Won't get fooled again...

Over the other side of the pond they're celebrating the imminent exchange of one president for another. What can we say about G W B? That he was not quite as bad as Idi Amin? Debatable. The USA seems to be looking forward to a breath of fresh air. Here's a short bit of atypical English cycnicism.



But look on the bright side, at least Obama was elected by a majority of voters who knew (roughly) what they were voting for. We aren't quite so fortunate.

Go back a few years (and a few hops across the ocean), to when Margaret Thatcher, after two terms in office, was replaced by an ex-chancellor, un-elected by the voting public, in an attempt to recover from the mounting unpopularity that two terms of her ideas had generated. The good ship Great Britain went rudderless into the storm with her arse-end bared for all to see.

After what seemed like an eternity, a sleaze-ridden government which seemed to have completely forgotten who it was meant to be serving was replaced by a fresh new face, Tony Blair, whom we all (some of us), voted for. Oh, how we sighed with relief! Wonder-kid would save us, Britain would be great again, the damages caused by Thatcher-policies would be redressed. A brave new era was about to dawn.

And what have we got now? Not what we expected. After finally seeing (mostly with relief), a two-plus term Blair bidding farewell, we have an ex-chancellor, un-elected by the general public, taking over, with a brief to do something about the unpopularity which his party seems to have been tarred with. Oh God, Back in Lodi again.

Will history repeat itself?

Good luck, America.

Pray for our souls.