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Ralph Ferrett, Male, 32,
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Tories = Dark Lords of the Sith?

Special thanks to my friend Matthew Travis for pointing this out to me. It appears from this irrefutable documentary evidence that Francis Maude and Emporer Palpatine/Darth Sidious are in fact one and the same person.

See for yourself, here are some pictures of Palpatine/Sidious:-

Emporer Palpatine

Darth Sidious

Now let us compare this to Some pictures of Francis Maude:-

Former Tory Chairman Francis Maude

Apparently both Michael Gove, and George Osborne applied to become Sith Lords but were denied entry on the grounds that they were far, far to evil to actually be

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5 reasons why the Coalition will last.

My recent blog on why I think it is a mistake for the left to be focussing so much on the Liberal Democrats generated some interesting debate, on the blog, on Facebook and on Twitter.

Much of this debate focussed on the need to attack the coalition to try and bring it down as quickly as possible. Now I cant say that this would be anything other than a hot damn good thang! But I feel the need to write a couple of quick blogs about firstly how likely I think

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Time to stop wasting time hating the Lib Dems.

A significant trick will have been missed by the left if we focus all or our ire with the coalition on the Liberal Democrats. The sense of almost visceral hatred, at the alleged betrayal is for my money misplaced and is meaning that the left are missing a trick in respect of who the enemy really are.

For my money the Liberal Democrats really didn’t have too much choice after the election given the mathematics of the parliament. There really wasn’t a credible possibility of a workable Lib/Lab coalition and for

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Yes to AV, Yes to Equal Constituencies, but not like this.

I am a long standing and passionate supporter of electoral reform. I feel that our current system of voting is manifestly unfair and skews our public policy agenda in favour of the few and not the many. The alternative vote is far from perfect, it isn’t the system I would chose but it is better than the status quo.

So I was delighted when the Labour promised to back AV in the manifesto. And whilst I was devastated to see the Tories back in power a small crumb of comfort for

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