Views from a car.
Jun. 1st, 2009 11:01 amYou know, local elections always bring out the worst in some people, and parties.
Returning home from Farnborough yesterday, myself and Kit noticed that we were passed a sign for one of the 'issue' political parties (the UKIP, I believe), poking over a fence insisting "Say NO to unlimited immigration".
Being wishy-washy Guardian readers, we were both annoyed by this but Kit was the one who broke and commented on it first:
Kit: "You know, no-one's actually advocating unlimited immigration. At all."
Me: (picking up the theme) Say NO to misrepresented issues!"
Kit: (immediate) "Say NO to straw men!"
Me: (thinks) "Actually, that's what both they and us are saying - but we mean very different things by it."
And by then the car was well past the sign and the conversation changed.
Returning home from Farnborough yesterday, myself and Kit noticed that we were passed a sign for one of the 'issue' political parties (the UKIP, I believe), poking over a fence insisting "Say NO to unlimited immigration".
Being wishy-washy Guardian readers, we were both annoyed by this but Kit was the one who broke and commented on it first:
Kit: "You know, no-one's actually advocating unlimited immigration. At all."
Me: (picking up the theme) Say NO to misrepresented issues!"
Kit: (immediate) "Say NO to straw men!"
Me: (thinks) "Actually, that's what both they and us are saying - but we mean very different things by it."
And by then the car was well past the sign and the conversation changed.