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February 1st, 2006

I am legal again

As far as drawing cartoons goes at least. See these links which explain how our government lost its vote because of an inability to do counting:

Independent Online Edition > Blair’s no-show causes defeat on hatred Bill
BBC NEWS | Politics | Ministers lose religious bill bid
The Times: Rowan Atkinson celebrates Government defeat
(By Ruth Gledhill)
and… ahem…
Mirror.co.uk – News – RELIGIOUS BILL BLOW

(That last one included solely for the line “One Labour MP said: “The Chief Whip will carry the can. She is toast.”” Mixed metaphors just appeal to me for some reason.)

In order to stay legal though I must now dash to the post office to get a tax disc for my campervan which currently lies rotting in the driveway. There’s still the slimmest chance it might see the open road again, who knows.

Update: Kerron Cross, interesting blogger with a Houses of Parliament pass supported this bill. There’s a thing.

Update 2: Don’t even begin to talk to me about the DVLA or Rayleigh post office. Pah.

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6 Responses to “I am legal again”


  1. Chris Clark says:

    Its not a mixed metaphor. She is to be eaten as toast but has to bring her own beans.

    February 1st, 2006 at 10:11 am
  2. Dave says:

    I think you might be right Chris. I was thinking that whoever was eating the toast would need to eat the can too, but upon further reflection I can see the logistical difficulties of such a meaning.

    February 1st, 2006 at 3:02 pm
  3. Neil says:

    Watch out, you cartoonists are still making news…

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4670370.stm

    February 1st, 2006 at 10:06 pm
  4. Kyle says:

    This is why Americans keep guns, a right that is enshrined in the Second Amendment to the US Constitution. If their government makes a really stupid law like Blair’s Government attempted, citizens have the ability to blow that government straight to hell.

    Amen.

    February 2nd, 2006 at 1:54 pm
  5. Mark Berry says:

    mmm US logic somehow always seems to elude me… Keep a gun so that if the Governement brings in a law I don’t like… I can “blow them straight to hell”… now if only we had that here in the UK… we could do away with elections and ballots boxes for ever… just shoot them when we want a change! Oh the simplicity of it all!!!

    Saying that I think the situation reached by rebellion and cock-up in Parliament seems to be the best way forward.

    February 2nd, 2006 at 2:10 pm
  6. Dave says:

    Mark, I think Kyle was joking, sort of. But maybe you get that. Or maybe he wasn’t. Or maybe you know that he wasn’t. Maybe everyone gets everything, except me.

    Oh dear. The problem about the internet is that I can never who is serious and who isn’t. On the basis of much of what I’ve read I’m hoping that most people aren’t being serious most of the time.

    February 2nd, 2006 at 2:29 pm