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		<title>I don&#8217;t care any more</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Election nights are wonderful. There are swings, exit polls, and reminders that these graphics are based on projected vote-shares. For about 15 years, I've sat up into the too, too early morning breathlessly awaiting results at every opportunity. I even sat up for the results of the referendums on Scottish and Welsh devolution. But not last night. Last night I realised that I actually didn't care.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Election nights are wonderful. There are swings, exit polls, and reminders that these graphics are based on projected vote-shares. For about 15 years, I&#8217;ve sat up into the too, too early morning breathlessly awaiting results at every opportunity. I even sat up for the results of the referendums on Scottish and Welsh devolution. But not last night. Last night I realised that I actually didn&#8217;t care.</p>
<p>I didn&#8217;t care if the Tories take a council in the north. I didn&#8217;t care if Labour can hold Reading. I didn&#8217;t care what Worcester woman does. Unless it&#8217;s porn. I might stay up if it&#8217;s porn.</p>
<p>As the early results came in I settled in front of Dimbleby&#8217;s massive face, surrounded myself with booze, and waited. And waited. And it never happened. The tingle, the odd squeeze of the gut as the Tories take a seat in Wyre Forest, the infintesimal thrill as they lose one somewhere else. It never happened. I just didn&#8217;t care any more.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s taken a long time for me not to care. I&#8217;ve adopted a position of haughty indifference in public for as long as I can remember. &#8220;<em>They&#8217;re all the same</em>,&#8221; was a mantra to live by. I knew this. I&#8217;d go on at tedious length about it. They&#8217;re all the same. But, of course, they aren&#8217;t. Some of them are Blues and are thus hateful gutter-vermin, a black crust around the rim of humanity&#8217;s toilet bowl, whose every misfortune makes the world a happier place.</p>
<p>And the others have been swaggering disappointment-hounds, urinating in the face of all that was good and decent, with Richard Branson holding their collective penises. From Clause IV to tuition fees, from the Terrorism Acts to Iraq, to the 10p rate of tax, to all my adult life they&#8217;ve&#8230; No. </p>
<p>It doesn&#8217;t matter. I didn&#8217;t care any more. And, nominally, I never have &#8211; but there was always a little smile of satisfaction when they won something. Because if they won, the others lost. And the only thing worse than them was the others.</p>
<p>Except it wasn&#8217;t. Finally, my gut appears to have accepted what my brain claimed to know. They are no better than the others. That half-hope that it was all Tony Blair, and that once he was gone they might rediscover the principles you always hoped they had? The pipe-dream of a twatbasket. Nothing more. A towering, imaginary palace, constructed of dandelion seeds and fairy guff.</p>
<p>And tonight, watching the heads bray and bleat about what this means for who, finally, I truly did not care. And I shall go to bed and not care. I shan&#8217;t care. It&#8217;s over, at long last. I do not care.</p>
<p>Until tomorrow, when they count the votes for London Mayor&#8230;</p>
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		<title>It&#8217;s that time of year again</title>
		<link>http://liberalconspiracy.org/2007/12/14/its-that-time-of-year-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nathaniel Tapley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year again. No sooner does an important traditional religious holiday roll around than the PC-brigade feel the need to strip-mine it of its original significance, just so&#8217;s no-one&#8217;s feeling get upset. Fuck that. For many years now, it&#8217;s become unfashionable to talk of Geola, as Muslims, atheists, and Christians have [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, it&#8217;s that time of year again. No sooner does an important traditional religious holiday roll around than the PC-brigade feel the need to strip-mine it of its original significance, just so&#8217;s no-one&#8217;s feeling get upset. Fuck that.</p>
<p>For many years now, it&#8217;s become unfashionable to talk of Geola, as Muslims, atheists, and Christians have all attacked our traditional holiday.<br />
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<strong>It is the Christians who have the most gall of all</strong>, daring to attach the name of some first-century Palestinian to a once-proud British festival. &#8216;Yule&#8217; I can live with, despite its being a continental bastardisation of our British pronunciation &#8216;Geola&#8217;, but &#8216;Christmas&#8217; is just wrong. You even have to mispronounce &#8216;Christ&#8217; to say it.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s important that we remember that Geola isn&#8217;t just about family and friendship, it is also about the ritual human sacrifice of male slaves, once every nine years. When was the last time any of our loony local councils allowed this traditional practice? Once again the feminazis and Health and Safety Ceaucescus have stamped their grubby little Christian boots over our heritage.</p>
<p>Just think of what we have lost because of our spineless governing elites. Where once we swore fealty on the back of our best boar, loud enough for the god Freyr to hear, before slaughtering it and spending 12 days eating its carcass; now we have dried-up turkey and Iceland breaded prawns.</p>
<p>What is perhaps most disturbing is the way in which the Christian brigade have felt free to take the bits of our festival they liked (the decorated tree, the holly, the mistletoe, the Yule log, gammon), and pretend that our holiday has nothing to do with our traditional celebrations of the death of winter. They even crow about it!</p>
<p>When Pope Gregory wrote to St Mellitus as he came to convert the Britons, he instructed him not to change too many of the details of our festivities, but just the god they were worshipping. Such blatant contempt for our pagan heritage is, quite frankly, frightening, and yet another example of what happens when you let immigrants from the EU roam willy-nilly, preaching their message of hate.</p>
<p>The fact that our once proud Joulenpukki, who came to distribute presents to good children and devour the bones of bad ones has been forced in many government depictions to take off his robe of rotting goat hides and wear instead a red coat is surely shame enough. </p>
<p>Now, his belly shakes when he laughs like a bowl full of jelly, rather than rattling with the femurs of naughty children. Will we never learn?</p>
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This is a guest post. Nathaniel Tapley <a href="http://pastichio.blogspot.com/">blogs here</a>.</p>
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