It Turns Out To Just Be A Vessel For Hoon.

[rionaleonhart]

Today, on the telephone:

Riona's Brother: Has Dad voted yet?
Riona: Er, I don't know.
Riona's Brother: When he gets home, if he hasn't voted, maybe you could... break his ankles?

Ours is a politically divided household.


I've had the right to vote in a general election for almost four years, but today was the first opportunity I had to exercise that right. How exciting! I find the idea that any country considers me responsible enough to have a say in its running terrifying, frankly, but you have only yourself to blame, Representation of the People Act 1969. It's between the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats in my constituency; I've voted Lib Dem.

For the information of anyone who wants silly, fannish discussion of the election and UK politics in general, by the way: wanttobeatree and theoret have created uk_lolitics. They're planning to have an election party post tonight. Have you ever wondered what Pokémon David Cameron would have? Now there is a place to ask!

Tentative assignments:

- I can see Cameron with a Mr Mime, largely based on the fact that both the man and the Pokémon sort of unsettle me. I don't know whether it's his face or his manner of speaking or his body language, but something about David Cameron is reminiscent of Derren Brown without the charisma, and that freaks me out tremendously. I do not want Derren Brown in a position of political power. Doctor Who has shown us what would happen in that scenario, and it doesn't end well. (Mr Mime's Psychic type is also relevant here, of course.)

- Brown has a Pidgey. Gordon Brown could well be making the most reasonable points in the world, but I cannot pay attention to anything he says. It's bizarre. Gordon Brown is essentially invisible to me; I was still forgetting Tony Blair was no longer Prime Minister a year and a half after Brown succeeded him. It's as if the man walks around surrounded by a perception filter. It makes sense to assign him a rather unremarkable Pokémon that shows up so often you eventually barely notice it.

- Clegg has a Taillow: a tiny but gutsy bird Pokémon that will take on much larger foes.

And that is probably as intelligent as my political commentary is going to get, oh dear.

Comments

[inappropriately.livejournal.com]

This is brilliant.

[th-esaurus.livejournal.com]

Only half-related to this post (the Pokemon half): I have decided Matt Smith's Pokemon to be a Furret. No argument on this. (I SHOULD GET A POKEMON ICON. I can't keep using my Digimon icon in these situations.)

I was still forgetting Tony Blair was no longer Prime Minister a year and a half after Brown succeeded him

Completely the same here.

[misskass.livejournal.com]

I don't live in the UK, and therefore there's not really an expectation for me to remember, but it took me ages to get it into my head that it was Gordon Brown and no longer Tony Blair. This is clearly a widespread thing.

[rionaleonhart]

No argument you shall have! There is definitely something very Smithlike about a Furret.

I'm glad I wasn't the only one completely incapable of remembering who the Prime Minister was.

[wolfenkahlon.livejournal.com]

I was still forgetting Tony Blair was no longer Prime Minister

No longer Prime Minister? Oh, wait... yeah... he's not is he... >.>

[timydamonkey.livejournal.com]

Today, my house is a Lib Dem Committee Room. There's a sign up and everything.

Basically, it means the whole of our town's Lib Dem party, including the candidate standing for MP, come and go all day between leafleting and have a bit of food for when they nearly collapse of excessive leafleting.

I have hidden myself in my bedroom, lol.

[wanttobeatree.livejournal.com]

I THINK THEY ALL HAVE JIGGLYPUFFS.


because I think everyone has jigglypuffs :(

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Since Taillow are Richard Hammond, I'm now expecting Clegg to go 'I CHOOSE YOU, RICHARD HAMMOND. USE YOUR BLINDING SMILE ATTACK'.

If only I could use the Pokemon method to figure out who the hell I'm going to vote for in about a month's time. We have quite a list of choices here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_the_Netherlands) and I DON'T KNOW.

[fireholly.livejournal.com]

I think Gordon is more of a Metapod man, to be honest. He even looks like one, a bit.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

See, I'd read up on the election more seriously if the different candidates were all using different Top Gear presenters as Pokemon.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Your first election! Congratulations!

It took me ages to stop confusing Gordon Brown and Derren Brown.

[dracothelizard.livejournal.com]

Well, if the Conservative guy will dress up as the Stig for Clarkson's birthday party...

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Maybe he was trying to catch a Stig, but couldn't get one into his Pokeball, so he had to catch a Clarkson instead?

[darkest-alchemy.livejournal.com]

I actually sort of like Cameron, from what I've seen of him as a person rather than as a politician. I wouldn't vote for him though.

I would so vote for Derren Brown.

[emmarrrrr.livejournal.com]

LOLITICS! I HAVE JOINED LIKE A SHOT (EVEN THOUGH I AM A DIRTY RIGHT-WING TORY, BUT WHATEVERZ.)

[rimon.livejournal.com]

Your political Pokemon assignments are brilliant.

[clo.livejournal.com]

In case work has eaten your brain too much to stay up watching election coverage, there was a cute moment between Mitchell and Brooker at the end of the Alt. Election on C4; Mitchell said something about chavs, then glared at Brooker and said "Don't give me that look Charlie! It's late!"

It was...oddly domestic and I can totally see why you 'ship them. (And now *I* kind of 'ship them too. It was a cute moment!)

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

Also, while "I'm going to answer the door now, but I'm coming back for your cock" was impressively slashy, "He's an idiot, but he's my idiot" managed to be even slashier.

And I'm quite convinced Johnson would sleep with Mark if Mark ever managed to avoid coming off as overly dorky or painfully sincere. At the very least, he'd do it to spite Jeremy.

ETA: As I was typing, Johnson said Mark could be Camilla to his Charles, and patted him on the face. He wants Mark to be his royal mistress! And Jeremy and Johnson are giving each other death glares!

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

And also, Mark Corrigan's just proclaimed himself "the least French person on the planet", and then started rambling about cheese. He needs to meet James May in fanfic.

EVEN MORE STUFF: Mark just asked Jeremy to be his white concubine.

[rionaleonhart]

I love 'He's an idiot, but he's my idiot'. Mark knows that Jeremy will give terrible advice, but Jeremy is the one he goes to anyway, because Jeremy is his. They are such a wonderful awful couple.

Oh, dear, Mark and May meeting would be horrendously awkward.

Mark just asked Jeremy to be his white concubine.

...I don't remember this.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I think it might have been during the moving-to-India plan? I'm drawing a blank now, and I just saw this! Mark was all "...and you can be my white concubine!"

Now I'm going to be wondering which episode it was. I was just watching series four.

[rionaleonhart]

Ooh, series four! Have you seen the final episode? The ending is such a lovely Mark-and-Jeremy moment.

[amy-wolf.livejournal.com]

I have! It's quite sweet. I didn't know Jeremy could be sweet to Mark!

[(Anonymous)]

Hallo! Don't ask me how I got here, I'm not too sure myself. Okay, bullet points?
-Sweetest letter from Derren. Aw!
-VOTE SAXON!!!!!
-This is fascinating.

I'm sorry. Don't mind me :P

[rionaleonhart]

Hello, mysterious anonymous figure! I'm very pleased you've been enjoying my old entries. (It really was a lovely letter. I'm not quite as weirdly obsessed with Derren as I used to be, but I'm always going to be fond of him because of that kindness.)