Progress is continuing its battle for the proper level of High Seriousness in political discourse by providing you with improving and edifying websites.
It is a great battle in politics to connect to peoples’ hearts and minds. Watching Michael Howard seeking a way to reach his audience’s heart when he has so clearly failed to locate his own can be painful. Why not help him out here:
http://www.rinkworks.com/dialect/
Translating his speeches into cockney might help him reach people.
On a similar note this ingenious site generates a completely random, completely meaningless post-modern cultural essay each time you click on it:
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/community/postmodern.html
This is included as a challenge for Progress Report readers to create a convincing random political speech generator. It is surely about time we applied some science to politics.
To help you in your task of contributing to the consumer aided recovery here are some fine shopping sites.
Here you will find some fine merchandise celebrating North Korea’s Dear Leader. Should you find you wish to invest your capital in one arm of the axis of evil you can also find advice about setting up a business on the sunny side of the 38th parallel on the site too.
http://www.korea-dpr.com/souv.htm
Moving on to the excesses of capitalism…
http://coroner.co.la.ca.us/gifts
To think that someone, somewhere, thought that was a good idea…
Here is the happy home of ideas whose time has not yet come.
Http://www.electoralcommission.org.uk/regulatory-issues/partylinks.cfm
You can find the ‘Glossopdale Independence Party’ and the ‘Adam Lyal’s Withery Tour Party’ which seeks election for a dead Scottish Highwayman.
Sadly a longstanding party seems to have gone. Everyone must raise a glass in farewell to the ‘Battle of Britain Christian Alliance’, and its motto of a Spitfire over the cross. We shall not see its sort again. Never more will one of its candidates be removed from a Church hustings for trying to show his own sketch of man and gerbil in congress.
Finally, the Labour party was told this week to love the civil service. The Prime Minister joshed the student activists of the ’70s who saw the service as hidebound and sluggish. One this site you can press the ‘delivery and reform button’ to learn more our ‘proactive’ and energetic service: