Advent Calendar Day 18

One week from now, we'll be recovering from a long, arduous lesson in pain and misery. But enough about the EastEnders Christmas episode, we've got some pesky windows to open in the meantime...

Day 18

The Coalition

Remember May 2010? Everything seemed so simple then. In those mildly sepia-toned days, we had a Prime Minister who we didn't vote in, but at least was leader of the party who did earn the most votes in the previous election. We somehow traded the world's most dour man for Blue Clone and Yellow Clone, the right wing Thatcher acolyte and his supposedly Liberal comrade-in-arms-for-the-sake-of-a-snifter-of-power. Unfortunately, there's no effectual opposition to speak of at the moment, except from within,so until they tear themselves apart, we're stuck with the oppressive fuckers.

Just watching George Osborne's face achieve a new level of sneering contempt every day is enough to make Care Bears weep in forcibly-impoverished terror whilst they appease their banking cohorts. This is a government who have their business sponsors' best interests, and their own, at heart, desperately clinging onto the power that nobody blessed them with except through the failings of our  supposed democracy.

So while we wait for the arse to fall out of the Big Society (and other meaningless buzzwords dreamt up by Porky Mumpsface's right-wing think tank), pull up a chair and watch not one, but two opportunistic political parties tear themselves asunder, whilst a third decides to get its fucking act together and actually oppose. 

Incidentally, be back a little bit later this evening for the second part of Shit Britons 2011's special He-Man episode...