Politics for kicks.

This week British politics followed America's lead, once again, and staged it's first televised leadership debate. Yes, British politics was dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century, even though it's the middle of 2010, by utalising the magic talking box that's been around for about 300 years. By this rate MP's should be uploading funny clips of themselves onto you tube by about 2050. But, despite this radical step forward for British politics and radical step backward for live TV, there was only one question on everybody's lips this week “ What the fuck has Charlie Brooker done to his hair? It looks like he bought all the hair Simon Amstell had left over when he styled his head wig into a similarly detestable fop, and weaved it into the garishly trendy poncecap you see before you. With Charlie Brookers new hair making him look 20 years younger and 50 times more of a cunt, one was forced to pay attention to the antics of Larry, Curly and Moe (or David, Gordan and Nick, as they are now known) as the curtain raised on the first of their 3 live performances, or the triumvirate of shit, as it's not nearly referred to enough. By general consensus the night belonged to Harpo Marx, or, to use his pseudonym, Nick Clegg, for speaking in public for the first time. Although his performance was rather good, his performance in the polls is a bit misleading as he scored most of his points simply by not being Brown or Cameron. Indeed, the Lib Dems could, conceivably, have stood Bertie Bassett on stage and people would have voted against Gordan and David because they “weren't nearly made of enough liqourice” By all accounts Brown came across as solid and dull, while Cameron was disappointing, or at least as disappointing as someone could be when you expect the to turn up and simply imitate Blair. The whole thing began to resemble a surreal live game of rock, paper, sissors with the three leaders, simply, cancelling each other out. The good thing to come from this is that Britain is now a three party country- and not one of them can explain their proposed spending. See, democrazy works!