Monday, 10 May 2010

No news would be great news.

Election, blah blah blah, hung parliament, blah blah blah. I mean, that's the political commentary out of the way - what I want to know is, what happens to the worms? Everyone had worms out during the election, trained to jump this way and that and show how well the parties were doing. No-one cares about the worms now. Who has use for worms? Perhaps they could be deployed in wider society to give a running wiggling display of how the service is in your local chip shop, or the driving standards on the bus you're riding on. These initiatives would be a valuable use of the worms' skills and would stop them having their benefits taken off them by the Tories in two weeks when they haven't found jobs.

It's all a bit confusing, all this horse play. You know - you think you've played your part in the process, you've been interested in politics for all this time and then there's this drawn-out four weeks of campaigning and electionising, bombardment with leaflets and a battle of the wills. You finally get to the point where you can stick your paper in the box and tell them all to sod off...and then this. The work is never-ending - I simply don't have the energy to sustain all this interest and keeping up with the 24-hour news, you know. I'm knackered enough as it is just having stayed up all election night watching the results come in - I've got friends working in the political sphere and they must be half dead by now.

My plea is simple - sort it out, chaps.

2 comments:

  1. I'm ashamed to admit that it took until "driving standards of the bus you're riding in" for me to realise what you meant by worms. I thought you meant actual worms...

    I'm torn between following the current political situation obsessively because of the impending sense of doom clouding everything I do, and ignoring it because right now there is very little I can do. Damn politics.

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  2. But they were actual worms. Just like on popular mid-90s mobile phone game 'Snake'. It's a common misconception that was a snake, the role was played by a worm - snakes were too big to fit into mobile phones.

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