Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Elections, birds, cranes and a cat.

Tomorrow we get to vote for a new government. Very exciting. I'm voting for the lady on the right, a left-green party.

The neighbours were juggling boats around a bit.

Just before it was time to go home it started pouring down really hard.

Father bird was ready to defend his young from me. he made a funny clack sound with that.

My colleague Bjorn showed me this today. I like.

4 comments:

Gledwood said...

You get to pick a new govt. tomorrow?
First I've heard of it ~ thanks a lot BBC!
BTW if a new lot get in, does the new Prime Minister start the day after the election, as he/she normally would here, or is there some prolonged handover, as in America...?

And who did you wanna win, or is that secret..!?

Ilse said...

Whaha, die kat!! Echt geweldig:-))

Vincent said...

@ Gled: I do. After elections they first have to form a coalition. The biggest party in that gets to deliver the new PM. It will take a while. I want the PvdA (Labour) to win and form a coalition with Groen Links and a few more left and centre parties.

Gledwood said...

Before it happened (as they knew it would, but you gotta fight for what you believe in, I spose) ~ they were trying to tell us that coalition govt. was the worst possible outcome, that nothing would ever be done... blabblablah-blabblablah... Actually it seems a spectacular way of getting out of election promises bc "the other party/ies won't let us do it"... also a brilliant way of stopping extremists taking control

they really really do not like the idea of proportional represenation in this country, saying it would lead to coalition govts and nothing else

well I don't know, but the present system does seem deeply unfair.

basically if say Labour got 15.4 million votes and the Lib Dems got 15.3 million votes, it is theoretically possible that the Lib Dems could end up with NO SEATS AT ALL ~ the only way of getting a seat is to win the vote in that particular constituency. We have no vote for the leader at all. Only for our local MP

I don't vote anyway, so I don't kow what I'm so het up about.

If I go on the electoral role all my creditors will know where to come and persecute me, so that is the main reason...