[HPforGrownups] OT: Emergency! Potter misuse alert!

[John Walton]

No: HPFGUIDX 9594

Keith Fraser wrote:

> For those not familiar with UK politics, the Labour Party has been in
> power since 1997 (hence the imminent parliamentary election) and
> since then has promoted a nauseatingly PC Cool Brittania full of
> purple cafes, strange modern art and political spin-doctoring. How
> dare they even consider using Harry Potter to promote themselves!

Hey, it could be worse. You could have Ann Widdecombe in a veela costume.

Ann Widdecombe, BTW, is the lunatic Shadow Home Secretary (Translation:
Shadow = Opposition. There is no US equivalent, but she's of the
Conservative Party. Home Secretary = somewhere between Attorney General and
Sec of the Interior), who was recently embarrassed when her plans (should
she and the party she belongs to, by some bizarre feat of porcine aviation,
be elected) to create fixed penalties, somewhat like traffic fines, for use
of cannabis/marijuana backfired after the majority of her Opposition
frontrunners admitted using it. She was heard to remark, concerning the
proposed fines for marijuana use, "It's a bit like speeding." She
*obviously* hasn't tried it, has she?

Yay! Another election to go massively OT with!

--John, who's willing to write a comparative US-UK politics and government
essay for the list if anyone's interested.

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