Comments on Samizdata quote of the day

That's the strange thing.

You'd expect all this stuff to be ruthless vote-buying, so I ran a Fun Online Poll on how the UK Government should respond to the slump in the UK housing market and eighty per cent of those who voted (click name for full results) voted for 'do nothing'.

Admittedly, that result is skewed by the centre-right tendencies of my 'blog and those who read it, but all the same...


Posted by Mark Wadsworth at March 30, 2009 02:55 PM

I can hear Mooro commenting as Jaqui Smith beclowns herself again:

"I'm sorry, but that's just incredibly dull!"


Posted by Kevin B at March 30, 2009 06:27 PM

To be fair, the analogy is f**ked. The Rugby ELVs haven't worked as well as they might, but they are still an improvement on the old rules.

The correct analogy is that under the old rules you could protect the ball from 'excessive' competition whereas now you are obliged to actually keep it away from the other team by better playing.

But any analogy is going to be a bit of a stretch when you are talking about a game that depends, like most games, on entirely arbitrary rules!!


Posted by Patrick at April 1, 2009 02:59 AM
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