Back to the Future

When I was young the Labour Party was, in principle, democratic. We even used to do quaint things like debate how the leader should be elected. Eventually, even the Conservatives decided that electing a leader was the proper thing for a modern democratic party to do. How sad then to see the carcase of the Labour Party arguing over when their Almighty Potentate™ should deign to step down and hand over to his already anointed successor. Even the language used by those unhappy with the current situation oozes deference. 'Regicide' and 'treason' are not in the vocabulary of a democratic party deciding who should have the honour of leading it.

Still, perhaps it's appropriate that a party that seems to want to turn Britain into a police state should have a leadership succession process apparently borrowed from the Chinese Communist Party.

Frankie made me do

frankie_ecap wanted pictures.

( cute, cute, cute )

Icon memeage

I've got an hour to kill before going to collect lemur_catta from Pearson so I thought I'd do this:

( Icons and explanation under the cut )