I'm writing a short film called Night of the Living Democracy. It should be set in a pub full of No2AV campaigners who will spend most of the film making exagerated claims about how absolutely brilliant and perfect the world is right now under First Past the Post and they'll gradually work in the fact that they are scared that this monster, AV, is coming.
On the stage there will be a band with a banner behind them, something like "The AV Family Band" and will be singing a song called "Vote AV or Zombies Will Eat You", which I will try to improvise at the Yes2AV picnic today at Dane John Gardens in Canterbury, Kent... I will have a guitar with me.
I want to somehow work in, where the Yes2AV campaign take literal claims of No2AV campaigners and use them as internet jokes.. the No2AV campaigners in this bar will take the internet jokes of Yes2AV campaigners and interpret them as literal claims; hence the song.
I would like to collect up some suggestions in the comments section bellow, for:
1) Suggestions of "how the world is a better place under First Past The Post voting". Things that are blatently bad, but can be seen as a good thing by someone who likes, say, exploiting the poor.
2) Suggestions of Yes2AV internet lies that the No2AV campaign can/have taken literally.
This was inspired by me seeing a clip of Baroness Warsi being interviewed on Sky News, refusing to answer questions as to why she was using misleading imagery to show a statistically unlikely scenario/risk as a major argument as to not voting for AV. For reference, that inverview can be seen here on Youtube .. skip to 1 minute 15 seconds to get to the clip from Sky News.
I doubt I could put this together in time for May 5th, but perhaps if enough content is produced here I can submit it to the writing teams of 10 O'Clock Live et al.
You can follow me on twitter @Dan_Blood - I'm not a political blogger, but I've been known to hit a few amusing notes in my time on Twitter.
Disclaimer:
As to not seem to be doing this under the name Sasquatch Records and therefore anonymously, I'll make it clear that my name is Dan Blood, I live in Ashford, Kent.
If anyone were to research where I work or who I associate myself with, I will make it clear now: My views are my own and not that of any employer, associate, colleague, friend or family member, and this is categorically a joke and should not be interpreted as a hate crime.
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