The crack.

[raven]

Pedar and I went into Southport this morning. "To go to building societies," he said. I didn't quite understand that, but that wasn't the point. We went anyway. On the way there, he was listening to the radio, and it seems Iain Duncan Smith is the news of the day. I wasn't very interested to begin with, then I noticed the Mirror front page with a manip of IDS as the Iraqi information minister whose name I have temporarily forgotten, and things became slightly more interesting. Pedar is typically scathing about the Tory party, but he bought enough newspapers to last the day and I haven't read them yet, only skimmed the front pages, so we shall see.

Once we'd finished with the building societies, we got coffee (well, cappuccino for him and mocha for me) and walked round Southport for a bit. Pedar has proven an unlikely adherent of the Sam Vimes' Boots Theory of Socio-Econonic Unfairness. I mentioned the way Vimes is generally knurd, and he gave me that look that implies someone, or perhaps more than one person, has just teetered off the edge into insanity. With wonderfully narrative timing, the big clock started to ominously strike twelve at that point.

I went into the library for a moment - got Sourcery, Eric and The Dark Side of the Sun. I seem to remember being told that Eric is not that good, but I've got it, so I will read it and make up my own mind.

Bored now. I ought to do more Politics this afternoon but cannae be bothered. There is a curious bubbling sound coming from the gutters. Maybe I ought to go outside and figure out what's causing that. Maybe I ought to make some more bracelets.

Actually, I ought to finish going through the Fic From Hell #2 beta. It's the one that features hathy_col. Interestingly, it's a het fic. I've never done it before.

And because I am using many more paragraph breaks than are necessary...

I'll end here. There is something else I wanted to say. No doubt it will come to me the moment after I click "Update Journal."

Comments

[donnertheim.livejournal.com]

I belive the Iraqi Information Minister's name was Mohammed Sayed Al-Sahaf. Iain Duncan Smith - isn't he the Tory party leader? I've heard he's under attack from elements within his own party because he just doesn't have the charisma to ever really lead them to victory. Any truth to this?

Heh. You've never met a Conservative until you meet an old-fashioned down-South Republican. I'm a conservative and a Republican, and they give me the willies.

Y'know, I used to like mochas. And capuccinos. Then I worked at a coffee shop a coupla summers. That cured me. Good luck on figuring out the problem with the gutters.

[loneraven.livejournal.com]

As of two hours ago, Iain Duncan Smith was the Tory party leader. He now isn't, having had that vote of no-confidence passed in him. This is less momentous than it sounds, as the Tory party are just tearing themselves to shreds anyway. Yes, he was definitely under attack from his own party. He was only voted leader as the best of a bad bunch, and has done some very stupid things - the three line whip on gay adoption comes to mind - as well as being supremely ineffectual, so there will be a new leader soon. We shall see.

I adore coffee in all shape and form. Would love working in a coffee shop. The smell... mmm. Wonderful.

[donnertheim.livejournal.com]

Haha. Believe me, you don't stay that way when you work around the stuff thirty hours a week. Now I just drink all my coffee straight, black and strong. None of those oddball drinks for me. At least they're Italian in origin, rather than French. *shudders and hisses* But, ah, yeah...the smell really does help a lot. Especially on opening shifts.

The Tories are an interesting case, in my opinion. Over here, the Republican Party is experiencing a rejeuvenation of sorts - my campus's College Republicans chapter is more active than the Green Party, Socialist Party, and supporters of Howard Dean combined. Rather than being a group of stodgy old whities such as Pat Buchanan or Newt Gingrich, the face of conservatism in America is getting younger and younger. Over here, Republicans are experiencing a Renaissance of ideas and image.

The Tories are seeing none of this - none that I can see, at least - and it puzzles me.