Admittedly this is again, not a music post, but a political one. In fact, this blog is becoming increasingly less musical and more about drawing your attention to things that irritate me. But i'm in an irritable mood recently, for one reason or another and quite often, a lot of reasons all at once. It has been a rough couple of weeks that have unnerved me, made me feel uncertain about a lot of things and made me itching to move on.
It was a truly inspirational evening last night, to witness the power of democracy working so strongly to change what is seen as an evil empire into a strong, prosperous and well intentioned powerhouse. The America that was promised decades ago, a land of opportunity, one that facilitates the American Dream, is potentially on it's way.

So how outrageous, sad and downright dispicable is it of our politicians to say that they have the most in common with Obama. This is not fighting to win our election next year on issues that affect us, to win our popularity with their own actions but through riding on the coattails of a great American politician. Now last time I voted, I will admit to being slighlty uninformed about what we were voting for. That assembly in the hall where each contestant just spoke about top up fees as that was clearly the most important thing to us, the fees that we didn't have to pay anyway. We did not pay attention to tax bands for the lower and middle classes that are now important to me. I was oblivious to TV licence fees, who was in the cabinet and their european views as I was more worried about liking my flatmates in halls. But we were young, naive and that is a forgiveable crime.

I understand that by associating themselves with the President-elect now, when it comes to crunch time next year the link will be strong and it should be easier for Mr Brown to become re-elected. But I honestly hope that our vote next year will not involve the media circus that America's does, that it will not use America as a template for our rescue by emulating their campaign. All I know is that having taken such an interest in the American elections this year, as most of the world has, I will be entering ours next year with a great degree of foresight and will not appreciate copy tactics by either side.

I know I'm ranting so consider this rant over.