This was too long for a Facebook status

[davidn]

Christ almighty, but my Facebook page has become a political vomitzone over the last few days. Listen, everyone:

To some of those on the left, Nick Clegg has done exactly what he said he was going to do from the start to form some semblance of a stable government. So I'm not really convinced that anyone's been "betrayed" or that it's fair to describe this as a Clegg-Cameron slashfest, and the sooner the photos of the Lib Dem leader with horns and a beard crudely scribbled over the top stop coming, the better. Especially if they're also of him in bed with David Cameron.

To some of those on the right, how is it possible that you have no concept of what self-satisfied gits you've metamorphosed into since I saw you last? Go back over your posts over the last week and read over what you're saying to actual people affected by all this, when you try to say you're above arguments with which you disagree with a smug flourish. It's my hope that you'll soon have a revelation of "Wow, I really am a bit of a twat".

Then everyone can go back to making updates about Treasure Island and Farmville that I don't care about, because even that is a fair distance better than all this.

I await the oncoming piley-on with some trepidation.

Comments

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Marco (Have we ever met each other, by the way? I've been meaning to ask for a while.)

The plans to introduce a right to recall MPs seems very interesting with this in mind: I could see Danny Alexander being recalled as soon as is possible.

[marcobiagi.livejournal.com]

Not properly.

One of the early recall proposals was that MPs could only be recalled when found to be in breach of standards, like for example the expenses scandal. I don't see why you should need the further obstacle of gathering 7,000 signatures when an MP has already been found to be in breach of standards. They should just go. I look forward to seeing what is actually introduced, and perhaps going up to Inverness for the first recall election.

[e-to-the-ipi.livejournal.com]

Ah. I'm one of Stewart Smith's best friends, and was at school with Kirsty West. Talking to statto, which I do too much, does make your name come up a bit.

[marcobiagi.livejournal.com]

Using the PhD-maths-student-at-Imperial and friends-with-Stewart-Smith facts I just found you on Facebook. I think we met briefly while I was doing something union-election related (that's also a useful catchall for why St Andrews faces look familiar to me).