Why Democracy is a Bad Idea...

Hidden amidst all the obvious April fools gags in yesterday's paper was a story that should have been a joke, but sadly wasn't. In a week when the Shadow Chancellor, George Osbourne, came off third best in a televised debate with Alastair Darling and Vince Cable (based on everything I've read about it - I admit I didn't see the debate myself), the tories receive a two point boost in the opinion polls. The reason for this clearly wasn't Mr Osbourne's logic-defying performance, nor was it some amazing new policy announced by David Cameron. No, the reason, so the analysts reckon, was the news that Samantha Cameron is pregnant.

Excuse me, am I the only one to find that a nonsensical and frightening turn of events. In what is promising to be a very tight election, even the possibility that the election could actually be decided not by which party's policies appeal the most or which leader is seen as the best potential prime minister, but rather by which leader's wife is the most fertile is absolutely ridiculous. Do people really think that this makes Mr Cameron a better prospect for Prime Minister. Recent history would clearly counsel otherwise - I mean its not like having Leo suddenly made Tony Blair a better Prime Minister or stopped him getting us involved in an illegal war in Iraq, is it? My conclusion from all of this is that democracy is not always such a great idea as some people are just too stuipid to be trusted with the vote.