Cons and Lib Dem (bloggers) coalition

Conservative and Liberal Democrat bloggers have been busy posting about coalitions.

This is a result of this wise piece by the editor of politicalbetting.com. I do think this article is good but I have never understood the political anorak’s obsession with discussing coalitions. Even the most incoherent wibble generates discussion as if coalition is an impending reality – and the last few general elections, which have also been preceded by this, show how pointless it is. I’m sure there’s a reason why otherwise balanced people get excited by this but I do not yet understood it.

Labour bloggers have other things on their minds as should Tories (why’s the party not doing better in the polls given the allegations sleaze surrounding the government and will the party survive Cameron’s modernisation?) and Lib Dems (will Campbell wake up and what to do about the Tories stealing its clothes?).

thelondonpester

thelondonpaper’s editor claims today that it’s “total crap” that in some areas London’s pedestrians are pestered every few steps by distributors of his paper or competitor London Lite.

I don’t know where he frequents but this isn’t the picture at stations I regularly use. Outside Euston, King’s Cross, Westminster and Liverpool St it is no longer a battle between commuters racing for trains but freebie paper distributors and everyone else trying to get anywhere or do anything.

Is it just me or do these free papers do what I thought impossible: make the Standard look like London’s quality paper. Last week, for the first time in several years, I bought a copy.

Normal for Norfolk?

I woke this morning in Norfolk to an entertaining, albeit slightly too serious, slot on local radio about the French using the term Normal for Norfolk.

The French newspaper article (read it in Le Monde here if you do such things) is mostly positive about the delights of the Norfolk coast. It claims that the phrase is used by a good number of British doctors.

The radio ‘debate’ did give the normal Norfolk folk the chance to re-rant about their MP’s comments about in-breeding, an entertaining moment in itself.