OFF: The Clones of Tony Blair[no BOC/HW]

[M Holmes]

Jonathan Jarrett writes:

>         Well, two general elections over here, there was a chap stood in
> one of the West Country constituencies on the platform that the only
> sensible way to conduct democracy in this modern age was to get a terminal
> in every house on which referendum information would be sent to the
> families and population at large and they would send in their votes, thus
> taking the government right back to the people.
>
>         He was unfortunately sued because he got surprisingly many votes
> (for a loony fringe candidate, in that, he didn't lose his deposit) and
> the number he got would have been enough to shift one of the major parties
> into second place rather than third. They were the Liberal Democrats, he
> was the Literal Democrats, and they said he had obviously been set up to
> confuse the voters (they were next to each other on the (alphabetical)
> ballot). However, I don't believe they won, although I don't know what did
> happen.

They changed the Law to protect politicians' monopoly on confusing, and
lying to, voters.

FoFP