Kate Bennett said:-
> Imagine... a bunch of spookily familiar things...
These points (almost exactly) were made tonight on the BBC's
Radio 4 - between 5 and 6pm. Kate's e-mail arrived at 7.15pm.
It's astonishing how quickly these things travel around from
medium to medium these days. Note: I'm not saying that Kate's
mail was ripped off from anywhere: it's far more likely that
the someone in the beeb found it and forwarded it to the
programme makers there.
> <<<2. Imagine that the self-declared winner lost the popular vote, but
won
> based on some old colonial holdover from the nation's pre-democracy past.
>
> There are no electoral colleges anywhere else in the world because
everywhere
> else the Government is able to pay off the masses which are uneducated and
> prey to scare tactics and payola for votes
Excuse me? Hello? I assume that _was_ tongue in cheek, right?
--Chris