the brilliantly leaping gazelle

If, as widely predicted, Labour do indeed win the election, wouldn’t it be an incredibly satisfying turn of events if a vocal minority Conservative voters constantly banged on about how utterly unfair they thought the outcome was and sought to overturn it? 

Possibly by launching court cases based on nothing more than sour grapes which might end up involving the Supreme Court, calling for judicial reviews of the process and attempts cancel the result. Not to thwart the democratic will of the majority you understand, but to do something incredibly complicated that only the grown ups might be able to understand.

Which would necessarily suggesting that the credulous fools who’d voted for Labour not only had been lied to, but that Labour had knowingly lied to them. That Labour voters didn’t really know what they were voting for – was it Eurovision? – effectively implying that Conservative voters were intimately aquatinted with every detail of their manifesto.

Because it is a truism of political election campaigning, that political manifesto’s are sacred texts, and all of their promises are always enacted if elected and reused again and again if not, to signify exactly how committed to them they are. No political campaign in the history of ever, has been accused of falsehoods, misleading claims and downright lies. 

There’d also be the unspoken assumption that there was something inherent in their character that had caused them to vote Labour. Either a moral defect or an irrational fear, possibly both, that rendered them susceptible to manipulation via well funded and highly targeted social media adverts.

But of course this won’t happen and the reason it won’t happen is losers consent, the ludicrous premise that the losing side in an election gracefully accepts defeat and moves on. You know, the way democracy is supposed to work, you win some you lose some.

I just want to point out again that I voted to Remain in the European referendum, but was appalled by the way that certain sections of the media, especially BBC TV, BBC Radio 4 and The Guardian constantly promoted the fatuous idea that some elaborate political chicanery had taken place. And even more appalled that there was an audience all too willing to believe such complete and uttter bollocks and that they alone were part of the chosen few who could see it.