Putting in my 2p again

[davewitley]

Kathryn wrote:

> And now it's been announced we're having a general election on May 
5th -
>   joy of joys.  Now ... politics ...there's a topic ...

Well, it's not all bad.  We have lost at least one day of 
campaigning due to the Pope, and will presumably lose another on 
Friday, as well as the one on Saturday due to the wedding.  (I 
assume the church deliberately chose Friday for the funeral to muck 
up the wedding in revenge for Henry VIII - seems only fair.)

So here's my plan.  If we have a carefully paced series of 
assassinations of respected world leaders, we may be able to 
virtually escape an election campaign altogether.

If you do the Dalai Lama at the weekend, I'll have a pop at Nelson 
Mandela a few days after that.  After that, it gets a bit more 
tricky - would they stop electioneering for the sake of Bob Geldof?  
It's worth a try, isn't it?  What about Vaclav Havel?  Suggestions 
welcome.

David, refraining from mentioning world leaders whose death would 
not be considered worth marking in any way...