Friday, June 05, 2009

Farage Balloon

9.05 p.m...

"Oh, it's that programme with Meera Syal. I like her. She's a good woman and really intelligent. Her husband's good as well. Do you like him, Geoff? He's got a new show starting soon, Sanjeev."

9.30 p.m...

"It was such a long list, wasn't it? Too big for the booth. I was looking at some of the names. Did you see Labour had three Indian names? That settled it, I wasn't going to vote for them. It took me ages to find UKIP. They weren't called UKIP, though. They were called the UK something or other."

17 comments:

  1. I'm sure Betty has her reasons...

    ;-)

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  2. LOL!

    UKIP are the party of choice for the comfortably-off over 75s. Betty is neither.

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  3. You lucky, lucky bastard. You live in an area where you are not the only voter.
    It's been ten years since I saw another voter at our polling station.

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  4. What kind of Indian names?

    Sitting Bull?

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  5. Vicus - We've never had to queue. We were outnumbered last night by police and officials.

    Billy - Better than the bunch of cowboys we've got now.

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  6. Sorry Geoff, I don't believe Betty voted UKIP. She's taking the piss. She's from somewhere like Bulgaria herself isn't she?

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  7. It was my mum! Betty's definitely from somewhere like Bulgaria. The West Midlands.

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  8. I used to teach a pair of 14 year old lads who were best friends - one a Sikh and the other a Muslim.
    The Muslim would often rant on about how he hated Sikhs and vice versa.
    I really don't think they thought it was at all strange.
    (I won't tell you who I spotted in the voting queue as I've bored Rog and Malc already.)

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  9. I always thought that Betty might be a racialist! They come over here, those Bulgarians, take the piss out of our shite music, and then pull up the drawbridge!

    Honestly.

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  10. If you vote for candidates with Indian names it makes your pencil smell of curry.

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  11. Kaz - It's all about fitting in with other people's expectations. We need a fairy godmother to sprinkle goodness over the world. I know who you spotted in the voting queue. It was him off The Bill.

    Spin - One day I'm going to confiscate her Bernard Manning DVD.

    Tim - And the UK won't be the UK any more.

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  12. Eh?

    *the foreigner wanders off, looking confused*

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  13. Look up some images of UKIP leader Nigel Farage and it will become self-evident.

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  14. I voted for UK First party whatever they are.

    Hope they're not nazi's!

    ;- )

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  15. You know who I saw in the polling station (conveniently situated on our estate)? Nobody. I was the only one there. Hurrah for British apathy!

    I agree with your mum, there were too many choices. And it was in alphabetical order, a mistake I feel, as the BNP were at the top.

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  16. Laura - Oh, I'm sure they're not. They're just a bit nostalgic for the old days.

    Annie - Yes, the BNP were the easiest ones to put a cross by. The poor independents at the bottom were almost on the floor.

    MJ - What a lovely, caring man.

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