UK Politics / Reply to Ann/ The Crouches

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Goddlefrood wrote:
>
> Another convert then? I live as far as it's humanly possible to 
> live away from the place while still being on dry land, partly 
> for this very reason. Unfortunately proportional representation 
> probably wouldn't work there, there'd be too many hung Parliaments 
> with the Liberals holding the balance of power, and would you 
> really want that?
<snip>
> The Liberals have been shuffling leaders quite regularly 
> already, it was only Paddy Pantsdown that held the job for any 
> length of time in recent years, until he was caught with his 
> ashes down. The venerable Ming was more or less a museum piece.

Ann:
Well, I hadn't really been thinking of Paddy as being "recent", she
said, revealing herself to be even shallower than anyone had hitherto
guessed. You're being unfair to Ming, though; you make him sound like
  a vase.

I think it was you who mentioned the last Queen's Speech, with all the
talking heads sounding like fanboys accusing each others' comics of
idea theft. I was rather undismayed by this - I'm OK with a bit of
co-operation between the parties - but maybe that's because of the
size of Tony's majorities. Maybe you're right.

> Goddlefrood:
> 
> Had you been reading The Silmarilion for many years?

Ann:
Well, it felt like it sometimes... worth the effort, though. It puts a
whole different spin on LotR when you realise that Galadriel is
Elrond's mother-in-law.

More seriously, though: if LotR *is* basically a re-enactment of
earlier stories, such as the Silmarillion stuff, that means Aragorn
and Arwen are really Tuor and Idril, and so on. Doesn't that also make
Frodo and Sam Beren and Luthien? (Note that Beren loses a hand, and
Frodo a finger.) No wonder everyone thinks they're slashy.

As I've seen a few Crouch!posts on main in the last few days, I think
I'll say that they've been done to death not only in canon but also
onlist, before OotP came out. See message 47927 and downthread for a
huge and fascinating (but TBAY, if that puts anyone off) series of
posts on Crouch Sr. by an ex-listie named Elkins, who's archived all
her posts at http://www.theennead.com/elkins/hp/. I'm sure there's a
ton of other stuff in archive, too.

Ann