marked absence of nice things

[usuallyhats]

Terrible European election results: very low turnout (35%), UKIP in second place overall, and the BNP won two seats. The BNP. I am shocked and ashamed to find out that I live in a country where a gang of racist hatemongers are winning seats. Meanwhile, the Tories are talking about joining up with a party who apparently get their kicks banning gay pride parades*. Lovely. The local council results were pretty depressing too - great swathes of blue, and the fact that that lonely little splodge of Lib Dem orange represents Bristol is very little comfort.

*can't seem to find a source for this, but they were talking about it on the Today programme this morning.