It's just a lurch to the right

[adderslj]

Normally, I like Fridays. This Friday in particular should be a good one, because Lorna is returning from a week away in Majorca with her family.

However, instead I have woken up to two pretty depressing pieces of news. The first is that the British National Party, the right wing extremists, have secured a couple of council seats up north. Looks like France no longer has a monopoly on that lurch to the right that Le Penrepresents.

Oh, and just down the road from where I live, a bunch of fans of Millwall Football Club went on a rampage last night, injuring dozens of police officers. I thought we'd got that sort of behavior out of our systems five years ago.

Oh, for those of you wondering what my experiences of the May Day protests were like, I hope to have that up in an entry later in the day.

Comments

[anselm23.livejournal.com]

France was probably never alone in that lurch to the right thing.

The US election in 2000 looked like it was balanced 50-50%, and for the most part it was, but you gotta remember that while France leaned towards LePen, we actually got this Bush character. He may not talk like a hard right kind of guy, but I think he is one, and the policies of his administration tend to confirm that.

[point5b.livejournal.com]

Ehn. Bush is about as "hard" and "right" as jello dropped on the sidewalk. He's a very mushy moderate with only a few Republican twitches (the anti-abortion business, the religious charities crap, etc).

[emiliejolie.livejournal.com]

This newsophile is always thrilled to live vicariously through your knowledge, Adam.