Here's a thought with which to end the week, and I've not seen or heard any news programmes today other than catching the headlines, which is probably a good thing, as I imagine they have all been pretty depressing.
But, what kind of state of affairs do we find ourselves in when we end up electing a UKIP member of parliament? And, does this say more about terrible choices being made by the voters, or should we pointing the finger at the main political parties?
And whilst we are on the subject, another quick question: don't you just know that both Labour and the Conservatives will be rushing to explain to the electorate how they will be reassessing their stance on immigration and other key policies in light of the important message that the people of Clacton have delivered on behalf of the people of Britain (or other similar political mumbo jumbo that idiot politicians like to come up with at times like this). Well my question is this - whilst it may be fine for policies to gradually evolve over time, surely a political party should stand for a set of values (which therefore determine their key policies). If so, then losing a vote doesn't mean that the first thing that every party does is to decide how to amend / re-style their policies to make them more like the people who won, otherwise doesn't this rather undermine the whole system? Or am I missing the point?