Isn't that what we usually call "theft" ?

The big problem with "Goods will be voluntarily produced" is that, no, they won't.

[wardytron]

Well you may scoff, but the FAQs already address that point:

People enjoy creating useful things. Instead of producing junk that people only buy because they can't afford quality, every worker will be able to produce quality products for themselves and others, and know that other workers will be doing the same.

So we can throw away our rotten, low-quality fridges, laptops and what have you, and look forward to some tiptop products that we've made ourselves. I'm going to practice tonight by making an iron, then compare it with the crappy old Morphy Richards I'm currently lumbered with.

[mirrorblue]

Da Vinci Cod. That's brilliant. No really.

[wardytron]

Well I suppose it makes a change from puns based on Plaice/Place or from chip shops called The Codfather. If Richard Dawkins ever opened a fish and chip shop he could call it The Cod Delusion, although the name doesn't really work, does it. I imagine that's what stopped him. I expect there's a similar story behind the otherwise inexplicable fact that Christopher Hitchens hasn't opened one called Cod Is Not Great.