There are few things in life that generate as much pleasure as watching a bully being given a bloody nose.
That’s how it felt last Friday as the final results came in from across the UK, following the local elections on Thursday.
The ‘Tory knows best party’ which listens only to the views of their own members and the self interest of big business, took a well earned, and painful, drubbing.
Their partners in our present coalition government (lib dems) who, like most gang members who follow a bully, stand back and watch while the bully does his work, took more than their fair share of the punishment too.
Of course, there are the usual lame excuses of a ‘poor turnout’ and it’s the ‘middle of the parliamentary term’ but even allowing for the conveniently forgotten fact there was also a poor turnout at the election two years ago that gave them the chance to govern, the latest result was like a rabbit punch to the body of arrogance that has been lecturing us on the ‘error of our ways, for the last couple of years.
Let’s not, however, get too carried away by forgetting that the ones who gained most on Thursday (labour) were themselves the bullies of yesteryear. Their own attempts to make us subservient to their attacks on personal freedom and democratic process, were similarly dealt with by facing them down at the polls and removing the bully’s threatening posture.
While it seems many eligible voters in our country have fallen into apathy over the inadequacy of our political leaders, there are, thankfully, still many who will not accept the threatening taunts of the bully and not hesitate to deliver him a bloody nose at the polls.
Education may be perceived to be in decline but long live the lessons once learned in our school playgrounds!