Back to Work

Tomorrow is monday (at the time of writing) kids have been back at school for well over a month, Adolescents back at collage for similarly long and even university students are starting to think about putting a post-it note of their deadlines on the edge of their computer screens so they don't forget! Summer is but a distant memory, christmas a looming nightmare and yet our MPs are not even back from their holiday break... until tomorrow. unbe-fucking-lievable.

Don't worry its not that bad, they have been working a bit (although not for us) this past few weeks. Every year the political parties like to have a get together and mull things over before going back to work - its the PARTY POLITICAL CONFERENCES. Gasp. Applause? Maybe not. So for my first blog back, a brief break down of how they went? well its that or X-factor... the conferences? good choice.

1. Liberal Democrats - it was dull (they all were, so lets take that as standard) it was a mess actually. They all contradicted each other and couldn't seem to decide what was policy and what wasn't - they even got a bit snippy with Vince Cable for making a decision without asking enough people first, which might be a good reason to get snippy but given this is one of the few times in the year people are actually paying attention to the Lib Dems - is it a good idea to get all snippy with probably the only person in the party who has enough talent and intelligence to be an asset to government and in doing so come across as fussy, wet drama queens? short answer? no. Long answer? also no.

2. Labour - it was dull (touching on a previous point) it was forgettable. Or, as I heard it described rather ludicrously at one point "not one of the classic conferences". Amazing. There are classic conferences? my mind is blown. Arching back onto topic, it wasn't good or bad - it was medium (or middling, or whatever the correct adjective is) it doesn't merit any more discussion than that.

3. Conservative - it was... dull, correct! and sort of good but not in a "I now love the conservatives way" more of a "yeah, that was a smooth running conference i guess, or at least as smooth as a conference can be with Boris Johnson crashing about and fucking things up" sort of an affair. Strangely i found myself liking George Osborne, the shadow Chancellor, he seemed to actually explain what he intended to do if in office, which is fairly unprecedented, so two thumbs up to him. unfortunately those two thumbs quickly wilt after hearing Eric Pickles (the Conservative Party Chairman) open his mouth and spew a torrent of benign and tiresome Tori mantras. Best of the three but I wont be voting on the strength of party conferences and if we are honest neither are you so this has been a complete waste of time. 

In other news Barrack Obama won the nobel peace prize. Possibly the first person to win the peace prize for just saying "peace would be nice"... maybe Miss World will win it next year for similar sentiments?