rant overload

Yesterday Bin Laden, today AV. It seems there is endless rantage to go round; one doesn't even have to stick to one rant-topic for longer than a day.

AV, for them as don't live in t'UK, means alternative vote, and is a non-first-past-the-post system of voting wot we are all being referendumed on this Thursday.

Oh, and apparently IT KILLS BABIES.

Yes, a new voting system in the UK will KILL BABIES. Trufax.

Me, I'm German. And in Germany we have proportional representation. And proportional representations is what I like. T'h said an interesting thing this morning. He said, "The British don't want to vote for a list. They want to vote for an individual whom they can trust." Me: "But I like the non-individual focus of proportional representation. I don't think a democracy should be built around individuals and personality cults. I like voting for principles and ideologies: for a party." T'h: "The British are sceptical of ideologies. They don't want to vote for them." Me: "So that's why they don't want to introduce proportional representation! But this strange AV system of first choice, second choice etc." (Wot they also have in Australia where t'h hails from.)

And everyone knows: in Australia, when they vote, they KILL BABIES.