Electioneering

The periodic festival of equivocation, obfuscation and general backside talking that is the British election is upon us, heralded this year by a television debate featuring every political leader in the land who A) have sitting MP's and B) aren't Northern Irish, because apparently, for reasons never fully explained, they don't count.

For those who are unfamiliar with or  - more likely - don't care about leaders of British political parties from left to right we have David Cameron (Conservative), Ed Miliband (Labour), Nichola Sturgeon (Scottish Nationalist), Leanne Wood (Plaid Cymru), Nigel Farage (UKIP), Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats) and Natalie Bennett (The Green Party). I feel I should apologise to any supporters of Ms Bennett, whose line is a reference to a recent car crash interview in which she lapsed into an embarrassed silence when asked to cost some of her policies and later blamed this on a case of the sniffles.  

I also apologise for the reduction of complex political positions to infantile soundbites (although what's good for the goose...). I am to political satire what farting in the bath is to perfumery