Liberal Burblings

Please sign the petition to retain the ban on capital punishment here. As I write, 14,222 have signed it, as opposed to 7,800 people who have signed Paul Staines’ petition to restore capital punishment. If the last hour is anything to go by, the retain the ban petition is attracting support at twice the rate as the Staines one.

I just find it staggering that anyone can believe that trying to restore capital pubishment is a good use of human energy. I am now considerably long in the tooth, as my birthday reminded me yesterday. I have been involved in political activity for about 24 years. In all that time, I cannot remember anyone calling for the return of the death penalty to my face. Maybe once – it is hard to remember.

I can hardly be bothered to think about the subject, it is so irrelevant. And indeed, I previously resisted the urge to write anything on the cyberweb about this, because it tends to encourage “them”. I mean, presumably it’s thought to be a clever way of increasing hits to your website during the silly season.

But if you want any incentive to sign the petition to retain the ban on capital punishment, just imagine for one moment what Paul Staines’ website (which I will not name in this context for fear of giving it more oxygen) would be like if there was capital punishment. Already, his website has a great deal of the hanging lynchmob about it. Just imagine if he had a real hanging to egg on!

…It doesn’t bear thinking about.

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1. Nick Clegg's 100 day campaign – website & petition
2. Nick Clegg’s 100 day campaign – website & petition
3. Number ten virtual tour
4. That petition in full – 104 LibDem PPCs beg MPs to save the party’s integrity and vote against higher tuition fees
5. Those 103 petition signatory PPCs and where their contituencies are on the LibDem target list