Late Post

This has been blogged everywhere and probably even other places but, hey, this blog is never anything but playful with the bourgeoise concept of time. So here's Christopher Hitchens on the election:

On May 5, 40 years after I first took out a membership card, it will be possible, for the first time since the 1945 Labor victory that threw out the Churchill Tories, to vote Labor on a point of principle. Sixty years is a long time to wait, but the struggle for Iraq has decided the matter.

He concludes with

There are things to dislike about Tony Blair. His rather sickly piety is one, and his liberal authoritarianism, on matters such as smoking and fox-hunting, is another. I can't forgive him for calling Diana Spencer "the People's Princess," or for seeking the approval of the Fleet Street rags, and he is one of those politicians who seems to think that staying "on message" is an achievement in itself. Nonetheless, he took a bold stand against the establishment and against a sullen public opinion and did so on a major issue of principle. It is absolutely necessary that his right-wing and clerical enemies be humiliated at the polls.

There's nothing perfect with Blair and the Labour Party but they offer more hope than anything else on offer.

As the man used to say "Vote early and vote often" (where "often" is defined as more than zero times and not more than one time).