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// By Jonathan

I'm a little bit disturbed. And that's very different from, 'I'm a little bit disturbing,' before anyone thinks they should stop reading. If you read my last post you will know we have a new government in the UK. I'm of the opinion that they should be given the chance to get this country back to where it should be. Rather worryingly though, I seem to be in a minority. I've read various newspaper columns and websites and seen comments on social networking sites over the last few days, that have, in all honesty, made me shake my head. And these comments are not just from Labour supporters. They are from those of all political persuasions. Tory. Lib Dem. Green. Monster Raving Loony. Monster Munch. The glaringly obvious conclusion is that people want this coalition to fail. Why? Well basically it is because your party of choice isn't in power. Or, if they are, they are not in power in the way you wanted. My question is, 'So what?' As surprising as it might sound, I didn't vote for a poxy coalition either. Am I glad we have one? No, I'm poxy well not. But that doesn't matter. Really it doesn't. The fact is, we do.

Like it or not, David Cameron is Prime Minister and Nick Clegg is his deputy. Their job is to make this country the best it can be. For me. For you. For your next door neighbour. For the milkman. For Peter Stringfellow. For Edd The Duck. For everyone. Shouldn't we all be hoping they can do that? Supporting a particular political party is not like supporting your local - or not so local - football team. We shouldn't want one to fail just because we don't like them. We should want them all to do their best for all of us. I was never a fan of Gordon Brown, but did I want him to make the UK a better place? Of course I did. I didn't want him to cock our country up. So why do people want David Cameron to fail? Well the general consensus seems to be because his cabinet is full of posh boys. Oh, and because he comes across as smug. Seriously, what is that about? It's a bit like me saying I don't want England to win the Football World Cup because I don't like the fact that Steven Gerrard doesn't sing the National Anthem. (And that is something that really annoys me). But I don't want England to fail. I want them to win. And, I'm sorry, but if you have any pride at all in this country then you should want this coalition to win too.

End of rant. Tomorrow I'll be back to writing about myself again. Probably something about my guns. I say tomorrow, it'll probably be June. When I've been in the weights room.
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Something dawned on me this morning. And it wasn't that I should stop drinking so much tea. (Mrs Jolly Interesting Stuff told me that on Monday). It was that I am never going to be able to update this blog again. Not meaningfully anyway. Around about this time last year I was knocking out about 15 posts a month. How many did I write in April 2010? Zero. Zilch. Nought. Nout. Less than one. Given that I promised in my last post that I was going to go back to posting more regularly I think we can tag this as a #leefail. It's not that I don't want to post stuff, I do. I really do. It's just that every bloody idea I have these days I end up turning into a 7 Reasons post. Which, while I am on the subject, has a new advert.



But that was this morning. This afternoon, something else dawned on me. There is still hope. I was watching Dave and Nick laughing about in the garden and for whatever reason I felt a profound sense of optimism. I am now going to alienate all two of my readers, but I have something to say. I like David Cameron. I like Nick Clegg. I don't necessarily agree with all their political beliefs, but as people, as men, I like them. To me they are nice men. But they are also very different nice men. Very different nice men who are going to try and work together for the greater good. Yes, you can laugh. Yes, you can be cynical. You can believe that they have made a pact for their own self-worth. The fact is, I disagree. But that's because I am not a cynic. And I don't believe in pre-judgment. I believe in hope. And if hope is a coalition, then I believe in it. I believe it can work.

And that leads me nicely back to my point. I believe Jolly Interesting Stuff and 7 Reasons can work together. It just so happens that I have always seen Jolly Interesting Stuff as the Conservative Party and 7 Reasons as the Liberal Democrats. So what I propose is this. A coalition. I will be Prime Minister and have the good looking wife. The majority of my time will be spent here. In the Jolly Interesting Stuff rose garden. Which incidentally looks a lot like my bedroom. Occasionally I will pop over to 7 Reasons and contribute there, but, in the main, the responsibility for that site will be that of my deputy. That's Marc Fearns. Marc will also start writing for Jolly Interesting Stuff. This does of course mean the Fearns blog is left out in the cold. But as it's made in Yorkshire it'll be used to that. I did discuss the other option with myself - me writing for Marc - but I looked at myself in the mirror and felt so uninspired. Marc writing for me is so much better. We can do something with this arrangement. This is the only way that Jolly Interesting Stuff can be the strong, stable blog the internet so desperately needs. I'll let you know how my discussions with Marc go. Or you could just watch the news.
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