The day before the 2005 election, in which Tony Blair emerged with his third, attenuated majority, Mark Fisher published a post on his blog, k-punk:
“There was a time when elections at least seemed to mean something… I admit that, emotionally and unthinkingly, I will find myself supporting the ‘left’ parties when the results come in tomorrow night… But only in exactly the same way that I want to see X contestant beat Y contestant in Big Brother; it really is only sentimentality to pretend that this spectacle has much consequence.”
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