Local Election Sex Shocker Special (1/2) By Lee Cassanell The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. Plato

(1/2), (2/2).

Yes it's that time of year folks. The leaflets have been distributed, babies have been kissed and your local politicians have been photographed with some wheel chair bound thalidomide. Now I have nothing against people suffering from the thald, in fact I once spent a steaming evening with a short armed seductress and I found her to be both passionate and dexterous in the bedroom department and I would still be with her today if it wasn't for her savage alcohol problems and fondness for anal beads. Anyway, onto more important matters.

So democracy is a sham, there's a credit crunch, bread is up, death, war, mayhem and episodes of Coronation Street continue to fill our dark nights and rainy days. Nothing's changed and nothing is going to change until aliens land or some masked man guns down Gordon Brown in the Houses of Parliament and declares himself Emperor.

There are those who would say that local elections are important but it's really just a bunch of managers and bullshit artists vying for a piece of power. Sure, they care but so do other people; people who have different ideas and are willing to try new things.

It's just that those people do not have the weight and wealth of a large national party behind them so their leaflets and literature might not have looked so shiny and glossy on your doormat if they bothered wasting time printing one at all.

The Labour and Conservative parties have a major advantage over the rest ... it's not in any way a fair system because these organisations wield power and influence in all levels of society and have done for a century or more.

If it was a horse race it would be the equivalent of those two parties starting 500 metres in front of the rest of the candidates who've all been spiked with sleeping tablets and had their back legs sawn off.

It's stupid and transparent and on top of all the rest of the idiocy it's impossible for any sane citizen to take any of it seriously and to be honest I'm bored of talking about it because it's not looking like turning anytime soon.

I blame myself and I blame you. We're all too sleepy and sedated to care. So much so that we voted for the liberal party and let's be honest, if you're voting liberal then you haven't taken your partner over the dining room table in ten years and you spend far too much time in the garden.

Personally I'd vote for a return of the Third Reich rather than tick the Liberal box. I mean, say what you want about Hitler, at least he had an ethos which is more than can be said for the fence sitting mung bean-botherers amongst us.

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