A bit of stuff from all over..

[angelophile]

In serious news, Labour have suffered an "historic defeat" in the European elections. Not sure if it's as historic as the last one or as historic as the next one's going to be, but hey, ho. The elections saw the rise of the right with the BNP actually getting a pair of Euro MPs and the UK Independence Party doing well in the popular vote, knocking Labour into third place. This is clearly a big crisis.

A lot of pundits are horrified and disgusted that people could even consider voting far right - me, I follow The Daily Mash's line: "Professor Tom Logan, of Reading University, said: "Prolonged recessions do have a tendency to expose our inner racist fucknut, but it subsides once you get a new credit card."" It's a swing to the far right that's been seen across Europe, so not so much damning of Britain as human beings in general.

I should probably be more horrified than I am, but seeing as Euro MP's sole power appears to be going on holiday to the Caribbean with our money, I'm more philosophical about it, frankly. I don't think it's much to do with the politics, mostly that the main parties have been demonstrated to be a bunch of thieving bastards and no bugger trusts them as far as they could spit them, let alone wants to vote for them. Health Secretary Andy Burnham apparently agrees, saying: "The BNP is like the ultimate protest vote. It is how to deliver the establishment a two-fingered salute. I think largely it is a comment on Westminster politics."

In other depressing news, a woman's body's been found in a wheelie bin in Surrey. In a macabre twist it's claimed that the body only remained undiscovered because of bin men refusing to move or empty the bin because it felt too heavy. It anything makes me despair for the state of this country, that does. We're ruled by petty jobsworths.

Well, before I get too political...

The latest Will Ferrell shitfestmovie, the remake of Land of the Lost, came out on Friday. Apparently industry polling put it up there as being one of the big rivals for the Summer blockbuster top spot, rivaling Transformers: ROTFL with its predicted biggest opening evah. Call me mean spirited, but I was kinda glad to see it tank and tank badly, opening to under $20m over the weekend on a reported budget of $100m+. I find Will Ferrell about as funny as a forced colonic irrigation and the sight of him doing his mind-numbingly banal petulant man-child act in another movie, just with CGI dinosaurs, made me want to punch someone. It seems that moviegoers have metaphorically done that for me, though.

Michael Bell, voice of Prowl, Swoop and other characters in the original Transformers cartoon, is urging people to convince IDW to take up his proposal for a series of motion comic books that would be available for download on iPhone, iTouch and other outlets. The animated comics would also include several of the voice actors from the early Transformers shows as well as other voice actors. The problem is, IDW seems to have stalled out on the issue, but he's posted a short clip (from the recent "All Hail Megatron" series) below:

Scans_Daily is having a "One Perfect Moment" Week and it is chuffing awesome. I love icon_uk for coming up with it and it's thrown up so much good stuff in just a few hours. My first contribution? Jono laying out an immensely smug Warren with a single punch, but I have others to post.

Apparently not having a beard makes me look years younger. Or like a completely different person, apparently, judging by the reaction of my neighbours who came out of their flat yesterday when I was putting something in the bins to ask who the hell I was and what the hell I thought I was doing. Cruel people have pointed out that once again I look like a young Timothy Spall. Bastards.

Comments

[wardytron.livejournal.com]

Surely you don't put corpses in the normal everyday bin - isn't there a separate one for dead bodies?

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

If they have a donor card you use the recycling one.

[wal-lace.livejournal.com]

My big worry is that the swing to the right will give the Tories an unassailable majority at the next General Election, leaving them free to do whatever the hell they want. Kind of like Labour after 1997.

Then again, in 1999 the Lib Dems were arguing that the Conservative party could no longer be considered the main party of opposition. This setback is likely to be temporary (I hope. It's almost exactly a century since the Labour Party rose to become one half of the two-party system, and that system could change again).

[angelophile.livejournal.com]

Yes, I think the Conservatives will get in next time around, but I totally agree with you that the only effective government is one that has an effective opposition. I don't think (hope) that'll be quite the landslide Labour had back then, but... I don't think the utter rout in the European elections is indicative of what we'd see in a general election - more a shot across the bows for Westminster as a whole.