Death of the Tory Party

Went to see The Caretaker by Pinter last night at the Playhouse. Absolutely fantastic. It was claustrophobic and compelling - 3 characters so absorbed in maintaining their own stability that they can't take account of anyone elses - self-absorbed by necessity. I found it totally gripping and the performances were fantastic. I hadn't expected to like it that much as I don't always get on with that kind of "social comment" play but I thought it would be interesting to see cos it was free. As you can see from the above I was completely blown away. Please note that the preceding paragraph has nothing to do with the fact that we got free drinks in the interval as well - I could definitely get to like this reviewing lark!

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I am also pleased to note that the Tory party has finally keeled over and died. We just have to get the final spasms out of the way and then perhaps we can get on with actually trying to build some kind of tolerant society. The final proof was given by the fact that with the country at war, the Northern Irish peace process on the brink of collapse (this was before the IRA statement) and rumours circulating about the Home Secretaries intentions on cannabis the Tory party chose to waste one of the relatively few occasions on which they get to choose the motion for debate in the commons by bitching on about Jo Moore. Yes she said a bloody stupid thing and I bet shes sorry for it now but really. IDS won the leadership saying that he was going to go back to talking about the bread and butter issues that the electorate care about so that was a good start wasn't it. I think its pretty staggeringly hypocritical of the Tories to pretend that they would have done anything different. Now all that's left is for the remaining members of the party to decide which way to jump Those who are more interested in power than policy can head for the Labour party, those who still believe in some of the Tory party's libertarian ideals (anti-big government doesn't just mean privatization you know) can head for the Lib Dems and the rest can join the BNP and then we'll all know where we are.
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Sorry about that. I feel better for having said it though. Oh and while I'm on the subject of current affairs I found this link in zoo_music_girls journal - Arundhati Roy on why the bombing is pretty pointless really.