Posted 3:28 PM by Paul
Brassneck Boogie

I wasn't going to write about politics for a while because it was making me feel like a crazy old yard dog who sits by the new freeway all day snarling at the cars whizzing by, annoyed that the world has moved on. But I had to blog when I turned on the radio to learn that inevitably the We Love Vladdy Putin party had won the Russian parliamentary elections. No surprise there then. But US and EU election observers have complained that the elections were flawed and biassed. They gave two reasons.

- Putin's United Russian Party (only policy Give more power to Vlad) had unfair access to state power.

- They benefitted from a biassed media.

The sheer brassneck of the Proeject for the New American Century is heart stopping.

Next they will be claiming that Putin's cronies actually polled 540,000 less votes than their nearest rivals and that the election was swung by voting irregularities in Vladistan, a small province run by Putin's younger brother. Or maybe even more far fetched - that Russian provinces were called before the votes were counted by a TV station in which another Putin relative held a powerful position and that Vladdy Baby was able to raise twice as much money as his nearest rival. Maybe they will claim that 50% of all Chechens in key electoral districts were disqualifed from voting for being in possesion of a large furry hat in a built up area

But that would be too ridiculous. It would be like errrrr. Communism or something.

P.S The EU observer must have been Berlusconi's valet
P.P.S This was nothing to do with the fact that the pro-Western ultra free marketeers polled less than the Free Vodka party
P.P.P.S Next year's Russian Presidential elections will be declared invalid under the Russian Constitution if less than 50% of those rgistered to vote go to the polls