tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post114020671542840552..comments2024-03-29T14:09:49.674+00:00Comments on Liberal England: Pink ties exceptedJonathan Calderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00730157683743989696noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1140299786316587912006-02-18T21:56:00.000+00:002006-02-18T21:56:00.000+00:00It's that Gordon is likely to be worse, and they'r...It's that Gordon is likely to be worse, and they're likely to go for a simple coronation (not that they've got any other choices worth considering) that prompted me to start pushing to <A HREF="http://not-little-england.blogspot.com/2006/02/getting-new-labour-out-of-office.html" REL="nofollow">get them out of office</A> at all costs. That Huhne looks <A HREF="http://not-little-england.blogspot.com/2006/02/huhne-talking-my-language.html" REL="nofollow">to be the best choice for next PM</A> is an added bonus to this one. This week has sickened me, and energised me at the same time. Getting them out has to be a top priority now.<BR/><BR/>I think Regionalism is, unfortunately, dead. I supported it as a good idea. Perhaps rebuild it as Provincialism? England has provinces, they're not defined anywhere, but I'm definately in the Westcountry. An English Parliament would inevitably end the UK in the medium term, but I don't see any options but one of them.MatGBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02821264556751176639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6606798.post-1140295376128486722006-02-18T20:42:00.000+00:002006-02-18T20:42:00.000+00:00I have lived through a few coups in my time when m...I have lived through a few coups in my time when my parents were in Nigeria in the early eighties.<BR/><BR/>The one I remember particularly was on New Years Day 1981, I think. We lived on the top floor of a 21 storey complex of flats about half a mile from the presidential palace on Victoria Island in Lagos.<BR/><BR/>As New Years Day was a Sunday we all piled into the lift to go to "Bar Beach" in front of the palace for the usual sunbathing and amusement from the local poentecostal church service and hawking off dodgy looking copied cassette tapes. Five storeys down a German couple got it.<BR/><BR/>They smiled at us and said "Happy New Year, what do you think of the new government, then?".<BR/><BR/>Apparently, just after the flares and fireworks from the ships in Lagos harbour had died down shortly after midnight there had been a coup. Three shots were fired (probably fewer than in Brixton on the average Saturday night), nobody hurt, the former president was in jail and the army was in charge again.<BR/><BR/>So much easier than this damned democracy thing...:)Jock Coatshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15550558005508328017noreply@blogger.com