Highly irritated

I'm a bit irritated at the moment - not because I've done the Macc to London trip twice in the last 2 days and I've had about 4 hours sleep - but because there's still a whole load of politicians in this country that don't seem to understand democracy.

In fact, they seem to be growing in number.

Manchester has voted no to the congestion charge - even though the Council's pushing the charge thought they could fool the public by wording the question cleverly, and even though they broke laws about political TV ads.

That's not what I'm irritated about. I'm delighted about this because it was the most crackers of all the crackers plans I've seen in the last year.

But...it has been reported by the daily mail (sorry - it was the first news source to have a decent article up):

Privately 'Yes' campaigners conceded people have failed to grasp the scale of the £2.75 billion planned investment and what it would mean for local transport.

Because when the people vote against you it's always because they don't understand?

No, it's because they thought it was a rubbish deal.

All we heard after Ireland voted no was that they didn't understand about the EU. Now there's talk about asking Ireland to vote again - perhaps they'll just keep trying until they Yes?

Seems like a strategy that might work for Manchester.