Lies and Promises: Elections, Politicians and Public

There is an erection going on at this very moment. Paying their erectioneering a desultory kind of attention between finishing my manuscript of "Shiatsu for Lovers," keeping up with the football and the latest episode of Home & Away and despite the distraction of Charlie's Angels, I have seen twin headlights shine through the fog of lies and promises

1. If you were to believe any politician you would believe them to lie. This is clearly beyond dispute simply because they call and prove each other liars.

2. Politicians offer a list of promises to persuade the public to erect them. Erected, they break some of the promises.

Given that they are thus reduced to commonality, with all their lies and promises effectively discounted, the only sensible basis for choosing which liars you want to see breaking promises for the next few years must surely be the basis of what they achieved when erected in the past. Not what they said they would achieve, obviously. What they did.

Who was it said "a nation gets the government it deserves?" (This is not a test. I can't remember). We shall find out who or what we deserve when we wake up in the morning. Did I vote? No. (well, yes, once, for the Greens in 1980-something). As the Mexican said, they all steal your chickens.

And could someone please tell whoever's in charge what really bad feng-shui it is to have the word London looking like its been crossed out on the Olympic bid logo.