The dying days of La Dolce Vita (UK) Ltd.

Voting day is nearly upon us, so it's a good time for me to let off some steam:

• If at every election politicians have promised to reduce bureaucracy, then just who the hell put it there in the first place - friggin' pixies?
• The Conservatives claim that people 'on the doorstep' are talking to them about immigration, although one thinks it's because of the Lynton Crosby strategy of negative campaigning - have you noticed how every single one of the Conservative posters is negative? In Reading, and other places, a nice little backlash has started.
  
• Traffic and transport has not featured much in the campaign, partly because it's a huge challenge. Of course, the BNP have an innovative solution, which is, according to their manifesto, 'We will relieve traffic congestion over the long-term by stopping immigration and encouraging a gradual fall in the overall population'
  
• Economics cannot defy gravity. To prove this, chuck one of the following off a cliff and see if it falls or not:
• £5000
• Your credit card
• Your pair of Manolo Blahnik brothel creepers/shoes
  
• The Chancellor of the Exchequer
• An economist
  
• The country is in debt, partly due to a costly war we didn't budget for, and poor tax revenues because the economy didn't grow as much as expected. In fact, Europe is on the verge of a recession, and no matter what the politicos say, the economy will jump off a cliff and interest rates will go up...oh, and house prices in the UK are about 33% over-valued, and the prices can't be sustained as salaries never rose by as much. Errr, and the pensions system is in serious trouble - so stop living beyond your means
  
• Talk of immigration always hots up when the economy slows down. Remember 1979?
  

So if you know that talk of tax cuts is just plain phooey, you can use your vote on matters that affect us, rather than just you - health, pensions, education, environment, civil liberties and debt relief.

Your vote - use it or lose it. Don't wanna vote? Then go and fuck your luck.

Other stuff:

• A massive 'dziekuje!' to both the Polish Cultural Institute & Krzysztof Marcinkiewicz at Aristos Studio for the cracking film poster of Wajda's 'Czlowiek z Zelaza'
  
• Good luck to Mia in her furniture assembling endeavours and thanks for finding another great gastro pub where I could indulge my gastronomic orgiastic tendancies
  
• Best of luck to Slavic Kitten; snakes and boars can't get it on
  
• Thursday nights are good for flirting at Ikea Brent Park
• Just why do porn movies credit someone as a 'writer'?
• A big 'fuck you' to the forces of perversity that made it impossible to get a ticket to see the great Iranian director Kiarostami in interview at the NFT last Thursday, and to my workload, making it difficult to see Nitin Sawhney in concert in London this week (I will try to catch him in Amsterdam in June)

The link of the day is Wanderlust at Troyland.

Send large-breasted lactating she-males to Fearless.