You Got Some Splainin' To Do

"U.K.! You got some 'splainin' to do!"

Excuse the possibly vague American TV reference.

But I have a question for my British readers. (I know yer out there.)

Here it is:

In the recent National Polls in the UK, the plurality went to the Conservatives. OK. I'll give them that much.

The Conservatives won 306 seats in Parliament.
Labour won 258 seats.

The Liberal-Democrats won 57 seats.

Now...the popular vote showed that the Conservatives ended up with 36.1%; Labour with 29%, and Liberal-Democrats with 23%. All understood.

However, when it came to forming a government, why did the right wing party (the Conservatives) get to head it? This makes no sense to me, at all. Both Labour and the Liberal-Democrats are supposedly left of center parties. Why didn't the left of center majority form the government while leaving out the far less popular right of center party?

I'm not saying that the stupid US so-called "two party system" is superior. Far from it. Give me a parliamentary democracy any day over this farce we have here in the States. But just explain to me why at least 52% of the population who were obviously voting for a leftist form of rule had to allow the 36% who technically came in second to form a right wing government. This makes no sense to me, especially when even the seats in Parliament went to the major left wing parties by a score of 308 to 306. Slim majority, yes, but even by that measure they have the upper hand.

Why did the Liberal-Democrats feel honor bound to form up a government that will have rightist policies when a solid majority obviously didn't want right wing policies and had voted so? This seems as if the UK parliamentary system has degenerated into as big a farce as the joke our corporate masters play on us here in the USA.

What gives?

(And, yes, I realize that there are smaller parties around--and that many of them also tend to tilt left.)

"The Conservatives? Are you daft, woman?"

Disappointed

When the USA news media was completely hijacked in 2000 as our national elections were blatantly rigged so that the corporate elite could install a mentally retarded son of a billionaire into our highest office, I found myself at a loss to find objective news sources.

Fortunately, there was in those days the Internet. So I found myself turning more and more to the European press for decent and relatively objective information. It didn't change the fact that the USA proved to be a nation of utter cowards willing to allow our democracy to be destroyed. But at least I could find some unobstructed views of what was going on within my native country of cowardly worms.

Utter and complete human filth.

For many reasons, not least of which was the fact that I didn't have to worry about translations, my go-to news sites were mainly in the UK. I found myself turning to the BBC, and The Guardian, and The Telegraph, and The Independent for my up-to-date current events information. Even the right leaning publications were better than anything here in the USA. There seemed to be a certain kind of honesty at work in UK journalism that was absent in the pro-corporate propaganda machines in place here in my own USA shithole.

So imagine my horror and disappointment in recent weeks. As a British corporation is singly responsible for the worst environmental disaster in my nation's history, I find the UK press going to great lengths to defend the indefensible.

British Petroleum is a monstrous organization that should be dismantled. Its board members and executives should be dragged into the nearest parking lots and have their brains blown out with guns made in the USA and with bullets produced in the USA. Their blood should be spilled, their bodies hoisted on the nearest light posts, and their stolen wealth absorbed into our National treasury. This corporation and these men need to be handed out immediate and violent death sentences for their crimes.

And yet...I find that the UK press is proving itself to be as big a lot of monstrous, slimy hypocrites as any USA coward who wears the hat of journalist. They're as bad as my own countrymen in that respect. They've proven themselves to be liars on as monumental a scale as the scum who pretend to report the news in the various information disseminating agencies here in my own nation of morons and fools.

I have watched as the BBC and The Guardian and The Telegraph and most of their lying shithead companions do their utmost to defend the company BP. And simply because it has "British" in the title of the name by which the company goes. Of all the news sources across the soon-to-be-polluted Pond, I have found that only The Independent seems to have anything like a critical eye aimed at British-fucking-Petroleum. (Addendum: Have since realized that The Independent is also a lying, right wing rag.)

You Brits (and Scots and Welsh) have proven to be a huge disappointment to me.

Fuck you.

What I thought was courage and objectivity in your news media has proven to be a phantom. It never existed, really. I just thought there was some courage and honor there.

But you're just like us.

Twits. Alas.

Kill this motherfucker.