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<sarcasm>You'll forgive me if I'm not surprised by the result.</sarcasm>

Bringing back National Service ("Get Some In!" and all that cobblers), practically criminalising being long-term sick, allowing the DWP to think they know better than a doctor if someone's unfit for work? Political suicide.

I don't trust Labour, either. But as we thought in 1997,<sarcasm> they could hardly do worse.</sarcasm>

There still wasn't a None Of The Above option, was there? I am not apathetic because I didn't vote. I didn't vote because I was following Heinlein's Principle to its logical conclusion, i.e. vote against, and I don't trust any of them. Hence my decision was entirely logical.

Plus I forgot.

Clarke and Douglas had a point:

"We want a President who has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the White House - then he'll get time off for good behaviour."

- shrewd political commentator, Arthur C. Clarke's Imperial Earth

The major problem - one of the major problems, for there are several - one of the many major problems with governing people is that of who you get to do it - or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them.
To summarise: It is a well-known and much lamented fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it.
To summarise the summary: Anyone who is capable of getting themselves elected President should on no account be allowed to do the job.
To summarise the summary of the summary: People are a problem.

- Fit the Thirteenth, The (immortal!) Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy

"Though you're in the RAF
You'll never see a plane..."

"They take two years off your life
"Now isn't that a sin?
"There's only one way to get out,
"And that's to get some in!
"Get Some In!"

- theme song, "Get Some In!"