You're right - it is largely a pedantic point: voters who elected Labour or Conservative MP's did so largely based on their perceptions of the party leaders - much more so than those electing Independents.
And yes, I was being facetious, but if we throw around charges about the death of democracy and the loss of our government's legitimacy because a clapper disapears from a handbell, how will we define the difference between that and genuine totalitarianism? Outrage is cheap, but I still get annoyed when I see it piled higher than the circumstances warrant.
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Date: 2006-05-25 10:25 am (UTC)And yes, I was being facetious, but if we throw around charges about the death of democracy and the loss of our government's legitimacy because a clapper disapears from a handbell, how will we define the difference between that and genuine totalitarianism? Outrage is cheap, but I still get annoyed when I see it piled higher than the circumstances warrant.