Wednesday 12 May 2010

One of life's little ironies...

Although Blur's drummer Dave Rowntree stood as a Labour Candidate in the General election this time around, Alex James (Blur's bassist) apparently had David Cameron as a guest at his birthday party. Oh well. I'm just going to quote the lyrics to 'Charmless Man' from The Great Escape verbatim: they describe Cameron perfectly (and also why I intensely, intensely dislike the man).

I met him in a crowded room
Where people go to drink away their gloom
He sat me down and so began
The story of a charmless man
Educated the expensive way
He knows his claret from his beaujolais
I think he'd like to have been Ronnie Kray
But then nature didn't make him that way

He thinks his educated airs

Those family shares
Will protect him

That you will respect him
He moves in circles of friends who just pretend that they like him
He does the same to them 

And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man

He knows the swingers and their cavalry

Says he can get in anywhere for free
I began to go a little cross eyed
And from this charmless man I just had to hide

He talks at speed 

He gets nose bleeds
He doesn't see his days are tumbling 

Down upon him
Yet he tries so hard to please 

He's just so keen for you to listen
But no-one is listening 

And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man

He thinks his educated airs

Those family shares
Will protect him

That you will respect him
Yet he tries so hard to please 

He's just so keen for you to listen
But no-one is listening 

And when you put it all together
There's the model of a charmless man


That's the last thing on here you'll see about the election, because although I wear my politics on my sleeve, five years of Conservative government is too fucking depressing to mention more than once. 

From the poster in our lounge: "if you vote me in, I will become more annoying than you can possibly imagine." Charmless man indeed. 

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