Well, it's the day after the UK elections. That was a right laff, as usual, and there's plenty to talk about that the residents of Rinkland may not have picked up yet on the hulking monstrosity that is CNN (I've never seen it so that's a completely prejudiced and unfair judgement...feel free to rant). Anyway.

As predicted, our old pal Tony (not a personal friend, you understand (that's a horrible thought (being friends with a politician))) got into power again with a landslide victory, and I have been told that this is super and spiffing because it's the first time a Labour politician has held the government two terms running. I think he's done pretty well recently, although I'd have preferred the Liberal Democrats to get more seats than they did.

Oh yes, that was another cool thing. The Lib Dems got an extra 7 seats over last time's election, so their power's going up, and if things continue they'll make up most of the opposition before long.

And who has had a pretty rough time? Well, discounting all the oppressed people in the world, the Conservative party. They did not gain or lose a single seat overall, and now that William Hague's resigned they'll be sinking even further into the pit of despair, which started at the MORI exit polls. How, by the way, do they do MORI (or MORON) polls? Do they go round the country, talk to someone and say "Hi there, how're you going to vote" before going off to a different far-flung corner of the British Isles? And did they really have the barefaced cheek to ask people how they voted when they left the polling stations?

I'm pretty sure the BNP got no seats, thank goodness (if you don't really know much about British politics, they're the bonkers ones who are getting on for fascist), but there were quite a lot of seats gained by fringe parties. This might mean the UK independence party, I suppose, but I hope not, because that really does clutter up the government more than a bit.

Anyway, apart from all that, you're probably begging to know where this all leads. Am I going to say how I voted?

Well no, I'm not old enough to vote.

Never mind.

Anyway, I've got enough to worry about with all my GCSEs (I really shouldn't have put the comedy in my English exam).

That's a pretty long post now, so I'll leave it for the moment. Bye for now, peoples!

Phil-"politicians, eh...who'd have 'em?"-bee