Another election

The United Kingdom prepares for a national election between Gordon Brown, Labor party, and David Cameron, Tory. (Also the Liberal Democrats who are a minority, however.) Ordinarily I pay little attention to British politics, but there is something refreshing to me to hear about another nation's problems instead of our own. Liberal versus conservative, a sluggish economy versus funding for social justice: does it sound familiar?

Probably just as mean-spirited, too, but I am simply an observer. Both parties have hired the Washington, D.C., agencies that worked in the Obama campaign. British humor, as organized by The Guardian, has invented a tee-shirt slogan, "Step Outside, Posh Boy" which refers to Gordon Brown's legendary bad temper and David Cameron as heir to a baronetcy.

Let someone else suffer through the rumors and the opinion polls. I will just watch.